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Subject: Europeana launches Linked Open Data Pilot and Animation
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:57:33 +0100
Dear Partners,
As Linked Open Data (LOD) is gaining traction in the information world
right now, Europeana has just launched an _animation
<
http://vimeo.com/36752317>_ to explain something about it and its
benefits for users and data providers.
As major heritage institutions are embracing the concept and making
their data openly available, Europeana is also* *facilitating LOD
developments. We've published our first dataset comprising _2.4
million objects <
http://data.europeana.eu>_under CC0. Not only can
this data be enriched to improve user experience, but it can also be
used to develop innovative applications and help create new web
services.
Support for Open Data innovation is also at the root of Europeana’s
new _Data Exchange Agreement
<
http://pro.europeana.eu/support-for-open-data>_, the contract that
you, as partners, are asked to agree to when your metadata goes into
Europeana.
The Data Exchange Agreement has now been signed by all the national
libraries, by leading national museums such as the Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam, and by many of the content providers for entire countries,
such as Sweden’s National Heritage Board. The new Data Exchange
Agreement dedicates the metadata to the Public Domain and comes into
effect on 1 July 2012, after which all metadata in Europeana will be
available as Open Data.
Europeana has just put out a press release <
http://bit.ly/w6tS2Y>
about the animation and Linked Open Data pilot. It would be valuable
if you could translate the release, put it on your website, circulate
it to your press lists and forward it to your networks.
With regards,
The Europeana Team
For more information see:
http://bit.ly/w6tS2YLinked Open Data Animation:
http://vimeo.com/36752317--
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