BELGIUM AND EUROPEANA

An overview Sainte Cécile de Rome | François Joseph Navez 25 January 2021 Délégation générale à la numérisation des patrimoines culturels Public Domain Belgium and Europeana: an overview

Table of contents

BELGIUM AND EUROPEANA

Intro 3

Presidency of the Council of the 4

Highlights 5

Funding and projects 5

Professional participation - Europeana Network Association 7

Belgium’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 7

Belgium in Europeana Collections 9

End notes 11 Belgium 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 Belgium 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

Since 2008, Belgium has contributed Europeana Initiative projects with partial €60,000. EU funding in Belgium since 2008 are listed below. 9 partners from Belgium are To date, € 4,834,831 from the budget currently contributing to ongoing projects, provided by the EU to fund Europeana which directly support content, knowledge Initiative projects has contributed to and technology sharing between libraries, activities in Belgium. 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 Fred Truyen from KU Leuven, Erik Buelinckx from the Royal Institute Currently, 102 people from Belgium are for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), Hans a Europeana Network Association van der Linden from Flemish member, and as such are involved in a Government. dept. of Culture, Youth and range of activities, sharing best Media and Evelien Hauwaerts from practices, learning and collaborating Public Library Bruges. Fred Truyen also within the cultural heritage sector. sits on the Management Board of Europeana Network Association.

Belgium’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections

Europeana Collections features over 58 Cultural heritage institutions million objects of which 2,848,760 are provided by Belgium institutions. 375 cultural heritage institutions in Belgium contribute collections to Aggregation Europeana. The largest partners are listed in the following table. A full All objects aggregated by Belgium can be breakdown of institutions and objects found here2. The main point of contact can be found here3. for Belgium is Erfgoedplus.

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OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA DATA PARTNERS COLLECTION

Botanic Garden Meise, Belgium 1,384,259

Catwalkpictures 484,485

Ghent University Library 161,597

KIK-IRPA, Brussels (Belgium) 145,371

Radio Télévision Belge Francophone 130,355

Amsab-Institute of Social History 106,062

KU Leuven 63,268

Art & History Museum / Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire 40,827

ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen 37,955

Center of the Judeo-Moroccan Culture 33,614

Carmentis - Online museum catalogue 28,922

Sportimonium vzw 20,531

PMR Maeyaert 19,882

Royal Museum for Central Africa 15,681

Royal Library of Belgium 15,389

Direction des Monuments et des Sites de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale / Directie 13,587 Monumenten en Landschappen van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest

Museum De Mindere, Sint-Truiden 11,772

Het Stadsmus, Hasselt 6,741

M – Museum Leuven 5,815

Museum Plantin-Moretus | Prentenkabinet 5,814

Openly licensed material can be 52.6% of the 2,848,760 objects in promoted widely, reaching millions more Europeana provided by Belgium are people, and can be used in innovative openly licensed4. 1.4% of these objects products, apps and services that bring are shown with the internationally culture to the classroom, the newsroom, accredited Public Domain mark5, 50.9% the science lab and the kickstarters. is licensed under CC BY-SA6 and 0.2% is licensed under CC BY7.

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Pieter Pourbus. Laatste avondmaal, KU Leuven, Public Domain Belgium in Europeana Collections

2018 2019 2020

Visits to Europeana Collections 73,983 76,439 112,280 from Belgium

Total views of objects from Belgium 157,4358 201,092 283,560 worldwide

Most-viewed object from Belgium Raf Simons Virginia Raf Simons Virginia Missoni, Autumn-Winter worldwide Creeper Collection Creeper Collection9 1997, Womenswear10

63% of visits from Belgium browsed Europeana Collections in Dutch, 13% in English, 20% in French, 1% in German while 3% used other languages.

Objects on thematic Collections: Migration: 1,238 1914-1918: 2,123 Art: 120,076 Sport: 5,182

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Prent (niet in kleur) uit ‘La mode illustrée’ 1870-07-31 ModeMuseum Provincie Antwerpen Public Domain

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End notes

1 https://pro.europeana.eu/post/copy- 8 Due to a technical error in our systems we right-in-the-cultural-heritage-sector-out- are unfortunately unable to provide data for comes-of-the-german-presidency-event the period of October 2018 to December 2018. The issue has been resolved, and we 2 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ will report accurate data from January 2019 search?q=*%3A*&f[COUNTRY][]=belgium onwards

3 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ 9 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ search?q=*%3A*&f[COUNTRY][]=belgium record/2048208/OBJ29781.html

4 Open data and content can be freely used, 10 https://www.europeana.eu/en/ modified, and shared by anyone for any item/2048212/missoni_aw97_0019 purpose - http://opendefinition.org/

5 This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright 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://creative- commons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

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 commer- cially. - https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by-sa/4.0/

7 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 commer- cially. - https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/3.0/

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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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