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Europeana — showcasing our cultural heritage
SUMMARY OF:
WHAT IS THE AIM OF THESE CONCLUSIONS?
The conclusions set out recommendations to enhance the financing, governance, quality of available data and user-friendliness of the Europeana online collections.
KEY POINTS
What is Europeana?
It is an online joint cultural project for accessing and showcasing European cultural heritage.
Challenges
The conclusions set out a number of challenges that must be met to ensure the continued development of Europeana. These include:
Actions
The conclusions suggest strengthening the cultural and digital innovation value of Europeana by reassessing the core service platform under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), focusing on:
On the basis of these general goals, the conclusions recommend specific targeted actions aimed at the different parties involved in Europeana.
The Europeana operator is invited to take a number of measures, including:
The European Commission is invited to take several measures, including:
The EU countries are invited to take several measures, including:
The conclusions also invite all of the parties to promote the value of Europeana by also involving the research and innovation, education, tourism, and creative sectors.
BACKGROUND
* KEY TERMS
Multi-sided platform: this is one of the prevailing models of the internet economy. Multi-sided platforms create value by facilitating interaction between two or more distinct, but interdependent groups. As such the platform is of value to one group of users only if the other groups of users are also present.
MAIN DOCUMENT
Council conclusions on the role of Europeana for the digital access, visibility and use of European cultural heritage (OJ C 212, 14.6.2016, pp. 9–13)
last update 17.01.2017