International

Just back from attending the launch of Europeana v1.0 at the Royal Library in the Hague. (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…)

I meet today with the co-ordinator of the EuropeanaLocal project to today to organise a workshop at Collection Trust’s offices at London Bridge, for project partners, on setting up an aggregation. (more…)

Tomorrow I am off to Rome to a meeting of the ATHENA project. So what happens at one of these?

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Just spent an afternoon in discussion with a national museum about them possibly contributing to Europeana. So it be a good point to discuss some of the issues to do with submission of content. (more…)

For the last few days I have been designing a survey for the ATHENA project. The aim is to get a picture of the standards landscape in European museums.

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The last two days have been spent at Europeana ‘Central’ in their offices in the Royal Library in the the Dutch capital (more…)

Today sees the official start of the European Commission (EC) funded project ATHENA - Access to cultural heritage networks across Europe.

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Europe’s  digital library, museum and archive, Europeana, was launched to the public today. It attracted so much interest that it website was swamped within the first few hours.

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The EuropeanaLocal project began in June. This month sees the start of an important aspect of its work - a survey of metadata and terminology used by cultural organisation in Europe.

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