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Current projects in the digitization of (photographic) heritage
Projects on a European level
- ERPANET: Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network: http://www.erpanet.org : The goal of this project is to establish an expandable European Consortium, which will make viable and visible information, best practice and skills development in the area of digital preservation of cultural heritage and scientific objects.
- European Heritage network: http://www.european-heritage.net/
- EVA: European Visual Archive: http://www.eva-eu.org/en/: EVA provides access to distributed digital historical photograph collections.
- MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe: http://www.michael-culture.org : MICHAEL aims to provide simple and quick access to the digital collections of museums, libraries and archives from different European countries.
- MINERVA: Ministerial network for valorising activities in digitisation: http://www.minervaeurope.org/: The aim of Minerva is to create a network of Member States' Ministries to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities carried out in digitisation of cultural and scientific content, for creating an agreed European common platform, recommendations and guidelines about digitisation, metadata, long-term accessibility and preservation.
- Orpheus (On Line Alinari Photographic Archives for European Educational System): http://www.orpheus-edu.org/
- SEPIA: Safeguarding European Photographic Images for Access: http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/sepia/: SEPIA is an EU-funded project (Culture 2000) of the ECPA focusing on preservation of photographic materials.
Projects in Flanders
- DAVID: Digitale Archivering Vlaamse Instellingen en Diensten: http://www.antwerpen.be/david/website/eng/index2.htm
- Reproductiefonds: Creation of a digital platform for producing, showing and managing high quality images of Flemish cultural heritage; Developing merchandising; Building a centre of expertise on IPR management for images and on imaging.
- Image databases ("Beeldbanken"):
Projects in France
Projects in Romania
As far as known, there are no official projects on the digitization of (photographic) cultural heritage comparable to PHOTHEREL taking place in Romania currently. |
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