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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
   The Portuguese Presidency Europeana            digital capacity building: integration of
   conference “Towards recovery: digital          cultural heritage goals into national
   capacity building in the cultural heritage     strategies, clear policy direction, advocacy
   sector” was held online on 3 and 4 June,       for the sector, allocation of sufficient
   in collaboration with the Ministry of          funds to the cultural sector and its digital
   Culture and the National Library of            transition, the European Commission’s
   Portugal. It involved 89 cultural heritage     support and leadership, training,
   professionals from 42 countries across         multilingualism, collaboration within the
   the sector. The conference aimed to            sector and cross-sectoral collaboration at
   stimulate reflection and dialogue around       local, national and European level. The
   digital capacity building. The event was       variety of these considerations from
   part of a series of ongoing efforts at         diverse perspectives reflect the multi-
   Europeana to get a shared understanding        faceted nature of capacity building. The
   of digital transformation and investigate      proceedings, findings and outcomes from
   digital capacity building across the sector.   the Portuguese Presidency Europeana
   The diverse perspectives offered by the        Conference will be collected and
   speakers and participants contributed to       presented in a report. A solid synthesis of
   our shared understanding of capacity           the outcomes of the conference will
   building as a process with no universal        inform the Europeana Capacity Building
   approach that fits all. The participants       Framework for digital transformation
   were invited to explore how these              currently under development. The event
   findings affect the understanding of, or       appears to have delivered against its key
   implementation of their capacity building      short-term objectives of creating an
   and digital transformation plans and to        increase in understanding of the
   repeat this sense-making work in their         concepts of digital transformation and
   own organisations or contexts. A range of      capacity-building and an increase in
   considerations are critical to support         knowledge about the Recovery and
                                                  Resilience Fund.

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     Initiative’s activities. The Members
   strong and democratic community of         Council is made up of 36 people,
   experts working in the field of digital    including Barbara Fischer from
   heritage, united by a shared mission to    Wikimedia Deutschland, Antje Schmidt
   expand and improve access to Europe’s      from the Museum für Kunst und
   digital cultural heritage.                 Gewerbe Hamburg, Ina Blümel from
                                              German National Library of Science and
   Currently, 227 people from Germany are     Technology, Petra Boettinger from
   a Europeana Network Association            Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and
   member, and as such are involved in a      Botanical Museum, Clemens Neudecker
   range of activities, sharing best          from Berlin State Library and Cosmina
   practices, learning and collaborating      Berta from German Digital Library.
   within the cultural heritage sector.

   The Europeana Network Association
   elects a Members Council which plays a
   crucial role across all the Europeana

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Germany’s culture showcased in
Europeana Collections
          Europeana Collections features over 58                      Cultural heritage institutions
          million records of which 5,813,511 are
          provided by German institutions.                            230 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                                                                                      1,246,876

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek / Bavarian State Library                                                   1,241,486

Bildarchiv Foto Marburg                                                                                  435,830

Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / German National Library                                                    306,801

Bibliothek der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung / Library of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung                        201,518

Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig                                                                      170,596

Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem / Botanic Garden and
                                                                                                         143,266
Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz / Berlin State Library                             142,611

Archiv der sozialen Demokratie (AdsD)                                                                    139,335

Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg Carl von Ossietzky / Hamburg State Library                    131,101

Teßmann Library                                                                                          115,179

Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität Berlin in der Universitätsbibliothek /
                                                                                                         107,207
Architectural Museum of the Technical University of Berlin

Deutsches Archäologisches Institut / German Archaeological Institute                                     104,659

Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin                                                       104,638

RBB AIT DISMARC                                                                                          102,291

Deutsches Filminstitut - DIF / German Film Institute                                                      96,379

Spielzeugmuseum der Stadt Nürnberg (Museum Lydia Bayer) / Nuremberg Toy Museum                            80,306

Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg / Epigraphic Database Heidelberg                                       69,053

Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte. Bibliotheca Hertziana                                            61,643

Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg                                                                            61,267

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          Openly licensed data                                            10.9% of the 5,813,511 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: 22,406
         English and 6% used other languages.                             1914-1918: 9,525
                                                                          Art: 566,547
                                                                          Sport: 38,517

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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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