MORE 'EUROPEANA' POSTS
New Digitization Project: World War One in Pictures, Letters and Memories
| Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Libraries, Maps, National Libraries, News
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 of material from national libraries and other partners from eight countries that found themselves on different sides of the historic conflict. [Clip] The First […]
Europeana: Vienna Hackathon Winners Take Part in Workshop + Live Prototype + Video/Presentations from Tech Conference
| Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Video Recordings
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 EuropeanaTech Hackathon in Vienna who took part in a workshop designed to move their product ideas further along the path to a ‘marketable’ website or app. The winners of […]
eBooks on Demand: European Libraries Make Efforts For Integration + New Search Engine
| Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, National Libraries, Open Access, Publishing
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 recently launched a common search engine for finding books which already are or will be digitised, and will have hackdays in Lisbon for […]
European Commission Recommendation: "Encouraging Digitisation of EU Culture to Help Boost Growth"
| Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Preservation, Reports, Resources
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. This is essential to make European cultural heritage more widely available and to boost growth in Europe’s creative industries. The digitised material should be made […]
Europeana and DPLA Will Collaborate to Offer Virtual Exhibition On Migration From Old World to New World
| Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
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 provided as to when the exhibition will become available. UPDATE: Digital Public Library of America and Europeana Announce Collaboration (Official Announcement) From the Announcement: Another […]
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 portal. Based on users’ feedback we’ve been receiving since our launch in November 2008, Europeana underwent a significant makeover. The redesigned Europeana […]
Europeana trials new software in Remix launch
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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 the latest HTML5 and Popcorn.js technology Europeana Remix plays the video in HTML5, and uses the Popcorn.js framework to let users call up resources […]
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 Libraries project and the first of the 5 million digital objects to be collected via Europeana Libraries have begun to be ingested. Between […]
@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 digitized book content from Google. Here’s a mechanical translation of the post using Google Translate and another from Bing Translate. […]
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 some of the works in the unique exhibition From Dada to Surrealism: Jewish Avant-Garde Artists from Romania, 1910–1938 running from June 1 until October 2, […]
