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IRELAND
AND EUROPEANA
An overview St. Patrick’s Day, 1853 |
George Thomas
19 June 2018 Irish Traditional Music Archive
Public Domain
Ireland and Europeana: an overview
Table of contents
IRELAND 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
Ireland’s culture showcased
in Europeana Collections 6
Ireland in Europeana Collections 8
End notes 10
Ireland and Europeana: an overview
Intro
Europeana is Europe’s platform for With content from every EU country (and
digital cultural heritage. It is an initiative beyond), an interface available in every
of the European Union and drives digital EU language, and an award-winning
transformation. series of APIs that give access to its
content, Europeana Collections is the only
Europe’s Member States and their place that offers up Europe’s treasure
cultural heritage institutions are integral trove of cultural heritage to the world. By
to Europeana’s success. Ireland has been encouraging open licensing, Europeana
an indispensable partner to date, makes more culture available to more
supporting Europeana financially, and people, so it can be used in education,
contributing to its diversity of content. research and the creative industries.
Europeana Collections, Europeana, 2018, Public Domain
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Ireland and Europeana: an overview
Presidency of the Council of the
European Union
Organised by the Europeana Foundation The outcomes of the event will contribute to
and the Pencho Slaveykov Public Library, several strategy initiatives, most notably the
a conference entitled ‘Vision for European ‘#Digital4Culture’ strategy developed by
Cultural Heritage 2025’ took place in May Commissioner Mariya Gabriel. The draft
2018 in Varna, Bulgaria, as part of the vision will be further developed under the
Bulgarian presidency of the EU. Its aims Austrian Presidency and presented at the
were to generate momentum, stimulate closing event of the European Year of
thoughts and reflections on the impact of Cultural Heritage in December 2018.
digital cultural heritage, and design a
vision of how to use and manage that
impact during the next strategic
framework of the EU.
Highlights
Migration Collection days
• May 25-26 2018, EPIC The Irish
Emigration Museum, Dublin.
• August 18-19 2018, EPIC The Irish
Emigration Museum, Dublin.
• November 24-25 2018, EPIC The Irish
Emigration Museum, Dublin.
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Funding and projects
Since 2008, Ireland has contributed Europeana projects with partial EU funding
€115,000 to Europeana. in Ireland are listed below. No partners
from Ireland are currently contributing to
To date, Europeana has enabled the ongoing Europena projects, which directly
contribution of €622,959 from the budget support content, knowledge and
provided by the EU to fund Europeana technology sharing between libraries,
projects in Ireland. museums, archives, software agencies,
university research departments and
Europeana.
ONGOING/
FUNDING
PARTNER PROJECT COMPLETED
(Euro)
PROJECT
An Chomhairle Leabharlanna Europeana Local 176,259 Completed
Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann Friendly Europeana Sounds
83,312 Completed
Society
Europeana v2.0
Deparment of Tourism, Culture and Sport 49,220 Completed
Department of Arts, Heritage and the Europeana Awareness
50,760 Completed
Gaeltacht
Irish Traditional Music Archive/Taisce Europeana Sounds
71,955 Completed
Cheol Duchais Eireann LBG
Local Government Management Europeana Food & Drink
Agency-An Ghniomhaireacht 87,818 Completed
Bainistiochta Rialtais Aitiuil LGMA
The Provost, Fellows, Foundation Scholars Europeana Cloud
& The Other Members of Board of the
103,635 Completed
College of the Holy & Undivided trinity of
Queen Elizabeth near Dublin
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Professional participation - Europeana
Network Association
The Europeana Network Association is a
strong and democratic community of
experts working in the field of digital
heritage, united by a shared mission to
expand and improve access to Europe’s
digital cultural heritage.
Currently, 59 people from Ireland are a
Europeana Network Association
member, and as such are involved in
Europeana’s activities, sharing best
practices, learning and collaborating
within the cultural heritage sector.
Ireland’s culture showcased in
Europeana Collections
Europeana Collections features over 50 Cultural heritage institutions
million objects of which 122,403 are
provided by Irish institutions. 24 cultural heritage institutions in
Ireland contribute collections to
Aggregation Europeana. The largest partners are
listed in the following table. A full
All objects aggregated by Ireland can be breakdown of institutions and objects
found here1. The main point of contact can be found here2.
for Ireland is the National Library of
Ireland.
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OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA
DATA PARTNERS
COLLECTION
National Inventory of Architectural Heritage 40,530
National Library of Ireland 33,715
The Discovery Programme 15,102
Comhaltas Traditional Music Archive 14,456
Irish Traditional Music Archive 6,257
University College Dublin, UCD Library 3,619
Trinity College Dublin 2,557
Local Government Management Agency 2,000
The Oireachtas Library & Research Service 1,568
Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) 506
Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies 456
The Royal Irish Academy 386
The Chester Beatty Library 186
Royal Irish Academy 104
Crawford Gallery 99
James Hardiman Library, NUI Galway 50
Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann 22
ICM & Ard-Media 21
National Print Museum 10
ICM Ard-Media 9
Openly licensed data 6.4% of the 122,403 objects in
Europeana provided by Ireland are
Openly licensed material can be openly licensed3. 3% of these objects are
promoted widely, reaching millions more shown with the internationally
people, and can be used in innovative accredited Public Domain mark4, 1.6% is
products, apps and services that bring licensed under CC BY-SA5 and 1.8% is
culture to the classroom, the newsroom, licensed under CC06.
the science lab and the kickstarters.
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The Penny Bridge Dublin | Samuel Frederick Brocas, National Library of Ireland, Public Domain Marked
Ireland in Europeana Collections
2016 2017 2018
Visits to Europeana Collections
26,396 23,753 8,778
from Ireland
Total views of objects from Ireland
74,499 47,634 21,661
worldwide
Most-viewed object from Ireland Burke's Landed Juno Confiding Io to Thom’s Street Directory,
worldwide Gentry Of Ireland7 the Care of Argus8 Dublin City9
9% of visits from Ireland browsed affected by the depublication of datasets
Europeana Collections in Irish, 89% in that don’t meet the minimum
English, while 2% used other languages. requirements.
Objects on thematic Collections: We made efforts to mitigate the issue by
Migration: 84 working on the sitemap, introducing
Art: 405 more context to the data and making
Natural History: 469 improvements in the curated content.
We’ll continue this work in 2019 and
Organic search provides an important implement a new editorial strategy
traffic source for Europeana Collections, which will bring more traffic and visibility
particularly to item pages. The amount to high-quality content.
of organic search traffic we receive
depends largely on the amount of pages The engagement and impressions on
indexed by Google. Through 2018, we social media, and the downloads and
experienced a drop in the number of impressions on third party platforms
indexed pages which contributed to a perform beyond expectations which
decrease in overall traffic. proves the power of curation and the
potential of high-quality material.
Specific countries may also have been
8Ireland and Europeana: an overview
Robinson Crusoe quadrilles,
cover | Levey, R.M.
Irish Traditional Music Archive
Public Domain
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End notes
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