International

c50 attended the conference at an excellent venue, with lovely home made refreshments. Attendees came from a range of organisations including:  the national, local authority, university and small, volunteer-run, local museums. All parts of Scotland were represented. A great achivement given the weather!

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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.

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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…)

Just back from the ‘mid-term’ plenary meeting of the EuropeanaLocal project which was held at Polish Academy of Science in university city of Poznan in Poland. (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 giving part of a workshop on Harvesting Metadata: Practices and Challenges at a conference in Corfu.

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Just back from three days in Luxembourg where the EuropeanaLocal project had its first intermediate review.

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Last Friday Collections Trust hosted the first Europeana-UK Conference at the Commonwealth Club in London.

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Just arrived back from a two-day Project Management Board meeting of the EuropeanaLocal project which took place at the Archives de Gironde in Bordeaux. (more…)

One of the major tasks with any EC-funded project is dissemination. Yesterday I took the opportunity to tell the Archaeology Terminology Working Group (ATWG) about our international work. (more…)