One of the first aspects of the project to get started will be catching up on recent developments in the Europeana Data Model by the metadata working group of the Europeana v1.0 project. It is important for CARARE because this new data model will be implemented in Europeana's search interface by the time that our metadata and contents come online.

Work on the EDM has been quite intensive over the last few months with several draft versions being released. The next stage of its development involves working with the content providing projects, like CARARE, to test the model against real data.