ContentTier 2-4: Text type

Content Tier 2 (Europeana as a showcase)

If you want to enable Europeana to present your text materials as part of thematic collections and make them more accessible on the Europeana website then you need to provide at least a direct link to the file(s) of the document, in PDF file format, which will be made directly available on thematic collections pages via a PDF viewer. Although Europeana currently does not support a full-text search across documents, we recommend adding an embedded text layer in PDF files to allow for searching inside the document. Additionally, the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) is also supported by Europeana and can be used for displaying text materials on Europeana to allow text collections to qualify as Tier 2. For single page text material (e.g. manuscripts, letters), providing direct links to an image file of at least 0.42 megapixel in size is also an option.

Content Tier 3 (Europeana as a distribution platform for non-commercial reuse)

If you want to make use of Europeana as a distribution platform that enables the use of your text materials by private individuals, educators and researchers then, in addition to the criteria described for Tier 2 above, you also need to make sure that the text documents come with one of the seven rights statements that allow reuse

• 4 Creative Commons licences: CC BY-NC, CC BY-ND, CC BY-NC-SA, CC BY-NC-ND;

• 3 RightsStatements.org's statements: NoC-NC, NoC-OKLR, InC-EDU).

If you provide text as image files, they need to be at least 0.95 megapixel in size. 

Content Tier 4 (Europeana as a free reuse platform)

If you want to make use of Europeana as a platform that enables the free reuse of your text materials then, in addition to the criteria described for Tier 2 above, you also need to make sure that the text documents come with a rights statement that allows free reuse (CC BY, CC BY-SA, CC0 or PDM).

Overview of Content tier 2-4 requirements for text files

 *A text resource is available=true if one of the edm:WebResource associated via edm:isShownBy or edm:hasView exists AND technical metadata (ie. ebucore:hasMimetype filled) is extracted from that media resource.

**Rights: Important note on your willingness to open up for reuse relevant for contentTier:3 and contentTier:4

Because copyright restrictions often prevent the public from using, sharing, and creatively engaging with digital collections, we encourage data providers to use rights statements that allow reuse where possible.

Stimulating reuse is at the core of the Europeana Publishing Framework:

The framework introduces four tiers of criteria for content by taking into account not just the quality of the content (e.g. resolution of photos of an object), but also the selected rights statement. The greater openness of the content you allow, the higher content tier can the provided object achieve, meaning it can benefit audiences in a more significant way, as we outline here.

Only content of the highest quality that can be freely reused or reused to some degree can reach the highest content tiers (i.e. content tier 3 and 4).

If the content quality is too low to reach content tiers 3 or 4, the rights statement is not taken into account by the algorithm that calculates content tiers, meaning that you can use any of the available rights statements supported by Europeana, as the chosen rights statement will not play a role.

Content tier 3	Content tier 4
Only rights statements that allow some reuse:	Only rights statements that allow free reuse: Before selecting one of the rights statements we list in this table, make sure that the work is in the Public Domain, that you hold the rights, or that you have the rights holders' permission

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