Report on the evaluation of Europeana and the way forward

Further information:

This report outlines the results of the independent evaluation of Europeana as a European cultural and digital innovation project as well as the Commission’s vision on the way forward for the future development of Europeana. It is accompanied by a Commission Staff Working Document (SWD) providing details on the evaluation.

Background:

Europeana was launched in 2008 as ‘The European Digital Library, to make Europe's cultural heritage accessible to all through a single access point. Its creation was initiated by a letter from six Heads of State and Government to the Commission in 2005.

Ten years on, Europeana is Europe’s digital platform for cultural heritage, funded as a well-established Digital Service Infrastructure under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), to:
- bring Europe’s digitised cultural heritage material online and to promote its cross-border visibility and use across Europe;
- offer solutions for the trans-European interoperability and accessibility of digital resources of European heritage;
- further improve the conditions for re-use and facilitate take-up of digital cultural content and metadata in other sectors, e.g. research, education, tourism or the creative industries; and
- provide a multilingual, user-friendly access point to Europe’s rich and diverse heritage.

ESO: Europeana Collections http://www.europeansources.info/record/website-europeana-collections/

EUR-Lex: SWD(2018)398: The evaluation of Europeana https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=SWD:2018:398:FIN

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