Europeana DSI 2 – Access to Digital Resources of European Heritage DELIVERABLE D4.3 Final technical report Revision 1.0 Date of submission 13 September 2017 Laura Rauscher (ONB), Victor-Jan Vos (EF), Harry Verwayen Author(s) (EF) and Europeana DSI-2 work package leaders Dissemination Level Public REVISION HISTORY AND STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY Revision History Revision Date Author Organisation Description No. 0.1 1 May 2017 Laura Rauscher ONB set-up and initial version 3 1 May 0.2 Victor-Jan Vos EF Added work packages 2017 15 June First version of summary 0.3 Victor-Jan Vos EF 2017 added 27 August review and dissemination 0.8 Laura Rauscher ONB 2017 added 30 August Work Package descriptions of WPs 0.9 EF 2017 leaders added 13 Harry Verwayen, 1.0 September EF Final version Victor-Jan Vos 2017 Statement of originality This deliverable contains original unpublished work except where clearly indicated otherwise. Acknowledgement of previously published material and of the work of others has been made through appropriate citation, quotation or both. The sole responsibility of this publication lies with the author. The European Union is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. ‘Europeana DSI-2 is co-financed by the European Union's Connecting Europe Facility’ 1 FINAL TECHNICAL REPORT Project acronym: Europeana DSI 2 Project title: Europeana DSI 2 – Access to Digital Resources of European Heritage Project reference: CEF-TC-2015-1-01 Periodic report: final Period covered: from 1 July 2016 to 31 August 2017 Project coordinator name, title and organisation: Jill Cousins, Executive Director, Europeana Foundation Tel: +31 70 314 0 198 E­mail: [email protected] Project website address: http://www.europeana.eu/ 2 Table of contents: 1. Publishable Summary ............................................................................................................... 6 Introduction ................................................................................................................................ 6 Progress towards goals and objectives .................................................................................. 7 1. Create Value for Partners ................................................................................................. 7 2. Improve Data Quality ........................................................................................................ 9 3. Open the Data .................................................................................................................. 10 4. Strengthen the Europeana ecosystem ......................................................................... 12 List of project beneficiaries, with the corresponding contact name and associated coordinates: .............................................................................................................................. 13 2. Response to recommendations from reviewers (April 2017) ........................................... 16 3. Progress and achievements under each work package .................................................... 22 Work package 1 Data Partner Services ................................................................................. 22 Task 1.1. Manage the work package ................................................................................. 23 Task 1.2. Innovate the aggregation infrastructure for the Europeana DSI ................. 23 Task 1.3. Maintain and run data and aggregation services of DSI aggregating partners ................................................................................................................................. 26 Task 1.4. Optimise relations with data partners, domain, thematic, and national aggregators ........................................................................................................................... 31 Task 1.5. Develop aggregators into Expert and National Hubs .................................... 40 Task 1.6. Improve the Europeana DSI data quality ......................................................... 43 Work package 2 End-user products & services ................................................................... 61 Task 2.1 Manage the work package .................................................................................. 61 Task 2.3. Publish and Market Europeana thematic collections..................................... 71 Task 2.4 Develop user engagement projects ................................................................... 84 Task 2.5 Develop case studies and impact ....................................................................... 86 Task 2.6. Publish Europeana Research ............................................................................. 86 Work package 3 Re-user services .......................................................................................... 93 Task 3.1 Manage the work package (EF) ........................................................................... 93 Task 3.2. Build the Europeana Labs community of developers and digital innovators (EF, AthenaRC)....................................................................................................................... 93 Task 3.3. Develop partnerships for the re-use of digital cultural content (EF, EUROCLIO, EUN) ................................................................................................................... 94 3 Task 3.4. Develop and promote growth services based on the creative re-use of Europeana material (EF, Platoniq) ................................................................................... 111 Work package 4: Policy and programme management ................................................... 115 Task 4.1. Manage the work package ............................................................................... 116 Task 4.2. Manage the Europeana programme of projects .......................................... 116 Task 4.3. Improve knowledge sharing for Europeana Network Partners’ and the cultural heritage sector ..................................................................................................... 117 Task 4.4. Develop and maintain cohesive policies for digital cultural heritage in Europe ................................................................................................................................. 118 Task 4.5. Further develop and implement Europeana’s impact assessment framework, business plans and strategy........................................................................ 121 Work package 5: Network, events and sustainability ....................................................... 123 Task 5.1. Manage the work package (EF) ........................................................................ 123 Task 5.2. Nurturing and coordinating Europeana Network Association development and contribution (EF) ......................................................................................................... 124 Task 5.3. Managing and publishing Europeana Pro website ....................................... 130 Task 5.4 Coordinating and facilitating Network & Community building events ....... 130 Task 5.5. Broaden Europeana’s sustainability structure .............................................. 134 Work package 6: Development ............................................................................................ 135 Task 6.1 Manage the work package ................................................................................ 136 Task 6.2: Design and develop a new and improved set of data processing services .............................................................................................................................................. 136 Task 6.3. Incrementally improves and extends public APIs for search, retrieval and user contributions .............................................................................................................. 137 Task 6.4. Improve and extend the Europeana Collections platform (EF, AIT) ........... 140 Task 6.5. Consolidate and incrementally improve the community sites Europeana Pro, Europeana Labs and Europeana Research (EF) ..................................................... 141 Task 6.6. Improve and maintain the Europeana Statistics Dashboard (EF) .............. 141 Task 6.7 Coordinate the EuropeanaTech community and activities .......................... 141 Task 6.8. Improve (multilingual) search and metadata quality ................................... 142 Task 6.9. Innovate data interoperability and exchange for Europeana ..................... 143 Work package 7: Technical infrastructure .......................................................................... 145 Task 7.1. Manage the work package ............................................................................... 145 4 Task 7.2. Maintain all Europeana systems and products to ensure that they are available and stable ........................................................................................................... 145 Task 7.3. Harmonise, document and communicate the system architecture of Europeana’s platform ........................................................................................................ 149 Task 7.4. Streamline operations of the Europeana DSI platform ............................... 149 Task 7.5. Support development teams with DevOps services .................................... 150 Task 7.6. Develop the infrastructure data layer ...........................................................