BULGARIA AND EUROPEANA
An overview Българско дружество Червен кръст Регионална библиотека ПЕНЧО 25 January 2021 СЛАВЕЙКОВ - Варна / Public Library - Varna CC0 Bulgaria and Europeana: an overview
Table of contents
BULGARIA AND EUROPEANA
Intro 3
Presidency of the Council of the European Union 4
Highlights 5
Funding and projects 5
Professional participation - Europeana Network Association 6
Bulgaria’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6
Bulgaria in Europeana Collections 8
End notes 10 Bulgaria 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 Bulgaria 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
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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
Funding and projects
Under the Bulgarian Presidency, Bulgaria Europeana Initiative projects with partial co-funded the Varna meeting in May 2018. EU funding in Bulgaria since 2008 are listed below. 1 partner from Bulgaria is To date, €315,547 from the budget currently contributing to an ongoing provided by the EU to fund Europeana project, which directly support content, Initiative projects has contributed to knowledge and technology sharing activities in Bulgaria. between libraries, museums, archives, software agencies, university research departments and the 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 Milena Dobreva, who also sits on the Management Board of Europeana Currently, 22 people from Bulgaria are a Network Association. 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.
Bulgaria’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections
Europeana Collections features over 58 Cultural heritage institutions million objects of which 120,499 are provided by Bulgarian institutions. 27 cultural heritage institutions in Bulgaria contribute collections to Aggregation Europeana. The largest partners are listed in the following table. A full All objects aggregated by Bulgaria can breakdown of institutions and objects be found here2. The main point of can be found here3. contact for Bulgaria is Pencho Slaveykov Public Library Varna.
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OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA DATA PARTNERS COLLECTION
Регионална библиотека ПЕНЧО СЛАВЕЙКОВ - Варна / Public Library - Varna 56,764
Фондация НАБИС / NALIS Foundation 16,937
Централна библиотека на БАН / Library of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 15,144
WebFolk Bulgaria 13,738
Bulgariana 9,071
Народната библиотека „Св. св.Кирил и Методий“ / National Library of Bulgaria 3,673
Регионална библиотека ЛЮБЕН КАРАВЕЛОВ - Русе / Public Library - Rousse 1,707
Националният археологически институт с музей / National Institute of Archaeology 800 and Museum
Библиотека РОДИНА - Стара Загора / Library Rodina - Stara Zagora 735
Antient Objects 500
Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология / Ban-Institut PO Balkanistika 499
Регионална библиотека ХРИСТО СМИРНЕНСКИ - Хасково / Public Library - Haskovo 272
Народна библиотека ИВАН ВАЗОВ - Пловдив / IVAN VAZOV Public Library - Plovdiv 149
Bulgaria and the Slavic Peoples - 2 144
Регионална библиотека Дора Габе - Добрич / Public Library - Dobrich 89
Художествена галерия - Казанлък / Art Gallery of Kazanlak 83
Стара София / Old Sofia 69
Институт за литература Българска академия на науките / Institute for Literature 50
ОБЩИНА ПЛОВДИВ / Plovdiv Municipality 28
Общински институт Старинен Пловдив / Ancient Plovdiv Municipal Institute 17
Openly licensed data 75.4% of the 120,499 objects in Europeana provided by Bulgaria are Openly licensed material can be openly licensed4. 18.3% of these objects promoted widely, reaching millions more are shown with the internationally people, and can be used in innovative accredited Public Domain mark5, 7.7% is products, apps and services that bring licensed under CC BY6 and 49.4% is culture to the classroom, the newsroom, licensed under CC07. the science lab and the kickstarters.
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Проект за фреско - кино Стамболийски - гр. Стамболийски, IVAN VAZOV Public Library - Plovdiv, Public Domain Bulgaria in Europeana Collections
2018 2019 2020
Visits to Europeana Collections 44,854 73,964 98,424 from Bulgaria
Total views of objects from Bulgaria 51,5128 76,909 74,436 worldwide
Задушен заек в Поправена и Most-viewed object from Bulgaria Задушен заек в тенджера тенджера под попълнена карта на worldwide под налягане налягане9 България10
67% of visits from Bulgaria browsed Europeana Collections in Bulgarian, 32% in English and 1% used other languages.
Objects on thematic Collections: Migration: 388 1914-1918: 43 Art: 5,011 Sport: 282
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Фара при Варна Регионална библиотека ПЕНЧО СЛАВЕЙКОВ - Варна CC0
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End notes
1 https://pro.europeana.eu/post/copy- 7 The person who associated a work with right-in-the-cultural-heritage-sector-out- this deed has dedicated the work to the comes-of-the-german-presidency-event public domain by waiving all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under 2 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ copyright law, including all related and search?q=*%3A*&f[COUNTRY][]=bul- neighboring rights, to the extent allowed garia by law. You can copy, modify, distribute and 3 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ perform the work, even for commercial search?q=*%3A*&f[COUNTRY][]=bul- purposes, all without asking permission. garia - https://creativecommons.org/publicdo- main/zero/1.0/ 4 Openly licensed: Open data and con- tent can be freely used, modified, and 8 Due to a technical error in our systems shared by anyone for any purpose - we are unfortunately unable to provide http://opendefinition.org/ data for the period of October 2018 to December 2018. The issue has been 5 This work has been identified as being resolved, and we will report accurate free of known restrictions under copy- data from January 2019 onwards right law, including all related and neighboring rights. 9 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/bg/ You can copy, modify, distribute and record/2059509/resource_cho_88ef- perform the work, even for commercial 0217567527f96112259bfbfeb784.html purposes, all without asking permission. - https://creativecommons.org/publicdo- 10 https://www.europeana.eu/bg/ main/mark/1.0/ item/9200378/BibliographicRe- source_3000115528638 6 You are free to: Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. - https://creativecom- mons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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11 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 European Commission.
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