A New Harvesting Metadata Format for Museums?

July 30th, 2009

In the last few months Collections Trust has been working with colleagues in the ATHENA project on a metadata harvesting format specifically aimed at museum data. Read the rest of this entry »

EuropeanLocal Project Passes First Test

July 6th, 2009

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

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Europeana-UK Conference Great Success

June 30th, 2009

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

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The Final MILE

June 8th, 2009

Just back from the last of a series of conferenes organised by the MILE (Metadata Image Library Exploitation) project in the beautifully restored German city of Dresden.

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Finding the Way Out of an ArcticCloud!

May 29th, 2009

I and a lot of other people, especially from Sweden, are finalising a bid for a EC-funded project that is going to be called ArcticCloud. Read the rest of this entry »

Back from Bordeaux

May 23rd, 2009

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. Read the rest of this entry »

SPECTRUM Heading to Sweden?

April 22nd, 2009

Nick Poole, CEO of Collections Trust was invited to speak in Stockholm last week.

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Europeana v1.0 Launched

April 7th, 2009

Just back from attending the launch of Europeana v1.0 at the Royal Library in the Hague. Read the rest of this entry »

Getting the Mesage Out There

March 21st, 2009

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. Read the rest of this entry »

Planning for Aggregation

February 19th, 2009

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. Read the rest of this entry »