DPLA meets Europeana
Europeana staff Attending:
- Harry Verwayen, Business Development
- Jan Molendijk, Technical Director
- Annette Friberg, Aggregation and projects
- Valentine Charles, Ingest and harvesting
- Alyssa Ackermann, Ingest and projects
Harry Verwayen, Business Development
Overview of how Europeana was formed and some of the background and initial plans
18.7 million objects
1,500+ partner institutions
Value propositions of Europeana:
Users: trusted source
Providers: Visibility (bit of a battle here, is visibility use or is it clickbacks?)
Policy: Inclusion
Market: Growth
Moving more and more from portal development to APIs and linked open data.
Jan Molendijk, Technical Director
What is Europeana from a technical point of view?
- portal
- search engine
- metadata repository
- metadata aggregation factory
- metadata and software lab
- network organization
- great fun
Tech challenges include the fact they include library, archives and museums, and a/v formats
Annette Friberg, Aggregation and projects
Contend and Data Aggregation in Europeana
Working with about 21 projects across Europe (including BHL-Europe).
Created a Council of Content Providers and Aggregators, these have working groups (around user engagement, finiancia, eithical, tehcnical, and legal).
Valentine Charles, Ingest and harvesting
Overview of how the ingest and harvesting occurs from the various content providers and aggregators of Europeana.
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