Europeana version 1.0 is a 2.5 year project that will bring the Europeana.eu prototype to full service. In 2010 we will implement a new version of Europeana with added functionality and access to over 10 million digital objects.

The second phase of the project will see the launch in 2011 of a fully-operational Europeana.eu with improved multilinguality and semantic web features.

The project is funded under the Commission's eContentplus programme. It's a Thematic Network that brings over 100 partners from libraries, museums, archives and audio-visual collections together. We're building open source solutions and reusing technologies developed in related Commission-funded projects. Universities, ministries and heritage strategy bodies are also part of our knowledge-sharing consortium.
 
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Europeana Annual Report Published
Europeana's Annual Report outlines internal and external achievements, including progress in developing our partner network, ingesting content and building technical infrastructure. It also looks ahead to the Rhine release, which will launch the fully functional Europeana.eu portal.
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Europeana Should Be Enlarged: EU Report
Europeana should be enlarged, with more content from a wider range of Member States, according to a unanimously approved report from the European Parliament's Culture and Education Committee.
The report also urges governments and cultural institutions to co-operate in order to speed up digitisation. At the same time, it stresses that the digitisation of public domain content should not create new copyright restrictions.
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Joint seminar of Judaica Europeana and MICHAEL projects
The event will take place on 15 March at the Pergamon Museum, Berlin and will look at digital access to Jewish digital collections.
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Debates on the future collection development in Leuven
The 12th Fiesole Collection Development Retreat from 8 to 10 April at the Leuven University Libraries, Belgium, will examine the changes affecting library collections in 4 thematic sessions. Jill Cousins, Executive Director of EDL Foundation, will give a presentation on Europeana in the "Digital Publishing in the Humanities" track.
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