London: 8 August 2008

The EuropeanaLocal Best Practice Network project, funded under the eContentplus programme of the European Commission is now active and working towards meetings its objectives:

• rhe establishment of a network of regional repositories that are highly interoperable with Europeana
• an integrated Europeana-EuropeanaLocal prototype service
• and the development of thematic areas for Europeana services which integrate content from both the national and the local/regional level.

EuropeanaLocal is designed to involve and help local and regional libraries, museums, archives and audio-visual archives:

• make the enormous amount of content that they hold available through Europeana (the European Digital Library)
• and deliver new services.

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