Europeana DSI

Europeana DSI

Antoine Isaac

LT-Accelerate Conference 2014

Brussels, December 5

Europe’s platform to access cultural heritage

Currently36M objects

Built on descriptive metadatafrom a broad, heterogeneous network

Audiovisual collections

National Aggregators

Regional Aggregators

Archives

Thematic collections

Libraries

Musées Lausannois

Culture.frThe European Library

APEX

European Film Gateway Europeana Fashion

2,300 galleries, museums, archives and libraries

More than this

We believe Culture transforms lives

We are a community of > 2500 members who contribute data,

technology, knowledge and business opportunities

A network of cultural innovators

Multi-sided platform

Content (digital objects on the site of the provider)

Metadata (descriptive object information)

Public Domain, Creative Commons Licenses, Rights reserved, Orphan work….

Facilitating re-use on the legal side

CC

Some ideas of the work ahead

Enumerate report

Language technology challenges

Trans-European services come with Europe-scale challenges

top 16

Items from 36 countriesMetadata in 33 languagesPortal in 31 languages

Availability of language technology for re-use

Tools to serve end users and data re-users

Thank you!

Antoine Isaac

antoine.isaac@europeana.eu

@EuropeanaEU

Some images by Elco van Staveren, Denkschets