Introductory presentatr

1. Europeana Inside – An Introduction
ICT PSP Call 5 Project

2. Vision
Europeana Inside is a Best Practice network which aims to achieve a lasting
transformation in the quantity and scope of material contributed to Europeana by
European cultural institutions.
We will do this by creating open-source tools which reduce or remove the legal,
technical, financial and operational barriers to participation in aggregated services
by cultural institutions.
The Europeana Inside Network brings together world-leading cultural heritage
institutions with global Collections Management System providers to provide a
combination of sector and technical expertise.

3. Facts & Figures
• EU-funded Best Practice Network
• 28 Participants
• 5 National & Thematic Aggregators
• 12 Nations
• 30 Months
• 960,000 new records into Europeana
• 4m Euro
• Start date: 2nd April 2012
http://www.europeanainside.eu

4. 28 Participants…
Collections Trust, UK Alexandros Soutzos Museum, GR
Knowledge Integration Ltd, UK Mobydoc, FR
Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, DE IBBT, BE
Hungarian National Museum, HU
zetcom AG, DE Europeana Foundation, NL
PostScriptum Info Architecture Ltd., GR Adlib Software Ltd, NL
Digitaal Erfgoed Nederland, NL Länsmuseet Västernorrland, SE
System Simulation Ltd, UK Monguz, HU
Catholic University of Leuven, BE Semantika, SL
Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, BE
Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, HU SKINsoft ltd, FR
KE Software Ltd. UK Benaki Museum, GR
Royal Museums of Art & History, BE House of Images, UK
Petőfi Literary Museum, HU Município do Seixal, PO
Roger Layton Associates, South Africa British Museum, UK

5. 12 Nations
• Belgium
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Netherlands
• Portugal
• South Africa
• Slovenia
• Sweden
• UK
• US

6. Methodology
This transformation will be achieved by developing and distributing open technical
tools (Europeana Connection Kits) in order to part-automate and simplify the
process of transmitting content between Europeana and individual systems.
In the process, we will develop prototype interfaces which enable cultural
institutions to manage, at global, collection or individual asset level, the rights and
permissions associated with the distribution of digital cultural assets.
The Europeana Connection Kits will be integrated into the Collections and Digital
Asset Management Systems of the participating software vendors, ensuring that
their clients are able to participate in Europeana and related initiatives.

7. Objective 1
To open up a significant critical-mass of new digital cultural
content from European cultural institutions for delivery through
Europeana

8. Objective 2
To simplify significantly the process of contributing content to
Europeana for cultural institutions and aggregators of all scales
and types throughout Europe,

9. Objective 3
To help cultural institutions and aggregators overcome the
organisational, technical, legal and financial barriers to
participation by part-automating the workflow by which content is
made available to Europeana, and creating tools for the
management of permissions and licensing

10. Objective 4
To build on the framework of standards and protocols established
under previous Europeana projects by ensuring that current and
future generations of Collections and Digital Asset Management
Software are ‘Europeana-ready

11. Objective 5
To support metadata enrichment in Content Provider systems (and
thereby deliver value to participating organisations and their users)
by creating a channel for enhanced content to flow back from
Europeana as the central domain aggregator and point of access to
local systems.

12. Project Overview
Museum
Museum
Collections Management
Library
System
Europeana
Library Connection
Kits
Archive Digital Asset
Management System
Archive
AV
Archive
Enriched metadata
Content providers Technical partners Aggregators

13. Work Packages
WP1: Networking
WP2: Specification
WP3: Development
WP4: Content Coordination
WP5: Production
WP6: Project Management

14. Other Partners
We anticipate that there will be other cultural institutions and technical
providers wishing to participate in Europeana Inside, but who are not
participants in (or recipients of funding from) the project.
We actively welcome participation from other partners, particularly from
member institutions of the Europeana Network and from technical providers
working with museums, archives and libraries.
If you are interested in participating in Europeana Inside, please contact Gordon
McKenna, Collections Trust’s International Development Manager at
gordon@collectionstrust.org.uk.

15. Contact
Gordon McKenna
International Development Manager
Collections Trust
WC209 Natural History Museum
Cromwell Road
London
SW7 5BD
www.europeanainside.eu