Europeana4Education: discover how digital cultural heritage collections can enrich your educational resources and inspire learners. 29 March 2017.
These slides introduce:
- The diversity of digitised cultural heritage content that can be found on Europeana, and its educational value.
- The free tools Europeana provides to enable access our content (including our manual download and the Europeana APIs).
- The financial support Europeana can offer in the development of educational resources featuring our content.
Europeana4Education at Open Education Week 2017 - webinar slides
1. EUROPEANA4EDUCATION
Open Education Week webinars
Nicole McNeilly & Milena Popova
29 March 2017
Esbjörn at the Study Corner
Carl Larsson, 1912
National Museum, Sweden
Public Domain
2. Welcome! At the end of this webinar
you will know more about:
● The diversity of digitised cultural
heritage content that can be found
on Europeana, and its educational
value.
● The free tools Europeana provides
to enable access to our content
(including manual download and the
Europeana APIs).
● The financial support Europeana can
offer in the development of
educational resources featuring our
content.
bokägarmärke, exlibris
Creator unknown, 1929
Malmö museer, Sweden
Public Domain
Objectives
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3. ...enrich your educational resources and
inspire learners with Europeana’s free to
access content!
We want to help you...
#Europeana4Education
[Cygnes] : [panneau décoratif]. Louis Rhead, 1897. National Library of France, Public Domain
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4. We are Europe’s platform
for digital cultural heritage,
funded by the European
Commission.
What is Europeana?
What do we offer?
➔ Diverse and inspirational content:
● 50m+ items of digitized cultural heritage
like photographs, videos, music,
newspapers, text (letters, diaries and
books), spoken word and newsreels.
● 20m+ items suitable for use in education.
● Curated exhibitions and themed collections.
● Content in 22 languages (and growing) and
exhibitions available in 12 languages.
➔ The tools to access and use content:
● Manual search and download
● Four APIs
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5. What is Europeana?
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http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en
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6. Creative industries
D100. Japanese Lantern Makers |Unknown creator.
1880-1890. Museum Für Kunst Und Gewerbe Hamburg,
Germany. CC0.
D100. Japanese Lantern Makers |Unknown
creator.
1880-1890. Museum Für Kunst Und Gewerbe
Hamburg, Germany. CC0
FINDING AND USING
EUROPEANA CONTENT
7. Searching Europeana
On our homepage we have a search box which provides access to all Europeana
content.
You can start your search by entering a keyword (e.g. ‘horses’) in this box.
You can see that this brings up a lot of results. You can choose to see this content in a
grid or list format and change the number of items you see on one page.
CC BY-SA
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8. CC BY-SA
#Europeana4Education
Search filters
Use our filters on the left-hand side of the screen
to find content according to:
➔ A collection theme: as of March 2017, Art,
Fashion, and Music.
➔ The type of media: Image, Text, Sound,
Video, 3D
Tip: selecting ‘only items with links to media’
brings up content which can be downloaded
directly from Europeana.
➔ Can I use it? Find out about the item’s
license.
➔ Providing country: where the providing
institution comes from.
➔ Language.
➔ Institution: in case you want content only
from a certain provider. Screenshot of search filter
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9. Finding reusable content
You can find reusable content by using the
‘Can I Use it?’ drop-down in the search
menu. This is on the left hand side of your
screen when you search.
From there you can select ‘Free Reuse’ and
your results will be filtered to only show
content available for free reuse.
Screenshot of filter
functionalities on copyright
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10. If you want to use content with other rights statements, you should always check the terms under
which it is licensed. You can find extra information on the content page under the field ‘Additional rights
information’, or by following the link to view the object & its terms of use on the data provider’s
website.
What can I use?
Freely reusable content is labelled with either Public Domain Mark, CC0, CC BY or
CC-BY-SA. Public domain (PD) labelled works can be freely used for commercial and
noncommercial purposes, and you should always credit the work.
Creative Commons (CC) licences:
● BY - requires you to credit the work.
● SA - share alike - requires you to share your own work under identical terms.
● NC - non-commercial - permits only non-commercial use of the work.
● ND - no-derivatives - you cannot change the item in any way.
On Europeana you can find a detailed explanation of each rights statement.
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11. Screenshot featuring Gros Bull-dog, coiffé d'un chapeau : [photographie de presse] / Planet | Planet News
(Agence de presse). Agence photographique, 1933. National Library of France, Public Domain. Highlights by
Europeana.
Using Europeana content
Each digital object is labelled with a rights statement that describes how you can use
the object (see below in yellow).
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12. Documentation can be found online. Get help on using the Europeana API by
emailing api@europeana.eu or by checking out the Europeana API forum.
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Our APIs (Application Programming Interface) allow users to search, retrieve and
display relevant Europeana content in external online environments, such as apps,
websites, games, etc. Europeana currently provides four APIs. All are free to access
after a simple registration process.
➔ The REST API is the most frequently used API. It enables users to filter records by a
variety of data fields, from date and creator, to media type and size.
➔ The Europeana Linked Open Data service allows users to explore, access, and
download metadata through our SPARQL endpoint.
➔ The Europeana OAI-PMH service supports users to harvest the entirety, or a
selection of all Europeana metadata.
➔ The Europeana Annotations API allows users to generate, update, and retrieve
annotations for objects in our collections.
Europeana APIs
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13. Turner am Bock| Heinrich Hamann.
1905-1909. Museum Für Kunst Und Gewerbe Hamburg,
Germany. CC0.
Turner am Barren | Heinrich Hamann.
1902-1903. Museum Für Kunst Und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany. CC0.
CASE STUDIES
14. Art Stories FACES
Theme - art history
● Using 5 portraits from the
Europeana Collection in a
unique observational and
learning challenge for 5-10
year olds
● 5000 downloads
● Partnerships with newly
opened family village of the
Italian tour operator Alpitour
in Fuerteventura
● Featured app on the Apple
store in multiple countries and
categories
http://www.artstories.it/en/apps/faces/
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17. French Ministry of Education
● Joining 28 partners - major
scientific and cultural public
institutions
● 126 000 primary & 850 000
secondary teachers registered
● Simple access for teachers
● Pupil and class accounts
available
● Themed resources:
○ Arts & literature
○ Human and social sciences
○ Cultures and languages
○ Sciences and technology
● Freely reusable content
● Prepared educational scenarios
● Partners can provide learning
resources (eg lesson ideas)
http://www.edutheque.fr/utiliser/cultures-et-langues.html
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19. Europeana Challenges
• 2x themed Challenges per year
• Supports sustainable projects presenting or
enabling users to experience Europeana content in
innovative ways
• Prizes between 10.000-20.000 EUR
• Open to applicants worldwide
• Widespread coverage and interest
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20. Match funding for educational reuse
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22. GET INVOLVED
The group at the final Europeana teachers validation workshop.
European Schoolnet offices, Brussels, February 2017. Nicole McNeilly.
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23. CC BY-SA
#Europeana4Education
● A dedicated space on Europeana Professional featuring
partnerships, case studies and resources:
http://pro.europeana.eu/use-our-data/education
● A thematic LinkedIn group - open for everyone interested in
using and promoting Europeana for education (search
Europeana4Education)
● #Europeana4Education to support our online identity
● A special logo for stronger branding
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25. France, Public Domain
1921, National Library of France
Agence Rol. Agence photographique
22/10/21, course [automobile sur le circuit]
de Brooklands, le comte Zborowski sur Aston Martin
ANY QUESTIONS?
26. Thank you!
What next?
● Find out more on Europeana Professional
http://pro.europeana.eu/use-our-data/education
● LinkedIn: Europeana4Education
● Twitter: @EuropeanaEU, @EuropeanaLabs,
#Europeana4Education
● Schedule a Skype meeting to discuss a partnership
● Email us if you have questions or to find out more:
reuse@europeana.eu
Enrich your educational resources and inspire learners
with Europeana content!
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Editor's Notes
Welcome - thanks to everyone for joining and Open Education Week for hosting.
Niceties
Introductions - NM, reuse team - reuse our content. You’ll find out more about Europeana as we go through, but for now, education is primary market that we want to work in, in 2017 - we know that our content can add value to education across Europe and potentially worldwide.
At the end of this webinar you will know more about:
The diversity of digitised cultural heritage content that can be found on Europeana, and its educational value.
The free tools Europeana provides to enable access our content (including our manual download and the Europeana APIs).
The financial support Europeana can offer in the development of educational resources featuring our content.
Free to ask questions throughout the webinar using the chat function - we will address them in a recap at the very end.
We want to help you ...enrich your educational resources and inspire learners with Europeana’s free to access content!
Enrich - our content is not arranged into lesson plans, or tagged according to grades or subjects. We are a rich cultural heritage and open educational repository. We believe our content can provide value as supplementary material to textbooks and digital courses. It is “travel well” content. It can respond to important content across different national curricula (eg key events in world history or politics).
Inspire learners - and also educators!
Free to access - yes, our content is free to access. You can download reusable content from our website directly, and accessing our API is simple - free after a simple registration where all we need is your email address.
Launched in 2007/2008 with a mission: to transform the world with culture. We are Europe’s platform for digital cultural heritage, funded by the European Commission.
What do we offer?
At the moment, 54m+ itemes of digitzed cultural heritage drawn from 3500 contributing galleries, museums, archives and libraries across Europe.
20+ are free to reuse - suitable for education.
Themed collections bringing together the most valuable content we have; at the moment on art, music and fashion, and soon to include our WW1 collection, newspapers and photography.
Harnessing the expertise of partners to create online curated exhibitions
Launched our Seasons - like our recent art nouveau season, featuring almost 50 new artworks from more than 20 institutions (and a very nice art Nouveau (adult) colouring book)
Of course, our content is multilingual; our content is currently in 22 languages and 12 languages are used in our exhibitions.
Importantly, we also offer the tools you need to find and use our content. We’ll introduce this in more detail later, but it includes a manual search and download function, with filters to help you find what you need, and the four free to use Europeana APIs.
Home page of our content platform
Search function - predominantly in the middle of the page.
Our platform highlights the best content for users: on the bottom you can see featured exhibitions, apps and websites of Europeana content
We also have functions along the top of the page to help you browse and explore our content.
First: browse by our thematic collections, which I mentioned earlier are currently art, fashion and music (growing)
Second: you can see an ‘explore’ function; this also gives you another search mechanism by colour, time period, topic, person and providing institution.
Thirdly: access our curated and exhibitions and blog
Hopefully you now know more about what our content looks like, and how you can browse using our thematic collections and exhibitions. Now, we’ll tell you a bit about how you can search for the content you need.
Say you’ve searched for horses - this is what it looks like. You can see a filter on the left hand side. This is an important way to narrow down the results to help you find the type of content you’re looking for.
Review content
It’s important to find content that legally, you can use in your classroom or resource. We make this really easy! Find reusable content using the drop down search on the filter we showed you. This gives you a lot of options.
Screen
For educational use, we recommend using the free to reuse options, but, in certain contexts you can also use limited reuse options, primarily, CC BY-NC and CC BY-ND.
Each one of our records is labelled with a rights statement (eg public domain). You can see this marked in yellow. You can click on the link to find out more about what the license means and how you can use it.
You should also credit our content; we make this easy for you. Later, we’ll introduce our guide to using Europeana in education - this gives you all the information you need both on licenses and crediting.
So we’ve discussed our search tools and filters. Finally, we have to introduce the Europeana APIs. We have four APIs which are free to access after a simple registration process.
The REST API is the most used, allowing you to filter records by our available data fields (for example data, creator, media type and size).
We have documentation online, a dedicated email address for help and also an active Google Forum where you can ask questions and browse responses from our colleagues and other users.
Take a few minutes to introduce you to three case studies where we can show you how Europeana is being used in the classroom. We’ve selected these according to our primary partnership areas:
Policy level, including with Ministries of Culture and Education in Europe
Commercial educational providers and developers of educational resources
Non-commercial associations/membership bodies
Starting with an example of a commercial partner reuse case
ArtFACES is one of the winners of the first Europeana Challenge of 2016. The app allows children between 5 and 10 years old to discover and learn about art while having fun. Using 5 portraits from the Europeana collection as an unique observational and learning challenge, children have the opportunity to learn about detail, form, interpretation, colour choices and more. Soon, it’s going to expand to use art as a means of learning about history, geography and literature.
The app has been an instant success: 5000 downloads to date! It is being used in the childrens club in the newly opened family village of the Italian tour operator Alpitour in Fuerteventura. The app was also featured on the Apple stores in many different countries and in many different categories.
Our partnership with EUROCLIO, the European Association of History Educators, is an example of a non-commercial partnership. We’ve supported EUROCLIO to develop Historiana, an online educational tool that offers students multi-perspective, cross-border and comparative historical sources to supplement their national history textbooks. It features material from Europeana and provides access to Europeana Collections via a special Search and Select tool. We’ve recently collaborated to develop the collections on some of history’s most infamous figures – including Stalin, Hitler, Joan of Arc and Queen Elizabeth. The site makes it simple to find sources on some of the most important themes for history educators that, until now, have been more challenging to access – either due to copyright, language, or even just having the time.
We’re also supporting Historiana’s development of a new online learning environment, supporting teachers to use and rearrange building blocks specifically designed for history education practices. This will be integrated into the Historiana site and will help educators make the best use of digital cultural heritage’s learning potential, regardless of their confidence with digital tools.
Finally, our final example is at policy level with the French Ministry of Education.
We are in conversations about creating a dedicated Europeana space on their national educational portal, Edutheque. Éduthèque is a portal for primary and secondary school teachers and their students. It gives them access to thousands of educational resources from major scientific and cultural public institutions (28 partners at the moment).
The website will feature suitable learning resources from Europeana and in this way increase the awareness and usage of Europeana data by French educators and students.
As an organisation, we are able to support to a limited extent the development of educational resources. We do this in a number of ways.
Firstly, we use themed Europeana Challenges as a way stimulating the development of reuse cases and attracting a worldwide audience to the reuse potential of Europeana content. We can support sustainable projects that present an innovative way to use or experience content accessible via Europeana, and which meet the challenge theme.
2x themed Challenges per year
Themed (eg our last challenge was on fashion, corresponding to the launch of the fashion collection on our platform). We’ve found that a theme and a digital challenge attract a specialist applicant with real technical and creative skills.
Prizes between 10.000-20.000 EUR
Widespread coverage and interest
Putting money into creative and cultural partnerships that will have educational outcomes.
We have just closed our first matchfunding challenge, where we invited partnership proposals from cultural heritage institutions and cultural developers to access match funding for a crowdfunding campaign for a digital educational product reusing content accessed on Europeana. It must use Europeana content, be digital, and be relevant for secondary education (formal, informal and lifelong learning). Cultural institutions can use their own content but this content must be provided and be accessible through Europeana.
The three successful applicants will work with experts to plan and deliver a personalized crowdfunding campaign, backed by matchfunding from Europeana. We’ve had 19 applications to date and we’ll be announcing the winners shortly- so stayed tuned!
In June 2017, we’ll be bringing together 10 projects that use Europeana content to an investor fora. The projects (both prototype and at a more developed stage) have the opportunity to pitch in front of a panel of between 7 and 10 investors.
This image from our first investor fora at Frankfurt Book Fair’s creative conference, the Arts Plus, where students from across Europe developed prototypes and presented to 5 investors.
So, we’re nearing the end of the webinar, and I hope we’ve convinced you of the value of Europeana’s content for education. All that remains now is for you to get involved!
Education is our priority market in 2017.
Our website is the home for this activity; you can find information on our partnership working, read case studies and find the resources you need to use and promote the use of Europeana in education.
We have also launched the Europeana4Education community. We organise this primarily through a LinkedIn group (search Europeana4Education) and also via twitter and of course, our website. If you’re interested in learning from and sharing best practice over the re-use of Europeana content in education, get involved!
Finally, if you need to know more, you can browse the resources on our website. Firstly, we’ve made a simple 2 pager introducing you to Europeana4education, summarising what we’ve spoken about today.
Secondly, we’ve developed a guide to support you to use Europeana content in education; covering searching for our content, educational licenses and crediting as well as information on our APIs.
Finally, our policy recommendations present ways for policy makers, CHIs and Europeana to make Europe’s digital cultural heritage fit for education and learning.
Finally, if you need to know more, you can browse the resources on our website. Firstly, we’ve made a simple 2 pager introducing you to Europeana4education, summarising what we’ve spoken about today.
Secondly, we’ve developed a guide to support you to use Europeana content in education; covering searching for our content, educational licenses and crediting as well as information on our APIs.
Finally, our policy recommendations present ways for policy makers, CHIs and Europeana to make Europe’s digital cultural heritage fit for education and learning.
Finally, if you need to know more, you can browse the resources on our website. Firstly, we’ve made a simple 2 pager introducing you to Europeana4education, summarising what we’ve spoken about today.
Secondly, we’ve developed a guide to support you to use Europeana content in education; covering searching for our content, educational licenses and crediting as well as information on our APIs.
Finally, our policy recommendations present ways for policy makers, CHIs and Europeana to make Europe’s digital cultural heritage fit for education and learning.
So, we’re ready to take any questions!
Thank you to Open Education Week and Igor on the other end of the internet in South Africa.
Thank you to you all for joining!