EuropeanaLocal (http://www.europeanalocal.eu) is a three-year project co-funded by the European Commission from the eContentPlus programme. It is built? on the existing multiplier networks of local institutions to bring together a consortium that represents 32 countries with broad ranging experience of the cultural sector, digital libraries, standards and aggregation services. Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center acts as a country coordinator for Poland; it is also a member of the Project Management Board.

EuropeanaLocal will establish the 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 Europeana (http://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.

PCSS

Adam Dudczak

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