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Fleur updates you about two EU projects and mentions where you can find more information: 1. APENET APENET will provide a common gateway to Europe’s archives and will inform visitors about archival material from across Europe...

[posted upon request] On 6-7 April the first IMPACT Conference on ‘OCR in Mass Digitisation – Challenges between Full Text, Imaging and Language’ will take place at the KB – National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague...

The European Library is looking for a new technical developer (jr./sr.). Sounds interesting? Welllet us knowand send yourresume! We are looking for a (semi) experienced developer, who likes working in a team and in a fast paced environment...

[Press Release] February 17th 2009, The Hague (The Netherlands) – The European Library today announced a new site release of www.TheEuropeanLibrary.org, a free resource to discover the extensive learning and research materials, covering all subjects, from 38 national libraries across Europe...

Europeana is looking for: - General Project Manager - Business Development Manager - Marketing Assistant - PR and Editorial Assistant...

We have created a new exhibition entitled "Napoleonic Wars" Public figures of the period 1802-1896, rare letters and magnificent representations of the well documented assaults launched by Napoleon Bonaparte across Europe. It will challenge your knowledge of history and geography...

“The Video Tutorial is designed to help new visitors discover all search possibilities offered by The European Library portal.” You have to search a bit, but you can find this nice and helpful video on the portal. Here it is: video tutorial Posted in video   Tagged: tutorial, video

Fleur writes: A small warning….This is a long post about (open source) e-Infrastructure and (Open Access) digital repositories. It has a somewhat techie feel to it and infrastructure is not one of my favorite topics, but when one goes a bit below the surface, some interesting developments pop up...

Yes, another project! This time around I would like to draw your attention to a project entitled Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works, in short ARROW...

A range of projects in the different cultural heritage domains are bringing content into Europeana. One of those projects is entitled “ATHENA”, co-funded by the Community programme eContentplus...

After the introduction of Flock and the likes, Cooliris came to life.It took me a while to really get it, and figure out what to do butnow I really like it.Cooliris isfascinatingbecause it shows anentirely new way of presenting search results - a way thatconnects with the rise of rich-media, andin...

Recently I started a virtual platform for (national) library marketers to exchange marketing ideas, best practices, and discuss all kinds of marketing issues – all related to national libraries and The European Library of course...

Following the launch of Europeana, many are finding their way to the office in The Hague and ask us all kinds of questions. Maybe this post helps a bit in finding the answers….But before I do, may I please remind you that Europeana and The European Library are two different services…...

Posted in Europeana   Tagged: Europeana, video  

To celebrate the French EU presidency, this month’s newsletter of The European Library has French National Library - BnF as its focal point. Guest Chief Editor is Elisabeth Freyre (International Relations Department, Bibliotheque Nationale de France) In the “Director’s corner” Mr...

Some weeks ago the ‘Bridging Worlds Conference‘ - organized by the National Library Board Singapore - took place in Hotel Intercontinental, Singapore...

ANNOUNCEMENT - With funding from the European Commission and the Conference of European National Libraries (CENL), The European Library has undertaken an important decision to make its collections accessible in most of Europe’s native languages...

In this issue of IFLA Journal you can find an article on The European Library, written by the general manager, interoperability (metadata) manager and marketing manager of The European Library...

Posted in Europeana   Tagged: conference, Europeana, users, video  

The French ministry of culture and communication is organising the conference “digitisation of cultural heritage in Europe” in the context of the French presidency of the European Union...

“IMPACT is a project funded by the European Commission...

…. knol? Answer: Another Google development…. “A knol is an authoritative article about a specific topic.” http://knol.google.com/k# Some say it is an attack on Wikipedia, others disagree...

Some more information about EFG, one of the projects relating to Europeana - the European digital library, museum and archive: “EFG - The European Film Gateway is a 3-years project which started on 1st September 2008...