Europeana Creative Project Overview

Description of the major goals and potential obstacles of the Europeana Creative project, a European Commission co-funded project to incubate creative industry re-use of cultural heritage content and metadata. Presented to the Europeana Foundation. 

http://europeanacreative.eu

Transcript

1. A love story.
2. A project with one goal:
4. Increase the re-use of cultural heritage resources by the Creative Industries
5. But, like any good story, there are obstacles
8. Problem 1: Access to knowledge and platforms is scattered
9. Answer: The Europeana Open Laboratory Network A sustainable environment for experimentation
11. Problem 2: Our licensing framework doesn't cover content
12. Answer: Extend the licensing framework Cover content and re-use
14. Problem 3: Our API doesn't retrieve content
15. Answer: Extend the API Cover content and licensing, and new kinds of search
17. Problem 4: There are no real-world case studies
18. Answer: Build five pilots Show the value, show the use, show that nobody dies
20. Problem 5: There's no way for creative industry to engage directly
21. Answer: Run open challenges Select the best ideas and incubate them
23. Problem 6: There are no clear business models
24. Answer: Find business models for all stakeholders Support new applications and services for re-use
26. Problem 7: Large-scale projects don't have room to learn
27. Answer: Build in evaluation, and stagger releases Give the project room to learn and improve as it goes along
29. Problem 8: People don't hear about what we do
30. Answer: Talk to networks of networks (of networks) Build bridges to the creative industries and business networks around Europe
32. Result
34. Thank you for listening!