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Europeana
Europeana works with thousands of European archives, libraries and museums to share cultural heritage for enjoyment, education and research. Europeana Collections provides access to over 50 million digitised items - books, music, artworks and more - with sophisticated search and filter tools to help you find what you’re looking for. The dedicated thematic collections on art, fashion, music, photography and World War I contain galleries, blogs and exhibitions to inform and inspire
Type of content:
Assets
Type of asset:
Portal
Big data potential
Yes
Policy domains:
Education, Youth, Culture & Sport
Phase in the policy cycle:
Policy Implementation
TRL
8
Implementation/customisation cost
Low
Open license availability
Yes
Ease of use
High
Tags:
Real time information
Open Data
Serves:
| SWOT Analysis for Europeana |
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|---|---|---|
| Helpful | Harmful | |
Internal |
Strengths• Provides access to over 50 million digitised items, books, music, artworks and more, with sophisticated search and filter tools • The dedicated thematic collections on art, fashion, music, photography and World War I contain galleries, blogs and exhibitions to inform and inspire. • The network of cultural heritage institutions • The work on standardisation on a technical and legal level • The diversity of the available data. |
Weaknesses• Average quality of the metadata and therefore the discoverability of the content • Too much focus on quantity • No clear value for cultural institutions • No direct access to content |
External |
Opportunities• Data must be of high quality so the material can actually be found and used for meaningful purposes. • Europeana Cloud Services can create a much more efficient aggregation infrastructure in Europe |
Threats• The aggregation model as it is now has worked reasonably well, but it is difficult to scale up. • Average quality of the metadata and therefore the discoverability of the content • Too much focus on quantity • No clear value for cultural institutions • No direct access to content • Sustainability of Europeana and this service is seen to be uncertain |
