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ITALY
AND EUROPEANA
An overview Filipendula vulgaris Moench
Schola Department of Life
Sciences, University of Trieste
14 January 2019 CC BY-SA
Italy and Europeana: an overview Table of contents ITALY 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 Italy’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6 Italy in Europeana Collections 8 End notes 10
Italy 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
Italy and its cultural heritage institutions world. By encouraging open licensing,
are indispensable partners, supporting the Europeana Initiative makes more
the Europeana Initiative and Europeana culture available to more people, so it
Foundation financially, and contributing can be used in education, research and
to the diversity of content the creative industries.
Europeana Collections, Europeana, 2018, Public Domain
3Italy 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
• Europeana 1914-1918 Collection Days Europeana Foundation organised the
will take place in Rome in October 2018 event with partner cultural heritage
in cooperation with www.14-18.it and institutions, Museo della Grafica, Pisa,
ICCU. KU Leuven and Photoconsortium, where
• Education: Massive Open Online Course public were invited to share their
(MOOC) participants in Italy have set up memories, stories and objects relating to
73 Learning Scenarios that will help migration.
teachers to use Cultural Heritage
content in education. Collection day events throughout Europe
• The DiCultHer-ICCU website added have been complemented with
Europeana resources for education: exhibitions, panel discussions, lectures
https://www.diculther.it/europeana- and more, and have been attended by
iccu/ more than 3000 people. Overall, 17
• Creative industries: ArtStories.It, stories from Italy about migration have
Europeana EdTech Challenge winner: been shared with the campaign, with all
http://www.artstories.it/en/ published on Europeana Collections. The
stories from Italy comprise 28 objects,
The Europeana Migration campaign, as and are about 51 people and cover
part of the European Year of Cultural connections to various countries
Heritage 2018, took place throughout worldwide.
2018 with a collection day event in Italy.
4Italy and Europeana: an overview
Funding and projects
Since 2008, Italy has contributed €100,000. EU funding in country since 2008 are listed
below. 5 partners from Italy are currently
To date, €3,033,631 from the budget contributing to ongoing projects, which
provided by the EU to fund Europeana directly support content, knowledge and
Initiative projects has contributed to technology sharing between libraries,
activities in Italy. museums, archives, software agencies,
university research departments and the
Europeana Initiative projects with partial Europeana Initiative.
ONGOING/
FUNDING
PARTNER PROJECT COMPLETED
(Euro)
PROJECT
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche Europeana v2.0, Europeana v3.0 560,047 Completed
1 2 3 4
DSI1 , DSI2 , DSI3 , DSI4 , Crowd DSI4 &
Europeana Fashion International
Heritage 927,345 Crowd
Association
ongoing
Fondazione Museo storico del Trentino Europeana Awareness 24,380 Completed
Fratelli Alinari Istituto di Edizioni Europeana Food & Drink
78,852 Completed
Artistiche-Idea Spa
Europeana Awareness, Europeana v3.0,
Instituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico Literacy &
Europeana Food & Drink,
Delle Biblioteche Italiane e per le 480,181 Common
Rise of Literacy, Europeana Sounds,
informazioni Bibliografiche (ICCU) ongoing
Common Culture
International Consortium for DSI3, DSI4 DSI4
308,716
Photographic Heritage Photoconsortium Ongoing
Europeana Cloud, Europeana Media Media
Istituto Luce-Cinecitta SRL 128,085
Ongoing
Europeana Sounds, Enriching Europeana Enriching
NET7 SRL 216,648
Ongoing
Regione Marche Europeana Local 86,672 Completed
Universita Degli Studi di Roma la Sapienza Europeana Food & Drink 222,705 Completed
5Italy and Europeana: an overview
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 Sara Di Giorgio from ICCU and
Flavia Bruni from ICCU.
Currently, 181 people from Italy 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.
Italy’s culture showcased in Europeana
Collections
Europeana Collections features over 58 Cultural heritage institutions
million objects of which 3,037,900 are
provided by Italian institutions. 98 cultural heritage institutions in Italy
contribute collections to Europeana. The
Aggregation largest partners are listed in the
following table. A full breakdown of
All objects aggregated by Italy can be institutions and objects can be found
found here5. The main point of contact here6.
for Italy is CulturaItalia.
6Italy and Europeana: an overview
OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA
DATA PARTNERS
COLLECTION
SAN - Sistema Archivistico Nazionale 674,642
Cinecittà Luce S.p.A. 372,377
Internet Culturale 218,249
Istituto Sturzo, Roma 214,111
Internet Culturale - Biblioteca Braidense Milano 117,379
Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma 117,077
Dipartimento Di Scienze Della Vita, Università degli studi di Trieste 101,323
L’Unione Cinematografica Educativa LUCE 88,098
Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico 83,141
Internet Culturale / CulturaItalia 82,791
Epigraphic Database Roma 71,826
MuseiD-Italia 69,961
Fondazione Luigi Micheletti 51,704
Regione Piemonte 50,160
Archivio Franca Rame Dario Fo, CTFR 47,331
Federico Zeri Foundation 40,811
Epigraphic Dabatase Bari 40,283
Cineteca di Bologna 39,426
Archivio Franca Rame - Dario Fo 38,622
Archivio di Stato di Venezia - Judaica-europeana 38,597
Openly licensed data 6.3% of the 3,037,900 objects in
Europeana provided by Italy are openly
Openly licensed material can be licensed7. 1.4% of these objects are
promoted widely, reaching millions more shown with the internationally
people, and can be used in innovative accredited Public Domain mark8, 4.5% is
products, apps and services that bring licensed under CC BY-SA9, 0.03% is
culture to the classroom, the newsroom, licensed under CC BY10 and 0.4% is
the science lab and the kickstarters. licensed under CC011.
7Italy and Europeana: an overview
Servizio fotografico Mantova, 1962 | Monti, Paolo, Fondazione Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura, CC BY-SA
Italy in Europeana Collections
2016 2017 2018
Visits to Europeana Collections
211,251 200,352 186,012
from Italy
Total views of objects from Italy
237,420 207,239 198,70212
worldwide
Matrimonio di Diego Abatantuono e la moglie
Most-viewed object from Italy
Antonio Cabrini con Diego Abatantuono14 Giulia Begnotti seduti accanto
worldwide
Consuelo Benzi13 ad un bancone da bar15
92% of visits from Italy browsed Specific countries may also have been
Europeana Collections in Italian, 5% in affected by the depublication of datasets
English, 1% in German while 2% used that don’t meet the minimum
other languages. requirements.
Objects on thematic Collections: We made efforts to mitigate the issue by
Migration: 1,502 working on the sitemap, introducing
1914-1918: 104,265 more context to the data and making
Art: 97,236 improvements in the curated content.
Natural History: 103,714 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.
8Italy and Europeana: an overview
Serie fotografica Venezia,
1947-1940 | Monti, Paolo
Fondazione Biblioteca Europea
di Informazione e Cultura
CC BY-SAItaly and Europeana: an overview
End notes
1
As a Digital Service Infrastructure, 4
Europeana DSI-4 is a continuation of
Europeana will continue to connect the the previous Europeana DSI projects.
online collections of Europe’s cultural Europeana DSI-4 will fulfil Europeana’s
heritage institutions. Europeana DSI is 2020 strategy and Business Plans as
funded by the Connecting Europe Facility confirmed by the European Commis-
(CEF(. - https://pro.europeana.eu/ sion’s Expert Group on Digital Cultural
project/europeana-dsi Heritage and Europeana (DCHE), Euro-
pean Commission and Europeana
2
Europeana DSI-2 is our core project Network Association. - https://pro.
which aims to connect, as a Digital europeana.eu/project/europeana-dsi-4
Service Infrastructure, the online collec-
tions of Europe’s cultural heritage 5
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/
institution. - https://pro.europeana.eu/ search?f%5BCOUNTRY%5D%5B%5D=it-
project/europeana-dsi-2 aly&q=*%3A*&view=grid
3
Europeana DSI-3 is a continuation of 6
http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/
the previous Europeana DSI projects search?f%5BCOUNTRY%5D%5B%5D=it-
(Europeana DSI and Europeana DSI-2). aly&q=*%3A*&view=grid
The DSI-3 project operates the Europe-
ana core service platform from mid-2017 7
Open data and content can be freely
to mid-2018. used, modified, and shared by anyone
The Europeana DSI-3 consortium con- for any purpose - http://opendefinition.
sists of Europeana Foundation as coordi- org/
nator as well as 28 partners from ten
different countries represented by 8
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