Activities

The activities of EuropeanaTravel are organised in five main areas of work (workpackages),  outlined below.   
Documents and presentations produced in the course of the project will be made available from the outcomes page.

1. Digitisation planning

Partners take stock of the situation in their own institution and in Europeana itself before confirming and finalising their digitisation plans. Activities include:
- a workshop for knowledge and best practice sharing. Timings, approaches to IPR, measurements, quality control, metadata standards, subject approaches, file formats and other technical standards are discussed and agreed.    
- a  survey of plans and work on digital preservation by all LIBER library members.

2. Carrying out digitisation

Each partner implements its digitisation plan. This includes:
- digitisation, metadata creation and capture;
- making available of the resources via an OAI-PMH compliant repository;
- describing each digital collection, according to the standards agreed by the previous workpackage.

Quality control is carried out on two levels: a) in-house control mechanism of partner organisations, b) external quality control mechanism carried out by the National and University Library of Slovenia, as work package leader. This double control mechanism will ensure that the digital materials meet the standards and guidelines agreed in workpackage 1.

As well as doing digitisation to a high and consistent standard, the project will produce best practice documentation covering the handling of the materials, capturing, metadata generation, enrichment, workflow management, etc. which will be made available to any other cultural institutions that may need it.

Since the main aim of the digitisation activity is to make the material available through Europeana, the digitisation effort will be carried out in close collaboration with the Europeana team.  

3. Making LIBER partners’ digitised material available to Europeana

Europeana’s planned model is to deal only or mainly with aggregators and not directly with individual institutions for the aggregation of metadata.

Within this area of work, the project will develop a scalable aggregator solution applicable to all Member States’ research libraries that do not have an alternative aggregator tool available. The developed aggregation service will be used by the LIBER content partners in this project to deliver their content to Europeana.

4. Dissemination

Dissemination under EuropeanaTravel is carried out on a small scale with the overall goal of supporting the promotion of Europeana. To this purpose,  EuropeanaTravel will work collaboratively with EDL Foundation to use common tools and methods to publicise the Europeana service.

At the same time, the project will make sure to provide access to its results to its own partners, CENL and LIBER members and to any professional audiences interested in the project and Europeana.

5. Co-ordination and management

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