• Introduction
• Content Strategy
• Aggregators' Role
• Providing Content
• Technical Requirements
• Case Study
• FAQ

Europeana works mainly with aggregators, rather than with individual institutions. Aggregators gather material from many separate organisations, standardise the file formats and metadata, and channel it into Europeana.

Types of aggregators:

• National - e.g. culture.fr, which brings together material from libraries and museums across France
• Regional - e.g. Europeana Local
• Thematic - e.g. Judaica Europeana, Musical Instrument Museum Online
• Domain - e.g.
  • Sound archives: Europeana Connect
  • Films: European Film Gateway
  • Libraries: The European Library
  • Museums: Athena
  • Television: EU Screen
  • Archives: APEnet - Archives Portal Europe
  • Archaelogy and Architecture: CARARE

Europeana is at the centre of a network of projects known as the Europeana group. Many of these projects are funded by the EU to aggregate content. Together, they are bringing in a critical mass of content into Europeana from diverse providers.