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BUSINESS
PLAN 2019
Our common culture
AGM 2018 Vienna, Europeana Foundation, CC BY-SA
FOREWORD
The European Year of Cultural we at the Europeana Foundation feel
Heritage 2018 made us all conscious very comfortable in this space. But
of the social and economic impact there are challenges to overcome
our sector can have, being part and here, in the Europeana
of the fast-growing cultural and Foundation Business Plan 2019, we
creative industries in Europe. Not show how we will approach them in
only do we contribute access to the coming year.
valuable content resources, but the
sector is seen more and more as an We will keep innovating at the same
R&D lab, fertile soil, an environment time as improving the quality of
in which technological, behavioural the Europeana Core Service. We
and organisational experimentation will invest in our organisation so
can take place safely. that it can readily adapt to future
challenges. We will continue
The world around us continues to to transform ourselves into a Europeana Foundation Governing Board Changing Landscape Working Group 2018,
change as we enter our second distributed, networked organisation Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC BY
decade as an organisation. Artificial that leverages the contribution of
intelligence is fast gaining terrain, each of our partners. institutions, and the individuals
3D is becoming more prevalent in those organisations who are in
as a medium, and museums, Working very closely with the a position to make a difference.
libraries and archives across Europeana Network Association With the support of the European
Europe are continuing their digital and the Europeana Aggregators’ Commission and the Member States, Elisabeth Harry Verwayen
transformation. With our mission of Forum, we will maintain our we are in an excellent position to Niggemann Executive Director
transforming the world with culture, direct contact with the heritage meet the challenges of 2019. Chair
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CONTEXT
Europeana strategy 2025 and the Digital Europe Programme
The Europeana Foundation is Member States and funded under
an independently governed the Connecting Europe Facility Following the recommendations Member States with advice from a
organisation with a mission (CEF), of the European Union. In from the evaluation of Europeana, sub-group of experts and in close
to ‘transform the world with this capacity, we work very closely a new strategy for the Europeana cooperation with the Europeana
culture’. Our main activity is the with our consortium partners, the Initiative will be developed for Foundation. This strategy will
operation of the Europeana Core Europeana Aggregators’ Forum the period 2021-2025. This inform the activities of Europeana
Service Platform, as the leader (EAF) and the Europeana Network strategy will be developed by the under the new Digital Europe
of a Consortium under a service Association (ENA) to develop a European Commission and the Programme.
contract with the European Union. strong public service that supports
That service is governed by the cultural heritage institutions in their
European Commission and the digital transformation. The Europeana Foundation also In many projects, we are a full
initiates, or contributes to, other partner, but we also support
OPERATES EUROPEANA DSI/ projects that align with our mission projects that we do not have a full
PLATFORM
and our innovation agenda. participation in.
These projects are often funded The Europeana Foundation is
as Europeana Generic Services an independent, not-for-profit
projects (which contribute directly organisation with a specific role
to the Europeana Core Service), or and responsibility in the Europeana
as research projects funded under Initiative and in the Europeana
programmes such as Horizon 2020. ecosystem. We believe that great
The first allow us to strategically things can only be achieved in
REPRESENTS COMMUNITY REPRESENTS AGGREGATOR improve the Europeana Core cooperation with expert networks
INTERESTS INTERESTS Service, while the latter allow us to who share our values and with
to contribute to the innovation of dedicated partners across a range of
the cultural heritage sector at large. sectors.
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CURRENT PROJECTS
Europeana Core Europeana DSI-4 (09/2018 - 09/2020)
Service Platform
Migration in the Arts and Sciences (09/2017 - 02/2019) Europeana Media (09/2018 - 02/2020)
Europeana DSI
Generic Services - Rise of Literacy (09/2017 - 02/2019) EnrichEuropeana (09/2018 - 02/2020)
with Europeana Foundation participation CrowdHeritage (09/2018 - 02/2020) Europeana Common Culture (09/2018 - 02/2020)
Byzantine Art and Archaeology (09/2017 - 05/2019) Opening Up Historiana (09/2018 - 02/2020)
CultureMoves (09/2018 - 02/2020) Culture Chatbot (09/2018 - 02/2020)
Europeana DSI Fifties in Europe Kaleidoscope (09/2018 - 02/2020) Judaica Europeana 2.0 (02/2019 - 07/2020)
Generic Services -
without Europeana Foundation participation Sharing new perspectives: your 3D view on Europeana Europeana Archaeology (02/2019 - 07/2020)
(09/2018 - 02/2020)
Linking Biodiversity and Culture Information
(02/2019 - 07/2020)
GIFT (01/2017 - 12/2019)
H2020 projects -
V4Design (01/2018 - 12/2020)
Innovation
with Europeana Foundation participation Time Machine CSA (03/2019 - 02/2020)
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PRIORITIES 2019
In 2019, the Europeana Foundation As a second priority, we will work THREE HORIZONS MODEL FOR EUROPEANA FOUNDATION
will need to find a balance between with partners to extend and improve
current needs and continuously the offering of the Core Service with
innovating the sector. strategically important activities -
work that is not yet part of what we
Of course, our first priority is consider the Core Service. Horizon 3
improving the quality of the Core Participation in new & innovative activities
Service: the quality of Europeana Finally, we will do work as part of
Collections experience, the quality of projects that aim to innovate the
the collections themselves, the data sector at large, as well as furthering
aggregation and publication service our cultural innovation agenda. Horizon 2
Metis and the frameworks that Extension of Core Service with small innovations
support the operation of the Core. Quality of work, of human
All in close cooperation with the interaction, will be at the heart of
Europeana Network Association and all our activities, which we have
the Europeana Aggregators’ Forum. organised around three horizons of Horizon 1
innovation. Core Service
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EUROPEANA
CORE SERVICE
DSI4 Kick off meeting 2018, Europeana Foundation, CC BY-SA BUSINESS PLAN 2019
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CONCENTRATING ON THE
CORE SERVICE
500,000 visits
We aim to receive at least 500,000 visits to Europeana
The Europeana Core Service and our professional information Collections each month.
is the core of the Europeana site, Europeana Pro.
Foundation’s activities. During
2019, the challenge will be to focus A central part of this effort will be
even more on developing services on improving the material and
that support cultural heritage its representation on Europeana 30% User retention
institutions in Europe in their digital Collections. We will support We aim for 30% of our users to return to
transformation. This means that we organisations to share higher quality Europeana Collections.
will further develop the end-user content and metadata, and take
products - Europeana Collections action where necessary to ensure a
and the APIs - to allow Europe’s stable minimum quality of service.
cultural heritage to reach even more 70% Tier 2+
teachers, researchers and cultural We will intensify our work with the ap i By 2020, we expect 70% of our records to be in Tier 2, 3, or
enthusiasts. We will also further Europeana Aggregators’ Forum and 4 of the Europeana Publishing Framework.
develop the data aggregation and with the national aggregators in the
publication service (Metis) to allow Europeana Common Culture Project.
us to work better with national and
domain aggregators. And we will These activities will be delivered
work with institutions to develop under the Europeana DSI-4 service 35% Tier 3+
shared standards and practices contract with the European By 2020, we expect 35% of our records to be in Tier 3 or 4
through workshops, conferences Commission. of the Europeana Publishing Framework.
AGM 2018 Vienna, Europeana Foundation, Public domain
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PRODUCT STRATEGY
In 2019, our primary focus will be on To cater for audiences who come
raising the quality of our products to Europeana Collections looking
by both evolving the experience for inspiration, we will improve the
for audiences, and continuing to site’s browsability of people, places
improve the supply of data. and subjects. We will also review
our search algorithm for accuracy,
For data partners, we will keep experiment with improving our full-
investing in easier and faster text newspaper experience, and
data publication processes, and continue to explore bringing truly
demonstrate the benefits of what multilingual experiences to the
better data can do. platform.
We will also maintain our focus on Underpinning all of our work this
data quality, working to support year will be a focus on ensuring our
partners with their data quality products are sustainable and high-
plans, as well as enabling annotation performing. This includes auditing
APIs to encourage third-party our infrastructure, and reducing
Item page with extended browse experience, Europeana Foundation, CC BY-SA
enrichments. Ultimately, a faster technical complexity.
publishing process with a sustained
focus on data quality will enhance
usability for our audiences.
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PRODUCT ROADMAP
QUALITY ASSURED EASY DATA PUBLISHING
• Motivate aggregators and providers to raise the quality of • Extend data publishing with Metis [Metis V1.0]
collections • Enhance data publishing speed and reliability [Metis V2.0]
• Raise the quality of aggregated data • Aggregators and providers increase the speed of data
• Further enrich published data for end-users publishing
• Influence and organise global interoperability efforts
to benefit CHIs
2019
COLLECTIONS EXPERIENCE INFRASTRUCTURE IS SUSTAINABLE AND HIGH-
• Transform browse experience across collections PERFORMING
• Establish the newspaper’s full-text search experience • Audit our infrastructure and reduce technical complexity
• Transform multilingual collections experience
• Search improvements make Europeana Collections more
useful
• Europeana Collections are more discoverable by Google
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EDITORIAL STRATEGY
Europeana Collections offers Our efforts will be geared to
access to over 50 million objects getting more people to Europeana
2 Seasons
from Europe’s cultural heritage Collections and making it more
Women Pioneers season between January and April 2019;
institutions. Our established mix of attractive so they stay a little longer.
another one to be determined in autumn 2019.
curatorial strategies on Europeana We will continue to encourage
Collections, social media and people to get hands-on with
community-curated platforms such handwritten documents at both
as Wikidata, helps us to unveil the online and offline transcribathons.
beauty of these collections and to 4 Exhibitions
uncover the stories behind them. The most visible efforts throughout We will publish four new exhibitions in 2019.
this year will be two ‘seasons’ -
In 2019, three new thematic thematic campaigns, of varying
collections on newspapers, scope and duration, designed
archaeology and a science-based to highlight and promote high-
30 Net Promoter Score
theme will find a home in Europeana quality content on Europeana and
ap i In average, we aim for a Net Promoter Score of 30 for all
Collections; collaborating with elsewhere.
our exhibitions.
content providers to expand the
range of thematic collections to
13. We will continue to curate
exhibitions and welcome expert
blogs and guest-curated galleries.
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Exhibition female pioneers, Europeana Foundation, CC BY-SA
In early 2019, for our first season, On 18 January 2019, Commissioner In addition, on Europeana Pro, women have been selected for
we will mark International Gabriel launched ‘Pioneers’, an we will run a series of profiles their contribution to the sector,
Women’s Day (8 March) and online exhibition highlighting the and interviews with leading broad reach, diverse roles and
#WomensHistoryMonth with a lives and achievements of eight women in the cultural heritage backgrounds.
month-long celebration of female remarkable European women in the sector, highlighting their work
innovation. arts, sciences and society. and achievements. The featured
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11EDUCATION 200 Learning scenarios
Minimum of 200 new learning scenarios integrating
Europeana resources
Building on our educational the second later in the year.
collaboration with European We will expand the Europeana
Schoolnet and EUROCLIO, we will Teacher User Group to 120 teachers
further develop relationships with from 12 countries, and introduce MOOC updated
other educational networks (e.g. the Europeana Teacher Ambassador Updated MOOC (English) and MOOC in two other
DiCultHer, All Digital) as well as Network (12 educators from 12 languages (Spanish and Portuguese)
two new Ministries of Education countries) to help mainstream
in Europe. We will also work with the use of Europeana Collections
edtech companies and develop for digital learning on a national
competitive challenges to encourage level. Finally, we will continue Historiana
the development of innovative collaborating with eTwinning and ap i 12 new Europeana source collections and 12 new
learning resources. The first explore participation in Erasmus+ e-learning activities on Historiana
challenge will open in March 2019; projects.
5 Integrations
Five integrations of Europeana content in online learning
environments
40 Net Promoter Score
Employee of the Public & Education Department with a group of children, 2013, Rijksmuseum, Public Domain ap i In average, we aim for a Net Promoter Score of 40 in the
education market
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12RESEARCH EUROPEANA PRO
We will deepen our partnerships further the awareness and use of Europeana Pro is the primary The result will be a Europeana
with research institutions, networks digital cultural heritage in academic information platform for the Pro that reflects the Europeana
and initiatives, such as EOSC, CLARIN research. A new strategic plan Europeana Initiative. This year, core values - mutual, usable and
and DARIAH, and expand the for Europeana Research will be our focus is to simplify the reliable - and makes it easy for
Europeana Research community to published in April 2019. organisational structure of the site cultural heritage institutions and
so that it becomes easier to find professionals to join up and join in.
what you are looking for. We will The revamped Europeana Pro will be
update our design style guide and visible by the end of May 2019.
apply it to the look and feel of the
site.
Winners of the Europeana Research Grants Programme 2018, Europeana Foundation, CC BY-SA Europeana Pro homepage, Europeana Foundation, CC BY-SA
BUSINESS PLAN 2019
13RIGHTSSTATEMENTS.ORG IMPACT FRAMEWORK
As coordinator of Rightsstatements. Translations of the statements into With the cultural heritage sector of Europeana activities, and the
org, the Europeana Foundation French, Polish, Swedish, Romanian showing positive signs of embracing development of an interactive
will contribute to higher levels and Portuguese are under way and the concept of planning and dashboard to interrogate the
of awareness of the benefits of expected to be published in 2019. assessing impact as a means of ENUMERATE data about the state
accurate licensing and labelling for expressing its value, we will continue of digitisation in Europe (as a
cultural heritage. As a user of Rightsstatements. to develop the impact toolkit as collaboration with our partner, DEN).
org, the Europeana Foundation a resource for our partners. This The first edition of the ENUMERATE
We will do so by delivering training will encourage data partners, year that includes the development dashboard will be available in
resources and reference material to in particular those operating in of 10 new impact assessments September.
support members to implement the Estonian, Finnish, German and
rs.org statements. Working groups Spanish (translations added in 2018),
will develop the interoperability to implement the rs.org statements
of the statements to ensure they and to share their experiences
continue to meet contemporary throughout the Europeana Network
international standards, and develop Association.
partnerships with knowledge
platforms from outside the cultural
heritage sector that host cultural
heritage data.
A Vision for European Cultural Heritage 2025, 2018, Bulgaria, Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC BY
BUSINESS PLAN 2019
14EXTENDING
CORE SERVICE
Europeana DCH impact evidence bank workshop, 2018, Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC BY BUSINESS PLAN 2019
15EXTENDING THE CORE EUROPEANA COMMON
SERVICE CULTURE
With a consolidated Core Service, we In May 2019, we aim to submit A new Generic Services project, with novel technologies and
can look to strategically extend our a new proposal under the new Europeana Common Culture, supporting emerging national
offering in exciting and innovative Generic Services project call that began on 1 January 2019. The aggregators in their development.
directions - from improving the aims to improve the quality of the project brings 24 partners (and This should result in a stronger and
aggregation landscape to finding current collections, as well as deliver eight associate partners) together healthier aggregation infrastructure
new ways of presenting and working new curation. to improve the functioning of the in Europe, which allows cultural
with cultural heritage material. network of national aggregators by collections to flow easily throughout
In December, we will take an harmonising policies, experimenting the system.
To do this, we will continue to opportunity to reflect on progress
develop collaborations in research by bringing Europeana Foundation
and development, to work with a staff together with all Generic
range of partners in Generic Services Services project managers and
projects and to integrate the results representatives of the European
of all Generic Services projects into Commission.
Europeana Collections.
Europeana Common Culture Kick-off meeting, 2019, Latvia, Europeana Foundation, CC BY-SA
BUSINESS PLAN 2019
16COMMON CULTURE PROJECT OBJECTIVES
24 4 million Tier 2+
Full partners 4 million records improved in Europeana Collections
to Tier 2, 3 or 4
1.7 million Tier 3+
1.7 million records improved in Europeana Collections
to Tier 3 or 4
Policy recommendations
A policy document and recommendations on the landscape of
national aggregators in Europeana
Pilots
Pilots with Linked Open Data, Wikidata, Feedback Loop and 3D
content
Training
Training and workshops developed and run for national
National Aggregator
aggregators
Other partner BUSINESS PLAN 2019
17ENRICH EUROPEANA & EUROPEANA MEDIA
CROWDHERITAGE The Europeana Media Generic citizens better access so they can
Services project aims to increase incorporate audiovisual content into
the appeal, visibility, reuse, research their working environments, such as
Two Generic Services projects will features - colours, locations and
and interaction with Europe’s video fragment quoting, subtitling,
extend the Europeana platform subjects.
audiovisual heritage in Europeana and embedding media.
using participatory elements:
Collections and third-party platforms
The Europeana Foundation will
that use Europeana content. It The Europeana Media’s media player
EnrichEuropeana will offer options support events and develop the
will deliver functionalities that will will be integrated into Europeana
for transcribing handwritten texts technology to enable the exchange
offer researchers, educators and Collections in December 2019.
into human and machine-readable of the transcribed data into the
text so that content and stories Core Service using the Annotation
become more accessible for API. The Europeana Foundation
play and research. It will use the will develop a policy and guidelines
Europeana Transcribe platform and on how to deal with improved,
organise transcribathon events. updated and corrected metadata
During 2019, four events will take from sources other than the
place - in Romania, Poland, the original provider, i.e. from user
Netherlands and Austria. annotations and transcriptions.
We will make sure that these are
CrowdHeritage uses the platform shown appropriately on Europeana
withcrowd.eu. It asks people to Collections and that it will be
describe Europeana Collections possible to correct and approve the
material with reference to specific updated metadata if necessary.
Group of school children who participated in Transcribathon event, 2018, Austria, Frank Drauschke, CC BY-SA
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18RESEARCH &
DEVELOPMENT
IIIF - International Image extend that to some of our ingested
Interoperability Framework data. We will also encourage others
We will contribute to the IIIF in our sector to adopt automatic
community - through conferences, translation.
workshops, working groups - and
develop and prototype IIIF-related 3D
technologies that can lead to better A EuropeanaTech community Task
discoverability and harvestability of Force will work on increasing the
content and metadata. support for and availability of 3D
cultural heritage in Europeana
eTranslation Collections. It will update the
In cooperation with the Europeana Publishing Framework
Commission’s eTranslation team, and provide guidance on publishing
we will evaluate the application of 3D content.
the automatic translation service
to static site content and try to
Hacking Culture Bootcamp 2015, Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC BY
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19INNOVATION
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EuropeanaTech Conference 2018, Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC BY
20INNOVATING THE CULTURAL
HERITAGE SECTOR
To support innovation in the cultural and continuously improving digital
heritage sector, the Europeana content, tools and services offered
Foundation, with partners Sound by cultural heritage organisations.
and Vision, has developed an
innovation agenda. This agenda will Social change: increasing the social
guide our decisions on participating impact of the cultural heritage sector
in new projects, pilots or other and its contribution towards the
activities outside of the Core well-being of European citizens.
Services, with all work supporting
the sector’s digital transformation. Economic innovation: enabling
cultural heritage institutions
The four drivers from the innovation to become more responsive to
agenda are: financial challenges and harnessing
the economic impact of cultural
Institutional strategy and impact: heritage assets.
strengthening the network of
cultural heritage institutions and The innovation projects we are
increasing their reach and impact. currently participating in (Time
Machine, V4Design, GIFT) put these
Technological innovation: ensuring drivers into practice. Each project is
long-term access to cultural assets funded under Horizon 2020. Impact of the innovative cultural heritage sector, Elco van Staveneren, CC BY-SA
BUSINESS PLAN 2019
21TIME MACHINE
The Europeana Foundation is blocks for the Time Machine in the
a founding partner in the Time future. This preparatory project will
Machine project, which aims to use start in March 2019 and will deliver
artificial intelligence for the mass a project proposal for the Time
digitisation and interpretation of Machine project in early 2020.
collections and to create completely
new ways to interact with that data. Using our Impact Assessment
The project is currently funded as Framework, working with partners
a preparatory project, for which University of Venice and the
the Europeana Foundation is Institut National de l’Information
responsible for the evaluation of Géographique et Forestière, we will
impact in areas such as education, organise four impact workshops in
research and the development of fields such as education, research,
smart cities. cultural heritage institutions, and
smart cities and tourism.
The standards, frameworks and
collections of the Europeana service
will become important building Amsterdam Time Machine project, 4D model of Occo’s house in present Kalverstraat
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22V4DESIGN GIFT
V4Design will bring digitised cultural creating suitable train-and-test sets GIFT explores hybrid forms of virtual GIFT runs until December 2019
heritage assets directly into the tools to train various algorithms. These museum experiences. It brings and the Europeana Foundation will
used by architects and video game will become the first freely reusable, together artists, designers, museum support the project by coordinating
designers. openly licensed, tagged, cultural professionals and computer the dissemination activity.
heritage ‘big data’ sets available for scientists to help museums create
Having delivered datasets to the all. They will underpin state-of-the- personal encounters with cultural
project in 2018, this year, the art artificial intelligence projects in heritage, both in physical and digital
Europeana Foundation will focus on cultural heritage. realms.
V4 Design infographic, CERTH GIFT (prototype app) by Blast Theory, Blasttheory
BUSINESS PLAN 2019
23NETWORK AND
AGGREGATORS
AGM 2017 Italy, Europeana Foundation, CC BY-SA BUSINESS PLAN 2019
24EUROPEANA NETWORK ASSOCIATION
AGM 2018 Austria, Europeana Foundation, CC BY-SA
Over 2,300 professionals across the Council, as well as a completely EuropeanaTech, Europeana The Europeana Foundation will
Europe are a member of the new Management Board of the Copyright, Europeana Impact, continue to support the ENA as its
Europeana Network Association. Association. Europeana Education and secretariat and work with it to design
Europeana Research - will activate shared policies and standards and to
2019 will bring change to the Led by their steering groups and their members to deliver action strengthen the cross-domain fabric
Europeana Network Association. related Task Forces, the Network plans with results that will make of Europe’s cultural heritage sector.
The election of the Members Council Association’s six communities a difference to the wider cultural
has brought 19 new members to - Europeana Communicators, heritage sector.
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25EUROPEANA EUROPEANA
CONFERENCE 2019 AGGREGATORS’ FORUM
In November, the Europeana opportunity to attend the Europeana The Europeana Aggregators’ Forum In 2019, we will complete the
Foundation will organise a Network Association General (EAF) represents 31 accredited process for accrediting aggregators
conference that will allow the Assembly. A committee to steer the aggregators and coordinates the and conclude the first round of
Europeana Network Association event will be formed at the Members effective functioning of a pan- aggregator accreditation. We will
communities to meet and discuss Council’s first meeting in March European cross-domain aggregation also conduct discussions with the
their progress and direction. 2019. ecosystem at operational and EAF which will result in a set of
strategic level. recommendations from aggregators
A plenary programme will include The event will take place on 26-29 to support the development of
keynote speakers, an overview of November at the National Library of At operational level, accredited Europeana’s future strategy.
Europeana developments, project Portugal, Lisbon. aggregators ensure the
pitches and other input from the development and uptake of The Europeana Common Culture
Network Association, as well as the standards and frameworks and project will contribute significantly
have an active role in shaping the to the further development of
aggregation process and outcomes. the aggregation landscape in
At a strategic level, the EAF functions Europe and the EAF. A large group
as an advocacy body for pan- of national aggregators are full
European aggregation. partners in that project and domain
aggregators are also represented.
Europeana Aggregators’ Forum meetings
3-4 April 2019, The Hague, The Netherlands
Autumn 2019, Sweden
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26EUROPEAN PRESIDENCY
MEETINGS
Romanian Presidency Finnish Presidency
The Europeana meeting under the Europeana Foundation and the
Romanian Presidency 2019 aims Finnish Ministry of Education and
to highlight the impact of exposing Culture will jointly hold a meeting
cultural heritage online, and to on 24-25 October in Espoo on
provide a platform to discuss the multilinguality in the digital era
importance of national aggregation and in Europeana. We will focus on
infrastructures to the digital multilingual information resources,
transformation of cultural heritage multilingual data processing and
sector using Romania as a case enrichment, desired functions and
study. We will organise this meeting best practices, sophisticated search
together with the Romanian Ministry interfaces and retrieval capabilities
of Culture and National Identity. as well as the user/reuser needs and
behaviour when interacting with
Europeana Collections.
Presidency event Estonia 2017, Europeana Foundation, CC BY-SA
BUSINESS PLAN 2019
27EUROPEANA
OFFICES
Office Away Day 2018, Europeana Foundation, CC BY-SA BUSINESS PLAN 2019
28EUROPEANA OFFICE
Most staff work from our internal and external reporting and 17 Nationalities
headquarters in The Hague although look into possibilities for automating Our staff have various nationalities coming from around
some of our colleagues work from processes for creating and analysing the world, ranging from Europe, to Asia, Australia, and New
Italy, France, UK and Belgium. statistics. Zealand.
Diversity is important to us. Our
current team includes 17 different We continue to believe in our core
nationalities, some young, some values - that everything we do is
No Women No Panel initiative
older, with about an equal number mutual, usable and reliable. We also
ap i We will support the No Women No Panel Campaign to
of men and women. believe in equal treatment between
ensure that women are more represented in panels and
genders and therefore support the
conferences related to digital cultural heritage.
For 2019 we have two priorities: No Women No Panel Campaign
we are going to invest in staff initiated by Commissioner Mariya
development and improve our Gabriel.
internal processes. We will work
together on common issues in Last but not least, we will encourage
cross-functional teams, invest our employees and our organisation
in personal development, and to become ‘greener’. We can do
stimulate creativity and efficiency. this by taking the train instead of
To achieve the results we want, the plane more often, by avoiding
we will actively nurture a common unnecessary use of paper and
culture with people’s intrinsic plastic, and by providing more
motivation at its core. We will vegetarian alternatives to meat.
reduce the burden of reporting by Small things that can have big
repurposing information for both effects.
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29YEARLY
PLANNING
AGM 2018 Vienna, Europeana Foundation, CC BY-SA BUSINESS PLAN 2019
30PLANNING OVERVIEW 2019
Women’s season Second season 2019
eTranslation Europeana Legacy broken Europeana Europeana
pilot Newspapers links resolved Collections Collections
Launch Browse V0.1 Browse V0.2
Metis V1.1 Metis V1.2 Metis V1.3 Metis V1.4 Data partners
dashboard V1.0
Aggregator Revamped EPF V2.0 Aggregator and
spaces on Europeana Pro CHIs satisfaction
Europeana Pro V1.0 surveys
Impact Playbook ENUMERATE
V2.0 dashboard
Updated MOOC Europeana Strategic plan Case studies 200 Learning Europeana
(English) MOOC (ES, PT) for Europeana Europeana scenarios Education case
Research Research study
Europeana STEM
challenge
ENA new Members Council Aggregators’ Governing Board Aggregators’ Europeana
Management meeting Forum meeting meeting Forum meeting Conference 2019
Board meeting
Governing Board Romanian Members Council Finnish
meeting presidency event meeting presidency event
World Digital
Library meeting
Common Culture Time Machine Generic Services
kick-off kick-off meeting
GS requirements Annotations API Annotations Integration
agreed and updated display on Media Player
modelling ready Europeana
January February March April May June July August September October November December
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31BUDGET
2019
A Vision for European Cultural Heritage 2025, 2018, Bulgaria, Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC BY BUSINESS PLAN 2019
32BUDGET 2019
INCOME
Core Service Platform Generic Services H2020 - Innovation Total budget
Subsidy 5,318,280 489,740 111,229 5,919,248
Subsidy European Commission 5,318,280 362,948 111,229 5,792,456
Contribution from Member States - 126,792 - 126,792
Other income 7,500 - - 7,500
Tickets for events 7,500 - - 7,500
TOTAL INCOME 5,325,780 489,740 111,229 5,926,748
COSTS
Core Service Platform Generic Services H2020 - Innovation Total budget
Personnel staff 4,053,584 459,266 80,150 4,593,000
Personnel staff costs 3,953,584 459,266 80,150 4,493,000
Recruitment 30,000 - - 30,000
Training and education 45,000 - - 45,000
Other personnel costs 25,000 - - 25,000
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33Core Service Platform Generic Services H2020 - Innovation Total budget
Housing costs 100,000 459,266 80,150 100,000
Costs for housing 66,000 459,266 80,150 66,000
Costs for office IT and desk spaces 34,000 - - 34,000
Operating costs 235,000 - - 235,000
Office supplies 5,000 - - 5,000
Depreciation 15,000 - - 15,000
Insurances 65,000 - - 65,000
Financial/Payroll administration and costs 70,000 - - 70,000
Other external services 40,000 - - 40,000
Other general office costs for audit 40,000 - - 40,000
Subcontracting 585,161 - - 585,161
Platform operation, maintenance and development 409,661 - - 409,661
Fostering reuse 65,000 - - 65,000
Communication and dissemination 75,500 - - 75,500
Surveying impact for audit 30,000 - - 30,000
Project management 5,000 - - 5,000
Other direct costs 400,999 3,756 8,833 413,588
Travel costs 152,500 3,756 8,833 165,089
Event costs 190,000 - - 190,000
Other direct costs 58,500 - - 58,500
Overhead covered by other projects 48,964- 26,718 22,246 -
TOTAL COSTS 5,325,780 489,740 111,229 5,926,748
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