Europeana.eu is Europe’s online museum, library and archive. It brings together digitised content from Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage organisations, and makes that content accessible to Europe’s citizens and to the wider world.
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The overall objective of Europeana v1.0 is the creation of the fully-operational Europeana service. This will be achieved in two stages: the launch later this year of the Rhine release, followed in 2011 by the final Danube release.
This first year has seen successful internal outcomes in terms of achieving our funding target, recruiting the workforce, automating the content ingestion process and building the technical infrastructure. We have ingested 5.9 million records and are on target for 10 million for the Rhine release, in which we will be able to present a balanced and representative selection of material from all the Member States of the European Union.
Outward-facing achievements have included developing an active partner network of 180 organisations, well ahead of our target. We have worked closely with the group of projects that are contributing content and technology to Europeana’s operational service. We have identified issues such as intellectual property rights that have significance for all the projects, and have collaborated on a strategic approach.
Going forward, Europeana will work mainly with aggregators of content – either national, or domain. National aggregators include CulturaItalia, who bring together content from a range of Italian heritage organisations; domain aggregators include The European Library, who aggregate content from Europe’s national libraries. This model is sustainable in the longer term, and makes best use of expertise and resources at the national and domain level.
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