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Collaborative EuropeaN Digital/Archival Infrastructure (CENDARI)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2016,

The Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archive Infrastructure (CENDARI) will provide and facilitate access to existing archives and resources in Europe for the study of medieval and modern European history through the development of an ‘enquiry environment’. This environment will increase access to records of historic importance across the European Research Area, creating a powerful new platform for a ...
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A Gateway to European Newspapers Online (Europeana Newspapers)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2015,

The Europeana Newspapers Project (ENP) aims at the aggregation and refinement of newspapers for The European Library and Europeana. In addition, the proposed BPN addresses challenges particularly linked with digitized newspapers:•\tuse of refinement methods for OCR, OLR/article segmentation, named entity recognition (NER), and page class recognition to enhance search and presentation functionaliti ...
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Alliance Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe Network (APARSEN)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Description Digital preservation offers the economic and social benefits associated with the long-term preservation of information, knowledge and know-how for re-use by later generations. However, digital preservation has a great problem, namely that preservation support structures are built on projects which are short lived and is fragmente ...
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Europeana Awareness (EAwareness)

Start date: Jan 1, 2012, End date: Dec 31, 2014,

Europeana Awareness is a Best Practice Network, led by the Europeana Foundation, designed to:•\tpublicise Europeana to users, policy makers, politicians and cultural heritage organisations in every Member State so as to encourage the use and contribution of content, raise awareness of cultural heritage as an economic driver and promote knowledge transfer•\tpromote its use by a broad public for a v ...
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Scalable Preservation Environments (SCAPE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Sep 30, 2014,

Description This project will enhance the state of the art of digital preservation through scalable preservation actions; automated, quality-assured workflows; and a policy-based planning and watch systemThe SCAPE project will enhance the state of the art of digital preservation in three ways: by developing infrastructure and tools for sc ...
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Europeana Collections 1914-1918: Remembering the First World War – a digital collection of outstanding sources from European national libraries (Europeana Collections 1914-1918)

Start date: May 1, 2011, End date: Apr 30, 2014,

Europeana Collections 1914-1918 will create by 2014 – the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War - a substantial digital collection of material from national library collections of ten libraries in eight countries that found themselves on different sides of the historic conflict. In the run-up to 2014 and in the following years, strong interest in the topic is expected from a wide variet ...
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ENUMERATE: A European Survey for Statistical Intelligence on Digitization, Digital Preservation and Online Access to Cultural Heritage (ENUMERATE)

Start date: Feb 1, 2011, End date: Jan 31, 2014,

Description The objective of the ENUMERATE Thematic Network was to build towards the Digital Agenda 2020, by achieving a lasting transformation in the availability, quality, accuracy and relevance of statistical data about digitization, digital preservation and online access to cultural heritage in order to support and drive strategic decisi ...
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Europeana Libraries: Aggregating digital content from Europe's libraries (Europeana Libraries)

Start date: Jan 1, 2011, End date: Dec 31, 2012,

Description Europeana Libraries is a 2-year project that will bring the digital collections of 19 of Europe’s leading research libraries to Europeana and The European Library. The content will include:• 1,200 film and video clips• 850,000 images• 4.3 million texts (books, journal articles, theses, letters)The project will create a valuable r ...
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IMProving ACcess to Text (IMPACT)

Start date: Jan 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Description IMPACT will push innovation in OCR and language technologies for historical document processing and retrieval and build digitisation capacity in EuropeText that is not digital is virtually invisible. Today's readers search the internet for electronically accessible texts rather than visit the reading room of a library. Born-di ...
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Europeana Regia: a digital collaborative library of royal manuscripts in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (EUROPEANA REGIA)

Start date: Jan 1, 2010, End date: Jun 30, 2012,

Europeana Regia is a collaborative project, which aims to create a European corpus of digitised mostly illuminated manuscripts, testimonies of the circulation of texts and art in Europe in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, with a focus on the beginning of European culture in the Carolingian time.It concerns three most important sets of mediaeval and Renaissance manuscripts :-\tmanuscripts from ...
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Keeping Emulation Environments Portable (KEEP)

Start date: Feb 1, 2009, End date: Feb 29, 2012,

Description KEEP creates portable emulators enabling access to and use of digital objects stored on outdated media. The technology is being tested on early computer games.KEEP is developing an Emulation Access Platform enabling the accurate rendering of objects produced on obsolete machines, so that they can be securely accessed in the lo ...
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INSIGHT into issues of Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe (PARSE.Insight)

Start date: Mar 1, 2008, End date: Jun 30, 2010,

The FP7 e-Infrastructures initiative has already resulted in a number of projects being set-up or in negotiation covering a range of areas of scientific endeavour. The creation of virtual research communities brings together stakeholders with diverse backgrounds and capabilities. One consequence is a large diversity of approaches and there is as yet little consensus across these communities abou ...
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Digital Repository Infrastructure Vision for European Research (DRIVER II)

Start date: Dec 1, 2007, End date: Nov 30, 2009,

DRIVER is a multi-phase effort whose vision and primary objective is to establish a cohesive, pan-European infrastructure of Digital Repositories, offering sophisticated functionality services to both researchers and the general public. The present proposal (`DRIVER Phase-II') aims to introduce key innovations compared to the original `DRIVER' project, while building on its results. The main novel ...
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