Europeana Licensing Framework Current status & future developments

Paul Keller, Luxembourg 13 june 2013

Current status

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Europeana Licensing Framework - Original design considerationsAll metadata must be available under the same (non

restrictive) termsCC zero as the universal rights statement for all metadata

Each digital object carries it’s own rights statement limited list of statements (in the form of URLs) for edm:rights

Previews are treated as an instance of the digital object no separate rights statement for previews

Rights label per category (by total objects)

12,730,87012,702,892

12,604,81412,185,341

11,939,921

7,304,034 8,111,6558,066,757

8,048,9437,987,367

7,922,549

6,435,3286,554,4026,341,643

6,798,2746,920,029

7,537,284 8,091,9318,188,874 9,201,290 10,424,723

10,896,955

725,471 753,461814,209 929,188

988,580

979,7711,448,193 1,635,022 1,802,538

2,284,395 2,463,718

3,515,3823,519,3913,670,5844,108,396 4,191,261

4,342,5834,359,195 4,431,411

4,544,6535,201,067 5,503,856

03/1204/12

06/1207/12

08/1209/12

10/1211/12

12/1202/13

3/13UnmarkedAll Rights ReservedCreative CommonsPublic Domain

Rights label per category (as percentage of total)

54% 54% 54%51% 50%

36% 37%36%

34%31%

30%

27% 28% 27%28% 29%

37% 37% 37%39%

40%41%

3% 3% 3% 4% 4%5% 7% 7% 8%

9% 9%

15% 15% 16% 17% 17%22% 20% 20% 19% 20% 21%

03/1206/12

08/1210/12

12/123/13Unmarked

All Rights ReservedCreative CommonsPublic Domain

Future developments

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Metadata

We are working on a plan to improve the quality of metadata that is useful for rights checkingWe are working with some types of data providers to increase acceptance of our approach (CC0)

Digital objects

We are exploring how rights statements can become more granular (attaching them to specific views instead of the aggregation/metadata record)

Available rights statements

Add a rights statement for Orphan works Add a rights statement for works that are out of copyright but whose use is restricted by contractual agreements.Remodel the rights reserved statements• retire restricted access • add a paid version indicator and review use of paid accessExplore the ability to move rights statements to a non-Europeana namespace that can be shared with similar projects

A content re-use framework for Europeana

The framework needs to be open for all Europeana data providers on a voluntary basis.It needs to set minimum requirements for digital objects that are available via the framework• In terms of rights status (must allow re-use) • In terms of relevance of the content (no census records) • In terms of quality (minimum size / quality)• Direct access to the digital object (specific file formats?)The framework needs to provide the ability to specify conditional access rules.

Kennisland works with Europeana and its partners to improve the accessibility of Europe’s cultural heritage online. Learn more about Kennisland at www.kl.nl

thank you!pk@kl.nl

@paul_keller