Projects

Many of Europeana's partners take part in one or more projects related to Europeana. The European Commission has co-funded, mainly through its CIP ICT-PSP Programme (Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme), a number of European projects see the Europeana Group. In 2011 there are 25+ projects in the Europeana Group, Europeana is a consortium partner in 11 of them.

For future project proposals and initiatives evolving around Europe, Europeana publishes calls for possible project proposals. These invite institutions to present their project proposals to Europeana. Through an evaluation process, Europeana then decides whether it will become a consortium or a subcontract partner within these projects. However, as Europeana does not have the resources to act as a consortium partner in all potential projects, it is now focusing more heavily on subcontracting. By 2013 Europeana expects to be subcontracted in 20+ projects. This process guarantees that the new project, as well as Europeana, can benefit from the new innovation underway.

The categorisation of the projects below is based on the main aim of the project defined in their Description of Work. The main purpose of a project can be categorised to delivery content and technology, mainly technology or mainly content.

Project type Time frame Contract

Content and Technology Providing Projects

Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana

DM2E is a European Commission funded project that aims to technically enable as many content providers as possible to integrate their content into Europeana.

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Europeana Awareness

Europeana Awareness is a Best Practice Network, led by the Europeana Foundation, designed to publicise Europeana to users, policy makers, politicians and cultural heritage organisations in every Member State so as to encourage the use and contribution of content, raise awareness of cultural heritage as an economic driver and promote knowledge transfer.

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Europeana v1.0

Europeana v1.0 transformed the Europeana prototype into an operational service, developed new features like the timeline, automatic translation and Wikipedia display, improved functionality such as better search ranking and ways to refine results, including the ability to filter on the rights field to see only public domain content, and increased the content accessible through Europeana, bringing the total up to 20 million objects with much better representation across Europe.

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Europeana v2.0

Europeana v2.0 activities include efforts to: enhance content, increase and facilitate the re-use of content, develop a sustainable finance and provision model, create centralised repositories of linguistic resources, release new versions and maintain the service and its APIs, develop features and functionalities, improve the user experience by distribution of content into user environments and coordinate the network of contributing organisations.

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Technology Providing Projects

ARROW

ARROW Project Community

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ARROW Plus

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ASSETS

ASSETS aims at developing large-scale digital library services focusing on search, browsing and interfaces in order to improve the usability of Europeana.

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EuropeanaConnect

EuropeanaConnect delivers technologies and resources to improve Europeana services.

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PATHS

PATHS (Personalised Access To cultural Heritage Spaces) is creating a system that acts as an interactive, personalised tour guide through existing digital library collections.

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PrestoPRIME

PrestoPRIME - Keeping Audiovisual Contents Alive

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Content Providing Projects

APENet

APENet aggregates content through Europe's national archives.

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ATHENA

ATHENA - Access to cultural heritage networks across Europe

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BHL-Europe

BHL-Europe – A Portal for Biodiversity Literature

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CARARE

CARARE - Bringing content for archaeology and historic buildings to Europeana users

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Digitising Contemporary Art

DCA - Bringing the masterpieces of European contemporary art online

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ECLAP

ECLAP contributes to Europeana with its collected performing arts records/videos, photographs, manuscripts, sketches and so on. ECLAP also provides innovative and unique solutions and tools to help performing arts institutions manage and make their collections accessible.

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EFG

The European Film Gateway – A Portal for Film Archives

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EFG1914

EFG1914 is the follow-up project of EFG – The European Film Gateway (2008-2011). The main outcome of the EFG project is the online portal The European Filmgateway, which gives access to several hundreds of thousands photos, films, texts and other material preserved in European film archives.

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EUscreen

Discover Europe's television heritage

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EuroPhoto

EuroPhoto

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Europeana 1914-1918

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Europeana Collections 1914-1918

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Europeana Libraries

Europeana Libraries is a 2-year project that will bring the digital collections of 19 of Europe's leading research libraries to Europeana and The European Library. The content will include 1,200 film and video clips, 850,000 images, and 4.3 million texts (books, journal articles, theses, letters)

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Europeana Regia

Europeana Regia, a digital collaborative library of royal manuscripts in medieval and Renaissance Europe

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EuropeanaLocal

EuropeanaLocal - Making local and regional content available through Europeana

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EuropeanaTravel

EuropeanaTravel digitised a substantial number of resources related to the theme of travel and tourism (books, maps, manuscripts, photos, film negatives, postcards, etc.) from major university libraries and national libraries of Europe to make them available via Europeana.

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HOPE

HOPE presents the heritage of the people of Europe and their history in the process of social change.

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Judaica Europeana

Judaica Europeana - Jewish Contribution to Europe's Cultural Heritage

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Linked Heritage

Linked Heritage contributes new content to Europeana, enriches it and improves its retrieval and use.

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MIMO

A single access point to digital content and information on the collections of musical instruments held in European museums.

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Natural Europe

The Natural Europe project is working to connect the digital collections of natural history museums with Europeana, by creating the software tools that will allow content to be used and shared. By aggregating content from the natural history, environmental education and biological science domains, Natural Europe will increase the availability of that material for educational purposes on a large scale.

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OpenUp!

OpenUp! Opening up the European natural history heritage for Europeana

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The European Library

The European Library is a free service run by the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL). It aggregates and gives users online access to a diverse range of content from Europe's 48 national libraries. The interface of the website is available in 36 languages.

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ThinkMOTION

thinkMOTION - Digital Mechanism and Gear Library goes Europeana

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