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BULGARIA
AND EUROPEANA
An overview Българско дружество Червен кръст
Регионална библиотека ПЕНЧО
20 January 2020 СЛАВЕЙКОВ - Варна / Public Library
- Varna
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Bulgaria and Europeana: an overview Table of contents BULGARIA AND EUROPEANA Intro 3 Presidency of the Council of the European Union 4 Highlights 5 Funding and projects 5 Professional participation - Europeana Network Association 6 Bulgaria’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6 Bulgaria in Europeana Collections 8 End notes 10
Bulgaria and Europeana: an overview
Intro
The Europeana Initiative drives digital available through Europeana Collections.
transformation and is responsible for With content from every EU country (and
Europeana Collections - Europe’s beyond), an interface available in every
platform for digital cultural heritage. It is EU language, and an award-winning
financed by the European Union’s series of APIs that give access to its
Connecting Europe Facility and content, Europeana Collections is the
European Union Member States. only place that offers up Europe’s
treasure trove of cultural heritage to the
Bulgaria and its cultural heritage world. By encouraging open licensing,
institutions are indispensable partners, the Europeana Initiative makes more
supporting the Europeana Initiative and culture available to more people, so it
Europeana Foundation financially, and can be used in education, research and
contributing to the diversity of content the creative industries.
Europeana Collections, Europeana, 2018, Public Domain
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Bulgaria and Europeana: an overview
Presidency of the Council of the
European Union
Benefits, challenges and solutions for Europeana multilingual strategy.
multilingual digital cultural heritage: a
report from the Finnish Presidency The meeting focussed on multilingual
Europeana meeting October 2019 metadata, content translation and user
interactions. The principal opportunities
During the Finnish Presidency of the and challenges for various players were
Council of the European Union, identified. Benefits of multilingualism
Europeana and the Finnish Ministry of were discussed. And together, delegates
Education and Culture jointly held a developed a broad set of solutions and
meeting - on 24-25 October 2019 in changes needed to address the identified
Espoo, Finland - with high-level challenges and advance multilingualism
policymakers and experts in summarised in ‘next steps for
multilingualism to discuss the challenges multilingualism in digital cultural
and opportunities of multilingualism in heritage’1.
digital cultural heritage.
A report summarising the key outcomes
At the meeting, delegates from the DCHE of the meeting will be published in
Expert Group, Ministries of Culture across February 2020. Europeana is developing
Europe, and multilingualism experts were a recommended multilingual strategy
invited to share their perspectives and and roadmap paper that builds on the
experiences with each other through a output from the meeting in Finland. The
series of speeches, presentations, case Europeana multilingual strategy is
studies, panel discussions and scheduled for publication in spring 2020.
workshops. The aim was to:
• stimulate reflection on multilingualism
in digital cultural heritage at large
using Europeana as a case study;
• develop a deeper understanding of the
multilingualism problem/opportunity
space for digital cultural heritage;
• consider what options can be pursued
to provoke action at the local level,
furthering the multilingual
capabilities;
• provide input and feedback for the
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Highlights
Pioneers highlights the lives and translations also helped popularise foreign
achievements of 8 remarkable European authors in Bulgaria and vice versa. She is
women in the arts, sciences and society. remembered as a writer but was also an
From groundbreaking women’s rights activist, fighting for peace and children’s
campaigners to brilliant scientists, this rights.
exhibition celebrates the historical
contribution of innovative women to
human knowledge and culture.
Dora Gabe is honoured both in her home
country and across Europe. Famous not
only for her poems and stories, her
Funding and projects
Under the Bulgarian Presidency, Bulgaria Europeana Initiative projects with partial
co-funded the Varna meeting in May 2018. EU funding in Bulgaria since 2008 are
listed below. 1 partner from Bulgaria is
To date, €315,547 from the budget currently contributing to an ongoing
provided by the EU to fund Europeana project, which directly support content,
Initiative projects has contributed to knowledge and technology sharing
activities in Bulgaria. between libraries, museums, archives,
software agencies, university research
departments and the Europeana Initiative.
ONGOING/
FUNDING
PARTNER PROJECT COMPLETED
(Euro)
PROJECT
Europeana Creative, Europeana Food &
Ontotext AD 245,293 Completed
Drink
Public Library 'Pencho Slaveykov' (Public Europeana Awareness, Europeana Local, Common
70,254
Library of Varna) Common Culture Ongoing
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Professional participation - Europeana
Network Association
The Europeana Network Association is a
strong and democratic community of
experts working in the field of digital
heritage, united by a shared mission to
expand and improve access to Europe’s
digital cultural heritage.
Currently, 28 people from Bulgaria are a
Europeana Network Association
member, and as such are involved in a
range of activities, sharing best
practices, learning and collaborating
within the cultural heritage sector.
Bulgaria’s culture showcased in
Europeana Collections
Europeana Collections features over 58 Cultural heritage institutions
million objects of which 121,108 are
provided by Bulgarian institutions. 27 cultural heritage institutions in
Bulgaria contribute collections to
Aggregation Europeana. The largest partners are
listed in the following table. A full
All objects aggregated by Bulgaria can breakdown of institutions and objects
be found here2. The main point of can be found here3.
contact for Bulgaria is Pencho Slaveykov
Public Library Varna.
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OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA
DATA PARTNERS
COLLECTION
Регионална библиотека ПЕНЧО СЛАВЕЙКОВ - Варна / Public Library - Varna 56,764
Фондация НАБИС / NALIS Foundation 16,937
Централна библиотека на БАН / Library of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 15,144
WebFolk Bulgaria 13,738
Bulgariana 9,071
Народната библиотека „Св. св.Кирил и Методий“ / National Library of Bulgaria 3,673
Регионална библиотека ЛЮБЕН КАРАВЕЛОВ - Русе / Public Library - Rousse 1,707
Библиотека РОДИНА - Стара Загора / Library Rodina - Stara Zagora 1,139
Националният археологически институт с музей / National Institute of Archaeology
800
and Museum
Antient Objects 500
Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология / Ban-Institut PO Balkanistika 499
Регионална библиотека Дора Габе - Добрич / Public Library - Dobrich 288
Регионална библиотека ХРИСТО СМИРНЕНСКИ - Хасково / Public Library - Haskovo 272
Bulgaria and the Slavic Peoples - 2 144
Художествена галерия - Казанлък / Art Gallery of Kazanlak 83
Стара София / Old Sofia 69
Институт за литература Българска академия на науките / Institute for Literature 50
Институт за български език при БАН / Institute for Bulgarian Language 14
Столична община - район “Кремиковци” / Sofia Municipality - Kremikovtsi District 6
Националната галерия / National Gallery, Sofia 4
Openly licensed data 75.5% of the 121,108 objects in
Europeana provided by Bulgaria are
Openly licensed material can be openly licensed4. 18.2% of these objects
promoted widely, reaching millions more are shown with the internationally
people, and can be used in innovative accredited Public Domain mark5, 7.7% is
products, apps and services that bring licensed under CC BY6 and 49.7% is
culture to the classroom, the newsroom, licensed under CC07.
the science lab and the kickstarters.
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Проект за фреско - кино Стамболийски - гр. Стамболийски, IVAN VAZOV Public Library - Plovdiv, Public Domain
Bulgaria in Europeana Collections
2017 2018 2019
Visits to Europeana Collections
21,745 44,854 73,964
from Bulgaria
Total views of objects from Bulgaria
45,461 51,5128 76,909
worldwide
Задушен заек в Задушен заек в
Most-viewed object from Bulgaria
Пушка кремъклийка9 тенджера под тенджера под
worldwide
налягане налягане10
67% of visits from Bulgaria browsed affected by the depublication of datasets
Europeana Collections in Bulgarian, 32% that don’t meet the minimum
in English and 1% used other languages. requirements.
Objects on thematic Collections: We made efforts to mitigate the issue by
Migration: 43 working on the sitemap, introducing
1914-1918: 77 more context to the data and making
Art: 3,850 improvements in the curated content.
Natural History: 21 We’ll continue this work in 2019 and
implement a new editorial strategy
Organic search provides an important which will bring more traffic and visibility
traffic source for Europeana Collections, to high-quality content.
particularly to item pages. The amount
of organic search traffic we receive The engagement and impressions on
depends largely on the amount of pages social media, and the downloads and
indexed by Google. Through 2018, we impressions on third-party platforms
experienced a drop in the number of perform beyond expectations which
indexed pages which contributed to a proves the power of curation and the
decrease in overall traffic. potential of high-quality material.
Specific countries may also have been
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End notes
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