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An Chomhairle Leabharlanna and Europeana Local

An Chomhairle Leabharlanna is contributing to EuropeanaLocal, an EU project funded under the eContentplus Programme of the EU Commission which began in June 2008.

EuropeanaLocal will establish a Best Practice Network which will, over three years, improve the interoperability of the digital content held by regional and local institutions and make it accessible through the www.europeana.eu service of the European Digital Library and to other services.

 

There is a pressing need to involve Europe's network of local and regional libraries, museums and archives more extensively in making the enormous amount of digital content that they hold available through Europeana. Such involvement will bring together a rich diversity of content of all types, cultures and languages making it possible to establish integrated services with great richness and adding value for communities and individual users.

EuropeanaLocal builds on existing multiplier networks of local institutions to bring together a consortium that represents 27 countries with broad ranging experience of the cultural sector, digital libraries, standards and aggregation services. EDLocal will make over 20 million items available to Europeana.