Greece and Europeana

GREECE AND EUROPEANA

An overview Λευκοτσικνιάς Ελληνικό Κέντρο Βιοτόπων – 25 January 2021 Υγροτόπων (ΕΚΒΥ) CC BY Greece and Europeana: an overview

Table of contents

GREECE AND EUROPEANA

Intro 3

Presidency of the Council of the European Union 4

Highlights 4

Funding and projects 5

Professional participation - Europeana Network Association 6

Greece’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6

Greece in Europeana Collections 8

End notes 10 Greece 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 Greece 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, Greece has contributed Europeana Initiative projects with partial €25,000. EU funding in Greece since 2008 are listed below. 6 partners from Greece are To date, €3,711,854 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 Greece. 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 Georgia Angelaki from National Documentation Centre, Vera Kriezi from Currently, 136 people from Greece are a The Friends of Music Society, Music Europeana Network Association Library of Greece ‘Lilian Voudouri’ and member, and as such are involved in a Georgia Manolopoulou from Ministry of range of activities, sharing best Culture/Archaeological Museum Of practices, learning and collaborating Patras. Georgia Angelaki also sits on the within the cultural heritage sector. Management Board of the Europeana Network Association.

Greece’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections

Europeana Collections features over 58 Cultural heritage institutions million objects of which 714,675 are provided by Greek institutions. 87 cultural heritage institutions in Greece contribute collections to Aggregation Europeana. The largest partners are listed in the following table. A full All objects aggregated by Greece can be breakdown of institutions and objects found here2. The main point of contact can be found here3. for Greece is SearchCulture.gr.

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OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA DATA PARTNERS COLLECTION

Ακαδημία Αθηνών / Academy of Athens 118,464

Ελληνικό Λογοτεχνικό και Ιστορικό Αρχείο (ΕΛΙΑ)- Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης (ΜΙΕΤ) / Hellenic Literary and Historical Archive (ELIA) - National Bank Educational 111,095 Foundation (MIET)

Βιβλιοθήκη και Κέντρο Πληροφόρησης, Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών / Library and Information 83,887 Center, University of Patras

Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών και Μελετών «Ελευθέριος Κ. Βενιζέλος» / National Foundation for 45,713 Research and Studies “Eleftherios K. Venizelos”

Εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογική Εταιρεία / Archaeological Society of Athens 35,973

Εβραϊκού Μουσείου Ελλάδος / The Jewish Museum of Greece 26,190

Μεγάλη Μουσική Βιβλιοθήκη της Ελλάδος «Λίλιαν Βουδούρη» - Σύλλογος Οι Φίλοι της 25,386 Μουσικής / Music Library of Greece of The Friends of Music Society

Ινστιτούτο Ιστορικών Ερευνών (ΙΙΕ/ΕΙΕ) / National Hellenic Research Foundation 23,957

Ελληνική Ραδιοφωνία Τηλεόραση / Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation 22,007

Βιβλιονέτ / BiblioNet 21,346

Ίδρυμα Αικατερίνης Λασκαρίδη / Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation 19,335

Ίδρυμα Κωνσταντίνου Σημίτη / Konstantinos Simitis Foundation 15,728

Λαογραφικό και Εθνολογικό Μουσείο Μακεδονίας-Θράκης / Folk Art and Ethnological Mu- 13,043 seum of Macedonia and Thrace

Πελοποννησιακό Λαογραφικό Ίδρυμα / Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation 11,961

Αρχεία Σύγχρονης Κοινωνικής Ιστορίας (ΑΣΚΙ) / Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI) 11,342

Ταμείο Αρχαιολογικών Πόρων και Απαλλοτριώσεων / Fund of Archaeological Proceeds 10,151

Εθνική Πινακοθήκη / National Gallery - Alexandros Soutsos Museum, Athens 9,513

Δημόσια Κεντρική Βιβλιοθήκη της Βέροιας / Veria Public Central Library 8,862

Ίδρυμα Ωνάση / Alexander S. Onassis Foundation 7,980

Επιμελητήριο Εικαστικών Τεχνών Ελλάδος / Hellenic Chamber of Fine Arts 6,566

Openly licensed data 13.4% of the 714,675 objects in Europeana provided by Greece are Openly licensed material can be openly licensed4. 0.1% of these objects promoted widely, reaching millions more are shown with the internationally people, and can be used in innovative accredited Public Domain mark5, 4.7% is products, apps and services that bring licensed under CC BY-SA6 and 8.6% is culture to the classroom, the newsroom, licensed under CC BY7. the science lab and the kickstarters.

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2018 2019 2020

Visits to Europeana Collections 36,775 41,939 78,376 from Greece

Total views of objects from Greece 45,8758 83,973 65,016 worldwide

ΣΗΜΑ ΤΟΥ 572 ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΟΥ 228 ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΟΥ 228 Most-viewed object from Greece ΤΑΓΜΑΤΟΣ ΜΗΧΑΝΟΚΙΝΗΤΟΥ ΜΗΧΑΝΟΚΙΝΗΤΟΥ ΤΑΓΜΑΤΟΣ worldwide ΠΕΖΙΚΟΥ9 ΤΑΓΜΑΤΟΣ ΕΘΝΟΦΥΛΑΚΗΣ ΕΘΝΟΦΥΛΑΚΗΣ10

73% of visits from Greece browsed Europeana Collections in Greek, 24% in English and 3% used other languages.

Objects on thematic Collections: Migration: 7,216 1914-1918: 1,585 Art: 65,394 Sport: 9,296

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End notes

1 https://pro.europeana.eu/post/copy- material in any medium or format right-in-the-cultural-heritage-sector-out- Adapt — remix, transform, and build comes-of-the-german-presidency-event upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. - https://creativecom- 2 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ mons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ search?q=*%3A*&f%5BCOUN- TRY%5D%5B%5D=greece&view=grid 8 Due to a technical error in our systems we are unfortunately unable to provide 3 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ data for the period of October 2018 to search?q=*%3A*&f%5BCOUN- December 2018. The issue has been TRY%5D%5B%5D=greece&view=grid resolved, and we will report accurate data from January 2019 onwards 4 Open data and content can be freely used, modified, and shared by anyone 9 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/el/ for any purpose - http://opendefinition. record/2048050/Athena_Plus_Provided- org/ CHO_Hellenic_Army_General_Staff__ Army_History_Directorate_13695.html 5 This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copy- 10 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/el/ right law, including all related and record/2048050/Athena_Plus_Provided- neighboring rights. CHO_Hellenic_Army_General_Staff__ You can copy, modify, distribute and Army_History_Directorate_22586.html perform the work, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. - https://creativecommons.org/publicdo- main/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 commercially. - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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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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