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IRELAND
AND EUROPEANA
An overview St. Patrick’s Day, 1853 |
George Thomas
14 January 2019 Irish Traditional Music Archive
Public Domain
Ireland and Europeana: an overview Table of contents IRELAND AND EUROPEANA Intro 3 Presidency of the Council of the European Union 4 Highlights 4 Funding and projects 5 Professional participation - Europeana Network Association 6 Ireland’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6 Ireland in Europeana Collections 8 End notes 10
Ireland 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
Ireland 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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Ireland and Europeana: an overview
Presidency of the Council of the
European Union
The closing conference of the European also presented DX 10: case studies of
Year of Cultural Heritage 2018 was impact in the age of digital transformation
organised jointly by the Austrian including Europeana Transcribe,
Presidency of the Council of the Europeana Migration, SmartSquare,
European Union and the European GLAM-WIKI , SMK Open within the
Commission on 6 and 7 December. The meet-up session ‘The Impact of Cultural
Europeana Foundation contributed Heritage: a case study’.
through an engaging co-creation
transcribathon at the Austrian National
Library where participants transcribed
handwritten material from the First
World War. The Europeana Foundation
Highlights
The Europeana Migration campaign, as Collection day events throughout Europe
part of the European Year of Cultural have been complemented with
Heritage 2018, took place throughout exhibitions, panel discussions, lectures
2018 with four collection day events in and more, and have been attended by
Ireland. Europeana Foundation more than 3000 people. Overall, 106
organised the events with partner stories from Ireland about migration
cultural heritage institutions, EPIC The have been shared with the campaign,
Irish Emigration Museum and The Hunt with 81 published on Europeana
Museum, Limerick, where public were Collections so far. The stories from
invited to share their memories, stories Ireland comprise 119 objects, and are
and objects relating to migration. about 154 people and cover connections
to various countries worldwide.
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Funding and projects
Since 2008, Ireland has contributed
€115,000.
To date, €863,120 from the budget
provided by the EU to fund Europeana
Initiative projects has contributed to
activities in Ireland.
Europeana Initiative projects with partial
EU funding in country since 2008 are listed
ONGOING/
FUNDING
PARTNER PROJECT COMPLETED
(Euro)
PROJECT
An Chomhairle Leabharlanna Europeana Local 176,259 Completed
Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann Friendly Europeana Sounds
83,312 Completed
Society
Deparment of Tourism, Culture and Sport Europeana v2.0 49,220 Completed
Department of Arts, Heritage and the Europeana Awareness
50,760 Completed
Gaeltacht
Irish Traditional Music Archive/Taisce Europeana Sounds
71,955 Completed
Cheol Duchais Eireann LBG
Local Government Management Europeana Food & Drink
Agency-An Ghniomhaireacht 87,818 Completed
Bainistiochta Rialtais Aitiuil LGMA
The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars Europeana Cloud, Common Culture
& The Other Members of Board of the Common
254,666
College of the Holy & Undivided trinity of Ongoing
Queen Elizabeth near Dublin
Connecting Archaeology and Architecture DSI41 89,130 Ongoing
in Europe
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Professional participation - Europeana
Network Association
The Europeana Network Association is a The Europeana Network Association
strong and democratic community of elects a Members Council which plays a
experts working in the field of digital crucial role across all the Europeana
heritage, united by a shared mission to Initiative’s activities. The Members
expand and improve access to Europe’s Council is made up of 36 people,
digital cultural heritage. including Killian Downing from The
National Archives of Ireland.
Currently, 70 people from Ireland 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.
Ireland’s culture showcased in
Europeana Collections
Europeana Collections features over 58 Cultural heritage institutions
million objects of which 122,403 are
provided by Irish institutions. 26 cultural heritage institutions in
Ireland contribute collections to
Aggregation Europeana. The largest partners are
listed in the following table. A full
All objects aggregated by Ireland can be breakdown of institutions and objects
found here2. The main point of contact can be found here3.
for Ireland is the National Library of
Ireland.
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OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA
DATA PARTNERS
COLLECTION
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage 40,530
National Library of Ireland 33,715
The Discovery Programme 15,102
Comhaltas Traditional Music Archive 14,456
Irish Traditional Music Archive 6,257
University College Dublin, UCD Library 3,619
Trinity College Dublin 2,557
Local Government Management Agency 2,000
The Oireachtas Library & Research Service 1,568
EuropeanaTravel 725
Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) 506
Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies 456
The Royal Irish Academy 386
The Chester Beatty Library 186
Royal Irish Academy 104
Crawford Gallery 99
James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway 50
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann 22
ICM & Ard-Media 21
National Print Museum 10
Openly licensed data 6.4% of the 122,403 objects in
Europeana provided by Ireland are
Openly licensed material can be openly licensed4. 3% of these objects are
promoted widely, reaching millions more shown with the internationally
people, and can be used in innovative accredited Public Domain mark5, 1.6% is
products, apps and services that bring licensed under CC BY-SA6 and 1.8% is
culture to the classroom, the newsroom, licensed under CC07.
the science lab and the kickstarters.
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The Penny Bridge Dublin | Samuel Frederick Brocas, National Library of Ireland, Public Domain Marked
Ireland in Europeana Collections
2016 2017 2018
Visits to Europeana Collections
26,396 23,753 20,719
from Ireland
Total views of objects from Ireland
74,499 47,634 37,1728
worldwide
Most-viewed object from Ireland Burke's Landed Juno Confiding Io to Thom’s Street Directory,
worldwide Gentry Of Ireland9 the Care of Argus10 Dublin City11
9% of visits from Ireland browsed affected by the depublication of datasets
Europeana Collections in Irish, 89% in that don’t meet the minimum
English, while 2% used other languages. requirements.
Objects on thematic Collections: We made efforts to mitigate the issue by
Migration: 84 working on the sitemap, introducing
Art: 473 more context to the data and making
Natural History: 469 improvements in the curated content.
We’ll continue this work in 2019 and
Organic search provides an important implement a new editorial strategy
traffic source for Europeana Collections, which will bring more traffic and visibility
particularly to item pages. The amount to high-quality content.
of organic search traffic we receive
depends largely on the amount of pages The engagement and impressions on
indexed by Google. Through 2018, we social media, and the downloads and
experienced a drop in the number of impressions on third-party platforms
indexed pages which contributed to a perform beyond expectations which
decrease in overall traffic. proves the power of curation and the
potential of high-quality material.
Specific countries may also have been
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Robinson Crusoe quadrilles,
cover | Levey, R.M.
Irish Traditional Music Archive
Public Domain
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End notes
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