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EDL project was a Targeted Project funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus Programme and coordinated by the German National Library.

The project, started in September 2006, worked towards the integration of the bibliographic catalogues and digital collections of the National Libraries of Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain and Sweden, into The European Library.

EDLproject also addressed the enhancement of multilingual capabilities of The European Library portal, took first steps towards collaboration between The European Library and other non-library cultural initiatives, and expanded the marketing and communication activities of The European Library service.

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TEL-ME-MOR was a project funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme of the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme.

The project lasted from 1 February 2005 to 31 January 2007 and had two main objectives:

• to support the 10 national libraries from the New Member States, which are partners in the project, in becoming full members of The European Library;
• to stimulate and facilitate the participation of organisations from the New Member States of the European Union in projects funded within the IST area.

The TEL-ME-MOR site will not be updated after 31 January 2007. The information published on the site will be transferred to the archives of The European Library and EDLproject at the latest in April 2007.

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The objective of the TEL Project was to set up a co-operative framework that would lead to a system for access to the major national and deposit collections (mainly digital, but not precluding paper) in European national libraries. TEL investigated how to make a mixture of traditional and electronic formats available in a coherent manner to both local and remote users.

The TEL Project contributed to the cultural and scientific knowledge infrastructure within Europe by developing co-operative and concerted approaches to technical and business issues associated with distributed access to large-scale content. It laid down the policy and develop the technical groundwork for a sustainable pan-European digital library based on distributed digital collections and on the operational digital library developments in the participating libraries and agencies.

The TEL Project ended on 31-01-2004

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Gabriel - GAteway and BRIdge to Europe's National Libraries - was the joint webportal of all European National Libraries. In total there were 43 national libraries in 41 countries (Italy and Russia have two). The website was available in English, German and French.

Besides practical information about the national libraries (access and opening hours, functions, history etc.) Gabriel provided information about for instance the collections, the online public access catalogues (OPACs) and specialised webservices of each library. Furthermore Gabriel offered a central search engine with which the websites of all National Libraries could be searched simultaneously.

Gabriel was stopped as a seperate webservice on 01-06-2005. Its contents have been incorporated into The EuropeanLibrary.org

View the GABRIEL homepage.