CROATIA AND EUROPEANA
An overview Rijeka početkom XIX. Stoljeća. Jaschke, Franz 25 January 2021 Gradska knjižnica Rijeka Public Domain Croatia and Europeana: an overview
Table of contents
CROATIA 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
Croatia’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6
Croatia in Europeana Collections 8
End notes 10 Croatia 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 Croatia 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, Croatia has contributed Europeana Initiative projects with partial €26,000. EU funding in Croatia since 2008 are listed below. No partners from Croatia are To date, €66,094 from the budget provided currently contributing to ongoing projects, by the EU to fund Europeana Initiative which directly support content, knowledge projects has contributed to activities in and technology sharing between libraries, Croatia. 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 strong and democratic community of experts working in the field of digital heritage, united by a shared mission to expand and improve access to Europe’s digital cultural heritage.
Currently, 48 people from Croatia 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.
Croatia’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections
Europeana Collections features over 58 Cultural heritage institutions million objects of which 118,486 are provided by Croatian institutions. 18 cultural heritage institutions in Croatia contribute collections to Aggregation Europeana. The partners are listed in the following table. All objects aggregated by Croatia can be found here2. The main point of contact for Croatia is Kultura.hr - Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.
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OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA DATA PARTNERS COLLECTION
Muzej za umjetnost i obrt / Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb 56,895
Nacionalna i sveučilišna knjižnica u Zagrebu / National and University Library in Zagreb 27,322
Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti / Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts 24,005 https://uri.hr/indigo/org:muo 2,599
Gradska knjiznica Rijeka / City Library of Rijeka 2,499
Republika Hrvatska Ministarstvo kulture / Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia 1,760
Sveučilište Jurja Dobrile u Puli / Juraj Dobrila University of Pula 1,230
Muzej moderne i suvremene umjetnosti / Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 730 Rijeka - Kultura.hr
Sveučilište u Zagrebu / University of Zagreb 595
Sveučilište u Rijeci / University of Rijeka 302
Knjižnice grada Zagreba / The Zagreb City Libraries 234
Sveučilišta Josipa Jurja Strossmayera u Osijeku / Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of 220 Osijek
Sveučilištu u Splitu / University of Split 62
Sveučilište u Zadru / University of Zadar 21
Muzej suvremene umjetnosti Zagreb / Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb, Croatia 7
Hrvatski državni arhiv / Croatian State Archives 2
Sveučilište u Dubrovniku / University of Dubrovnik 2
Hrvatski muzej naivne umjetnosti / Croatian Museum of Naïve Art 1
Openly licensed data 18.4% of the 118,486 objects in Europeana provided by Croatia are Openly licensed material can be openly licensed3. 16.2% of these objects promoted widely, reaching millions more are shown with the internationally people, and can be used in innovative accredited Public Domain mark4 and products, apps and services that bring 2.2% is licensed under CC BY-SA5. culture to the classroom, the newsroom, the science lab and the kickstarters.
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Pogled na Rijeku s bivše Kalvarije., Gradska knjižnica Rijeka, Public Domain Croatia in Europeana Collections
2018 2019 2020
Visits to Europeana Collections 29,633 36,918 53,738 from Croatia
Total views of objects from Croatia 42,1276 57,129 60,948 worldwide
Most-viewed object from Croatia Pliva Streptoksazol Pliva Streptoksazol Pliva Streptoksazol7 worldwide
57% of visits from Croatia browsed Europeana Collections in Croatian, 41% in English and 2% used other languages.
Objects on thematic Collections: Migration: 10 1914-1918: 951 Art: 13,502 Sport: 154
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Martinšćica | C. v. Mayr, Gradska knjižnica Rijeka, Public Domain
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End notes
1 https://pro.europeana.eu/post/copy- 7 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ right-in-the-cultural-heritage-sector-out- record/2048053/MUO_053203.html comes-of-the-german-presidency-event
2 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ search?q=*%3A*&f[COUNTRY][]=croatia
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 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/
6 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
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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.
The sole responsibility for this publication lies with the author. Neither the European Commission, nor any person acting on the European Commission’s behalf, is responsible or liable for the accuracy or use of the information in this publication.