• Introduction
• Content Strategy
• Aggregators' Role
• Providing Content
• Technical Requirements
• Case Study
• FAQ

Europeana works in partnerships with organisations, projects or portals. Many of these partners gather content or 'aggregate' content from many individual institutions representing different sectors such as museums, libraries and archives. These aggregators standardise the data to make it possible to ingest the material into the Europeana portal. Europeana can also work directly with individual institutions, in situations in which there is no appropriate aggregator.

 

In the next four steps, you will be able to select options to help us to identify your route to providing content to Europeana. Your route can be through a national aggregator, through a Europeana related project or directly to Europeana.

Your route to contribute content to Europeana depends on four main criteria:

• 1. Country
• 2. Sector
• 3. Scope
• 4. Geographic level

1 Country

National aggregators or portals representing several sectors are the preferred first contact point for Europeana. However, in some countries these aggregators are not yet established and another route will then be suggested.

In the form below please select the country where your organisation is based.

2 Sector

Depending on the sector of your organisation it can be represented as Museum/Gallery, Library, Archive, Audio-visual, Research & Education, Portal, Publisher, Private, Others

In the form below please select the sector your organisation belongs to.

3 Scope

This criterion relates to the scope of the material for which you will be collecting data, whether as an individual institution or as an aggregator, defined by three sectors.

• Single sector - organisations representing and collecting data from one sector only such as museums, libraries or archives (Examples are a national/regional/local museum,national/regional/local library, national/regional archive)
• Cross-sector - organisations working across several sectors and collecting material from museums, libraries and archives. (Examples are national aggregators and portals and Europeana)
• Thematic - organisations bringing together content on a specific theme from across several sectors or one sector. (Judaica Europeana is an example, collecting material from multiple sectors about Jewish culture)
• Individual - this value should be selected if your organisation is submitting data only from its own collections i.e. not acting as an aggregator.

In the form below please select if your organisation represents a single sector, a cross-sector, a thematic or has individual scope

4 Geographic level

Depending on the geographic level of your institution there will be different routes to take. Geographic level refers to the level at which your organisation will operate in terms of the data it will be collecting, i.e. whether the sources are regional, European or worldwide. An example of an organisation operating at the European geographic level is The European Library, which collects data from libraries located around Europe.

In the form below please select the level at which your organisation collects data.

Thank you. Based on the information provided we will contact you soon to indicate whether you will contribute directly or indirectly to Europeana.

Next steps if you contribute directly to Europeana

You can see here what the next steps are.

Next steps if you contribute indirectly to Europeana

The aggregator or project will provide you with the necessary requirements.