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

TELplus was a targeted project that ran for 2 years; it aimed 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 joined The European Library as part of TELplus.

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ARROW stands for Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works. ARROW will establish a single framework to manage rights information, supporting the development of Europeana – Europe’s digital library.

ARROW will address the interoperability of rights information along the whole value chain for digital libraries. The infrastructure will support the identification of a work, clarification of its rights status and the identification of rights holders. The project will enhance the interoperability of rights information, facilitating the flow of information between rights holders, agents, libraries and users.

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The CACAO project provides an infrastructure that enables cross-language functionality in digital libraries and library catalogues. The European Library aggregates the bibliographic and digital collections of Europe’s national libraries via a single multilingual interface.

The involvement of The European Library in the CACAO project has assisted in the development of the CACAO Application Profile and has furthermore facilitated the development of The European Library Application Profile for Objects to better facilitate cross-language searching.

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