european digital library kick off (JOBS)
The European Library
European Digital Library Kicks Off!
Museums, Archives, Audio-visual Archives and Libraries start their
cross domain collaboration to create the European Digital Library
this
month with the start of EDLnet. EDLnet will deliver cross-domain
collaboration and prototypes for stakeholder and user comment.
EDLnet is a Thematic Network under the eContentPlus Progamme, run by
The European Library together with the National Library of the
Netherlands. The network will work on the human and political as well
as the technical and semantic issues to create an interoperable
system
able to access fully digitized content from these cultural
repositories. This work will be shown through a mock up and
prototypes
over the next 12 months to give users their say in the process.
To deliver such prototypes and understand the different requirements
of the domains, The European Library is recruiting for several
technical and non-technical positions to create prototypes of the
European Digital Library over the next 12 months. Based in The Hague
in the Netherlands we are looking for enthusiastic individuals to
people the EDL Office and run EDLnet.
In June the major bodies representing the Europe's libraries, museums
and archives will meet to establish a foundation able to develop and
sustain a joint portal accessing Europe's cultural heritage. At the
same time EDLnet, the project to make the initiative a reality,
begins.
The following meetings and events are scheduled:
Meetings
The Conference of European National Librarians, are organizing a
Foundation Set up meeting on June 29th, with invitees from: European
Branch of ICA, International Federation of Television Archives,
Association de Cinémathèques Européennes, European Museums Forum,
International Council of Museums Europe, Consortium of European
Research Libraries, Ligue des bibliothèques Européennes des
Recherches, MICHAEL AISBL, European Board of National Archivists and
the European Commission, Information Society
July 5th EDLnet Work package Leader Meeting to develop the project
plan, adding concrete dates and forms of communication.
September 12-14th EDLnet Thematic Partner Network Kick Off meeting.
All partners in EDLnet are invited and work groups under the 3 major
work packages of: Human & Political Interoperability, Technical and
Semantic Interoperability and Users for Usability will be set up.
Events:
September 2007 - project site www.EuropeanDigitalLibrary.eu will be
live - giving access to digital items, testing access from new
domains, news on progress in EDLnet, home of the prototypes and user
feedback and to the EDLnet Thematic Partner Network site.
Jobs:
Would you like to uncover the rich cultural heritage of Europe? Do
you
have web publishing, project management, development, metadata or
coordination skills? Do you fancy living in The Netherlands for a
couple of years? Are you an EU citizen? Then click on
http://libraries.theeuropeanlibrary.org/jobs/jobscareers_en.html
For more details on The European Library please contact:
Fleur Stigter, Marketing & Communications
Fleur.Stigter{AT}TheEuropeanLibrary.org
Notes:
The European Library is a service of the Conference of European
National Librarians (CENL) offering free, item level, access to the
combined resources, books, magazines, journals, manuscripts, sound
and
video archives, both digital and non-digital, from 23 of the 47
national libraries of Europe. It is the organizational and technical
starting point of the European Digital Library. http://www.TheEuropeanLibrary.org