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GERMANY
AND EUROPEANA
An overview           Venedig - Canale Grande
                 Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe
10 August 2021                       Hamburg
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GERMANY AND EUROPEANA - An overview 10 August 2021
Germany and Europeana: an overview

Table of contents

   GERMANY AND EUROPEANA

   Intro                                  3

   Presidency of the Council of the
   European Union                         4

   Highlights                             4

   Funding and projects                   5

   Professional participation -
   Europeana Network Association          6

   Germany’s culture showcased
   in Europeana Collections               7

   Germany in Europeana
   Collections                            8

   End notes                              10
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Germany and Europeana: an overview

Intro

    The Europeana Initiative drives digital         available through Europeana Collections.
    transformation and is responsible for           With content from every EU country (and
    Europeana Collections - Europe’s                beyond), an interface available in every
    platform for digital cultural heritage. It is   EU language, and an award-winning
    financed by the European Union’s                series of APIs that give access to its
    Connecting Europe Facility and                  content, Europeana Collections is the
    European Union Member States.                   only place that offers up Europe’s
                                                    treasure trove of cultural heritage to the
    Germany and its cultural heritage               world. By encouraging open licensing,
    institutions are indispensable partners,        the Europeana Initiative makes more
    supporting the Europeana Initiative and         culture available to more people, so it
    Europeana Foundation financially, and           can be used in education, research and
    contributing to the diversity of content        the creative industries.

                       Europeana Collections, Europeana, 2018, Public Domain

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Germany and Europeana: an overview

Presidency of the Council of the
European Union
   Slovenian Presidency Europeana                 Portuguese Presidency Europeana
   conference 2-3 December 2021                   conference 3-4 June 2021
   An accompanying event of the Slovenian         During the Portuguese Presidency of the
   Presidency, the Europeana Conference           Council, Europeana held a conference to
   ‘Driving engagement - participatory            explore digital capacity building in the
   approaches to digital cultural heritage’ on    cultural heritage sector.
   2-3 December 2021 was held in
   collaboration with the Ministry of Culture
   of Slovenia. It involved 150 participants
   over two days. The conference mainly
   aimed to explore aspects of public
   engagement and participation with digital
   cultural heritage, showcasing real-world
   examples. It explored opportunities for
   public participation in collecting,
   classifying, translating, analysing, and
   contextualising elements of digital
   cultural heritage. The attendees were
   introduced to current practices and fresh
   perspectives on public participation—its
   benefits, opportunities and challenges.
   The key outcomes of the conference will
   include insights, guidelines, and
   inspiration to drive effective participation
   and will be published on Europeana Pro
   by 30 March 2022.

Highlights
   Defining digital transformation for the        today. Through a series of Europeana
   cultural heritage sector                       Café online events and interviews,
   Europeana has developed a shared               Europeana explores how the cultural
   working definition of digital transformation   heritage sector can promote
   for the cultural heritage sector.              collaboration and innovation to support
   Explore the definition                         the goals of the New European Bauhaus,
                                                  and how our sector can contribute to
   New European Bauhaus                           beautiful, sustainable and inclusive
   The European Commission’s new                  places.
   initiative aims to shape future ways of        Explore further
   living that answer the challenges we face
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   Principles to guide Europe’s digital       should be human-centred, secure and
   future - European Commission’s             open. The Europeana Initiative also
   consultation on a ‘Declaration of          suggests universal access to cultural
   Digital Principles’                        heritage online, and that the principle of
   The Europeana Initiative submitted a       a secure and trusted online environment
   joint response to the European             should be expanded to encompass the
   Commission’s recent consultation on the    development of an open, decentralised,
   proposed digital principles.The            and trusted European digital public
   Europeana initiative agrees that the       space.
   rights and values promoted for society     Read the entire Europeana statement
   should also be reflected and practiced
   online, and that the digital environment

Funding and projects
     Since 2008, Germany has contributed          14 partners from Germany are currently
     €600,416.                                    contributing to ongoing projects, which
                                                  directly support content, knowledge and
     To date, €5,625,188 from the budget          technology sharing between libraries,
     provided by the EU to fund Europeana         museums, archives, software agencies,
     Initiative projects has contributed to       university research departments and the
     activities in Germany.                       Europeana Initiative.

Professional participation - Europeana
Network Association
   The Europeana Network Association is a     The Europeana Network Association
   strong and democratic community of         elects a Members Council which plays a
   experts working in the field of digital    crucial role across all the Europeana
   heritage, united by a shared mission to    Initiative’s activities. The Members
   expand and improve access to Europe’s      Council is made up of 36 people,
   digital cultural heritage.                 including Cosmina Berta from German
                                              Digital Library, Ping Kong from Heritage
   Currently, 214 people from Germany are     & Education GmbH and Clemens
   a Europeana Network Association            Neudecker from Berlin State Library.
   member, and as such are involved in a
   range of activities, sharing best
   practices, learning and collaborating
   within the cultural heritage sector.

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Germany and Europeana: an overview

Germany’s culture showcased in
Europeana Collections
          Europeana Collections features over 58                     Cultural heritage institutions
          million records of which 5,958,390 are
          provided by German institutions.                           188 cultural heritage institutions in
                                                                     Germany contribute collections to
          Aggregation                                                Europeana. The largest partners are
                                                                     listed in the following table. A full
          All objects aggregated by Germany can                      breakdown of institutions and objects
          be found here2. The main point of                          can be found here3.
          contact in Germany is Deutsche Digitale
          Bibliothek.

                                                                                             OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA
                                       DATA PARTNERS
                                                                                                       COLLECTION

Deutsche Fotothek                                                                                     1,311,711

Bavarian State Library                                                                                1,239,897

German National Library                                                                                 303,466

Deutsches Dokumentationszentrum für Kunstgeschichte - Bildarchiv Foto Marburg                           302,513

Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation                                                               201,516

Museum of City History Leipzig                                                                          183,127

Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum                                                     163,333

Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität Berlin                                                    146,112

Berlin State Library                                                                                    141,819

State and University Library Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky                                                 128,871

Teßmann Library                                                                                         115,179

Ethnological Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin                                                        104,339

RBB AIT DISMARC                                                                                         102,299

Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. Universitätsbibliothek                                           100,540

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut                                                                       95,483

Spielzeugmuseum der Stadt Nürnberg (Museum Lydia Bayer)                                                  77,737

Epigraphic Database Heidelberg                                                                           69,053

Berlin-Brandenburgisches Wirtschaftsarchiv e.V.                                                          67,055

GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences. Library Cologne                                       54,905

United Archives                                                                                          49,316

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          Openly licensed data                                            10.9% of the 5,958,390 objects in
                                                                          Europeana provided by Germany are
          Openly licensed material can be                                 openly licensed4. 8.8% of these objects
          promoted widely, reaching millions more                         are shown with the internationally
          people, and can be used in innovative                           accredited Public Domain mark5, 0.3% is
          products, apps and services that bring                          licensed under CC06 and 1.6% is licensed
          culture to the classroom, the newsroom,                         under CC BY7.
          the science lab and the kickstarters.

                          Schlagball der Männer auf dem Heiligengeistfeld, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, CC0

Germany in Europeana Collections

                                                          2019                             2020                                 2021

Visits to Europeana Collections
                                                              309,326                               357,376                            181,332
from Germany

Total views of objects from Germany
                                                              539,970                               915,652                            422,596
worldwide

                                                  Wenn die Deutschen
                                                                              Wenn die Deutschen zusam-
Most-viewed object from Germany                     zusammenhalten,                                                    Porträt Devisenhändler der
                                                                            menhalten, so schlagen sie den
worldwide                                          so schlagen sie den                                                 Herstatt-Bank Dany Dattel9
                                                                                     Teufel aus der Hölle8
                                                  Teufel aus der Hölle

         92% of visits from Germany browsed                               Objects on thematic Collections:
         Europeana Collections in German, 4% in                           Migration: 25,670
         English and 6% used other languages.                             1914-1918: 9,586
                                                                          Art: 526,020
                                                                          Sport: 42,385

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    Das Ehepaar Dagover im Wittumspalais zu Weimar beim Schachspiel, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, CC0

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End notes

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   TRY%5D%5B%5D=germany&view=grid
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   used, modified, and shared by anyone             t_t_Osnabr_ck___Historische_Bildpost-
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   You can copy, modify, distribute and
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