Europeana DSI 
Antoine Isaac 
LT-Accelerate Conference 2014 
Brussels, December 5
Europe’s platform to access cultural heritage 
Currently 
36M objects
Built on descriptive metadata 
from a broad, heterogeneous network 
2,300 galleries, museums, archives and libraries 
The Culture.fr 
European 
Library 
Audiovisual 
collections 
National Aggregators 
Regional Aggregators 
Archives 
Thematic collections 
Libraries 
Musées 
Lausannois 
APEX 
European Film 
Gateway Europeana Fashion
More than this
We believe 
Culture transforms lives
We are a community of > 2500 
members who contribute data, 
technology, knowledge and 
business opportunities 
A network of cultural innovators
Multi-sided platform
Facilitating re-use on the legal side 
Content (digital objects on the site of the provider) 
Public Domain, Creative 
Commons Licenses, Rights 
reserved, Orphan work…. 
Metadata (descriptive object information) 
CC
Some ideas of the work 
ahead
Enumerate 
report
Language technology 
challenges
Trans-European services come with 
Europe-scale challenges 
top 16 
Items from 36 countries 
Metadata in 33 languages 
Portal in 31 languages
Availability of language technology for re-use 
Tools to serve end users and data re-users
Thank you! 
Antoine Isaac 
antoine.isaac@europeana.eu 
@EuropeanaEU 
Some images by Elco van Staveren, Denkschets

Europeana DSI - LT-Accelerate 14

Editor's Notes

  • #3 Les Miserables: Victor Hugo’s handwritten manuscripts: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200103/5372912AF66AB529E188218BC1F747E75EB1A18F.html BnF, public domain Matisse ‘53 in the form of a double helix’ http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/9200104/F8D60AB9136C8A59B59DF1CFEC278A6CABA8B0C6.htmlThe Wellcome Library (CC-BY-NC-ND) ‘söprűtánc’ – Hungarian traditional dance http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/08901/E1A7B01BE4AED87FD239672F4F3941F52262D6B2.html Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Musicology, public domain ‘Neurologico reggae’ Music album http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/08901/ADC241BCBF8470988DBA6EEAFCF13F14D88E5534.html DISMARC – EuropeanaConnect Paid Access ‘Castle of Kavala’ 3D exploration of a Greek castle http://www.europeana.eu/portal/record/2020703/05607B24D15BD516EE2B765F74CDA39C7427F7FB.html Cultural and Educational Technology Institute - Research Centre Athen CARARE CC-BY-NC-ND
  • #4 All partners send us descriptions of their assets, which we aggregate in a single service
  • #21 Germany 15.44% France 10.97% Netherlands 9.67% Sweden 9.44% Spain 9.98% UK 6.98% Norway 6.60% Italy 5.4% Ireland 4.04% Poland 4.02% Europe 3.95% Finland 2.95% Austria 2.05% Belgium 1.61% Hungary 1.26%