RUSSIA AND EUROPEANA

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RUSSIA AND EUROPEANA

Intro 3

Presidency of the Council of the 4

Funding and projects 4

Professional participation - Europeana Network Association 5

Russia’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 5

Russia in Europeana Collections 5

End notes 7 Russia 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 Russia 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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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

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

Funding and projects

Since 2008 when the Europeana initiative These projects directly support content, started, Russia has not contributed to knowledge and technology sharing Europeana. between libraries, museums, archives, software agencies, university research To date, Russia has not participated in EU departments and the Europeana Initiative. funded Europeana projects.

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Professional participation - Europeana Network Association

The Europeana Network Association is a Currently, 11 people from Russia are a strong and democratic community of Europeana Network Association experts working in the field of digital member, and as such are involved in a heritage, united by a shared mission to range of activities, sharing best expand and improve access to Europe’s practices, learning and collaborating digital cultural heritage. within the cultural heritage sector.

Russia’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections

Europeana Collections features over 58 Cultural heritage institutions million objects of which 20,148 are provided by Russian institutions. 9 cultural heritage institutions in Russia contribute collections to Europeana. The Aggregation partners are listed in the following table.

All objects aggregated by Russia can be found here2.

OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA DATA PARTNERS COLLECTION

Российская государственная библиотека / Russian State Library 14,152

Российская национальная библиотека / The National Library of Russia 5,071

Архангельская областная научная медицинская библиотека (АОНМБ) / Arkhangelsk Regional 293 Scientific Library

Saratov State Art Museum after A.N. Radishev / Саратовский государственный 282 художественный музей им. А.Н. Радищева

Национальная библиотека Удмуртской Республики / National Library of the Udmurt Republic 111

State Leo Tolstoy Museum / Государственный музей Л.Н. Толстого (ГМТ) 91

Национальной библиотеки Республики Карелия / The National Library of Republic of Karelia 76

Фонд Мераба Мамардашвили / Merab Mamardashvili Foundation 41

Музей - Циклорама “Курская битва. Белгородское направление “ / Museum - Cyclorama 31 “Kursk Battle. Belgorod Direction”

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Openly licensed data 97.8% of the 20,148 objects in Europeana provided by Russia are Openly licensed material can be openly licensed3. All of these objects are promoted widely, reaching millions more shown with the internationally people, and can be used in innovative accredited Public Domain mark4. products, apps and services that bring culture to the classroom, the newsroom, the science lab and the kickstarters.

Russia in Europeana Collections

2018 2019 2020

Visits to Europeana Collections 35,701 38,632 38,232 from Russia

Total views of objects from Russia 5,8105 6,194 5,281 worldwide

Англичане в России в XVI и XVII столетиях / Соч. Most-viewed object from Russia Под южными Архангельск купеческий : акад. И. Гамеля. - Санкт- worldwide небесами6 монография8 Петербург: Тип. Имп. Акад. наук, 1865; Ст. 17

81% of visits from Russia browsed Europeana Collections in Russian, 4% in English and 15% used other languages.

Objects on thematic Collections: Art: 1,317 Sport: 1

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End notes

1 https://pro.europeana.eu/post/copy- 8 https://www.europeana.eu/ro/ right-in-the-cultural-heritage-sector-out- item/2023806/36821D7BE069FD889EF- comes-of-the-german-presidency-event 718D5A5E10E57D1B3902B

2 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ search?q=*%3A*&f[COUNTRY][]=russia

3 Open data and content can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone for any purpose - http://opendefinition. org/

4 This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copy- right law, including all related and neighboring rights. You can copy, modify, distribute and perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. - https://creativecommons.org/publicdo- main/mark/1.0/

5 Due to a technical error in our systems we are unfortunately unable to provide data for the period of October 2018 to December 2018. The issue has been resolved, and we will report accurate data from January 2019 onwards

6 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/ru/ record/2023864/_RU_NLR_DIGIT_111542. html

7 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/ru/ record/2023806/ 856F5A5B943041A4197A8A7CB- 803393267B8CCDD.html

7 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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