WHY AND HOWTO CONTRIBUTE TO EUROPEANA
2/8 – Who provides data?
Europeana could not exist or continue to develop without the support of its many partners: thousands of organisations and institutions from all domains across Europe, from small cultural institutions to large national aggregators and from data providers to technology solutions.
An aggregator is an organization that collects metadata from a group of data providers and transmits it to Europeana. Three aggregation types are currently in Europeana:
- Country aggregators (regional or national)
- Project aggregators (within a specific theme or by domain)
- Independent organizations (with no Ministry or other mandate)
Even individuals are invited to collaborate to the project providing historical documentation (e.g. citizens wishing to contribute to Europeana special collections, i.e. World War One Family History)
Europeana encourages the contribution of aggregators that fit the needs of different countries, domains and users. Each aggregator, in turn, supports the data providers with administrative and technical operations, and training.
