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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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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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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 20 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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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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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 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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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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