The main online resources searching for the EuropeAn Cultural Heritage

Organization URL Description

EUline

http://www.euvonal.hu/i ndex.php?op=hirek&id=7 033

Basic information on The European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage that celebrate excellence in cultural heritage conservation, ranging from the restoration of buildings and their adaptation to new uses. It highlights research, dedicated service to heritage conservation by individuals or organisations and education projects related to cultural heritage.

European

There are many EU policies for the promotion of cultural heritage: subsidy programmes, regulations, etc.

The European Culture Portal provides information on these policies and directs the learner to specialised sites. museums, collections, libraries and archives; archaeological and architectural heritage; natural heritage (landscapes and sites of natural interest); linguistic and gastronomic heritage, and traditional occupations. Community action of this kind deals with both the cultural and economic aspects of heritage.

European

Culture and heritage have an important role to play when it comes to building a more economically sustainable and cohesive Union. The role cultural heritage plays for economic and social development is being more and more considered in local and regional development.

Culture and cultural heritage have a clear role to play in at least four of the Europe 2020 flagship initiatives: innovation union, the digital agenda, an industrial policy for the globalisation era and an agenda for new skills and jobs.

Europa Nostra http://www.europanostra .org/

The 50 year European Nostra network gives information on 400 member organizations. The network celebrates the best of European cultural heritage achievements

Through the Europa Nostra Awards, excellence and dedication by architects, craftsmen, volunteers, schools, local communities, heritage owners and media are celebrated. The network is campaigning in favour of heritage in danger.

an Open Access Infrastructure to bring Essential Cultural Heritage Online The ECHO initiative aims to create an infrastructure to bring cultural heritage on the Internet, and builds up a network of institutions, research projects and other users which provide content and technology for the common infrastructure, with the aim to enrich the "agora" and to create a future Web of Culture and Science.

The Europeana Foundation is the governing body of the Europeana service. Its members are the presidents and chairs of European associations for cultural heritage and information associations.

The Foundation promotes collaboration between museums, archives, audiovisual collections and libraries so that users can have integrated access to their content through Europeana and other services..

APEnet (Archives Portal Europe network)

http://www.apenet.eu/

APEnet ran from the 15th of January 2009 until the 15th of January 2012.

Its objective was to build an Internet Gateway for Documents and Archives in Europe where seventeen European National Archives in close

cooperation with the Europeana initiative were to create a common access point to European archival descriptions and digital collections.

A a follow-up project was started, the APEx project (Archives Portal Europe network of excellence)

will run until the 1st of March 2015.

Archives Portal Europe

http://www.archivesport aleurope.net./

The Archives Portal Europe provides access to information on archival material from different European countries as well as information on archival institutions throughout the continent. The project's consortium currently consists of 28 national archives and national archives

administrations

EFG European Film Gateway

http://www.europeanfilm gateway.eu/

The EFG Portal gives you quick access to hundreds of thousands of film historical documents as preserved in European film archives and cinémathèques: photos, posters, programmes, periodicals, censorship documents, rare feature and documentary films, newsreels and other materials. Targeted at scientific researchers and the interested public alike, the EFG offers a look at and behind the scenes of filmmaking in Europe from the early days until today..

The Europeana archives, audiovisual collections and libraries so that users can have integrated access to their content through Europeana and other services.

http://www.europeanalo cal.eu/

Europeana is the trusted source of cultural heritage brought by the Europeana Foundation and a large number of European cultural institutions, projects and partners. These objects include:images, texts,sounds and videos.

EuropeanaLocal was one of a suite of additional projects, funded by the European Commission to help further develop Europeana. EuropeanaLocal played an important role in ensuring that the enormous amount of digital content provided by Europe’s cultural institutions at local and regional level is represented in Europeana, alongside that held at national level.

The project ran from 1 June 2008 to 31 May 2011.

PrestoPrime Consortium

http://www.prestoprime.

org/

The project, led by INA, involved five broadcast archive institutions (INA, BBC, RAI, B&G,

ORF) and a university library (UIBK), representing archives as well as their R&D departments involved in research and experimentation for

audiovisual archiving,. The main objectives of the project were to research and develop practical solutions for the long-term preservation of digital media objects, programmes and collections, and find ways to increase access by integrating the media archives with European on-line digital libraries in a digital preservation framework.

The EUscreen project aims to promote the use of television content to explore Europe's rich and diverse cultural history..EUscreen offers free online access to videos, stills, texts and audio from European broadcasters and audiovisual archives. Possible to explore selected content from early 1900s until today.

ARROW, the acronym for Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works towards

Europeana, is a project of a consortium of European national libraries, publishers and collective

management organisations, also representing writers – working through their main European

associations and a number of national organisations – which was launched in November 2008. ARROW is a tool to facilitate rights information management in any digitisation project involving text and image based works.

ARROW infrastructure allows streamlining the process of identification of authors, publishers and other rightholders of a work.

CIDOC CRM-SIG, a

The intended scope of the CIDOC CRM may be defined as all information required for the scientific documentation of cultural heritage collections, with a view to enabling wide area information exchange and integration of heterogeneous sources.

The term scientific documentation, is intended to convey the requirement that the depth and quality of descriptive information which can be handled by the CIDOC CRM should be sufficient for serious academic research into a given field.

Consortium of European Research Libraries

http://www.cerl.org/

CERL seeks to share resources and expertise between research libraries with a view to improving access to, as well as exploitation and

preservation of the European printed heritage in the hand-press period (c.1450 up to c. 1830). (The Heritage of the Printed Book in Europe):a database of records from major European and North American research libraries. The CERL Thesaurus file contains forms of imprint places, imprint names, personal names and corporate names as found in material printed before the middle of the nineteenth century