Europeana Releases “Publishing Framework”

From a Europeana Blog Post:

Europeana is evolving. Technology is ever improving. The future Europeana offers the inspired, creative or entrepreneurial the ability to take what our data partners provide and use it. For innovation. For education. For research. For business. For personal enjoyment.
We want the cultural heritage collections held in Europeana to be viewed, shared, used and re-used wherever and whenever possible. To support our vision to transform the world with culture, we need to look at how we manage content and bring it in line with the need to deliver it in higher quality to our audiences.
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To manage content and deliver it in higher quality to our audiences, we’ve developed four tiers of participation in Europeana. What data partners provide will depend on their own agendas and capabilities, but the higher the quality of information provided by data partners, the more benefit they’ll create for their audiences.

These tiers are based on real examples and have been developed in wide-ranging discussion under the Europeana Creative project. The initial draft was written by the Europeana Network Content Re-use Task Force and together with Stichting Nederland Kennisland and our network of aggregators a final version was created.
The Publishing Framework clarifies the relationship between Europeana and the data partners. It clearly outlines what we will do for the institutions depending on the content and metadata you decide to make available. This makes it easy to see what everybody can get out your collaboration with Europeana.

Read the Complete Blog Post
Resources

• Framework Document and Chart

• Intro Video

• PDF Version of Summary Chart

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