The European Library and Europeana: History, Projects and Future

Zimina, Elena I.

doi:10.25281/0869-608x-2011-0-1-97-102

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“…The prototype of a European digital library called Europeana was launched in 2008; in May 2015, Europeana became one of the European Commission's Digital Service Infrastructures, DSI, providing networked cross-border services for citizens, businesses, and public administrations (Zimina 2011). The initiative relies on the interaction between the Europeana Initiative and the active digitization strategies of the EU Member States; it is financed by European funds complemented by specific funds from the Ministries of Culture of the participating countries, and works in line with EU policies and strategies in areas such as inclusiveness; online accessibility; re-use of public information; and promotion of European research, development, and innovation by directly complementing and supporting the work undertaken by cultural heritage institutions within their national cultural policies (Scott 2013;Valtysson 2017).…”

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Financial Sustainability of Digitizing Cultural Heritage: The International Platform Europeana

Borin,

Donato

2023

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In recent years, the increasing demand for digital cultural content has intensified the digitization challenges for cultural organizations. Among these difficulties, cultural organizations have been struggling to find the financial resources for digitizing their cultural heritage, as well as for storing data, developing digital skills, and implementing enhancement and management processes for their digitized materials. The financial sustainability of digitization projects has therefore been problematic, especially for small and medium organizations. In this framework, among its attempts to solve these issues, the European Union has launched the project Europeana, a digital platform uniting European digitized heritage and empowering cultural organizations through a variety of services. The aim of our research was to investigate the Europeana project to understand how it eases the financial costs of digitization for cultural organizations, and how the Europeana model could bring insights into how to improve the financial sustainability of digitization of cultural heritage.

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