Archives Portal Europe (Beta) Is Now Online
From a Europeana Blog Post: The Archives Portal Europe is now online. This is the first beta version of the portal, which gives users access to 7.797.809 descriptive units and 726.136 digital archival...
View ArticleEuropeana Launches Weblog
Europeana, the database that provides online access to a growing collection of cultural and scientific heritage materials from Europe’s museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collection,”...
View ArticleResults, Videos, and Prototypes From OCLC Mashathon U.S. and Europeana Hackathon
If you’re not a developer (like us) it’s always interesting learn about what those with coding skills have created at mashathons/hackathons. You can read about what was developed at these events and...
View ArticleBloomberg: "Digital Libraries May Include More Book, Music Copyrights Under...
From Bloomberg: Digital libraries may be able to include more copyrighted works under European Union rules proposed [on Tuesday]. The European Commission is seeking to bolster the EU-funded Internet...
View ArticleNew Virtual Exhibition Opens Next Week on Europeana.eu; Will Include New...
From the Europeana Blog: We are pleased to make available an exhibition provided by the Jewish Historical Museum (JHM). What makes this virtual exhibition so exciting is that it unveils...
View ArticleEuropeana Aggregating Digital Content from Research Libraries Across Europe...
@calimaq has posted (in French) about a Europeana program that began at the beginning of 2011 to aggregate digital content from European libraries. The focus of the post is on what this might mean for...
View Article"Europeana Libraries: Content, Content, Content", Phase One of Ingest Underway
From the Association of European Research Libraries Blog: The first phase of ingestion of content has finally begun in Europeana Libraries It is now 8 months since the kick-off of the Europeana...
View ArticleEuropeana trials new software in Remix launch
From the Europeana Blog: Europeana, the digital library, museum and archive, has opened a new interactive video space, Europeana Remix, which enriches a short film on a First World War friendship using...
View ArticleA Redesigned Europeana Portal Is Now Online
From a Europeana Announcement: See what Europeana items your friends like or share on Facebook, check out our latest blog posts, and discover some of the most interesting content on the new Europeana...
View ArticleEuropeana and DPLA Will Collaborate to Offer Virtual Exhibition On Migration...
Europeana and DPLA Announce Virtual Exhibition on Migration from Old World to New World Letters, photographs, and other records. Opportunities for users to share stories and materials. No time was...
View ArticleEuropean Commission Recommendation: "Encouraging Digitisation of EU Culture...
From EUROPA: The European Commission has adopted a Recommendation asking EU Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve the private sector in digitising cultural material....
View ArticleeBooks on Demand: European Libraries Make Efforts For Integration + New...
From an EOD Announcement: From 3 to 4 November 2011, about 40 specialists of e-collections from European libraries meet in the National Library of Portugal. The eBooks on Demand (EOD) libraries have...
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Europeana: Vienna Hackathon Winners Take Part in Workshop + Live Prototype +...
Europeana Updated: Video and Presentations and Video from EuropeanaTech Conference, October 2011 (via YouTube) From Europeana Blog: Last week on Thursday and Friday we welcomed the winners of the...
View ArticleNew Digitization Project: World War One in Pictures, Letters and Memories
A new digitization project from Europeana. From Europeana: Europeana Collections 1914-1918 will create by 2014 – the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War – a substantial digital collection...
View ArticleMilestones: Europeana Adds 20 Millionth Item & Collection of 7000 Photographs...
Congrats and kudos to the Europeana team! From the Europeana eNewsletter: This October, Europeana’s content reached 20 million items, increasing the content ten-fold since its initial launch in 2008....
View ArticleEuropeana Launches Its First Virtual Exhibit Based on User Generated Content
From the Europeana Web Site: We are excited to announce the launch of our first ever virtual exhibition based on user-generated content. “Wiki Loves Art Nouveau” is an online exhibition made up...
View ArticleJust Released: "Culture on the Go: CIBER Report Says Mobile Browsing Will...
Via Europeana: A new report, Culture on the Go, from UK web-watchers CIBER Research, shows how access to information is changing as people search for, read and use information on the move. A growing...
View ArticleNew Video: European Library Handbook (Workflow Between European Library and...
Direct to Video Slideshow (via YouTube) The European Library is the library domain aggregator for Europeana and, in this role, supports data providers from the library domain across Europe. The...
View ArticleEurope: More Than 10 Million Digitized Newspaper Pages Coming to Europeana
From LIBER: A group of 17 European partner institutions have joined forces in the “European Newspapers” project and will, over the next 3 years, provide more than 10 million newspaper pages to the...
View ArticleEuropeana Formally Announces Option to Preview Search Results on a Map
From the Europeana Blog: The development department at Europeana have been working hard on a new interactive search and display feature that enables you to locate and preview search results...
View ArticleWhat is Linked Open Data? Europeana Launches Linked Open Data Pilot and...
via LIBER: Linked Open Data is gaining traction in the information world right now. Europeana has just launched an animation to explain what it is and why it’s a good thing, both for users and for data...
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Announcing DM2E (Digitised Manuscripts to Europena): Exploring the...
From the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog: The Open Knowledge Foundation is delighted to announce that it will be leading the community work for a three-year EU funded project entitled Digitised...
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Europeana Now "Experimenting" With Pintrest
Direct to Europeana on Pintrest See Also: Pinterest for GLAMs: Europeana’s Experiment (via Europeana Blog) At Europeana HQ we have already been testing the waters for a while now with a wide variety...
View ArticleNew Blog Post: Europeana and Linked Open Data
From the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog: Europeana has recently released a new version of its Linked Data Pilot, data.europeana.eu. We now publish data for 2.4 million objects under an open metadata...
View ArticleNew Online: Usability Testing Report of the The European Library Website...
From The Report’s Executive Summary (via Europeana Web Site) In order to measure the quality of the new European Library portal, The European Library office conducted a series of usability tests in...
View ArticleThe European Library's Opening to Research Libraries
From a Europeana Blog Post: The European Library is approaching the end of its two-year project Europeana Libraries, by which it started to expand its membership from national libraries to include...
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New European Project Will Digitize Up to 650 Hours of World War I Film Footage
From europeana: Films about World War 1 that have never been seen outside a cinema or on television are to be made available on the internet for the first time ever. The European Film Gateway 1914...
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Track New and Updated Content as It’s Added to Europeana
This page (an RSS feed is also available) will alert you to new and updated items as they’re are added to the Europeana database. You’ll also be alerted to new collections. Each entry includes a direct...
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Serial Solutions Will Make Europeana and European Library Material...
From the Serial Solutions Web Site: In cooperation with the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL), the Summon Web-scale Discovery service from Serials Solutions will make the vast...
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The Europeana Newspapers Project Website Goes Live
The project was first announced in February. via LIBER: The newest LIBER’s project’s website has been launched in co-operation with the Berlin State Library, the Europeana Newspapers project leader....
View ArticleEBSCO Discovery Service Adds the Complete Harvard Library Bibliographic...
The Harvard Library dataset was released on April 24th. Here’s our post and links to resources. Now, today’s news from EBSCO: Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset contains 12 million open-access...
View ArticleDigital Libraries: New Promo Video About Europeana from European Commission
The European Commission (via EC Audiovisual Services) has released a new video report/promo about Europeana. It focuses on several roadshows where EC residents can share materials and stories for...
View ArticleCollaboration: Digital Public Library of America and Europeana Launch Joint...
From Today’s Announcement: Today, a brand-new exhibition goes live on Europeana. ‘Leaving Europe: A new life in America’ tells the story of European emigration to the United States during the 19th and...
View ArticleDigitization Projects: European Online Fashion Archive To Launch in May, a...
From Vogue UK: A public archive of Europe’s extensive fashion history will soon become available from May 2 with the launch of a website called europeanafashion.eu. Cultural institutions from 12...
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