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EFG is one in a group of projects funded by the European Commission, which have been working towards the development
of Europeana and/or to enhance and extend The European Library.
The Europeana group comprises a number
of projects run by different cultural heritage institutions. All are part-funded by the European Commission's
eContentplus programme. Until September 2011 these projects will be contributing technology solutions
and content that will create the fully operational Europeana.eu
The European Library, managed by CENL, is a free service that offers access to the resources of the 48 national
libraries of Europe in 20 languages. Resources are both digital and bibliographical (books, posters, maps, sound
recordings, videos, etc.). Currently The European Library gives access to 150 million entries across Europe but this
amount is constantly increasing.
The European Library has been officially acknowledged by the European Commission as the organisational structure for
Europeana. Europeana –
the European digital library, museum and archive is a prototype portal offering users direct access to more
than 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books,
newspapers and archival papers.
The portal was launched on 20 November 2008 by Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and
Media, in Brussels. According to the European Commission's plan, by 2010 it will include about 10 million digital
objects.
Europeana is a Thematic Network funded by the European Commission under the
eContentplus Programme.
Below is a list of current and past related projects. The list will expand as new projects begin.
OTHER RELATED PROJECTS
Arrow
ARROW, the acronym for Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works towards
Europeana, is a project of a consortium of European national libraries, publishers and collective
management organisations, also representing writers – working through their main European
associations and a number of national organisations – which was launched in November 2008 and
will last for 30 months.
ARROW is one of the projects selected among 102 ones presented in 2007 at the European
Commissions eContentplus Programme which seeks to help make digital content in Europe more
accessible, usable and exploitable.
EUscreen
The EUscreen project aims to promote the use of television content to explore Europe's rich and diverse cultural
history. It will create access to over 30,000 items of programme content and information, and by developing a
number of interactive functionalities and dynamic links with Europeana it will prove valuable to the widest range
of cultural, educational and recreational users. EUscreen started in October 2009 and the project consortium, which
includes 27 partner institutions from around Europe, is being co-ordinated by Utrecht University.
KEEP
Started on 1 February 2009 with a duration of three years, the project will develop an Emulation Access Platform
to enable accurate rendering of both static and dynamic digital objects: text, sound, and image files; multimedia
documents, websites, databases, videogames etc. The overall goal of the project is to facilitate universal access
to cultural heritage by developing flexible tools for accessing and storing a wide range of digital objects.
The project is funded under the Seventh
Framework Programme of the European Commission.
MIMO
The aim of the MIMO project is to create a single access point to digital content and information on the
collections of musical instruments held in European museums.
STERNA
Semantic, web based thematic European reference network application building a distributed digital library
focussing on natural science, natural history, and biodiversity material.
Video Active
Video Active provides access to television material from audiovisual archives across Europe.
It enables to explore how cultural and historical events have
been televised within and across nations and gives a unique perspective on
European television history. It enables an interactive discovery of television’s
contribution to the construction of a European cultural space,
with the help of a large collection of program material. Istituto Luce, Italy, participating
in EFG is also a partner in Video Active.
PAST PROJECTS
FUMAGABA (2008-2009)
This is a project of The European Library that aims at integrating the collections of the national libraries of
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova, Albania, Georgia, Armenia, Bosnia Herzegovina and
Azerbaijan. FUMAGABA partners are members of CENL and are
becoming Full Participants with the financial support of the
Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
TELplus (2007-2009)
A project funded under the
eContentplus Programme and coordinated by the National Library of Estonia.
It is aimed to strengthen, extend and improve The European Library service.
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