Connected to

The Europeana Jigsaw

Europeana.eu, Europe’s cultural heritage portal has been launched in November 2008, offering free and fast access to about 3,5 million books, maps, photographs, films, recordings and archival documents. More than 1.000 libraries, museums, archives and audiovisual archives from all across Europe provided digitised items for the virtual library, some of which are world famous, other hidden treasures. But this is just the beginning: Europeana Version 1.0 is being developed and will launch in 2010 with links to about 10 million digital objects.

Responsible for turning the prototype in a full operational service is Europeana v1.0, the successor thematic network to EDLnet. This includes primarily the development of organisational and legal solutions, the dissemination of the service to the user, and the creation of a sustainable funding model. 

The work of Europeana v1.0 will be complemented by EuropeanaConnect, a Best Practice Network which undertakes the specific technical implementation work.

Europeana v1.0 Thematic Network started in February 2009 and is coordinated by the EDL Foundation, the steering committee of Europeana. The work groups kick-off meeting will take place at the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague on 2-3 April.

A network of projects co-funded by eContentplus, amongst them The European Film Gateway, is responsible for providing content.

Europeana website: http://www.europeana.eu/

A list of all projects related to Europeana is available under: http://www.europeanfilmgateway.eu/related_projects.php