the europeana group: integrating the projects project overviews

BHL-EuropeBiodiversity Heritage Library Europe

Lizzy Komen, Europeana office

BHL-Europe

Start date: 1 May 2009 (Kick-off 11 May 2009, Berlin)

Duration: 36 Months

Project leader: Dr. Henning Scholz, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin

Total budget: €4,2M (80% EC funded= € 3,4M)

Project site: not yet

BHL-Europe

• Improves the interoperability of Europe´s biodiversity heritage libraries - Technology

• Provide a multilingual access point for search and retrieval of biodiversity material – Content

• Domain: Biodiversity literature (Natural history museums, botanical gardens, archives, libraries)

• Portal: Yes (Apr ’12)• Key Deliverable: IPR framework (Apr ’11)

EuropeanaLocal

Lizzy Komen, Europeana office

EuropeanaLocal

Start date: 1 June 2008

Duration: 36 Months

Project leaders: Rob Davies/Mary Rowlatt, MDR Partners, London

Total budget: €5,4M (80% EC-funded= € 4,3M)

Project site: www.EuropeanaLocal.eu

EuropeanaLocal

• Aggregator of digital content from regional and local museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual institutions

• Make this content interoperable and accessible through EUROPEANA and other service providers:Implement infrastructures, tools and standards

Establish easy processes for making content available

>20 million digital items by Mar ‘11

• Domain: museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual institutions

• Portal: No

ATHENA Best Practice Network

Georgia Angelaki, Europeana office

ATHENA: Key Project Information

Startdate: November 1st 2008

Duration: 30 months

Project leader: Rossella Caffo, MiBAC (IT)

Budget:

Project site:

€ 5,25m (Commission contribution €4,2m)

www.athenaeurope.eu

ATHENA: Key Objectives & Expected Outcomes

• Tackle the gap in existing museum content in Europeana

• Setup a network of ATHENA national representatives to raise

awareness about standards and promote Europeana

• Develop a technical architecture and tools to support content

providers to make available their metadata in way compliant to the

Europeana requirements

• Analyse and provide long-term solutions to IPR issues

• Develop guidelines for enriching content with GIS information

• Make available aggregated content to Europeana from September

2009 onwards

PrestoPRIME 7th Framework Programme

Georgia Angelaki, Europeana office

PrestoPRIME: Key Project Information

Startdate: January 1st 2009

Duration: 42 months

Project leader: Daniel Terrugi, Institut National d’ Audiovisuel (FR)

Budget:

Project site:

€ 12m (Commission contribution €8m)

www.prestoprime.eu

PrestoPRIME: Key Objectives

• Ensure the permanence of digital audiovisual content in archives, libraries, museums and other collections

• Ensure the long-term future access to av content in dynamically changing contexts

• Integrate, evaluate and demonstrate tools and processes for av digital permanence and access

• Establish a European networked Competence Center to gather the knowledge created by PrestoPRIME and deliver advanced digital preservation advice and services in conjunction with EDL Foundation and other projects (December 2010)

EUscreen Best Practice Network

Georgia Angelaki, Europeana office

EUscreen: Facts and Figures

Startdate: October 1st 2009

Duration: 36 months

Project leader: Prof. dr. Sonja de Leeuw, Utrecht University

Budget:

Project site:

In negotiation

Not available

EUscreen: Key Expected Outcomes

• Interoperability and harmonisation of access to television

collections

• Contextualisation and content enrichment

• More than 30.000 av digital items (videos, stills, programme

guides) available through own platform and Europeana

• Long-term IPR solutions, production of guidelines and clearance

of associated rights

• Evaluation of use within leisure, learning, and research contexts.

• Sustainability beyond the life of the project

EFG – european film gateway

Aubéry Escande, Europeana office

EFG – european film gateway

Start date: 01 September 2008

Duration: 36 month August 2011

Project coordinated by the Deutsches Filminstitut – Georg Eckes

Total budget: 5.6M (80% funded)

Project site: www.europeanfilmgateway.eu

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EFG – european film gateway

• Single access point to over 700,000 digital objects including films - 24,000 hours -, sound material, images & text.

• Agreement on common interoperability standards for Film Archives and Cinémathèques

• Best Practice for Rights Clearance• Access to Film heritage through Europeana

• Domain: Film Archive & Cinémathèques• EFG Portal: launch date May/June 2010• Key deliverables: • Common Interoperability schema for archival resources and filmographic

descriptions, report on common interoperability schema – D2.3 – April 2009• Guidelines on copyright clearance and IPR management – D5.3 – Oct 2010

EUROPEANATRAVEL

Adeline van den Berg, Europeana office

EUROPEANATRAVEL

Startdate: 1 May 2009

Duration: 2 years

Project leader:

National Library of Estonia, Toomas Schvak

Total budget: €2,8M (50% EC funded)

Project site: not yet

EUROPEANATRAVEL

• Digitise content on the theme of travel and tourism from collections of major university and national libraries:16000 images, 4000 maps, 5000 books, 6000 documents and more

• Create a LIBER closed access aggregation service

• Deepen collaboration between CENL and LIBER, mobilise support for Europeana amongst research libraries

• Support spreading best practice in digitisation by libraries

• Domain: libraries• Portal: no

JUDAICA EUROPEANA

Adeline van den Berg, Europeana office

JUDAICA EUROPEANA

Startdate: tbc

Duration: 2 years

Project leader:

European Association for Jewish Culture, Lena Stanley-Clamp

Total budget: €3M (50% EC funded)

Project site: not yet

JUDAICA EUROPEANA

• Identify and digitise Jewish cultural content to be made available through Europeana

• Co-ordinate metadata and interoperability standards

• Evaluate and implement knowledge management tools

• Domain: cross-domain• Portal: yes

Archives Portal Europe APEnet

Olaf Janssen, Europeana office

Archives Portal Europe - APEnet

Startdate: 15th January 2009

Duration: 36 months

Overall project coordinator: Archivos Estatales, Madrid, Spain

Number of partners: 13

Total budget: 3M Euro

Project site: www.apenet.eu

Archives Portal Europe - APEnet

• Objective 1: APEnet develops a portal to archival material in Europe, by providing access to:

a) information about archival fonds, collections & institutionsb) 16 mill. (multilevel) descriptions of archival objectsc) 31 mill. digitised archival objects

• Objective 2: APEnet develops set of converting engines and plug-ins for data exchange between archives and APE-portal

• Objective 3: APEnet aggregates archival metadata & digital objects to be delivered into Europeana

• Objective 4: APEnet paves the way for sustainable future participation of archives in APE-portal and Europeana

Archives Portal Europe - APEnet

Key deliverables & dates:

- Jan 2011 : pilot of APE-portal & interoperability with Europeana

- Jan 2012 : final version of APE-portal & interoperability with Europeana

- Jan 2012 : business plan for future sustainability