Europeana, the European Digital Library, is the aggregator of European cultural content. Interoperability is at the heart of what Europeana is doing: integrating format types across borders, across domains and between institutions. Museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual (AV) collections have different histories, user-groups and purposes. These are reflected in their diverse approaches to cataloguing and the development of varying standards. The result is that delivering all content types in the same online space requires a commitment to working collaboratively and sharing knowledge across long-established professional boundaries.
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EuropeanaLocal aims to make digital content from regional and local museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual institutions interoperable and accessible through Europeana and other service providers. EuropeanaLocal will ensure that the approaches, standards and tools developed by Europeana are adopted widely across the cultural heritage sector, thereby supporting the interoperability of content within Europeana beyond that which is held by purely national level institutions.
EuropeanaLocal, which runs from 1 June 2008 until May 2011, is funded under the European Commission’s eContentPlus Programme and co-ordinated by MDR Partners from the UK. The project consortium consists of 32 partners from 27 countries across Europe. There will be no portal by the end of the project; all material will be made accessible through the main Europeana interface.
Source: New Europe
See Also: Europeana: Europe’s cultural heritage online
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