Europeana Fashion is a best practice network of 23 partners, representing the leading public and private museums, archives and collections from 12 European countries. Europeana Fashion will publish online by March 2015 over 700,000 fashion-related digital objects, ranging from historical dresses to accessories, photographs, posters, drawings, sketches, videos, and fashion catalogues.
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Europeana Fashion project overview. Marco Rendina
1. Europeana
Fashion
Kick-off meeting
Palazzo Incontri, Florence
15-16 March 2012
Project overview
Marco Rendina
Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale
Co-funded by the EuroSupport pean
Connected to
Commission within the ICT Policy Programme
2. Europeana Fashion in a nutshell
The Context
the scenario in which the project operates
The Consortium
the composition of our project consortium
Objectives and expected outcomes
aims and results of the project
The Project Structure
the organisation of work packages
The Project Roadmap
project workplan and milestones in the next 3 years
3. The Context
The scenario in which the project operates
Fashion is an important part of our
European Cultural Heritage.
A growing interest in Fashion content is
developing in a broader audience (not
only professionals and domain
specialists).
Digitisation and on-line access is
fundamental in allowing museums and
archives to exploit their holdings.
But there are still some remaining
challenges…
4. Challenges and open issues
Many Fashion institutions, both public and private, reconsidered the role of
their archives as an important resource. This led to new investments in
conservation and digitisation of their heritage, but still some issues remains:
Scattered access
Lack of interoperability
Rights issues
Lack of exploitation strategies
Europeana Fashion kick-off meeting. Florence, 15-16 March 2012
5. The Consortium
The composition of our project consortium
The Europeana Fashion Best Practice
Network will encompass 23 partners
from 12 European countries, which
represent the leading European
institutions and collections in the fashion
domain.
6. The Europeana Fashion Consortium
Apart from Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale, which is coordinating the
project, the consortium is made of:
20 Content Providers
Representing the leading European institutions in the domain, including both private and
public archives and museums:
- ModeMuseum - Victoria & Albert Museum
- KMKG - Netherland Institute for Sound & Vision
- Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz - Catwalk Pictures
- Stockholms University - Belgrade Museum of Applied Arts
- Les Arts Décoratifs - MUDE
- Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation - Roger Dean Photography
- Emilio Pucci Archive - Pitti Immagine
- Centraal Museum Utrecht - Nordiska Museet
- Rossimoda Shoe Museum - Museo del Traje
- Wien Museum - Archivio Missoni
2 Technical Partners
Representing the state-of-the-art in the domain of semantic interoperability and on-line
access:
- National Technical University of Athens - Internet Architects
Europeana Fashion kick-off meeting. Florence, 15-16 March 2012
7. The Europeana Fashion Consortium
In the consortium there are also:
3 Associated Partners
Representing the state-of-the-art in the domain of semantic interoperability and on-line
access:
- Berg Publishers - Central Museum of Textiles, Lods
- Museo Salvatore Ferragamo
Europeana Fashion kick-off meeting. Florence, 15-16 March 2012
8. Objectives and expected outcomes
Aims and results of the project
The main objective of the Europeana
Fashion Best Practice Network is to
build a thematic aggregator on Fashion,
putting emphasis on the quality, the
variety and granularity of content that
will be delivered to Europeana, and
producing a significant increase of the
fashion related content in it.
9. Project Objectives and expected outcomes
Europeana Fashion objectives aim to:
aggregate 700.000+ digital items of fashion content to
Europeana
improve interoperability in the fashion community
create a specialised access point for fashion content
develop case studies for the exploitation of fashion material
build consensus and raise awareness on best practices
Europeana Fashion kick-off meeting. Florence, 15-16 March 2012
10. The Project Strucutre
The organisation of the workpackages
To best organise the work and to
achieve our objectives, the project
has been structured in six work
packages.
11. Project Structure
Europeana Fashion is organised in the following work packages:
Europeana Fashion kick-off meeting. Florence, 15-16 March 2012
12. The Project Roadmap
project workplan and milestones in the next 3 years
The Europeana Fashion project has
started the 1st of March 2012, and it will
end in February 2015. A detailed work
plan has been defined, and several
milestones throughout the project duration
has been identified.
13. The project workplan
This is the three years workplan, for each of the six work packages:
Europeana Fashion kick-off meeting. Florence, 15-16 March 2012
14. The main project milestones
This is a condensed list of the milestones that we will have in the three years
of the project:
Europeana Fashion kick-off meeting. Florence, 15-16 March 2012
15. Thank you for your
attention!
Connected to Co-funded by the European Commission
within the ICT Policy Support Programme
Editor's Notes
[ Scattered access ] Access to fashion digital collections is often “on-site” only. Databases are usually kept locally in closed systems, and even if they’re on-line, there are no integrated access points. [ Lack of interoperability ] There are no common metadata standards to properly describe Fashion objects. And institutions haven’t implemented protocols to exchange data and to offer integrated access to their users. Interoperability at the semantic level is also lacking. [ Rights issues ] Different IPR legislations in different countries across Europe and worldwide, and increased expectations regarding access to digital content by the public made rights issues an important point to tackle when offering access to digital collections. [ Lack of exploitation strategies ] There are few case studies regarding possible ways of exploitation of Fashion digital content for academic and scholarly access and for the creative industry at large.
With the ambition to address all these issues we setup a consortium made of 23 partners from 12 European countries…, which aims at building a thematic fashion aggregator.
Fashion content in fact is currently not well represented there, despite fashion is a popular theme that potentially could attract a large audience. So building such an aggregator will represent a great value for Europeana itself but also for the fashion community, allowing to establish best practices, tools and solutions for accessing and integrating heterogeneous content in the fashion domain. Europeana Fashion addresses the ICT PSP Objective 2.1 “Aggregating content for Europeana”.
Gathering and harmonising fashion digital content coming form the most important European fashion collections (both public and private). (of content holders) Developing and promoting a common metadata model for fashion content, based on the EDM, and developing also tools for semantic interoperability like the Fashion Thesaurus. Setting up the Europeana Fashion portal, that will offer an integrated access to all the aggregated fashion collections, offering to users added value services. (on-line) Stimulating synergies between fashion content holders and the creative community for the reuse of on-line fashion content (starting also a specific collaboration with the Wikipedia community). In the fashion community on digitisation, IPR issues and interoperability, with the aim also to attract new fashion content providers in the BPN.
Ensure the overall management of the project (including financial monitoring and quality assurance). Is the core WP in the project, since the content provision and harmonisation will happen here (EDMfp, Thesaurus). Technical WP that will establish the aggregation platform and the tools for metadata mapping, enrichment and refinement (also the protal will be developed here). This WP will address the user requirements and will develop use cases for the following target groups: education and research, cultural heritage and leisure, and creative industry. This WP is responsible of performing a staged evaluation and test of the Europeana Fashion technical infrastructure, and will also evaluate the effectiveness of the portal functionalities according to the use cases defined in WP4, providing feedback to WP3 . This WP will promote and disseminate the activities and the results of the Best Practice Network, collaborating also with related projects in the Europeana galaxy of projects.