FINLAND AND EUROPEANA

An overview Nainen 1700-luvun puvussa (Nainen ruusu kädessä) 25 January 2021 Finnish National Gallery CC0 and Europeana: an overview

Table of contents

FINLAND 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

Finland’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6

Finland in Europeana Collections 8

End notes 10 Finland 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 Finland 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, Finland has contributed Europeana Initiative projects with partial €120,000. EU funding in Finland since 2008 are listed below. 1 partner from Finland is currently To date, €314,272 from the budget contributing to an ongoing project, which provided by the EU to fund Europeana directly support content, knowledge and Initiative projects has contributed to technology sharing between libraries, activities in Finland. 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, 37 people from Finland 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.

Finland’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections

Europeana Collections features over 58 Cultural heritage institutions million objects of which 1,105,742 are provided by Finnish institutions. 12 cultural heritage institutions in Finland contribute collections to Aggregation Europeana. The partners are listed in the following table. All objects aggregated by Finland can be found here2. The main point of contact for Finland is Formula maintained by the National Library.

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OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA DATA PARTNERS COLLECTION

Kansallis Kirjasto / National Library of Finland 543,261

Museovirasto / The Finnish Heritage Agency 252,883

Lusto – Suomen Metsämuseo / Lusto - The Finnish Forest Museum 90,874

Luomus Luonnontieteellinen Keskusmuseo / Finnish Museum of Natural 46,800 History

Työväen Arkisto / The Labour Archives 27,821

Kansallisgalleria / Finnish National Gallery 10,030

Svenska litteratursällskapet i Finland / Society of Swedish Literature in Finland 5,128

Helinä Rautavaara Museum / Helinä Rautavaara Museum 1,340

Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti / The National Audiovisual Institute 700

Museovirasto / Finnish Heritage Agency 521

Designmuseo / Design Museum 446

Kansallisarkisto / National Archives of Finland 43

Openly licensed data 88.8% of the 1,105,742 objects in Europeana provided by Finland are Openly licensed material can be openly licensed3. 49% of these objects promoted widely, reaching millions more are shown with the internationally people, and can be used in innovative accredited Public Domain mark4, 0.9% is products, apps and services that bring licensed under CC05 and 38.8% is culture to the classroom, the newsroom, licensed under CC BY6. the science lab and the kickstarters.

A musical company, Finnish National Gallery, CC0

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Finland in Europeana Collections

2018 2019 2020

Visits to Europeana Collections 50,877 68,818 119,822 from Finland

Total views of objects from Finland 52,4397 101,437 144,500 worldwide

Porvoon Kirjakauppa Most-viewed object from Finland Turkiet, floder och kanaler. Oy-Borgå Bokhandell Elämän virralla10 worldwide Karta över Bosporen.9 Ab8

77% of visits from Finland browsed Europeana Collections in Finnish, 17% in English, 3% in Swedish while 3% used other languages.

Objects on thematic Collections: Europeana1914-1918: 77 Art: 9,342 Migration: 158 Maps and Geography: 58 Natural History: 48,624 Photography: 4,236 Sport: 4,262 Music: 6,842

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A Father with His Two Childen from Subiaco Finnish National Gallery CC0 Finland and Europeana: an overview

End notes

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