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ITALY AND EUROPEANA

Intro 3

Presidency of the Council of the 4

Highlights 5

Funding and projects 6

Professional participation - Europeana Network Association 7

Italy’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 7

Italy in Europeana Collections 9

End notes 11 Italy 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 - ’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 of cultural heritage to the Italy and its cultural heritage institutions world. By encouraging open licensing, are indispensable partners, supporting the Europeana Initiative makes more the Europeana Initiative and Europeana culture available to more people, so it Foundation financially, and contributing can be used in education, research and to the diversity of content the creative industries.

Europeana Collections, Europeana, 2018, Public Domain

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Presidency of the Council of the European Union

German presidency Europeana background to digital transformation and conference - The Europeana conference copyright, where we stand, and what under the German Presidency on 5 and 6 might come next. It was agreed that there October explored the role that copyright is a need to collaborate across the sector. plays in the digital transformation of the Europeana will explore ways to keep an cultural heritage sector1. The conference up-to-date overview of positive initiatives was organised in collaboration with the across the Member States, and will German National Library as part of the continue engaging in discussions on how cultural programme of the German the copyright in the Digital Single Market Presidency. More than 40 DCHE members Directive can support the sector. and copyright advocates and experts from 21 countries participated in the event. The conference looked at the

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Highlights

Building Digital Capacity: sense-making Introducing the Europeana MOOC ‘Digital findings and outcomes: https://pro. Education with Cultural Heritage’: https:// europeana.eu/post/building-digital- pro.europeana.eu/post/introducing-the- capacity-sense-making-findings-and- europeana-mooc-digital-education-with- outcomes cultural-heritage

Approaches for handling multilingualism for digital cultural heritage: https://pro. europeana.eu/post/approaches-for- handling-multilingualism-for-digital- cultural-heritage

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Funding and projects

Since 2008, Italy has contributed €100,000. EU funding in Italy since 2008 are listed below. 9 partners from Italy are currently To date, €4,326,025 from the budget contributing to ongoing projects, which provided by the EU to fund Europeana directly support content, knowledge and Initiative projects has contributed to technology sharing between libraries, activities in Italy. museums, archives, software agencies, university research departments and the Europeana Initiative projects with partial Europeana Initiative.

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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 Flavia Bruni from ICCU.

Currently, 223 people from Italy are a Europeana Network Association member, and as such are involved in a range of activities, sharing best practices, learning and collaborating within the cultural heritage sector.

Italy’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections

Europeana Collections features over 58 Cultural heritage institutions million objects of which 3,227,371 are provided by Italian institutions. 130 cultural heritage institutions in Italy contribute collections to Europeana. The Aggregation largest partners are listed in the following table. A full breakdown of All objects aggregated by Italy can be institutions and objects can be found found here2. The main point of contact here3. for Italy is CulturaItalia.

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OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA DATA PARTNERS COLLECTION

SAN - Sistema Archivistico Nazionale 804,332

Cinecittà Luce S.p.A. 442,005

Internet Culturale 218,249

Istituto Sturzo, Roma 214,111

Internet Culturale - Biblioteca Braidense Milano 117,379

Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma 117,077

Dipartimento Di Scienze Della Vita, Università degli studi di Trieste 101,323

Internet Culturale / CulturaItalia 82,791

Cineteca di Bologna 73,157

Epigraphic Database Roma 71,826

MuseiD-Italia 69,961

MetsTeca 63,562

Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries 56,137

Fondazione Luigi Micheletti 51,704

Regione Piemonte 50,160

Archivio Franca Rame Dario Fo, CTFR 47,331

Federico Zeri Foundation 40,811

Epigraphic Dabatase Bari 40,283

Archivio Franca Rame - Dario Fo 38,622

Fondazione Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura (BEIC) 35,475

Openly licensed data 7.4% of the 3,227,371 objects in Europeana provided by Italy are openly Openly licensed material can be licensed4. 1.3% of these objects are promoted widely, reaching millions more shown with the internationally people, and can be used in innovative accredited Public Domain mark5, 4.2% is products, apps and services that bring licensed under CC BY-SA6, 1.5% is culture to the classroom, the newsroom, licensed under CC BY7 and 0.4% is the science lab and the kickstarters. licensed under CC08.

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Rosa ‘Bloomfield Abundance’, Department of Life Sciences, University of Trieste, CC BY-SA Italy in Europeana Collections

2018 2019 2020

Visits to Europeana Collections 186,012 191,131 293,825 from Italy

Total views of objects from Italy 198,7029 217,977 231,141 worldwide

Diego Abatantuono e Gabriele Ferzetti e la Piano medio di Teddy Most-viewed object from Italy la moglie Giulia Beg- moglie, Maria Grazia Reno e la moglie Vania worldwide notti seduti accanto ad Eminente, tra gli invitati del Protti12 un bancone da bar10 ricevimento11 92% of visits from Italy browsed Europeana Collections in Italian, 5% in English, 1% in German while 2% used other languages.

Objects on thematic Collections: Migration: 1,247 1914-1918: 80,652 Art: 168,980 Sport: 8,350

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End notes

1 https://pro.europeana.eu/post/copy- material in any medium or format right-in-the-cultural-heritage-sector-out- Adapt — remix, transform, and build comes-of-the-german-presidency-event upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. - https://creativecom- 2 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ mons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ search?f%5BCOUNTRY%5D%5B%5D=it- aly&q=*%3A*&view=grid 8 The person who associated a work with this deed has dedicated the work to the 3 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ public domain by waiving all of his or her search?f%5BCOUNTRY%5D%5B%5D=it- rights to the work worldwide under aly&q=*%3A*&view=grid copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights, to the extent allowed 4 Open data and content can be freely by law. used, modified, and shared by anyone You can copy, modify, distribute and for any purpose - http://opendefinition. perform the work, even for commercial org/ purposes, all without asking permission. - https://creativecommons.org/publicdo- 5 This work has been identified as being main/zero/1.0/ free of known restrictions under copy- right law, including all related and 9 Due to a technical error in our systems neighboring rights. we are unfortunately unable to provide You can copy, modify, distribute and data for the period of October 2018 to perform the work, even for commercial December 2018. The issue has been purposes, all without asking permission. resolved, and we will report accurate - https://creativecommons.org/publicdo- data from January 2019 onwards main/mark/1.0/ 10 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/it/ 6 You are free to: record/08602/NonAVCreation_luce_it_IL_ Share — copy and redistribute the NonAVCreation_Master13339IT_IL_ material in any medium or format FT00001_00000494_1.html Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even 11 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/it/ commercially. - https://creativecom- record/08602/NonAVCreation_luce_it_IL_ mons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ NonAVCreation_IL0020024245_1.html

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End notes

12 Europeana is an initiative of the European Union, financed by the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility and European Union Member States. It is operated by a consortium led by the Europeana Foundation, under a service contract with the .

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