On Monday last week Collections Trust hosted the second Europeana-UK Conference at the Kingsway Hall Hotel in London.
Over 75 attended the conference this year, an increase of 25% on 2009. Organisations included the full range from nationals to small local museums, and all parts of the UK were represented.
Dodging the volcano ash, 
I have just given a the first public presentation on the new harvesting schema - LIDO - at the EVA Florence conference in Italy. EVA Florence is Europe’a foremost electronic imaging event in the visual arts.
It is also a major venue for the dissemination of the Italian led ATHENA project.
A new chapter has opened in my work on the European projects in the last month. One of data modelling, persistent identifiers and linked open data. All these might sound daunting but should enable a smarter and more useful Web. (more…)
I have just spent the last week leading and teaching at a couple of workshops, in Rome and Berlin, for partners of the ATHENA project. (more…)
The ATHENA project has just published part of our work for it as an easy to read booklet. (more…)
Check out the links on blogroll to the right for a list of the important websites associated with European cultural heritage. They particularly concentrate Europeana related sites.
If you are involved an international project that you want me to hear about please post a comment.
Just back from a day long event in Milan on Digital Library Futures: User Perspectives and Institutional Strategies. I was there as the co-leader of Work Package 3 in the ATHENA project. (more…)
Last Friday Collections Trust hosted the first Europeana-UK Conference at the Commonwealth Club in London.
