Other projects

EUROPEANA AWARENESS
http://pro.europeana.eu/web/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 COLLECTIONS 14-18
http://www.europeana-collections-1914-1918.eu/

Europeana Collections 1914-1918 will create by 2014 - the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War - a substantial digital collection of material from national library collections of ten libraries and other partners in eight countries that found themselves on different sides of the historic conflict.

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EUROPEANA 14-18
http://www.europeana1914-1918.eu/en

Europeana 1914-1918 is based on an initiative at the University of Oxford where people across Britain were asked to bring family letters, photographs and keepsakes from the War to be digitised. The success of the idea – which became the Great War Archive – has encouraged Europeana, Europe’s digital archive, library and museum, to bring other national or local institutions across Europe into an alliance with Oxford University. The collaboration brings European stories online alongside their British, German, Slovenian, Luxembourgian, Irish, etc. counterparts in a World War One stories collection. Please refer to our project website for more information

europhoto logoEUROPHOTO
http://site.project.europhoto.org/

The Euro-Photo project aims to digitise historical pictures from the archives of 10 leading European News Agencies (150.000 picture to be digitalised during the project about 15.000 for each partner) and make them available to Europeana (www.europeana.eu), together with a huge number of their historical pictures already digitalised and captioned. Pictures in these huge archives are among the most valuable historical documents of the last century. They record the major domestic and international events (political, social, cultural, sporting), celebrities and daily life from the turn of the century to the mid 1990. The project aims at developing a unique pan-European press photo historical archive available and usable by European Citizens through Europeana, which is a common multilingual access point to Europe's distributed digital cultural heritage. At present this content is not available to citizens (except in The Netherlands) and it could be considered as never published and known. In past communist countries a huge quantity of pictures was censored: a significant amount of these pictures are now already available in digital format, others will be digitised during the project. It is the first time that this kind of content will be accessible at European level and not at only a national one.

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ARROW Plus
http://www.arrow-net.eu/

ARROW Plus is a Best Practice Network project selected under the European Commission’s Competitiveness and innovation framework programme, running from 1 April 2011 till 30 September 2013. ARROW Plus builds on and further implements the ARROW system, which it aims at refining after the piloting phase in Germany, France, Spain and United Kingdom. The objectives are also to increase the number of countries in which ARROW is used; and broadening the types of works for which it is used to include visual material. Under ARROW Plus a legal entity will be constituted to prepare for the implementation of the business model. The project contributes to the goal of the European Commission and European Parliament to make European cultural heritage legally accessible through an innovative way of establishing rights status in and facilitating rights clearance of copyright works.

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CULTURA - Cultivating Understanding and Research through Adaptivity
http://www.cultura-strep.eu/home

CULTURA  aims to deliver innovative adaptive services and an interactive user environment which dynamically tailors the investigation, comprehension and enrichment of digital humanities artefacts and collections. Through the provision of such functionality, CULTURA can empower all users to investigate, comprehend and contribute to digital cultural collections. CULTURA provides rigorous evaluation and validation of its adaptive services using high impact, contrasting, multicultural digital cultural heritage collections and diverse user communities and individuals. The CULTURA use cases, defined in collaboration with real users, clearly illustrates how the adaptive environment will offer genuine user empowerment and unprecedented levels of engagement with these collections and communities.

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LINKED HERITAGE
www.linkedheritage.org

Linked Heritage is a 30 month EU project, started on 1st April 2011. The main goals are to contribute large quantities of new content to Europeana, from both the public and private sectors; to demonstrate enhancement of quality of content, in terms of metadata richness, re-use potential and uniqueness; to demonstrate enable improved search, retrieval and use of Europeana content. The consortium includes representatives of all the key stakeholder groups from 20 EU countries, together with Israel and Russia. These include ministries and responsible government agencies, content providers and aggregators, leading research centres, publishers and SMEs.

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ATHENA
www.athenaeurope.org

ATHENA, presented as a Network of Best Practice within the eContentplus Programme, took its origins from the existing MINERVA network. ATHENA brought together relevant stakeholders and content owners from museums and other cultural institutions all over Europe and evaluated and integrated specific tools, based on a common agreed set of standards and guidelines to create harmonised access to their content. ATHENA contributed to Europeana 4,5 digital items, mainly from museums.

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JUDAICA EUROPEANA
www.judaica-europeana.eu/

Judaica Europeana worked with cultural institutions to identify and provide access online to content which documents the Jewish presence and heritage in the cities of Europe. Since its launch in 2010, Judaica Europeana partners have digitized and uploaded over 3.5 million items from their collections. They include 3,459,000 pages from books, newspapers and archives; 31,600 photographs, postcards and other images; 18,300 sound files of music and oral history; 2,000 moving image files. This content will continue to grow as associate partners provide access to their digital collections to be integrated in Europeana.

Photographic and audiovisual archives Group (PAAG) of the International Council on Archives (ICA)
The Photographic and Audiovisual Archives Group (PAAG) was created in an attempt to advance the role and projection of the ICA in relation to photographic and audiovisual heritage. The Mission of the PAAG is to establish the general guidelines for undertaking actions on photographic and audiovisual collections, offer work tools to archivists for carrying out their duties, promote activities and educational resources, and create a virtual space for inter-professional communication and the diffusion of resources. On its website you will find all kind of resources that could be useful for the management of a photographic collection.

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http://3dicons-project.eu/

3D-ICONS is a pilot project funded under the European Commission’s ICT Policy Support Programme which builds on the results of CARARE and 3D-COFORM.
3D-ICONS brings together partners from across Europe with the relevant expertise to digitise in 3D architectural and archaeological monuments and buildings identified by UNESCO as being of outstanding cultural importance. The project will contribute content to Europeana aiming to increase the critical mass of engaging 3D content available to Europeana’s users.

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http://decipher-research.eu

DECIPHER is a three year, €4.3 million Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) supported by the European Commission.
It aims to support the discovery and exploration of cultural heritage through story and narrative. To do this we are developing new solutions to the whole range of narrative construction, knowledge visualisation and display problems for museums.

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http://www.dca-project.eu/

‘Digitising Contemporary Art’ (DCA) is a 30-month digitisation project for contemporary art, i.e. art made after 1945 - a kind of cultural heritage still largely missing from Europeana which is a single access point for European culture.
DCA will create a digital body of high-quality reproductions of 26,921 artworks - paintings, photographs, sculptures, installations, videos and 1,857 contextual documents, which will become accessible and retrievable through Europeana; not only through the use of metadata and thumbnails, but also direct links to large-sized reproductions of each item. DCA will ensure that the rights to all available digital content will be cleared. The content provided, including masterpieces from key artists of most European countries, will fill a gap in Europeana‘s content supply.

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GLOCAL
http://www.glocal-project.eu/
The vision inspiring the GLOCAL project is that matching content and concept must be done keeping context into account. Project objectives include:  managing media according to context and events, catch the media semantics in a natural way, provide advanced indexing and retrieval tools,customize the developed instruments.

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PATHS
http://www.paths-project.eu/
The PATHS project will create a system that acts as an interactive personalised tour guide through existing digital library collections. The system will offer suggestions about items to look at and assist in their interpretation. The PATHS project will make use of content from Europeana . It will contribute to the Digital Agenda for Europe by creating new ways for users to participate in their cultural heritage.

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AXES
http://www.axes-project.eu/
AXES is a four year research project started in January 2011. Funded within the FP7 framework of the European Union; the goal of AXES is to develop tools that provide various types of user with new and engaging ways to interact with audiovisual libraries, helping them discover, browse, navigate and search archives.