The work of the Europeana Libraries project is organized into 6 Work Packages. Their activities are described below. For more details on how the work is progressing or to download publicly available reports, please see the Outcomes page.

Read the full Description of Work.

WP1

Leader: MDR Partners

• Overseeing the management of the Europeana Libraries project.
• Ensuring all goals are completed on time and within budget.
• Making sure all work respects copyright and other agreements.

WP2

Leader: University College London

• Studying the world of libraries and interviewing experts from all library domains.
• Recommending the best and most sustainable way to aggregate library content and add it to Europeana.
• Creating a new business model for The European Library.

WP3

Leader: The European Library

• Aggregating digital content from all Europeana Libraries content partners.
• Ensuring this content is added to Europeana.
• Organising workshops to help partners with the process.
• Establishing and carrying out an ingestion plan.

WP4

Leader: Instituto Superior Tecnico

• Upgrading The European Library's aggregation technology to allow full-text search capabilities.
• Creating a scalable system to deal with bigger quantities of data in future.

WP5

Leader: The European Library

• Examining how existing library metadata complies with the new Europeana Data Model (EDM).
• Recommending ways to comply with the EDM.

WP6

Leader: The Europeana Foundation

• Promoting the Europeana Libraries project at a national and institutional level.
• Publishing reports outlining metadata standards for research libraries to adopt.
• Increasing use of Europeana and The European Library by pushing the use of digitised content in academic circles and among the wider public.