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Ghent University Library becomes first to contribute books scanned by Google to Europeana

Ghent University Library became the first in Europe to contribute public domain works scanned by Google to Europeana, Europe’s culture heritage. Readers using Europeana can now enjoy more than 30 million newly-added pages of historical, scientific, anthropological and literary works, from over 100,000 volumes, spanning four centuries, in French, Dutch, German and other languages.
 

Reshaping Art Nouveau online

Reshaping Art Nouveau onlineEuropeana is organising a public event, to mark the upcoming launch of Europeana’s virtual exhibition of Art Nouveau. In Brussels, at the heart of European Art Nouveau, there will be a special lecture by Art Nouveau expert Prof. Dr. Werner Adriaenssens, Curator of Decorative Arts of the 20th Century, Royal Museums for Art and History.
 
The talk will be followed by an open discussion, ‘Why digitise culture?’ featuring 3 key figures in Belgian digital innovation:

A richer data model for Europeana

The Europeana Data Model (EDM), a new way of structuring data that will bring the benefits of Semantic Web technology to Europeana.eu, has just been published.

The release of the EDM indicates a qualitative change in the way Europeana will deal with metadata gathered from content providers. It will open up the possibility for browsing Europeana in new and revealing ways which are not possible with the current Europeana Semantic Elements data model.

Presentations 'Europeana Plenary Conference 2009'

Presentations and other documents from the Europeana plenary conference, Creation, Collaboration & Copyright (14 - 16 September 2009) are now online at the website of Europeana.

Europeana: tell us what you think

All Europeana’s features are fully functioning now and they would like to know what you think about the site. Europeana is currently running a survey in all 27 EU languages. Your feedback is important for the future development of Europeana, so let them know what you want.