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• Europeana Fashion

  On 1 March 2012 the Europeana Fashion project was launched.

• CARARE dataset part of Europeana LOD pilot

  Europeana has published 2.4 million objects under CC0. The collections used in the Europeana LOD pilot come from 8 direct Europeana providers encompassing over 200 cultural institutions from 15 countries which include the SwNHB collection recently uploaded through CARARE.

• CARARE data in Europeana

  The first CARARE dataset was successfully published by Europeana on Monday the 6th February from the Swedish National Heritage Board (SwNHB). The publication follows two years’ work on data preparation, the creation of a CARARE metadata schema tailored towards archaeological content and establishing the technology for a complete harvesting, aggregation and ingestion service.

• Hackathon Winners

  At the end of October, the win­ners of the Euro­peanaT­ech Hackathon held in Vienna, took part in a work­shop designed to move their prod­uct ideas fur­ther along the path to a ‘mar­ketable’ web­site or app.

• New Chair for Europeana

  The Chief Executive of the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Bruno Racine, has been elected to chair the Board of the Europeana Foundation, responsible for the EU’s primary cultural heritage showcase, Europeana.eu.