EuropeanaConnect

EuropeanaConnect will deliver important building blocks for the Europeana of the future.

It will make Europeana more multilingual by giving users the possibility to search in more than one language and to have texts automatically translated.

The project will significantly improve and deepen the possibility for end users to discover the online holdings of European museums, archives, libraries and audio-visual institutions. Europeana will be able to automatically find and suggest materials that are related to a particular object a user just found. This is done by answering "What person, place, time period or event is related to the object the user is looking at now?"

Furthermore, the project will open new ways of discovering cultural heritage in Europeana by offering users the possibility to browse and search in time and space. It will also make Europeana accessible from your mobile phone or PDA.

EuropeanaConnect will streamline the transfer of digitized cultural objects from museums, archives, libraries and audio-visual institutions across Europe to the Europeana headquarters in the Netherlands. It will also take major steps to tackle copyright-related problems that are currently preventing European cultural heritage from being discovered, used and re-used by users worldwide.

Finally, EuropeanaConnect will add around 200,000 audio tracks from hundreds of archives to Europeana.

The project is coordinated by the Austrian National Library. It started on 1st May 2009 and will run for 30 months.

Summary of expected results

  • Multilingual searching and browsing - including translation tools to enable multilingual searching of objects and data in Europeana
  • Enriched digital content in Europeana - creating new connections between objects
  • A spatio-temporal interface - allowing users to use time as well as space to search or browse the vast Europeana database
  • A Europeana interface for mobile devices - allowing browsing of Europeana on mobile devices
  • Insight into the behaviour of users Europeana - to understand what users really want from Europeana
  • Multimedia annotation, eBooks-on-demand and GIS information - allowing tagging of digital books, images and other content. To integrate geographical information services and the ordering of eBooks-on-demand
  • Europeana rights licenses - the selection of the correct licenses for digital content provided to Europeana
  • More audio and music for Europeana - collecting 200,000 audio and music files from hundreds of audio archives for Europeana
  • Key infrastructure components – to get more materials into Europeana

Partners

Contacts

EuropeanaConnect Project Office
Austrian National Library - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Research and Development Department
Josefsplatz 1, A-1015 Vienna
Email: EuropeanaConnect AT onb.ac.at
Tel: +43 [0] 1 53410-434
Fax: +43 [0] 1 53410-681
www.onb.ac.at

Project Coordinator: Max Kaiser
Head of Research and Development
Austrian National Library - Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Josefsplatz 1, A-1015 Vienna
Email: max.kaiser AT onb.ac.at
Tel.: +43 1 53410-370
Fax: +43 1 53410-681
www.onb.ac.at

More info: www.europeanaconnect.eu


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