EuropeanaTravel

Objectives

EuropeanaTravel has two main objectives as a project:

Its first objective is to digitise a substantial number of resources from major university libraries and national libraries of Europe to make them available via Europeana. The materials to be digitised will include books, maps, manuscripts, photos, film negatives, postcards and other types of objects related to the theme of travel and tourism, one of the priorities content themes identified by Europeana.

Altogether EuropeanaTravel aims to digitise some 4,000 maps, 16,000 images and 20,000 texts.

The second objective is to further strengthen collaboration between CENL and LIBER,aimed at increasing human interoperability in support of Europeana. In addition to that, the project will deliver an aggregation service, a tool which will enable LIBER member institutions to aggregate their materials in order to be included into the Europeana portal. The service will be developed in a scalable way to enable any research library to use it.

Duration and funding

EuropeanaTravel is a two-year targeted project, running from 1 May 2009 to 30 April 2011.

50% of the project's funding comes from the European Commission's eContentplus Programme.

Main EuropeanaTravel Developments so far

  • A report outlined minimum standards required for participation in EuropeanaTravel. It was discussed at a workshop in London in June 2009
  • Digitisation plans for project partners have been agreed
  • A quality control infrastructure was set up. It ensures that digital objects created within the project meet internal and external standards
  • Agreed metadata standards, enabling content from LIBER partners to be aggregated to Europeana, has been set out in a report.
  • An implementation plan for aggregation has been prepared.

Partners

EuropeanaTravel is coordinated by the National Library of Estonia with assistance from a project management company Eremo srl, based in Italy.

Work package leaders

Other partners

Contacts

Toomas Schvak
Project Manager

Research and Development Centre
National Library of Estonia
Tõnismägi 2-4086, 15189 Tallinn

E-mail: Toomas Schvak
Tel.: +372 630 7437
Fax: +372 631 1410

More information at http://www.europeanatravel.eu/


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