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This research seeks to identify and evaluate the various user needs that impact on the provision of certain cultural digital content to cultural tourists. It has been researched and written by Culture24, as part of the Europeana Awareness project.
As an aggregator, Europeana has been spectacularly successful, bringing together 21 million items and exceeding its 2011 content target by 31%. The emphasis will now be on distribution.
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Created: 28 December 2011
Harry Verwayen
Outlined in this Business Plan are the business priorities for Europeana in 2012. The business plan will follow the line of the Europeana Strategic Plan 2011-2015:
Interest in open metadata is growing among policy makers, the cultural heritage sector, the research community, and software and application developers. At the European level, the Digital Agenda for Europe 2020 identifies ‘opening up public data resources for re-use’ as a key action in support of the Digital Single Market.
010 was an auspicious year for Europeana. It began with the publication of Europeana – Next Steps, a report by Helga Trüpel, Vice-Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament, which was adopted by the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers in May 2010.
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Created: 1 January 2011
Harry Verwayen
2011 is a pivotal year, moving towards a service active in all the four strategic tracks. This year more emphasis and resource is to be placed on Engagement of the user and Distribution of the data, than on Aggregation and Facilitation and this is reflected in the volumes of work within each track.
