TELplus is one in a series of projects which have been working to enhance and extend The European Library and/or to contribute to the development of Europeana.

The list below includes current, forthcoming and past projects.

Europeana
Europeana, the European digital library, museum and archive is a prototype portal offering users direct access to more than 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers and archival papers.

The portal was launched on 20 November 2008 by Viviane Reding, European Commissioner for Information Society and Media, in Brussels. According to the European Commission's plan, by 2010 it will include about 10 million digital objects.

The Europeana portal was created under EDLnet, a Thematic Network funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus Programme. It started in July 2007 and its work has now been taken over by Europeanav.1.0 (see link below).

Europeana group
The Europeana group comprises a number of projects part-funded by the European Commission’s eContentplus programme, which over the next 3 years will be contributing technology solutions and content to Europeana.eu.
EuropeanaTravel is part of this group. Access the projects' list here.

Projects of interest in the context of the creation of Europeana

ARROW (Accessible Registries of Rights Information and Orphan Works towards Europeana)
Launched in December 2008, it will create an infrastructure for the management of any type of rights information, thus facilitating the actual implementation of innovative business models for both digital libraries and private digital content providers. The project will also create a European distributed registry of orphan works and access to network of existing clearance centres for out of print works.

CACAO
(Cross-language access to catalogues and on-line libraries)
This 2-years project aims to enhance the multilingual capabilities of on-line digital libraries. As a result of the project's work, users will be able to type queries in their own language and retrieve documents and objects in any available language. The sound integration of CACAO's infrastructure designed for multilingual purposes with current digital library and catalogue systems will be obtained by coupling natural language processing techniques with existing information retrieval systems.

EDLproject
A Targeted Project funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus Programme, within the area of Cultural content and scientific/scholarly content. EDLproject integrated into The European Library service the bibliographic catalogues and digital collections of the National Libraries of Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain and Sweden. It also contributed to the enhancement of the multilingual capacity of The European Library portal and took first steps towards collaboration between The European Library and other non-library cultural initiatives.

FUMAGABA
This is a project of The European Library that is working to integrate 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.

KEEP
Started on 1 February 2009 with a duration of three years, the project will develop an Emulation Access Platform to enable accurate rendering of both static and dynamic digital objects: text, sound, and image files; multimedia documents, websites, databases, videogames etc. The overall goal of the project is to facilitate universal access to cultural heritage by developing flexible tools for accessing and storing a wide range of digital objects.
The project is funded under the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Commission.

MIMO - Musical Instrument Museums Online
The project will digitise content and create a common access portal for musical instruments. MIMO will also provide access to its content through Europeana.

STERNA
The acronym stands for Semantic Web-based Thematic European Reference Network Application. The project includes twelve European Natural History Museums and related institutions which hold content on biodiversity, wildlife and nature in general and that are working together to contribute their collections to Europeana.
STERNA specifically addresses small cultural heritage institutions and content providers that want to actively participate and contribute to Europeana but lack technical skills and financial resources.

TEL-ME-MOR
Funded by the European Commission under the Sixth Framework Programme of the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme. TEL-ME-MOR supported the 10 national libraries from the New Member States in becoming full members of The European Library. It also stimulated and facilitated the participation of organisations from the New Member States of the European Union in projects funded within the IST area.

Video Active
Video Active provides access to television material from audiovisual archives across Europe. It enables to explore how cultural and historical events have been televised within and across nations, providing a unique perspective on European television history.