APEnet – Archives Portal Europe
Archival materials are not exclusively held by archives. Other institutions, like libraries and museums, house these objects as well. APEnet will facilitate access to documents and records in a variety of cultural heritage institutions, both in the public and private sector.
APEnet will initially bring together the existing digital objects of 12 major archives across Europe.
- The first aim of the project is to build the APEnet portal: a website where users can find information about millions of digitised and not yet digitized documents, their creators and the European archives that hold them
- The second aim is to make the digital holdings of the 12 archives available in Europeana
- The final objective is to develop tools for archives to facilitate the transfer of their materials to the APEnet portal and from there to Europeana,
Coordinated by the National Archives of Spain, the project started on 15th January 2009 and will run for 36 months. It is partly funded by the European Commission.
APEnet and Europeana
The digital content in APEnet will be accessible via Europeana, enabling users to explore not only archival materials but also related holdings in Europe's museums and galleries, film-archives, libraries and audio-visual organisations.
Expected Results
- A single access point to the digitised collections of Europe's archives
- A set of converting engines and plug-ins for archives
- Access to Europe's archival heritage through Europeana
- Support and encourage cultural heritage institutions keeping archives to participate in the development of Europeana
Partners
- Archivos Estatales, Spain
- Archiwa Panstwowe, Poland
- Arhiv Republike Slovenije, Slovenia
- Bundesarchiv, Germany
- General Archives of the State, Greece
- Direcção-Geral de Arquivos, Portugal
- Direction des Archives de France, France
- Kansallisarkisto, Finland
- Latvijas Arhivi, Latvia
- Nationaal Archief, The Netherlands
- National Archives of Malta, Malta
- Riksarkivet, Sweden
- EDL Foundation, The Netherlands
Contacts
Luis R. Enseñat Calderón - APEnet project co-ordinator
Jefe de Servicio de Cooperación Internacional
Subdirección General de los Archivos Estatales
Ministerio de Cultura
Plaza del Rey nº 1. Planta 0
28004 Madrid, Spain
Tel +34 [0] 91 70 17 133
Fax +34 [0] 91 70 17 403
luis.ensenat AT mcu.es
cooperacion.archivos AT mcu.es
Peder Andren - APEnet Communications Contact
Riksarkivet
Box 12541
102 29 Stockholm, Sweden
Tel +46 [0] 10 4767112
peder.andren AT riksarkivet.ra.se
More info: www.apenet.eu
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