The BBC has signed Memoranda of Understanding with the Europeana Foundation, the Open Data Institute, the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Mozilla Foundation to enable them to work together on common priorities including the publication of open data and the promotion of open standards in web development. This is an important step in 'mainstreaming' the role of cultural heritage organisations in publishing open data from their collections, and provides an opportunity to bring collections-related content and information to a far wider audience. For further information, see the Telegraph article on the announcement:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/10472903/BBC-throws-weight-behind-open-data-movement.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=market+watch
MLAs interested in sharing their collections information as open data, and making it available to Europeana, should do this through the Culture Grid, which is maintained by Knowledge Integration Ltd on behalf of the Collections Trust.
Sharing data through the Culture Grid involves taking structured data and images from collections systems or accessing an online platform for direct entry. They can then be shared with Europeana via a periodic harvest. Culture Grid also provides access to a range of tools and widgets such as a collections search box generator which can be hosted on organisations' websites.
All data shared with Europeana is shared under the Europeana Data Exchange Agreement (http://pro.europeana.eu/web/guest/data-exchange-agreement), which permits Europeana to share it under a CC0 license.
Collections Trust are also currently working with a group of software providers under the SPECTRUM Partners Scheme to embed the capability to share data quickly and easily with Europeana into Collections Management Systems (as part of the Europeana Inside project - www.europeanainside.eu).
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