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Presentations European Cultural Commons conference online available (Publication)
As part of the Polish EU Presidency, Europeana and the National Library of Poland organized a high-level conference on October 12 2011 in Warsaw to debate the strategic framework for a European Cultural Commons - a significant action line in the Digital Agenda for Europe 2020.
The conference explored the idea of a shared European Cultural Commons from different perspectives and how it could work in practice. It aimed to agree on a common vision of the European Cultural Commons and a common strategy to overcome the delivery barriers.
Programme
08.30 – 09.00 Registration
09.00 – 09.10 Welcome and conference opening, Tomasz Makowski, Director of Polish National Library Piotr Borys, European Parliament
09.10 – 09.30 European Cultural Commons and the Digital Agenda Programme – Connecting Society through Culture, Khalil Rouhana, European Commission
09.30 – 09.50 Keynote on Commons’ essence and governance, Michael Edson, Smithsonian Institution What is the Commons? Why is it important to our futures? What roles can the cultural heritage institutions play? Who governs?
09.50 – 10.10 Rights and the Cultural Commons, Ben White, British Library Legal overview
10.10 – 10.30 New ways of reaching end users, Angelina Russo, RMIT University, Australia How do people nowadays want to access cultural heritage information? Where do they expect to find it?
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.10 Portal positioning, Various portals
- National portals: Sara di Giorgio, CulturaItalia Monika Hagedorn-Saupe, German Digital Library
- Vertical portals: Louise Edwards, The European Library Peder Andren, APENet
- Community portals: Alex Tarkowski, Creative Commons Poland
- Private sector players: Agata Waclawik-Wejman, Google Poland
- Europeana: Jill Cousins Harry Verwayen: How does your organization relate to the vision of European Cultural Commons?
12.10 – 13.00 Panel on portal positioning, speakers listed in the previous session Moderator, Harry Verwayen, Europeana. Explore how different player might work better together to produce complementary services to the users
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 16.15 Parallel barrier workshops “Cultural web services get ready for the future”
The workshops will cover some of the main issues portals are facing in their digitization efforts, the ability to access data freely, to evaluate their performance in reaching end-users and to secure their existence by raising sufficient funding.
- 2.1 Open content and Open data licenses- barriers and opportunities, Lead: Naomi Korn, Copyright consultant
- 2.2 Measuring online success, Lead: Susan Hazan, The Israel Museum
- 2.3 Guaranteeing sustainability of digitized resources, Lead: Nick Poole, CollectionsTrust
16.15 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 – 17.00 Plenary wrap-up and closure, Jill Cousins, Europeana
All presentations of the conference programme are now online available on the Europeana website.
