Every month we’ll be highlighting one partner of the Europeana Newspapers Project on this blog. These articles will give you the ‘inside story’ about our partners, their specific role within the project and the various challenges that arise with the refinement and aggregation of historical newspapers. This month we feature the university library “Svetozar Markovic” in Belgrade. University … Read more
When the Europeana Newspapers project finishes assembling 18 million pages of digitised newspaper content, it will send this wealth of cultural heritage material to Europeana. Through Europeana and the broader ecosystem of Europeana services, anyone will be able to search European newspapers from the 17th to 20th Century, in 20 different languages. Unfortunately, the existence of … Read more
1. Could you introduce yourself, your organisation and your role in the Europeana Newspapers Project? I work for the Berlin State Library in the position of the head of the Department for Bibliographic Services. I have a strong background as a manuscript librarian and moved on to serial materials, mainly newspapers and journals, in the … Read more
Erdal Naneci, IT director of The National Library of Turkey, will give a presentation on the Europeana Newspapers Project in the plenary session at ANKOS, the most important Turkish Information Professional event of the year. The ANKOS conference will take place in Istanbul on 25th-27th of April. http://ankoslink.org.tr/who-should-attend.php The presentation will be on the Europeana Newspapers Project Slideshare after the … Read more
The project meeting at the National Library of France (BnF) was the closure and internal review of the first twelve months of the project. All work package leaders presented the work that had been done up to month twelve and the outlook for the coming year. Project partners were inspired to give their input for the following … Read more
Most of dissemination activities of the Europeana Newspapers project take place in countries of the project partners (Netherlands, Germany, United Kingdom, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Serbia, Austria, Italy, France and Turkey). One of the objective of the project is the network extension, which also means a particular focus on such European countries, which are not … Read more
University Library in Belgrade will visit two destinations this spring and present the magnificent Europeana Newspapers project. First on the schedule is SEEDI 2012 conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia (May 17&18) where Adam and Ömer will talk about A Gateway to European Newspapers Online: Increasing awareness of shared European history and culture. This news is especially wonderful because it … Read more
