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Data space website (CHIs, aggs, consortium partners) 2025

Data space website (CHIs, aggs, consortium partners) 2025

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Consortium partner: Elisavet Vlachou & Giuseppe Mossuti, European Schoolnet (EUN), 11 March

 

SUMMARY

  • EUN does see themselves as more of a reuser, and thus is most interested in europeana.eu

  • They joined the consortium partly because they thought their learning resources might end up there instead of europeana.eu. They also joined because there is no dedicated data space for education.

  • Otherwise, they are somewhat unclear on what the data space is and how they fit into it. They think the website should help clarify what the data space actually is.

  • They think it would be valuable to show a clear and simple story of the chain from provider through to reuser, to help their audience understand how they fit into something larger (this is not always easy for individual teachers to understand, but could be inspiring for them to know).

  • They don’t foresee they will use the website much, but they think their educators and ambassadors in their network provide a very valuable reuse case to the data provider audience of the DS website, thus contributing to its value proposition (along the lines of, ‘become a data provider in the data space to see your collections used in lesson plans across Europe’).

 

Questions:

GENERAL

  1. Roles

    1. Giuseppe: manages EUN's activities on Europeana since 2021; social sciences background; uses europeana resources; creates MOOCs and other resources

    2. Elisavet: coordinator at European Schoolnet; works most directly with educators; Europeana coordination of ambassadors activities a few years ago; Europeana master trainers; background in education, previously a primary school teacher

AS A CONSORTIUM PARTNER

  1. What does the common European data space for cultural heritage mean to them?

    1. European Schoolnet = An association of ministers of education.

      1. formal education, primary and secondary only; not really non-formal education (though a bit on Europeana)

    2. Their focus on Europeana = to include and develop the use of Europeana resources for schools to integrate; teaching teachers how to integrate educational resources in their classrooms; learning scenarios are tools which are ready to use by teachers; work with ambassadors who are users of Europeana data and resources and promoters of Europeana

      1. A large and vibrant community

    3. For them at first, the data space was unclear to them

    4. They now have an idea of what it is - but they don't look at the data space web page; we work using Europeana website where we find resources we use or foster the use of with the teachers we work with.

  2. What has their experience of being a consortium partner been like?

    1. we mostly speak to europeana, not the other consortium partners; and it was already unclear for europeana which added to our confusion - this is a very fundamental question

  3. What do they think are their main contributions?

    1. We still do not relate much to the data space itself and its website

    2. We know that there is no specific data space for education in the EU policy, so we see the one for cultural heritage as the one where education should be, and where EUN can contribute a lot.

    3. IF the data space is the place to put our own data (learning resources etc), we are happy to contribute. So we are looking forward to seeing what form it takes online soon

  4. Who do they think are the main audiences of the data space [website]?

    1. This is unclear to them.

  5. Their thoughts on reuse and how the data space website can impact it?

    1. We have really nice examples of reuse; would be nice to show this more prominently - ex. stories of implementation/micro stories of implementation

    2. we now tell teachers to look for resources on the europeana platform, but if the resources move we’ll have to tell them something different

    3. it was already difficult to explain to our audience what europeana is, and the data space itself could be more challenging; we need a clear identification of what the data space is, and how it matters to them; the website should help with

AS A DATA REUSER:

  1. What has been their experience?

    1. We don't talk to providers, but we do sometimes talk to aggs in consortium meetings

    2. We invite educators to use europeana content: as-is on the platform or to use resources that we have created, learning scenarios which is on OUR website, Teaching with Europeana

      1. On Europeana, its a lot of data that needs to be refined to be ready for classroom activity - context, learning perspective, ready-to-use with step by step instructions

      2. Depends what the data space will be - if there is Europeana content freely licensed, yes teachers will still use it; but they will still find the more ready-to-use content on our website (teaching with europeana)

      3. Elisavet - ‘I've heard both’ - teachers like to see all the items and create their own resources for their own contexts, but they need to be trained on fliters and licensing; but also they might not know where to start, its overwhelming and they might come form many disciplines (e.g. STEM teachers)

        1. teaching with europeana blog is hosted by eun and thats where they can find lesson plans according to age of students, topics; so the end users of the data - the findability of the data is challenging and a priority ; and the licensing; this could be easier for end users

EUROPEANA PRO

  1. Do they use any of the resources on Europeana Pro?

    1. Yes, they are familiar - we publish blog posts about that years achievement and thats where people can join the education community (?)

    2. we tell our teachers about the use of the data, and they find the data on the platform; so pro is mentioned as part of the ecosystem

    3. we didn't understand the entire chain that brings data to europeana

      1. difficult for teachers to understand; we provide only a little bit of information, but i think it would give them a better picture to teachers about the data they use - the chain of production that brings an artefact from being digitised and then aggregated and then uploaded to the platform - this could be made clearer

      2. do educators care about the source of the data? open data, public access, interoperability; they can see themselves as part of the data space - ‘they might not be the contributors but they are the users’

      3. ‘share your collections’ page - if the end users know about this, they can help spread the word and make the value proposition clearer to data providers - end-to-end value chain

      4. they can see where they are, how their work is useful for the data space

      5. some people are really dedicated to the projects they’ve been a part of for a really long time (belonging, context, value)

        1. newcomers don't know the process as much, they might not know what aggregators are; it’s a lot of information, so they just stick to platform and don't see the bigger picture

      6. also really useful for students - if teachers have the full picture they can teach about media literacy and the rightful use of data

        1. development of other skills if they understand

Feedback on the data space web page

  1. Are you familiar with it?

  2. What works?

  3. What’s missing?

 

Consortium partner: Vassilis Tzouvaras, Datoptron, 14 March

 

SUMMARY

 

Questions:

GENERAL

  1. Role / org

    1. Datoptron - he’s a cofounderspinoff of the [ natl tech uni] ofathens has been in the dev of europeana from the beginning, a technical aprtner, very invoved in the beginning, in the aggregation and they develpoed MINT; used by aggs to aggregate their data to europeana; and helped develop crowd herirtage; and debias; ai for culture; so therefore they are also involved in REUSE , not just aggregation

    2. AI semantic web, knowledge graphs etc and machine learning

AS A CONSORTIUM PARTNER

  1. What does the common European data space for cultural heritage mean to them?

    1. Where data sets come in and ocme out, so there are ways for irganisations to aggregate and import data sets, and for users and resuesr to reuse datasets; but also services, which have develeoped by projects and within europeana ex/ europeana.eu

  2. How do they conceptualise their role in the DS?

    1. Datoptron - technical paetners with a technical perspetive; not involved in capacity building or community-building; but we get data in and get data out

  3. What has their experience of being a consortium partner been like?

    1. Faciliatet aggregators (6 aggs use mint) and we help them improve the wuality, add more metadata to europeana, and in the development of new tools for AI autotagging, semantic, etc and to harmonise MINT and METIS platforms; and recently to faciliate the reuse of the AI4Culture

    2. AI4Culure platform has the characterisics that he mentioned before for the data space - it provides the means )apis) to import data sets and extract datasets

    3. He’s been involved in the other data spaces and they have this core need as well but they’re less developed than us

    4. AI4Culutre is alreday there, we’ve already contributed to it, so reuseing it/integrating it would be a good idea; it has the right backend, and with a few adjustments to the UI

    5. He and his cofounder will help us intergrate it when the design is at that step (FIND HIS NAME)

  4. Who do they think are the main audiences of the data space [website]?

    1. CHIs and reusers from creative industries

    2. The website could offer more than europeana.eu (which is for looking for a specific item) - offering access on the dataset level to reuse a whole dataset, the tools and services level (ai service, crowdsourcing service), to do something specific internally in-house, networking,

  5. Their thoughts on reuse and how the data space website can impact it?

    1. ..tools, services, and reosurces

    2. more user-friendly ways to use the APIs (machine-to-machine communication - you must be a developer)

    3. SIMPL (infrastructure for data spaces - providing more user-friendly ways to reuse the tools that are available within the data space)

  6. How does the DS add value to what they’ve already done in projects with us?

    1. Value proposition (for them)

AS A PROJECT PARTNER

  1. Have they participated in project(s) with us?

    1.  

  2. What was the incentive?

    1. It’s their main area of expertise - tech and culture; we have the experience, we have the tools, we are sustaining and maintaining them; so far the experience has been good

  3. What was their role?

    1. Technical partners

  4. What did they contribute - technology/platform?

    1. MINT, CrowdHeritage, DE-BIAS tool, AI4Culture platform, enrichment tool SAGE,

  5. What was the end result? Re(usage)

    1.  

  6. What were the benefits?

    1. To them?

    2. To their customers?

    3. To their end-users?

AS A DATA REUSER:

  1. What has been their experience with working with Europeana data for enrichment?

    1. Enrichment is an automatic process; we’re looking at the data from a technical perspective: cleaning etc.

    2. But enrichment cannot be fully automatic - the results have to be validated - so the human touch is always required - the human should be in the loop; we speed up the process because full human validation is not possible; so the quality depends on the data set - some can be easily e=nrhcied, but some are lacking information like rich descriptions, keywrods, actors, and sometimes only the title is available and only a poor description. you need a rich description, the enrishment desription links items/reosurces uri’s to uri’s on the web (ex. sources on wikidata) - but you need to have something in order to enrich it

    3. Have they used our APIs?

    4. Yes. You need to be a developer to work with them - they could be more user-friendly.

  2. Would they work with our data again? Are they still working with it?

    1. Yes and yes

EUROPEANA PRO

  1. Do they use any of the resources on Europeana Pro?

    1.  

DATA SPACE WEB PAGE

  1. Are you familiar with it?

    1.  

  2. What works?

    1.  

  3. What’s missing?

 

 

Agg + CHI: Konstantinos (CHI: Laskaridis Foundation) and Georgia (Agg: SearchCulture), 21 March

 

GENERAL QUESTIONS

  1. Role/organisation:

    1. Kon - historian; 18th century cultural crisscrossing between Ottoman empire and Netherlands; digital humanities; curating digital collections of L. Foundation and Athens;

    2. Georgia - I run the network development of search culture currently

      1. Kon might not be a typical data provider - he’s our best one - both a researcher (very priminent organisations with really good collections; he understands the content and the interoperability side and the chain of having a physical object and then having it output as data on the end) -

      2. In this chain and the roles of the different actors, it’s important (to build on what Kon was saying) to say what concerns the data providers, the aggregators, and the users/reusers - in our case as a National Aggregator, we have been one of the best aggregators because we have been streamlining the ingestion process and the semantic enrichment so the data providers only have to worry about the most basic standards, and we do this without europeana needing to interfere; we work with the language (support with Greek)

 

AS A DATA PROVIDER

  1. Pains and gains around preparing data for reuse

    1. What was the process of first sharing data like?

      1. He feels very supported by Georgia (his agg)

      2. What about the CHIs that don’t have this Aggregator support? (e.g. Chris from Belgium)

    2. What were the barriers?

      1. EDM? EPF?

      2. Georgia: the resources for those are good, and we know how to use them; but their lack of PIDs make them less stable, useful and trustworthy

  2. What was your incentive to share your data on Europeana.eu?

    1.  

  3. When you share data on Europeana, what do you expect from us?

    1. How do you expect the data will be used? (reuse cases - Dasha’s example of the multi-collection/data source Amsterdam app)

      1.  

  4. What resources did you use and find useful/not useful?

    1. The aggregator provides them

  5. How many times did you share data? Will you continue to share data?

    1. Many times - they have worked with Europeana for a long time, and are one of th emost prolific Greek providers (about 20,000 items on Europeana)

  6. What would you need to share more data with us?

    1.  

    2. What would you need to be convinced that it should be open and high quality and interoperable?

      1. The already lean to quite open licenses (CC BY)

  7. How does the DS add value to what they’re already doing with us?

    1. Value proposition (for them) - this is unclear, and should be clear on the website

    2. Kon: as a researcher and as a user, I don't want to know more about APIs on a technical level; we are so lucky to have such a great agg ('cultural intermediary' - which is out personal contact, and Europeana is the impersonal relationship; the aggregator as the intermediary, and ‘otherwise I wouldn’t bother to be honest') - but as a RESEARCHER I need someone to knock on my door and let me know - we have this new set of tools, let me know what is interesting to me

    3. Georgia - I already have all of the tools refined and ready to go to send directly

      ‘You need a well organised website’ - I question the idea of the website, because I've had issues with Pro - the main reference documents didn't have PIDs and consistent URLs, so resources need to be stable and versioned and easily findable and organised in a way that they can be approached in an intuitive and structured way; the collab between aggs and providers - the aggs already do the filtering work; it’s on my mind to already send to him the things I know would be useful to him.

    4. ‘It builds on the logic of train the trainers; the aggs know the whole landscape of europeana and the data space so the data providers don't have to worry about it - the data providers dont have a collections management approach, they dont have a digital staregy, so they wont care usually; but a handful of orgs are very active constituents of the data space, who do care about researchers, about new tools (ai being involved in projects) because this brings more added value to their collections - the DS SHOULD BE FACILITATING ACCESS TO INNOVATION - ‘EUROPEANA PLUS’ - NOT JUST ABOUT THE PORTAL AND ACCESS TO DATA BUT THE DIFFERENT ACTORS HAVE MORE ACCESS TO INNOVATION IN THE DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE LANDSCAPE, AND SHOULD BE PROVIDING RESOURCES IN ASTABLE AND PERMANENT WAY, AND USEFUL FOR AGGREGATORS, WHICH THEY CAN THEN POINT CHIS TO

    5. Kon - I am a huge fan of github - i love to post questions there, if somebody anywhere can answer me; if i post questions to europeana, i doni't get an answer; if i didn't have Georgia and her team, i wouldn't bother - but it’s possible that ‘if I have a very clear idea of a tool, I might see it and check in with Georgia if we could take it on board’

      Georgia - we are only 4 people in the agg; our focus on ingestion only; the DS and europeana have been growing so large past this; github example, it’s a community, not a website; and it’s something Kon can find and work with on his own/with his own developer, without the need for the Agg to help with (what are the things cHIs need help with that the agg doesnt support? he finds support there on github - things that go beyond the data ingestion process - ‘everyone has big expectations for the DS but its not clear what it is’

       

      Kon - COMMUNITY BUILDING IS VERY IMPORTANT - but the Europeana communities are too theoretical to be useful all the time; sometimes I need to be more hands on (this is the github example).

      when I need help on github, in text and coding (about a specific tag name) and within half an hour i have a response and i can apply it and see it work

       

  8. Who do they think are the main audiences of the data space [website]?

    1. The people who are very involved with DS projects and/or developing the DS

  9. Their thoughts on reuse and how the data space website can impact it?

    1. how on the portal his collections are emphasised (reuse benefits) - value proposition)

    2. Kon as a researcher; how his collections can be reused in context with other collections in the data space

 

AS A USER OF EUROPEANA PRO

  1. What are their most frequently used pages/resources (bookmarks?)

    1. Georgia: Ingestion - EDM, EPF, and wealth of reports from the communities over time that i’m using as references when I’m writing academic papers; multilinguality; semantic enrichments and AI tools/human in the loop; this is a more specialised interest (not for everyone) but very useful in specific contexts, because it documents the evolution or the way we’ve been using linked data and semantic tools; both for the history of the development of Europeana and the reasons for the tools we are trying out and all the work that communities have invested.

    2. Kon - Cultural heritage IS archaeology of knowledge - provenance is important to us as a domain - obviously we have care about the ‘evolution of the civilisation’ - it adds to historiosity of it ‘this is where we started, this is where we are now, and this is where we’re going'

      1. TRUST for this customer is built this way

    3. Georgia ‘this is the humanities side of us’ - the way things are rushing towards AI, its all the more important to be transparent about the work on the history of digital heritage; its important to document because the next phase will be very different (as Paul Keller said recently - soon we’ll only be interfacing with culture through AI, they wont even be going to the website of the institution, students for example with be accessing the heritage though chatgpt) so its still important for us as humanists to explain why things are the way they are the way they are, and how they got here - a log of their domain

    4. Georgia - we are also sentimental about Europeana because we've been involved for a long time; also to give credit to the hundreds of people who have given their time to develop it all.

    5. Kon - it’s the first and only pan-European tool we have as a community all together

 

AS A PROJECT PARTNER

  1. Have they participated in project(s) with us?

    1. CRAFTED - Enrich and promote traditional and contemporary crafts

      This project aimed to support the transfer of European crafts to future generations by aggregating, enriching and promoting tangible crafts heritage and preserving intangible skills and knowledge from craftsmen and artisans. CRAFTED developed and deployed an innovative human-in-the-loop methodology (requiring human interaction) that repurposes and extends state-of-the-art digital tools, including AI tools, for image, audio and semantic analysis.

  2. What was the incentive?

    1. Funding

  3. What was their role?

    1.  

  4. What did they contribute - technology/platform?

    1.  

  5. What was the end result? Re(usage)

    1.  

  6. What were the benefits?

    1. To them?

    2. To their customers?

    3. To their end-users?

 

AI4CULTURE PORTAL

  • Kon has explored it and he likes it a lot (as a researcher?) - it’s really useful; but you get the feeling that the information is controlled which I like, because I want the good stuff; good not to replicate it if its already there; its a good tool in the sense that it’s useful.

  • Georgia - I haven’t really played around with it yet, but in general i think it’s good, but we don't have so much the R&D on our side, so what we do in ai is in the context of projects; PHAROS AI factoring project in Greece, set up by the EC; what's mentioned there is building up the the digital CH space in Greece and SearchCulture will be guiding this; so thats why we want to keep tabs on what Europeana is doing in the data space and developing tools; how we coordinate and work together

  • Kon - I want to a tool with good practices around cultural ai; there are no projects like this as far as i know - BUT IF IT WERE, I’D REALLY WANT DS WEBSITE TO SHOW IT

 

FEEDBACK ON THE DATA SPACE WEB PAGE

  • More clarity is needed is from website what is a data space? And why is it needed?

  • What is this about, and what is it for me?

  • understands UX, and is working to understand ‘what’s behind' - I didn't really understand what this is all about ; it seems like a supplement to europeana.eu; if i need tutorials i go to the main page of europeana (APIs - how to make use of them) and very familiar with the Historiana site which needs a new UI as well; how are we going to make use of the data as researchers; ‘I need more content’ I need all of these questions answered clearly and directly - ‘if I dont know what this is, i cant understand it if i don't understand it i wont use it’

  • so for Kon as a data provider, it should be more clear for him to know what he can expect if he participates in the data space. Would he be more prominently shown, what the process of providing data is like - ‘only what they need to know’; what their role is in the chain, and how on the portal his collections are emphasised (reuse benefits) - value proposition)

  • THE DS WEBSITE MUST REMEMBER THAT THERE ARE PARALLEL DEVELOPMENTS HAPPENING AT THE NATIONAL LEVEL (PHAROS AI factoring project in Greece, set up by the EC) and such a website needs to be aware of this; we are definitely on the lookout to see how Europeana is bringing this knowledge in - so we’ll come back to this.

  • Can touch base with both of them in future iterations of the DS website

 

Agg: Johan, Monique, Roosmarijn; Beeld en Geluid, 26 March

 

GENERAL QUESTIONS

  1. Roles / org

    1. Roosmarijn - Project Manager for data services at Sound and Vision; for data space tender she represents the Dutch Aggregator ;and infrastructure bid for EU Screen; Dutch Digital Heritage Network as Dutch DS for CH (LOOK THIS UP IN C. ANALYSIS); Europeana tech as well; also involved in TEMS (aligning data spaces)

    2. Monique - Project Manager for D&I projects; communities; DEBIAS project; and representing EU screen; lesser role in DS than Roosmarijn

    3. Johan - Head of Research and Heritage Services - a seat on the advisory board of Europeana; chair of [esb] foundation

AS A CONSORTIUM PARTNER

  1. What does the common European data space for cultural heritage mean to them?

    1. The partners may have different definitions; the thinking about the DS comes from the first presidency of [van de lijn] and european policy for data - to connect data from various economies including cultural heritage. This is a different perspective than Europeana’s long-standing one (about public open data, reuse, and editorial)

    2. On the website, I would stress the ENA more than EF in the DS (although of course europeana.eu as a platform too) - ENA as a distributed network within the DS

    3. On the website, we should build on messaging that the DS4CH is much more mature than other data spaces [TEMS and DEPLOYTOUR] - the fact that Europeana has the support of 1000s of orgs already, and individuals in those orgs are part of the [membership council]

    4. and another layer - europeana.eu and social channels - already a platform that reaches out to A GENERAL AUDIENCE which is something that not all data spaces have at the moment (both B2B AND B2C) - the public-facing is very important - the public good and open should be stressed!!!!!

    5. europeana.eu as a platform is not the only place that these collections can be found - other portals give access to these same collections AND others that are part of the data space

    6. the EC said “data should travel across countries like people and other goods” - europeana is now in a position to see how they position themselves next to something that didn't evolve the same way ; b2c and editorial is still a special asset that we have, not just the ‘data pipelines’ or mechanics of data sharing - THE DYNAMIC CHANGE IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS

  2. How do they conceptualise their role in the DS?

    1. (see above)

  3. What has their experience of being a consortium partner been like?

    1. The are happy to be involved, at the point of decision making; they like the other partners; looking forward to the sessions next week at the KB

  4. Who do they think are the main audiences of the data space [website]?

    1. The aggregators and the CHIs that they work with who provide to europeana; lots of interest from Dutch CHIs about what the data space is

    2. Heritage + broader creative industries - reuse in the design context etc - also other potential reusers [at the b2b level]

  5. Their thoughts on reuse and how the data space website can impact it?

    1. The data space policy that ignited the thinking of data spaces - cross sectional approach - connections with research and open science cloud, tourism, TEMS (Sound and Vision represent us there). Highlighting some good practices that showcase the cross-sectional ability could be interesting; for now they could be hypothetical, aspirational, speculative ideas for connections between data spaces

    2. Use case: how can a user of the data space for media have access to a high res still from an aggregator through europeana - “I would like that high res and open licensed’ - ‘the b2b discussion about our own end-users’!!!!!! A UNQIUE PROPOSITION FROM THE CH DATASPACE TO HAVE THESE REUSE CASES POSED SPECULATIVELY ON THE WEBSITE ITSELF

    3. Digitised objects and data BUT ALSO reuse of metadata is interesting here in the Netherlands AND terminology sources - broadcasters are very interested in using the internal thesaurus in sound and vision to describe their data - THAT'S A BIG USE CASE FOR METADATA - the reuse story is not only reusing digitised objects in public domain - HOW CAN WE PROFIT FROM EACH OTHERS WORK

  6. How does the DS add value to what they’re already doing with us?

    1. Value proposition (for them) - we’ve been involved in the core EI from the very beginning - its great for us to be part of the tender constortium because it aligns with the work we're doing at the dutch level (WE HEARD SIMILAR FROM GREECE), as the national level and as the international av aggregator (EUScreen) - to ensure the av voice is heard in the broader europeana community - tech is interesting to be part of, setting priotities for europeana tech to focus on

 

AS AN AGGREGATOR

  1. Pains and gains around preparing data for reuse

    1. What were the barriers for CHIs?

      1. AV broadcasters and av archives often don't have open data to share on the DS - would be interesting to know how data that is not open can be shared through the DS and over to TEMS?

      2. ‘If there's money to do something people will think it’s more relevant to publish' - funding makes it much more relevant

  2. What are CHI’s incentives to share your data on europeana.eu ?

    1. From the dutch agg perspective, the dutch level 'are we going the eu screen route or the natnl agg route for av collections in the netherlands - dutch av collections go through natl agg sometimes because there is added value because then you only need to publish your data once to the dutch agg and then it goes to europeana and all these other portals - lowering the barrier to provide data

    2. The dream is - if a platform like europeana improves the data or adds enrichments, the CHIs would ideally profit from that - if we aligned to wikidata then the institutions would see that as valuable

    3. To know that material from EUScreen is being used a lot on europeana.eu - if this was included in the dashboards at the agg level, it would help aggs convince CHIs to share more if they knew that EUScreen is popular - ‘their collection is highly visible’

  3. When you share data on Europeana, what do CHIs expect from us?

    1. How do they expect the data will be reused?

      1. (see above)

  4. What would CHIs need to be convinced that the data they share should be reusable (open and high quality and interoperable)?

    1. AV content is relatively new material - nothing is older than 100 years so its not in public domain yet; and it takes a lot of work and resources to follow down the licensing from chis; and broadcasters are less interested in that; and its risky because there could always be third party rights; ‘we can publish it on our portal so thats good enough' - we have a separate portal for creatives where they can acquire licenses for reuse - that’s not something europeana has a role - ‘DAAN’ media professional portal - LOOK THIS UP wrt reuse

    2. Lots of great portals with great material that’s not being reused because people don't know they’re there - the data space website as a directory of portals with data to reuse?

  5. What resources/support does Sound and Vision provide to your CHIs?

    1. at EU Screen we do it all for them - they provide whatever dump they have of the data, even if its a csv data dump [she] can deal with it

    2. at the natl agg we do a lot for them too - the CHIS themselves dont know about epf or edm, but the licensing framework is something we promote to them for them to know about - we will promote the epf to them as a ‘data quality’ guide - ‘if you make sure you have tis metadata your collection will be more visible on a portal like europeana’ -

    3. we want the institution to be in charge of their own data - so the licensing and publishing frameworks help them manage their own data - the dutch digital heritage network is so useful because they provide the resources to the CHIS to be able to do it - the digital erfgoed coaches, funding for institutions

    4. the new dutch digital heritage strategy has a chapter about the relation between the dutch and european data spaces - ‘if these are stories in the data space website that would really benefit the Dutch data space’ - LOOK THIS UP ; share with Georgia for editorial strategy for DS

  6. What role(s) to aggregators play in the DS?

    1. How can these be made more visible on the website?

    2. Should their resources be promoted in the DS/through the DS website?

 

AS A USER OF EUROPEANA PRO

  1. What are their most frequently used pages/resources (bookmarks?)

    1. EPF, ELF

 

AS A PROJECT PARTNER

  1. Have they participated in project(s) with us?

    1.  

  2. What was the incentive?

    1.  

  3. What was their role?

    1.  

  4. What did they contribute - technology/platform?

    1.  

  5. What was the end result? Re(usage)

    1.  

  6. What were the benefits?

    1. To them?

    2. To their customers?

    3. To their end-users?

 

ASK FOR CHI'S TO CONTACT (Monique is with EU Screen)

Dimitra - i will email and cc them both; will know someone, national archives from the Netherlands would be good to speak to
for euscreen we could try to get a broadcaster? maybe the spanish broadcaster (“3 Catalan”) - they would be more responsive - I’ll follow up for their emails and cc both of monique and rosmarijn

 

Creative reuser: Manuel Ehrenfeld, Time Machine, 26 March

 

Questions:

GENERAL

  1. Role / org

    1. Designer and developer at Time Machine - FE design an UI for Time Machine - ‘process of venice’ project which is not live yet; a bit of ux; a new member of the time machine team, previously epfl, now 50% - polytecnic university - works in the digital humanities lab;

 

AS A CONSORTIUM PARTNER

  1. What does the common European data space for cultural heritage mean to them?

    1. can you repeat it - it’s too long?!! The name is too confusin - it’s to much to process, the name has at least 3 parts - european response to soemthing else happening in the world; the major entitiy here that is taking care of this thing because no one els ewill; some sort of consotrium taking care of all the digitsl cutlural heritage objects; digitising and conserving cultural digital objects - there are a lot of p

  2. How do they conceptualise their role in the DS?

    1. what does time machine do in the data space? in relation to the project i’m on i don’t know

 

AS A DATA REUSER (designer/developer)

  1. How does he use digital cultural heritage in his work:

    1. in the DH lab I’m using IIIF things (books and maps and stuff) that need to be geolocalised at a space, IN TIME - information cross sectional layers not just in the present - that’s the scientific part of the work he’s doing for the DH lab

    2. On a completely different topic or aspect - i struggle to find content for my workshops on web design and visual communication - historical data as a topic could be helpful from europeana. He teaches Bachelor students, master students, and phd students. They are playing with the content, and getting visual communication skills

  2. How was your experience using Europeana’s APIs?

    1. He looked for the APIs on europeana.eu and he was confused; went to Pro and he was even more confused; he was intimidated at all of the options, and he wasn’t sure if he should apply to the api workshops - where does he fit and who are these resources for? i am not sure ‘am i a pro or am i a user’

    2. I asked the data scientist at the DH lab at EPFL if I need to do the courses or should I just apply for myself? He said I can just do it - but I still didn’t.

    3. If I saw the documentation in an easy to use place and not on Pro then I’d give it a try.

  3. Feedback on europeana.eu:

    1. the other thing i really liked was that everything is done in vue - props to leonie using ve on the website and it feels good

 

 

EUROPEANA PRO

  1. Do they use any of the resources on Europeana Pro?

    1. The Europeana APIs documentation - he found it confusing. He also was unsure if ‘Pro’ was meant for him.

 

 

Agg: Maud Ntonga, Corinne, Michael Culture, 27 March

 

GENERAL QUESTIONS

  1. Roles / org

    1. Corinne - coordinator

    2. Maud - comms and project manager

    3. Trans-domain and tans sctoriat euroean network fouscing on digital contents and working on supporting the digital transfotmation of the [dch] communities and beyond

    4. The aggregator for museums for europeana intituative (MUSEO?) - Agg is the tech part AND the capacity building - Michael cutlre also involvedin the eaf whreein they are a ember of the steering committe and involvedin seeral working groups and task forces and ENA (the climate tasj force in particualr) -

    5. as a constorium partner

AS A CONSORTIUM PARTNER

  1. What does the common European data space for cultural heritage mean to them?

    1. A place that includes the EI and is the place where we can have data - metadata about dch, ut also data about culture in gerenal - ‘culture data’ as an additional layer - something where we can find diversity of data and play with it iseing some tools develeoped by the supporting projects and funders

    2. Beyond this, it’s where other projects not directly linked to the data space (for example projects developed in horizon europe program) could also be shared here

    3. ‘a place to find data and a place to find tools’ and to have exchanges with professionals;

    4. where, if you're a ch pro, where you can find your contacts to work with; where you can easily find the aggregators or the ENA community if you want to find - people that will support you in porfessional terms, like contacts for the

    5. wording is very important - ‘services and professional support’ - more concrete - this should be really clear

    6. ‘what is the data space about’ is not so clear, so these dilentaions need to be very clear

  2. How do they conceptualise their role in the DS?

    1. at the DS it’s a different level; a continuum; participation, disemmination, collection, more ediotiral, to be more active on the editorial part; we ocntinue to aggregation of the data and we have less projects and have been asked to reduce this

    2. we have all the work on editorial and capacity vuilding and training materials; training and communication; advocacy for the data space for its budget

  3. What has their experience of being a consortium partner been like?

    1. there is a lack of sense of beloning to a common project still - we have the consortium meeting - it’s been a while since we’ve been together

    2. internal communication and animation of the partnership is lacking a bit and it’s a pity; more meetings (possibly online) could be nice, to help animate them

    3. this has a impact on the aggs/partners on what is the data space - especially those partners on the data space side, only really active on the EI and the DS is more on the sidelines; we don’t have much contact with each other, it’s very insular

  4. Who do they think are the main audiences of the data space [website]?

    1. Cultural organisations, people in the cultural sector who want to work on their digital transformation

    2. Researchers

    3. People who want to access certain datasets, data, resources, training, or professional contacts - how to start on their digital transformation

    4. But who? first you need to be aware that it exists

    5. The EC is also one of the target audiences - because we are in the funding talks - important to valorise that the data space is important right now

    6. The end-users are the main target

  5. Their thoughts on reuse and how the data space website can impact it?

    1. The data space should first not only focus on reuse, but also on sharing data

    2. This is missing on the webpage - there is no mention of share your data and this is a big risk/danger - HAVE A VERY CLEAR CTA FOR THIS - otherwise people will lose this information, and parallel inititatives who are calling for data (the cloud) it’s really importnat to show that this is THE PLACE TO VALORISE DATA AND PLAY WITH IT

    3. PLAY WITH IT - the professionals who work with the data, we don’t

    4. REUSE AS A VALUE PROPOSITION - this is the same as the EI, it’s always the way we make sur e they want to aggregate and share their data ‘the reuse will valorise…’

    5. ‘common’ - means you have to give/take/share/contributiong

    6. it’s importnat to valorise the role of the aggregators

  6. How does the DS add value to what they’re already doing with us?

 

Explore the data - could be rephrased or a little bit bigger - MORE PRIORITY GIVEN TO THE DATA

The website is a support for the data space [not a web app]

Multilingualism is important to support data sharing

Share you data is the most important call-to-action, enough that it should be on the top navigation; and it should be connected to all of the aggregators

The Europeana Aggregators Forum should be represented as well, the same as the ENA community, because they are just as important - and they are arguably even more important

“Give back visibility of the aggregators” - how to contact, and how to get training (if they contact the agg, they’ll get the resources) - there should be a text explaining what we are doing and what we are contributing to

 

GENERAL COMMENTS ON THE WEBSITE

Maud - accessibility check? (the contrast of the text in the image (double-check the alt text) and the length of the page - a shorter page is more accessible)

and black and white images are not lively enough and the website looks sad and dark and empty

it’s not very joyful/attractive/joyful - it’s not the usual vision - community, sharing, professional - it seems lost, and that’s a pity; it should be more dynamic

the photos used - the gender balance is only men

Get a photo of the group in these two days

The calls-to-action calling out audiences by name: “are you a teacher?” where should you go

In this ecosystem, the main issue is that it speaks to us - not the end-users

Infographics - who, what, how - who are the actors of the ecosystem, and what you can do - share explore

‘Get in touch’ right now it’s only one email inbox, but it could be more specific - ‘want to share data’ - that could be a directory of aggregators' contact

High level - understanding what it is

but then very quickly it should be professional support

it looks more like the INDICES project than Europeana

the data space brand could have more connection, and something more lively

 

Having the trainings made more public - she’ll send them

This was a requirement as being part of the data space, would be nice to have them linked

 

 

 

AS AN AGGREGATOR

  1. Pains and gains around preparing data for reuse

    1. What were the barriers for CHIs?

      1. A

  2. What are CHI’s incentives to share your data on europeana.eu ?

    1.  

  3. When you share data on Europeana, what do CHIs expect from us?

    1. How do they expect the data will be reused?

      1.  

  4. What would CHIs need to be convinced that the data they share should be reusable (open and high quality and interoperable)?

    1.  

  5. What resources/support does Sound and Vision provide to your CHIs?

    1.  

  6. What role(s) to aggregators play in the DS?

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AS A USER OF EUROPEANA PRO

  1. What are their most frequently used pages/resources (bookmarks?)

    1.  

 

AS A PROJECT PARTNER

  1. Have they participated in project(s) with us?

    1.  

  2. What was the incentive?

    1.  

  3. What was their role?

    1.  

  4. What did they contribute - technology/platform?

    1.  

  5. What was the end result? Re(usage)

    1.  

  6. What were the benefits?

    1. To them?

    2. To their customers?

    3. To their end-users?

 

CHI, Cassiano / AlpTextyles

GENERAL QUESTIONS

  1. Role/organisation:

 Director - swiss organisation, they’re first - he doesnt know why there arent any others

Lead partner of the interac alpine space project - alptextyles - introduced to marco by an italian provider and the difitsation of textle heriteg

Different partners in a work package connected to digitalisation of textile heritage looked for a way to show what they were doing and to use europeana as a platform to do that

The org is mostly in regopnal development and projects about itagle ch, including in food, now theyve started with textile

They faciliateed the org on the field in switzerland to create the content that is now uploaded on europeana

 

AS A DATA PROVIDER

  1. Pains and gains around preparing data for reuse

    1. What was the process of first sharing data like?

      1. They worked with small museums who were working on the digitalisation of their collections to get the content onto Europeana: three partners uploaded materials in the alptextyles section; 2 small museums in switzerland, austria, and slovenia; they digitalised some items already

      2. zasul and other partners through marco who came to the project

      3. to use europeana platform as a place to put our stuff that is permanenet so the collections will stay there - sustainability is super important to them

      4. accompanied by Marco with help on what they should provide, quality of materials

      5. helped with applying licensing - their archives are nicely digital, but not open yet

    2. What were the barriers?

      1. EDM? EPF?

      2. Fields in the database weren’t that different from the fields in their own cataloguing systems, so they weren’t so overwhelmed by the data modelling

      3. It was not that complicated - as soon we chose europeana as a tool, it was quite clear - Marco really helped their understanding, and showed them examples of existig collections that helped them choose what they’d share

      4. On the local level he was doing the mediation between Marco and the museums and othe rpartners

  2. What was your incentive to share your data on http://Europeana.eu ?

    1.  visibility outside of their own museum catalogue

    2. visiblity outside of switzerland

    3. permanence of the platform so the collections would live on

    4. interconnection of the heritage element of textiles in the alpine area - very well integrated, interesting experiment for us

    5. opening up their collections to the public (licensing) - there are funds at the federal level in switzerland to digitalise items, but the framework of archives - there isn’t really. a big public platform for CH data in switzerland yet, he doesn’t know why

    6. Editorial - to provide the context to the collections: presenting the story related to the items, which gives more value to the items, and to the work it takes to ingest them

    7. Other channels - social media, bring people to see what’s there, to see those collections - especially interesting for small institutions

  3. When you share data on Europeana, what do you expect from us?

    1. How do you expect the data will be used? (reuse cases - Dasha’s example of the multi-collection/data source Amsterdam app)

      1.  

  4. What resources did you use and find useful/not useful?

    1. Understanding the collections of the museums themselves helped, and wha they were currently digitalising

    2. Knowing what was on Europeana already helped

    3. His org acting as ‘cultural mediator’ between local community and european level project - he has the local context

    4. He told the CHIs only what they needed to know: what we were doing will reach a very big audience, the dimension of europeana; even the director of the museums there didnt know about europeana; translated resources into italian, and translated inputs from them into English; that they were the first swiss providers was cool for them

    5. they got funding from that european project that helped them

    6. when they get into the MOOC and the metaverse (reuse)

    7. the metaverse is a result of the project - started with textile professionals and students at a big fashion school; they’re investing a lot in it as an educational tool, lots of tools and education - ITS A BIG REUSE PLATFORM - is there a live link??? - they’ll present it in July - if I follow the alptextyles project on linkedin

    8. Most of the european textile industry was developed in the alpine area (wool and linen); localisation of the value chain - how can we make sure european wool is not wasted or shipped out of europe so we have to import [australian] wool - working with special wool and heritage patterns and techniques

    9. Industry has archives, but the small public or local level is maybe digitalised but not visible, and an inspiration to designers and students , and also training on rights (appropriation etc)

    10. museum: ‘how can we protect our intellectual property from being appropriated’? = literacy for designers

    11. Licensing framework and intangible cultural heritage; developed a platform/inventory (IntangibleSearch.eu - an intangible heritage platform to increase literacy around rightful use) which community based so they can participate and upload - based on UNESCO convention of 2003 on intangible heritage - it’s a best practice world-wide for intangible heritage - where does something like this sit in the data space?

  5. How many times did you share data? Will you continue to share data?

    1. Once, now they are at the end phase of the project

  6. What are their next steps?

    1. So they’ll now work on showing the materials

    2. Creating some educational tools (a MOOC about the project, which they’ll link Europeana into) for textiles academy - sustainable fashion literacy - REUSING THEIR OWN HERITAGE NOW THAT IT’S ON EUROPEANA

    3. Working on a project on a metaverse, where they will have a link from their metaverse to europeana

    4. Some items will be redesigned in 3D to be seen in this metaverse - they’ll use the digitalised items in europeana to link directly into that

    5. Cross events with Marco and other project partners

  7. What would you need to share more data with us?

    1.  Funding for the people resources to work on it - a person that’s dedicated to something

    2. What would you need to be convinced that it should be open and high quality and interoperable?

      1.  

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  9. How does the DS add value to what they’re already doing with us?