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ITALY
AND EUROPEANA
An overview       Serie fotografica Venezia, 1947-1940
                       Fondazione Biblioteca Europea di
                           Informazione e Cultura (BEIC)
25 January 2021                                CC BY-SA
ITALY AND EUROPEANA An overview 25 January 2021 - Europeana Pro
Italy and Europeana: an overview

Table of contents

   ITALY AND EUROPEANA

   Intro                                 3

   Presidency of the Council of the
   European Union                        4

   Highlights                            5

   Funding and projects                  6

   Professional participation -
   Europeana Network Association         7

   Italy’s culture showcased
   in Europeana Collections              7

   Italy in Europeana Collections        9

   End notes                             11
ITALY AND EUROPEANA An overview 25 January 2021 - Europeana Pro
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

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Presidency of the Council of the
European Union
   German presidency Europeana                  background to digital transformation and
   conference - The Europeana conference        copyright, where we stand, and what
   under the German Presidency on 5 and 6       might come next. It was agreed that there
   October explored the role that copyright     is a need to collaborate across the sector.
   plays in the digital transformation of the   Europeana will explore ways to keep an
   cultural heritage sector1. The conference    up-to-date overview of positive initiatives
   was organised in collaboration with the      across the Member States, and will
   German National Library as part of the       continue engaging in discussions on how
   cultural programme of the German             the copyright in the Digital Single Market
   Presidency. More than 40 DCHE members        Directive can support the sector.
   and copyright advocates and experts
   from 21 countries participated in the
   event. The conference looked at the

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Highlights
   Building Digital Capacity: sense-making           Introducing the Europeana MOOC ‘Digital
   findings and outcomes: https://pro.               Education with Cultural Heritage’: https://
   europeana.eu/post/building-digital-               pro.europeana.eu/post/introducing-the-
   capacity-sense-making-findings-and-               europeana-mooc-digital-education-with-
   outcomes                                          cultural-heritage

   Approaches for handling multilingualism
   for digital cultural heritage: https://pro.
   europeana.eu/post/approaches-for-
   handling-multilingualism-for-digital-
   cultural-heritage

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Funding and projects

    Since 2008, Italy has contributed €100,000.       EU funding in Italy since 2008 are listed
                                                      below. 9 partners from Italy are currently
    To date, €4,326,025 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.

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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 Flavia Bruni from ICCU.

   Currently, 223 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 3,227,371 are
   provided by Italian institutions.         130 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 here2. The main point of contact    here3.
   for Italy is CulturaItalia.

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                                                                                                 OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA
                                       DATA PARTNERS
                                                                                                           COLLECTION

SAN - Sistema Archivistico Nazionale                                                                        804,332

Cinecittà Luce S.p.A.                                                                                       442,005

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

Internet Culturale / CulturaItalia                                                                           82,791

Cineteca di Bologna                                                                                          73,157

Epigraphic Database Roma                                                                                     71,826

MuseiD-Italia                                                                                                69,961

MetsTeca                                                                                                     63,562

Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries                                               56,137

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

Archivio Franca Rame - Dario Fo                                                                              38,622

Fondazione Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura (BEIC)                                               35,475

         Openly licensed data                                           7.4% of the 3,227,371 objects in
                                                                        Europeana provided by Italy are openly
         Openly licensed material can be                                licensed4. 1.3% of these objects are
         promoted widely, reaching millions more                        shown with the internationally
         people, and can be used in innovative                          accredited Public Domain mark5, 4.2% is
         products, apps and services that bring                         licensed under CC BY-SA6, 1.5% is
         culture to the classroom, the newsroom,                        licensed under CC BY7 and 0.4% is
         the science lab and the kickstarters.                          licensed under CC08.

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                              Rosa ‘Bloomfield Abundance’, Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, CC BY-SA

Italy in Europeana Collections
                                                              2018                                2019                              2020

Visits to Europeana Collections
                                                                     186,012                               191,131                          293,825
from Italy

Total views of objects from Italy
                                                                   198,7029                                217,977                          231,141
worldwide

                                                   Diego Abatantuono e                  Gabriele Ferzetti e la
                                                                                                                            Piano medio di Teddy
Most-viewed object from Italy                       la moglie Giulia Beg-               moglie, Maria Grazia
                                                                                                                           Reno e la moglie Vania
worldwide                                         notti seduti accanto ad          Eminente, tra gli invitati del
                                                                                                                                          Protti12
                                                    un bancone da bar10                         ricevimento11
           92% of visits from Italy browsed
           Europeana Collections in Italian, 5% in
           English, 1% in German while 2% used
           other languages.

           Objects on thematic Collections:
           Migration: 1,247
           1914-1918: 80,652
           Art: 168,980
           Sport: 8,350

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                                   Serie fotografica
                                          Serie fotografica
                                                      Italia, Italia,
                                                              1950-1930
                                                                      1950-1930
                                     Fondazione
                                            Fondazione
                                                  Biblioteca
                                                         Biblioteca
                                                              Europea Europea
                                                                        di    di
                                         Informazione
                                                Informazione
                                                        e Cultura
                                                                e Cultura
                                                                   (BEIC) (BEIC)
                                                                CC BY-SA
                                                                       CC BY-SA
Italy and Europeana: an overview

End notes

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     https://pro.europeana.eu/post/copy-             material in any medium or format
   right-in-the-cultural-heritage-sector-out-        Adapt — remix, transform, and build
   comes-of-the-german-presidency-event              upon the material for any purpose, even
                                                     commercially. - https://creativecom-
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    http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/               mons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
   search?f%5BCOUNTRY%5D%5B%5D=it-
   aly&q=*%3A*&view=grid                             8
                                                       The person who associated a work with
                                                     this deed has dedicated the work to the
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    http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/               public domain by waiving all of his or her
   search?f%5BCOUNTRY%5D%5B%5D=it-                   rights to the work worldwide under
   aly&q=*%3A*&view=grid                             copyright law, including all related and
                                                     neighboring rights, to the extent allowed
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    Open data and content can be freely              by law.
   used, modified, and shared by anyone              You can copy, modify, distribute and
   for any purpose - http://opendefinition.          perform the work, even for commercial
   org/                                              purposes, all without asking permission.
                                                     - https://creativecommons.org/publicdo-
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     This work has been identified as being          main/zero/1.0/
   free of known restrictions under copy-
   right law, including all related and              9
                                                      Due to a technical error in our systems
   neighboring rights.                               we are unfortunately unable to provide
   You can copy, modify, distribute and              data for the period of October 2018 to
   perform the work, even for commercial             December 2018. The issue has been
   purposes, all without asking permission.          resolved, and we will report accurate
   - https://creativecommons.org/publicdo-           data from January 2019 onwards
   main/mark/1.0/
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                                                       https://www.europeana.eu/portal/it/
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   Share — copy and redistribute the                 NonAVCreation_Master13339IT_IL_
   material in any medium or format                  FT00001_00000494_1.html
   Adapt — remix, transform, and build
   upon the material for any purpose, even           11
                                                       https://www.europeana.eu/portal/it/
   commercially. - https://creativecom-              record/08602/NonAVCreation_luce_it_IL_
   mons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/                      NonAVCreation_IL0020024245_1.html

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    You are free to:                                 12
                                                       https://www.europeana.eu/it/
   Share — copy and redistribute the                 item/08602/NonAVCreation_luce_it_IL_
                                                     NonAVCreation_IL0010023485_gen8_1

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