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This document proposes a set of policy recommendations and identifies action points for the (re-)use of European digital cultural heritage, collated under Europeana, in research.
What is under consideration in this paper is the long- term sustainability of Europeana: due to severe cuts in the CEF budget, guidelines demand funded initiatives to ‘become self-sustainable’ after only a couple of years of funding.
In order to understand and agree on what success means to us under the new Europeana Strategy 2015-2020, we have researched the ‘impact’ we can expect from Europeana as a Digital Service Infrastructure.
What is the social economic value of continued investment in Europeana to maintain and extend its current ambition level in terms of services and infrastructure in the years 2015-2020?
This Annual Reports and Accounts 2012 details the significant progress made by the Europeana Foundation and its partners and projects towards the goals set out in the Europeana Strategic Plan 2011-2015 and the Europeana Business Plan 2012.
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.
