AUSTRIA AND EUROPEANA

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Table of contents

AUSTRIA AND EUROPEANA

Intro 3

Presidency of the Council of the 4

Highlights 5

Funding and projects 5

Professional participation - Europeana Network Association 6

Austria’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections 6

Austria in Europeana Collections 8

End notes 10 Austria 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 Austria 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, Austria has contributed Europeana Initiative projects with partial €100,000. EU funding in Austria since 2008 are listed below. 7 partners from Austria are To date, €3,584,743 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 Austria. 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 Currently, 36 people from Austria are a strong and democratic community of Europeana Network Association experts working in the field of digital member, and as such are involved in a heritage, united by a shared mission to range of activities, sharing best expand and improve access to Europe’s practices, learning and collaborating digital cultural heritage. within the cultural heritage sector.

Austria’s culture showcased in Europeana Collections

Europeana Collections features over 58 Cultural heritage institutions million objects of which 2,559,067 are provided by Austrian institutions. 51 cultural heritage institutions in Austria contribute collections to Aggregation Europeana. The largest partners are listed in the following table. A full All objects aggregated by Austria can be breakdown of institutions and objects found here2. The main point of contact can be found here3. for Austria is Kulturpool.

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OBJECTS ON EUROPEANA DATA PARTNERS COLLECTION

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library 1,525,915

MAK - Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst / Gegenwartskunst 197,710

Albertina 120,039

Natural History Museum, Vienna - Herbarium W 114,919

Biologiezentrum der Oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen 91,679

University of Vienna 61,843

Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek 61,719

Steiermärkisches Landesmuseum Joanneum - Herbarium GJO 50,464

Theatermuseum Wien 37,793

University of Graz 28,429

University of Vienna, Institute for Botany - Herbarium WU 26,826

Ubi erat lupa 25,604

Österreichisches Staatsarchiv 22,517

Österreichische Mediathek 22,172

Kunsthistorisches Museum 22,141

IMAGNO brandstätter images GesmbH 20,003

Institut für Realienkunde 19,904

VGA 14,769

Wienbibliothek im Rathaus 12,338

Filmarchiv Austria 10,667

Openly licensed data 31.4% of the 2,559,067 objects in Europeana provided by Austria are Openly licensed material can be openly licensed4. 16.8% of these objects promoted widely, reaching millions more are shown with the internationally people, and can be used in innovative accredited Public Domain mark5, 12.6% products, apps and services that bring is licensed under CC BY-SA6 and 2% is culture to the classroom, the newsroom, licensed under CC BY7. the science lab and the kickstarters.

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Gaschurn - Silvrettahorn, Ochsentaler Gletscher, Hohes Rad, Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek, CC BY-SA

How Austria uses Europeana Collections

2018 2019 2020

Visits to Europeana Collections 39,458 40,383 54,929 from Austria

Total views of objects from Austria 231,5428 236,133 312,365 worldwide

Most-viewed object from Austria Alte Frau | Balthasar Die drei Lebensalter und Die drei Lebensalter und worldwide Denner9 der Tod der Tod10

88% of visits from Austria browsed Objects on thematic Collections: Europeana Collections in German, 5% in Migration: 1,333 English, while 7% used other languages. 1914-1918: 97,940 Art: 441,346 Sport: 2,475

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Panorama vom Bodensee Vorarlberger Landesbibliothek CC BY Austria and Europeana: an overview

End notes

1 https://pro.europeana.eu/post/copy- 7 You are free to: right-in-the-cultural-heritage-sector-out- Share — copy and redistribute the comes-of-the-german-presidency-event material in any medium or format Adapt — remix, transform, and build 2 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ upon the material for any purpose, even search?f%5BCOUN- commercially. - https://creativecom- TRY%5D%5B%5D=austria&view=grid mons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

3 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ 8 Due to a technical error in our systems search?f%5BCOUN- we are unfortunately unable to provide TRY%5D%5B%5D=austria&view=grid data for the period of October 2018 to December 2018. The issue has been 4 Open data and content can be freely resolved, and we will report accurate used, modified, and shared by anyone data from January 2019 onwards for any purpose - http://opendefinition. org/ 9 https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ record/15502/GG_675.html 5 This work has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copy- 10 http://www.europeana.eu/portal/en/ right law, including all related and record/15502/GG_2636.html 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/

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-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 .

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