Completed research projects
Digital Library
Europeana Sounds
Project coordination
The British Library, United Kingdom and Northern Ireland
Project duration
February 2014 until January 2017
Funding
European Commission
Brief description
In the Europeana Sounds project online access to more than 540,000 high-quality sound recordings and 225,000 other music-relevant objects such as music manuscripts, printed materials, photos or videos is enabled via the Europeana online portal.
Europeana DSI
Project coordination
Europeana Foundation, Netherlands
Project duration
April 2015 until August 2017
Funding
European Commission
Brief description
As a digital service infrastructure, DSI-2 is the core project of Europeana, aiming to connect the online collections of Europe’s cultural heritage institutions.
Aparsen - Alliance Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe Network
Project management
Science and Technology Facilities Council, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Project duration
January 2011 to December 2014
Funding
European Commission
Brief description
The challenges posed by the digital long-term archiving of information and data were discussed with 30 partners in the APARSEN project. The aim of the project was to develop solutions for technical processes and for legal and economic questions concerning long-term archiving, and to raise awareness for this important topic.
DM2E – Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana
Project management
Institute for Library and Information Science at the Humboldt University of Berlin
Project duration
February 2012 to January 2015
Funding
European Commission
Brief description
19 million pages of manuscripts were added to Europeana in DM2E. Work was performed on an automated process to be able to convert source meta data formats of different institutions to the Europeana meta data format. Furthermore, a test scenario was developed to demonstrate the added value of semantic data for science.
Europeana Creative
Project management
Austrian National Library
Project duration
February 2013 to July 2015
Funding
European Commission
Brief description
The primary focus of Europeana Creative was on the reuse of cultural heritage content found on Europeana, as well as its meta data on the part of the creative industry sector. The Europeana Labs Network was established to this end, legal and economic framework conditions were discussed and a range of applications was developed.
Europeana Collections 1914-18
Project management
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Project duration
May 2011 to April 2014
Funding
European Commission
Brief description
In the course of the Europeana 1914-1918 project, over 425,000 particularly relevant and sometimes fragile objects were compiled in the European Digital Library Europeana from ten national libraries and other partners from eight different countries that were on different sides of the historical conflict.
Europeana Connect
Project management
Austrian National Library
Project duration
May 2009 to October 2011
Funding
European Commission
Brief description
EuropeanaConnect developed key infrastructure components and services for the European Digital Library (Europeana), collecting more than 150,000 music files from European audio archives for Europeana.
Europeana Food and Drink
Project management
Collections Trust, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Project duration
January 2014 to June 2016
Funding
European Commission
Brief description
Europeana Food and Drink set itself the objective of presenting the rich and varied culture of food and drink in Europe, as well as its cultural assets. The project focused on actively involving the general public, creative industry, cultural institutions as well as the food and beverage industry in the recording, participation and use of subject-related digital content, which resulted in the creation of a range of applications and products for commercial use in the course of the project.
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Europeana Newspapers
Project management
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Project duration
February 2012 to January 2015
Funding
European Commission
Brief description
As part of the Europeana Newspaper project, 18 European partner institutions made over 18 million newspaper pages available via the online portal Europeana. The project also concentrated on specific technical challenges when preparing digitised newspapers (OCR, OLR, NER).
Europeana Travel
Project management
National Library of Estonia
Project duration
May 2009 to April 2011
Funding
European Commission
Brief description
The aim of EuropeanaTravel was the digitalisation of the collections of European university and national libraries on the subjects of travel and tourism, as well as the making available of digital copies via the online platform Europeana.
IMPACT
Project management
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands
Project duration
January 2008 to June 2012
Funding
European Commission
Brief description
IMPACT (IMProving ACcess to Text) developed technical and strategic tools aimed at facilitating the distribution and, thus, access to digitalised historical holdings (publication period from 1500 to ca. 1930).
PLANETS
Project management
The British Library, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Project duration
June 2006 to May 2010
Funding
European Commission
Brief description
PLANETS (Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services) developed solutions to ensure long-term access to digital resources.
SCAPE
Project management
AIT Austrian Institute for Technology GmbH
Project duration
February 2011 to September 2014
Funding
European Commission
Brief description
The focus of the SCAPE project was on scalable measures for long-term archiving, i.e. data processing methods such as text processing, image data analysis or format migration that can be applied to very large data volumes. The scalability was implemented in SCAPE with the support of cloud-based technologies based on Apache Hadoop, a framework to process large data volumes in a dispersed cluster.
