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News from the Projects

Europeana.eu is the multimedia portal which makes collections from museums, libraries, archives and cinémathèques from all over Europe available to the public. In summer 2010, a fully-operational version of Europeana.eu will be released, giving access to over 10 million objects: texts, photographs, drawings, artefacts, moving images and sounds.
www.europeana.eu

A dozen of projects funded by the European Commission contribute to this aim:
EuropeanaLocal, for example, brings in new content from regions and countries currently not well represented in Europeana. 250.000 items, including portraits of notable Polish figures like astronomer Copernicus and composer Frederic Chopin have been recently submitted by regional institutions across Poland.
www.europeanalocal.eu

Just started has Judaica Europeana, a unique project which aims to identify and digitise the Jewish contribution to Europe's urban life: several million pages and thousands of other documents like photos, postcards and recordings. Since most of the material is text-based, the integration of audiovisual material will be a major challenge, according to Lena Stanley Clamp, project manager and director of the European Association of Jewish Culture, London. The project is coordinated by the famous Judaica collection of the Goethe University’s library, Frankfurt/Main, which is the largest collection of literature on Judaism and Israel in Germany.
www.judaica-europeana.eu

Since 15 January 2010, the EUscreen project website is live. EUscreen is main aggregator of television material for Europena. Over 30.000 items will be made available online through a freely accessible, multilingual portal. One of the main goals of the project is the creation and testing of use cases for research, learning and leisure purposes as well as for open culture productions. The project is coordinated by the University of Utrecht and consists of 27 partners from 19 European countries.
www.euscreen.eu

The world's heritage of historic musical instruments will be accessible thanks to the MIMO project which started in September 2009. A first draft of the standards for photographing musical instruments, produced by staff at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, has been adopted by the consortium. It is the first example of a standard ever agreed on by musical instrument experts for this type of work.
www.mimo-project.eu

EuropeanaConnect is a core project in the Europeana group and will deliver components which are essential for the realisation of Europeana. In its role of an aggregator of audio content, EuropeanaConnect developed a Starter Kit to begin the process of aggregation of audio material from content owners. It uses the DISMARC infrastructure to provide an Audio Aggregation Platform. DISMARC is a former EU-funded project which aggregated catalogue data from distributed sound archives.
www.europeanaconnect.eu/results-and-resources.php
www.dismarc.org

The most recent addition to the Europeana group of projects is CARARE (Connecting ARchaeology and ARchitecture in Europeana). Having just started this February, the project will establish an aggregation service and create the methodology for adding 3D and Virtual Reality content, thus bringing 2 million items from Europe's unique archaeological monuments, historic buildings and heritage places into Europeana.
www.carare.eu