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Workshop on “Digital Libraries and Open Access. Interoperability strategies” will take place at the British Academy in London (UK) on 4th February 2011

The potential for using Europeana in schools was demonstrated by entrants in the recent eLearning Awards organised by European Schoolnet. The winning project, from Portmarnock Community School in Ireland involved pupils creating their own blogs about figures from history using digital resources.

Europe press release - Europeana gives online access to over 14 million examples of Europe's cultural heritage

Euromed 2010 conference proceedings have been published under The Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

The CARARE metadata schema has been established to support interoperability between the metadata that is created and maintained by heritage organisations and the standards and schemas defined by Europeana.

Produced by the Archaeology Data Service for CARARE this review takes a broad look at different approaches to curating and accessing heritage content including government funding, project funding, subscription services, endowment, commercial partnerships, advertising revenue, direct charging, low cost models, mixed models and partnerships. Now available to download from the CARARE website.

A new Creative Commons Public Domain Mark was launched last week at the Europeana conference. Europeana is promoting the use of the Public Domain Mark for content which is free of copyright restrictions - this means content where the rights have expired or where it is excluded from protection.

The Europeana Open Culture 2010 is now open for registation. The focus this year is on the use of Wikipedia and Google in the cultural heritage domain.

The second CARARE meeting held in Pisa on the 16th and 17th September demonstrated how much the project has achieved in just 7 months.

CARARE is organising a workshop on metadata for 3D objects on the 21st September during the VAST conference in Paris and there is still time to register.