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FUMAGABA (2008-2009) is a project of The European Library that aims at integrating the collections of the national libraries of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova, Albania, Georgia, Armenia, Bosnia Herzegovina and Azerbaijan. FUMAGABA partners are members of CENL and are becoming Full Participants with the financial support of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

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TELplus is a project funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus Programme and jointly coordinated by the National Library of Estonia and Eremo srl.

TELplus is a targeted project that will run for 2 years; it aims to OCR more than 20 million pages of content in many languages, to make library data OAI compliant and therefore harvestable, to address usability issues through improved presentation of search results and to make improvements in semantic interoperability including multilingual search and retrieval.

Additionally, the national libraries of Bulgaria and Romania will join The European Library as part of TELplus.

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DISMARC is a collection of audio collections and will, when open to the public later in 2008, provide access to a large quantity of European cultural, scientific and scholarly music audio. Content providers – archives, broadcasters, museums, universities, research institutes, private collectors – will be able to open up their collections to the wider world. The DISMARC content collection is drawn from European-owned, culturally-significant, music audio and music-related material from the early 20th century until today.

DISMARC collects metadata from participating archives, maps it to a DISMARC protocol and stores it securely. By browsing this 'metastore', users will be able to search all participating archives simultaneously. The DISMARC consortium members are major European broadcasters (RBB, YLE), universities (SOAS, HMTH) and archives (EMEM, ISPAN, SVA) who contribute their unique content. They are supported in preparing DISMARC by cultural knowledge disseminators (WOMEX), technology engineers (AIT) and educators (GME).

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The DELOS network intends to conduct a joint programme of activities aimed at integrating and coordinating the ongoing research activities of the major European teams working in Digital Library - related areas with the goal of developing the next generation Digital Library technologies.

The objective is to:

• define unifying and comprehensive theories and frameworks over the life-cycle of Digital Library information,
• build interoperable multimodal/multilingual services and integrated content management ranging from the personal to the global for the specialist and the general population. The Network aims at developing generic Digital Library technology to be incorporated into industrial-strength Digital Library Management Systems (DLMSs), offering advanced functionality through reliable and extensible services.

The Network will also disseminate knowledge of Digital Library technologies to many diverse application domains. To this end a Virtual Digital Library Competence Centre has been established which provides specific user communities with access to advanced Digital Library technologies, services, testbeds, and the necessary expertise and knowledge to facilitate their take-up.

Other important objectives are:

• to network and structure European Digital Library - related research in order to consolidate an emerging community; to provide a forum where researchers, practitioners, and representatives of interested applications and industries can exchange ideas and experiences;
• to promote an exchange programme towards improving international cooperation in Digital Library research areas.

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Coopération DELOS - The European Library

The cooperation DELOS-The European Library has been structured into four Tasks, described here, and will focus primarily on the integration of DELOS into the existing "The European Library" system. More details on the following page.

France, Italy and the UK are working together on MICHAEL, a ground-breaking project that aims to open up worldwide access to the European cultural heritage. The project is supported by the European Commission with funding through its eTen programme, which is dedicated to the deployment of new technologies in Europe.

MICHAEL aims to provide simple and quick access to the digital collections of museums, libraries and archives from different European countries. Work began in June 2004, with the focus on implementing an innovative multi-lingual open source platform that will be equipped with a search engine.

By 2007, the MICHAEL platform will be capable of retrieving digital collections that are dispersed across Europe. There will be many uses for MICHAEL, for example students and researchers will be able to discover information about European collections that might previously have been difficult to find.The services will also support cultural tourism, the creative industries and other interests.

The MICHAEL consortium is made up of the ministries of culture of France and Italy, the Museums, Bibliothèques and Archives Council of the United Kingdom, supported by the private bodies Dedale, AJLSM and Amitié for technological and administrative aspects. A proposal to extend the project to nine other EU countries has been submitted to the European Commission.

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Coopération MICHAEL - The European Library

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BRICKS has two components:

1. The BRICKS Community - the aggregation of a large community of users, composed of content providers, art professionals, and art researchers, as well as students, citizens, tourists, etc. in order to build a consensus, sharing knowledge and service on Digital Content. A unique chance to support the cultural institutions in encouraging innovation.

   To join the BRICKS Community means a better visibility and European participation, to share resources and experiences across Europe and World wide, to develop a new generation of Digital Bibliothèques using innovative and advanced technologies, to be in contact with many different potential customers and professionals interested in your content. If a member intends to be part of the BRICKS Community it should express its interest and agree with the general BRICKS Community mission: "Create a service oriented shared European Digital Memory".

2. The BRICKS Project – Building Resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services – researches and implements advanced open source software solutions for the sharing and the exploitation of digital cultural resources.

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Coopération BRICKS - The European Library

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