THE NETHERLANDS AND EUROPEANA

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THE NETHERLANDS AND EUROPEANA

Intro 3

Presidency of the Council of the 4

Highlights 5

Funding and projects 6

Professional participation - Europeana Network Association 7

The Netherlands’ culture showcased in Europeana Collections 8

The Netherlands in Europeana Collections 9

End notes 11 The Netherlands 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 The Netherlands 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

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Funding and projects

Since 2008, the Netherlands has Europeana Initiative projects with partial contributed €1,470,250. EU funding in the Netherlands since 2008 are listed below. 15 partners from The To date, €53,367,724 from the budget Netherlands are currently contributing to provided by the EU to fund Europeana ongoing projects, which directly support Initiative projects has contributed to content, knowledge and technology activities in the Netherlands. sharing between libraries, museums, archives, software agencies, university research departments and the 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 Peter Soemers from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency, Henk Currently, 287 people from the Alkemade from Cultural Heritage Agency Netherlands are a Europeana Network of the Netherlands, Steven Claeyssens Association member, and as such are from National Library of the involved in a range of activities, sharing Netherlands, Marta Musso from Archives best practices, learning and Portal Europe and Nienke van collaborating within the cultural heritage Schaverbeke From Netherlands Institute sector. for Sound and Vision.

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The Netherlands’ culture showcased in Europeana Collections

Europeana Collections features over 58 Cultural heritage institutions million objects of which 10,132,115 are provided by Dutch institutions. 137 partners cultural heritage institutions in The Netherlands Aggregation contribute collections to Europeana. The largest partners are listed in the All objects aggregated by The following table. A full breakdown of Netherlands can be found here2. The institutions and objects can be found main point of contact for The here3. Netherlands is Digitale Collectie.

OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA DATA PARTNERS COLLECTION

Naturalis Biodiversity Center 4,533,364

Koninklijke Bibliotheek 1,850,967

Beeldbank van de Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed 500,762

Rijksmuseum 337,641

Internet Archive 176,845

Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie 163,670

International Institute of Social History 162,363

Noord-Hollands Archief 132,794

Brabants Historisch Informatie Centrum 118,373

Zeeuwse Bibliotheek 105,411

Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed 99,446

Vereniging De Hollandsche Molen 94,187

Nieuwland Erfgoed Centrum 92,210

Museon 86,683

Gemeentearchief Zaanstad 85,508

Het Nationaal Glasmuseum 72,631

NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies 70,637

Gooi en Vecht Historisch 66,237

IMSLP/Petrucci Music Library 61,559

Nationaal Archief, Den Haag 57,557

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Openly licensed data 75.2% of the 10,132,115 objects in Europeana provided by The Netherlands Openly licensed material can be are openly licensed4. 13.2% of these promoted widely, reaching millions more objects are shown with the people, and can be used in innovative internationally accredited Public Domain products, apps and services that bring mark5, 11.9% is licensed under CC culture to the classroom, the newsroom, BY-SA6, 3.1% is licensed under CC BY7 the science lab and the kickstarters. and 47% is licensed under CC08.

Vissers aan de oevers van een plas, Mauritshuis, Public Domain

The Netherlands in Europeana Collections

2018 2019 2020

Visits to Europeana Collections 365,143 352,488 359,349 from The Netherlands

Total views of objects from 693,4519 739,609 940,630 The Netherlands worldwide

Bart Veldkamp kust zijn Most-viewed object from vriendin Annamarie Thomas Liggende Venus met Portret van surfer Max van The Netherlands worldwide tijdens de training in het Amor en Anteros11 Noorden12 Olympisch schaatsstadion10

82% of visits from The Netherlands Objects on thematic Collections: browsed Europeana Collections in Migration: 7,321 Dutch, 10% in English, while 8% used 1914-1918: 1,281 other languages. Art: 559,082 Sport: 37,018

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End notes

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End notes

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