Building on The European Library
The European Digital Library Network (EDLnet) Thematic Network has published a press release following the Networks kick off meeting that was held in The Hague from the 12th to 14th September 2007. The papers and presentations from the meeting have been published.
EDLnet will run for two years, and will develop a prototype that demonstrates proof of concept, bringing together content from some of Europe’s major cultural organisations. The European Library together with the National Library of the Netherlands will run the project.
The project will look at the political, human, technical and semantic issues that will contribute to the creation of an interoperable system able to access fully digitised content. It will invite feedback from different types of users in order to create a service that enriches the widest public and answers the needs of researchers, students, teachers and the creative industries.
EDLnet is an initiative developed following the European Commission’s recommendation on 24 August 2006 on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material. It is a Thematic Network funded under the eContent plus programme as part of the i2010 policy
EDLnet builds on the success of The European Library, a portal that enables people to search across 150 million titles, from 172 collections in 31 European national libraries. The European Library is a service of the Conference of European Libraries.
Experts from Europe’s major heritage institutions will collaborate on the technical solutions and user-centred functionality.
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