Strategic Plan Workshops Europeana 2013
2013-10-18
As distinguished and active members of their community Europeana would like to encourage its coimmunity to attend one or more of the 4 workshops they are planning in November, for which you can sign up here: https://strategicplanworkshopseuropeana2013.eventbrite.nl/.
Europeana won't start from scratch. During the sessions they will be building on the outcomes and recommendations from the workshop held on July 2nd of this year, which already provide a strong sense of direction; Europeana has to make clear choices in the audiences it wants to serve, improve its content offering and define its value propositions to the cultural sector and the creative industries more clearly. During the sessions in November we will aim to become more concrete on how we plan to reach these aims.
Sessions:
- 7 November - Distribute & Engage: We have expressed a strategic ambition to ‘make digital cultural heritage available to users, wherever they are’ and to ‘cultivate new ways for users to participate in their cultural heritage’. In order to achieve this aim, we are making a shift from portal- thinking to platform- thinking, but what does this really mean in practice? Should we focus on building and marketing the best possible APIs and encourage others to use it? Or should we still try to play a role with reaching end users directly? What are the metrics for success in these scenarios?
Attendee profile: mix of creative industry professionals and cultural institutions.
- 14 November - Aggregate: Europeana and its partners have set out to build the 'open trusted source for European cultural heritage content'. Due to the enormous efforts by partners, we now have close to 30 million objects in the Europeana repository, a fantastic achievement. The central question in this session will be to investigate how we can improve the quality of our offering. We have already established that we need to provide more direct access to content. But what does that mean in practice? Direct links to the object? Or hosting of content? What does that mean for our business model? Related questions are: how do we motivate our partners to share their very best material? What should the aggregation infrastructure look like in 2020? And should that be cloud-based? How about the role of UGC?
Attendee profile: representatives from the 4 domains (Libraries, Museums, Archives, AV), national aggregators, cultural institutions content providers, projects.
- 21 November - Facilitate: This track revolves around the aim to ‘support the cultural heritage sector through knowledge transfer, innovation and advocacy’. During the session we will discuss what the most important priorities should be the coming years, in terms of positioning Europeana as a Cultural Commons, and as a facilitator to help solve some of the issues in IPR and long term business model innovation. In particular: What areas should we be looking to set standards, policies and best practices in? How do we develop the areas in which we already have standards? What is our role in setting them? How do we make all this knowledge available to the ecosystem?
Attendee profile: high level thinkers with a broad vision on the issues the sector is facing.
- 26 November – Synthesis: in this last session we will try to digest the outcomes of the previous workshops and converge them into to a set of scenarios that we will be presenting and discussing at the Europeana Annual General Meeting on December 2. We will synthesise what we have learned and what that means for the overall picture. What have we achieved in the past that we are proud of? Where do we stand now and what will be changing in our environment? What is the dream and the overall vision for 2020? What would we need to be good at? What are the measurements for success?
Attendee profile: high level thinkers with a broad vision on the issues the sector is facing.
Practicalities
* Workshop Start & End: The meetings will be held in the Hague and will start at 9:00am. As we have a full programme, we would like to urge you to be on time! Lunch will be served around 12:30pm and we will wrap up at 5pm.
* Travel reimbursement will follow the Europeana v2.0 Travel Rules.
