Fleur writes: 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. As one can read on the associated – and very recently released – project website, ATHENA specifically “tackles the gap in existing content provision to Europeana”.
One of its objectives is to reinforce, support and encourage the participation of museums and other institutions coming from those sectors of cultural heritage not fully involved yet in Europeana.
Good to know: On the project website you can find a useful overview of all Third Call eContentPlus projects and one FP7 project, in which EDL Foundation has agreed to be a partner. A shortlist:
* EPA (APENET) project focuses on European archives
* European Film Gateway: check this previous post about EFG
* EuropeanaConnect will deliver core components which are essential for the realisation of the European Digital Library (Europeana) as a truly interoperable, multilingual and user-oriented service for all European citizens.
* EUROPEANAlocal: check these previous posts about EuropeanaLocal
* Europeanatravel, a partnership of 8 National Libraries
* EUscreen aims at achieving a highly interoperable digitised collection of television material
* PrestoPrime focuses on the development of “dynamic processes that can preserve indefinitely not only the audiovisual signal but also its evolving associations, context and rights”
For further information please check the ATHENA project website at http://www.athenaeurope.org
