The Europeana group comprises a number of projects run by different cultural heritage institutions. All are part-funded by the European Commission’s eContentplus programme. Over the next 3 years these projects will be contributing technology solutions and content that will create the fully operational Europeana.eu

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APEnet aggregates content from Europe's national archives.

APEnet (Archival Portal of Europe) will develop a portal that will be the central reference point for the national archives of Europe making archival material widely accessible to EU citizens.
APEnet will also function as an aggregator, collecting material from national archives and making the generated content available at Europeana.
Coordinated by the Spanish national archives, APEnet is a Best Practice Network that began in January 2009.
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ASSETS aims to improve the usability of Europeana

by developing, implementing and deploying software services focused on search, browsing and interfaces. These services including searching multimedia objects using metadata, content similarity and ranking algorithms for improved results; rapid navigation of multimedia objects through semantic cross-links and better interfaces designed for interacting with multimedia objects.
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ATHENA aggregates museum content and promotes standards for museum digitisation and metadata.

ATHENA is setting up a network of national representatives to raise awareness of standards, develop technical architecture and provide tools to support content providers.
ATHENA will function as an aggregator bringing museum content into Europeana.
Coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Culture, ATHENA is a Best Practice Network that began in November 2008.
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BHL-Europe brings biodiversity heritage into Europeana.

BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library) – Europe will bring together museums, botanical gardens and other natural history collections to provide a multilingual access point for taxonomic materials and other biodiversity resources.
BHL–Europe will also make its content available at Europeana.
Coordinated by the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, the BHL–Europe project began in May 2009.
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CARARE aggregates content for the archaeology and architectural heritage.

CARARE (Connecting ARchaeology and ARchitecture in Europeana) will work with Europe's network of heritage agencies to establish an aggregation service that will bring 2 million items from Europe's unique archaeological monuments, historic buildings and heritage places into Europeana. CARARE will also establish the methodology for adding 3D and Virtual Reality content to Europeana. CARARE is a Best Practice network which began in February 2010.
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ECLAP will build a digital performing arts library.

ECLAP - the European Collected Library Of Artistic Performance - aims to establish a digital library of 1 million items in the field of performing arts, and to make this content accessible through Europeana. The work will be achieved via a Best Practice Network of 19 partners from 13 countries.
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Europeana Connect adds sound material to Europeana.

Europeana Connect will provide a critical mass of audio content to Europeana and implement an audio-enabling infrastructure. Over 200,000 audio tracks will be available at Europeana bringing together 150 sound collections from across Europe. The project will also provide the necessary infrastructure for harvesting, analysing, converting and storing audio content and audio metadata for Europeana.
The project will also deliver technologies and resources enabling multilingual access to content and bringing Europeana to mobile devices.
Coordinated by the Austrian National Library, Europeana Connect is a Best Practice Network that began in May 2009.
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European Film Gateway (EFG) aggregates cinema related material.

EFG will develop a portal with more than 700.000 digitised objects including films, photos, posters, drawings, sound material and text documents. It will also provide its digitised material to Europeana, giving users a fast and easy access to Europe's film heritage.
Coordinated by Deutsches Filminstitut, EFG is a Best Practice Network that started in September 2008.
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Europeana Local brings content from regional and local content holders.

Europeana Local will bring up to 10 million digital items from regional libraries, museums and archives into Europeana, and will also enable all type of smaller organisations to contribute to Europeana in the long-term by sharing standards and setting up easy processes for delivering content. Europeana Local is a Best Practice Network that began in June 2008.
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Europeana Regia is digitising royal manuscripts from Medieval and Renaissance Europe.

This collaborative project aims to create a European corpus of digitised, mostly illuminated manuscripts, including 3 of the most important sets of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. In total, Europeana Regia will bring together 874 volumes of manuscripts and more than 307,000 images.
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EURO-Photo digitises photographs from news agencies.

EURO-Photo is digitising at least 150,000 photographs from 10 major European news agencies. These images will be added to Europeana along with an archive of more than 1 million already digitised photographs. The photographs record major events in Europe's history as well as daily life, from the beginning of the 20th century to the mid 1990s.
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EUscreen contributes television material to Europeana.

EUscreen will focus on television collections, digitising 30,000 programmes, stills and associated documentation. The digitised material will be available at Europeana. The project will also evaluate the use of archival broadcasts in leisure, learning and research environments and produce guidelines for long-term right clearance.
EUscreen is a Best Practice Network that starts in October 2009.
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Europeana Travel will bring material associated with travel, trade, tourism and migration into Europeana.

Europeana Travel will digitise some 4,000 maps, 16,000 images and 20,000 texts related to the theme of travel and tourism, and make it accessible at Europeana.
Coordinated by the National Library of Estonia, Europeana Travel is a Targeted Project for cultural content that began in May 2009.
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HOPE aims to improve access to digital social history collections.

Its focus is on uniting 19th and 20th century European social history from a network of archives, libraries and museums. HOPE is a 3-year project which runs from May 2010, is co-ordinated by The International Institute of Social History (KNAW-IISG) and will contribute over 850.000 items to Europeana.
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JUDAICA Europeana looks at the Jewish contribution to Europe's cultural heritage.

JUDAICA (Jewish Urban Digital European Integrated Cultural Archive) will work with European cultural institutions to identify content demonstrating the Jewish contribution to the cities of Europe. It will digitise 10,500 photos, 1,500 postcards and 7,150 recordings as well as several million pages from books, newspapers, archives and press clippings. The digitised content will be available at Europeana.
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MIMO will create a single access point to digital content and information about musical instruments in European museums.

Musical Instruments Museum Online, starting in September 2009, creates a central resource for musical instrument collections and common standards for online presentation. It will make digital content of 11 major European musical instruments museums available through Europeana. It also aims to improve multilingual access to this content by delivering dictionaries for controlled vocabularies for musical instruments databases in 6 languages.
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Content suppliers (cont.)


Natural Europe connects the digital collections of natural history museums.

The Natural Europe project is working to connect the digital collections of natural history museums with Europeana, by creating the software tools that will allow content to be used and shared. By aggregating content from the natural history, environmental education and biological science domains, Natural Europe will increase the availability of that material for educational purposes on a large scale.
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The European Library aggregates the content of national libraries.

The European Library enables end users to search across 150 million titles, from 386 collections in 31 European national libraries and browse through the collections of 48 European national libraries.
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thinkMOTION gathers content from the field of motion systems.

The thinkMOTION project will add digitised texts, drawings, images, interactive animations and physical models related to machine science to Europeana. In doing so, thinkMOTION aims to show the importance of technical developments to Europe's cultural heritage, and highlight the contributions of the countless European inventors and engineers who have enabled technical progress.
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Core technology projects


Europeana v1.0 develops a fully functional Europeana website.

Europeana v1.0 is a core project that will develop and implement a new version of Europeana with added functionality and give access to over 10 million digital items. Europeana v1.0 is a Thematic Network that started in February 2009.
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Europeana Connect delivers technologies and resources to improve Europeana services.

Europeana Connect will deliver core components to make Europeana a truly interoperable, multilingual and user-oriented service. It will conduct extensive user research to get a clear picture of the functions and services that Europeana users want. The project will also deliver thesauri and other resources that will give users multilingual access to content. It will also develop the technologies to enable Europeana to interface with mobile devices.
Europeana Connect will also provide a critical mass of 200,000 audio tracks to Europeana. Coordinated by the Austrian National Library, Europeana Connect is a Best Practice Network that began in May 2009.
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ASSETS aims to improve the usability of Europeana

by developing, implementing and deploying software services focused on search, browsing and interfaces. These services including searching multimedia objects using metadata, content similarity and ranking algorithms for improved results; rapid navigation of multimedia objects through semantic cross-links and better interfaces designed for interacting with multimedia objects.
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Content enablers


ARROW is the Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works.

Arrow will help libraries who want to digitise material to find information about rights holders. It's a consortium of European national libraries, publishers and collective management organisations, who also represent writers through their main European associations and national organisations.
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PrestoPRIME tackles long-term preservation of digital audiovisual material.

PrestoPRIME will research and develop practical solutions for the long-term preservation of digital audiovisual collections. This will increase people's access to audiovisual content by making media archives available through Europeana and other European digital libraries.
PrestoPRIME will create a European Competence Centre to provide preservation advice and services.
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Wikipedian to give Europeana's keynote
Liam Wyatt, first Wikipedian in Residence at the British Museum, is brokering a new relationship between curators, their content and the crowd. Meet him at Europeana Open Culture 2010 conference, Amsterdam 14/15 October 2010. Registration is now open.
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A richer data model
The Europeana Data Model (EDM) - a new way of structuring data that will bring the benefits of Semantic Web technology to Europeana.eu - has just been published. It will enable use of linked data, so when you search for the "Virgin Mary" you will also get "Mary, Mother Of Christ", "the Blessed Virgin" or "Heilige Maria".
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MIMO at ISMIR 2010
The 11th conference edition will take place from 9 to 13 August in Utrecht, Netherlands and will provide a forum for research on the modelling, creation, searching, processing and use of musical data.
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EDM presented at 76th IFLA conference
This year the event will be hosted in the Swedish Exhibition and Congress Centre, Gothenburg and will focus on the key aspects for access to knowledge through/by libraries and librarians. The new Europeana Data Model will be featured on the last conference day.
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