Europeana Inside and Partage Plus

Europeana: Partage Plus &

Europeana Inside

19/11/2012, SSL Index+ User Group Meeting

Carolien Fokke

Katie Smith

What is Europeana?

• An internet portal that acts as an interface to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe

• A platform for knowledge exchange that promotes collaboration between librarians, curators, archivists and the creative industries

Carolien Fokke & Katie Smith

SSL Index+ Users Group Meeting 19th November 2012

www.europeana.eu



http://www.europeana.eu/portal/

Why contribute?

• Enriches your users' experience

• Integrated data

• Exposes your metadata to search engines

• Drives traffic to your site

• Reuse and enrichment

• Knowledge transfer



EUROPEANA INSIDE

An Introduction



Europeana Inside• Best Practice Network

• 26 participants

• 10 countries

• 30 months (1 April 2012 – 30 September 2014)

• 960,000 records added to Europeana

• Website: www.europeana-inside.euCarolien Fokke & Katie Smith


http://www.europeana-inside.eu/



Mission

• To support the Digital Agenda for Europe by achieving a lasting transformation in the quantity, scope and usability of the content available to Europeana from European cultural institutions.



Objectives I• To open up new digital cultural content for

Europeana

• To simplify significantly the process of contributing content to Europeana

• To help overcome participation barriers by part-automating the workflow and creating tools for the management of permissions and licensing



Objectives II

• To ensure that current and future generations of Collections and Digital Asset Management Software are ‘Europeana-ready’

• To support metadata enrichment in Content Provider systems



Participants•Collections Trust, UK• Knowledge Integration Ltd, UK• Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, GE• Zetcom Informatikdienstleistungen, GE• Postscriptum, GR• Stichting Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland, NL• System Simulation Limited, UK• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE• Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, HU• KE Software Ltd, UK• Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, BE• Petofi Irodalmi Muzeum, HU• National Gallery-alexandros Soutzos Museum, GR• Mobydoc Sas FR

• Interdisciplinary Institute For Broadband Technology, BE• Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, HU • Stichting Europeana, NL• Adlib Information Systems BV, NL•StiftelsenLansmuseetVasternorrlandSlv, SW•MonguzInformációtechnológiaiKft, HU•Semantika, SL•Institut Royal Des Sciences Naturelles De Belgique, BE•Skinsoft, FR•Benaki Museum, GR•Xantys Limited, UK•Municipio Do Seixal, PT



Countries

• United Kingdom

• The Netherlands

• Belgium

• Greece

• Germany

• Slovenia

• Hungary

• France

• Sweden

• Portugal



Europeana Connection Kit

• A set of open-source software tools

• Connects CMS to an aggregator

• Simple and easy to use

• Lowers participation barriers

• Supports metadata enrichment





Timeline

April 2013: ECK

1st Prototype

September 2013: ECK

2nd Prototype available

April 2014: ECK

Production version



Impact

• Far-reaching and transformative

• Open up potential for more than 7000 other cultural institutions to deliver content to Europeana



Vision• The Europeana Inside outputs, and

particularly the Europeana Connection Kit, will be adopted byevery Collections Management software supplier and their museum, library and archive clients throughout Europe to transform the quantity, scope and accessibility of digital cultural heritage for the public.



Join Us

www.twitter.com/EuropeanaInside

www.facebook.com/EuropeanaInside

Subscribe to our Newsletter:

www.europeana-inside.eu/newsletter

Become an Associate Partner:

www.europeana-inside.eu/partners/



http://www.europeana-inside.eu/newsletter




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Further Information

• Website: www.europeana-inside.eu

• CarolienFokke:

[email protected]

• Gordon McKenna: [email protected]



http://www.europeanainside.eu/



An Introduction...



• The Information Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) is a European subsidy programme that is part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP) established by the European Commission in October 2006.

• The ICT Policy Support Programme will run from 2007 to 2013 with a budget of €730 million.



About Partage Plus...

•24 Months, started in March 2012;

• Digitising 75,000+ Art Nouveau objects;

• 2,000 3D renditions;

• 23 partners from 17 European countries;

• Includes paintings, drawings, furniture, sculpture, ceramics and architecture;

• Demonstrates how collections from different domains and countries can be accessed through Europeana.

• Increase the access to Art Nouveau content through Europeana, Europe’s digital cultural heritage portal.



Art Nouveau

• End of 19thstart of 20thCentury;

• Name means ‘new art’, also known asJugendstil

• Philosophy that art should be a way of life;

• Inspired by natural forms and structures;

• Alphonse Mucha’s ‘Gismonda’ 1895;

•Things to associate with Art Nouveau:

• Decadence;

• Glamour;

• Beauty;

•Nature.



• Resurgence in popularity;

• Very well represented in almost every art form;

• Key art movement within Europe;

• Europeanais lacking - only about 5,000 ‘Art Nouveau’ records;

• PartagePlus aims to demonstrate the wealth of the Art Nouveau collections within Europe!

• Project will highlight these collections and their ‘Masterpieces’.



Why Art Nouveau?

Why Art Nouveau?

‘Partage Plus will create an access point to information(through the project website) and digital content(through Europeana) on the European cultural heritageof the Art Nouveau period. It provides a means and astructure for the digitisation of content from differentdomains and different countries and making it availablefor citizens using Europeana.’



Masterpieces...

•Partage Plus will feature ‘Masterpieces’ by:

• Victor Horta;• Henri van de Velde;• Charles Rennie Mackintosh;• Alphonse Mucha;• Hector Guimard;• Emile Gallé;• René Lalique;• Paul Hankar;• Josef Maria Olbrich;• Wilhelm Jost;

• Charles Tiffany



Project Partners

•Collections Trust, UK

•Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte Kunst Mak/Gegenwartskunst, AT

•Stad Gent, BE

•Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium, BE

•Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, BE

•Muzej za umjetnost i obrt, HR

•Umeleckoprumyslove Museum v Praze, CZ

•National Board of Antiquities, FI

•Philipps Universitaet Marburg, GE

•Steinbichler Optotechnik GmbH, GE

•National Technical University of Athens, GR

•Iparművészeti Múzeum, HU

•Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche, IT

•Stichting Drents Museum, NL

•Stiftelsen Kulturkvartalet, NO

•Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, PL

•Muzeum Wojciecha Weissa Fundacja, PL

•Camara Municipal de Aveiro, PT

•Urbanisticni Institut Republike Slovenije, SI

•Museu Nacional d'art de Catalunya, ES

•GoteborgsKommun, SE

•Rörstrand Museum, SE

•University of East Anglia (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts), UK



Target Users...

The target user groups for Art Nouveau-related digital material, and their needs, are:

• Curators of Art Nouveau; • Communities interested in Art Nouveau in their area;• Private sector including: collectors, dealers, and relevant publishers;• Education sector;• Media;• Academic researchers.

The Partage Plus website will act as the hub for meeting our users needs and provide users with the opportunity to:

• Gather information about the Art Nouveau style;

• Experience Art Nouveau works online through Europeana;

• Visit institutions with Art Nouveau collections;

• Take part in Partage Plus-related events.



3D Scanning...sounds easy?

Use:

•3D printing

•3D manufacturing

•Scanning before and after transport

•Improve packaging/casings

•3D renderings for marketing

•Virtual museum

Things to remember:

•Glass objects

•Keep them dusty!

•Avoid highly reflective surfaces

•Think about object size!



The story so far...

• Kick off meeting in March – Budapest;

• Produced materials for digitisation: specific guidelines, terminologies;

• Social Media;

•Website;

• 1 museum has completed 3D scanning;

• Submitting metadata from Collection Management Systems to ingestion tool;

• Events and press releases;

• First delivery to Europeana due in January 2013;

• Next project meeting – Rome, March 2013.



Do you have Art Nouveau collections?

Join Us:

www.partage-plus.eu

www.facebook.com/partageplus

@Partage_Plus



Further Information:

Contact Us:

Katie Smith:[email protected]

Gordon McKenna:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]



Documents

Europeana Inside and Partage Plus