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Interest in open metadata is growing among policy makers, the cultural heritage sector, the research community, and software and application developers. At the European level, the Digital Agenda for Europe 2020 identifies ‘opening up public data resources for re-use’ as a key action in support of the Digital Single Market.
This research seeks to identify and evaluate the various user needs that impact on the provision of certain cultural digital content to cultural tourists. It has been researched and written by Culture24, as part of the Europeana Awareness project.
In 2011, the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands started releasing images of public domain works online. In 2013, these were all made available in the highest resolution possible, without any copyright restrictions.
In order to understand and agree on what success means to us under the new Europeana Strategy 2015-2020, we have researched the ‘impact’ we can expect from Europeana as a Digital Service Infrastructure.
This document proposes a set of policy recommendations and identifies action points for the (re-)use of European digital cultural heritage, collated under Europeana, in tourism.
