This came (fairly) recently and could be of interest to list members
with photographic and similar collections.
Michael Hill
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Subject: EUROPEAN VISUAL ARCHIVE
Date: 25 January 1999 12:08
To lis-european-programmes subscribers
I hope this is of interest to list subscribers.
Subject : EVA European Project
Author : Tim Harris
Date : 11/02/99
European Visual Archive Project (PUB1128/EVA)
The European Visual Archive (EVA) is a two year transnational project
which
began on 1 December 1998.
It is part funded by the European Commission via DGXIII, the directorate
responsible for telecommunications and the information market. The
project
is one of 20 selected from a total of over 140 applicants under the
INFO2000
programme call for initiatives to exploit Europe_s public sector
information.
The EVA project is a European Strategic project involving both private
and
public sectors to stimulate the use of multimedia information content by
exploiting resources in public archives. The principal aim is to
enhance
access to European Heritage through digital preservation of archival
collections. In the case of EVA this means photographs from 1900 to the
present being digitised and displayed on the World Wide Web. The
universal
nature of the photograph makes an ideal subject for an international
project. The dream would be for a researcher interested in a particular
subject and time span to have ready access via the internet to images
held
in many different archives across Europe. Thus someone researching
docklands pre-1914 could locate images in Antwerp and London and compare
installations regardless of language or national barriers.
The initial stage of the project is to establish a large enough digital
databank of photographs from the archives of two major cities, London
and
Antwerp to examine the best methods of digitisation, levels of
description
and presentation on a website.
A total of 20,000 photograph images will be available to researchers
with
the aim of extending this to other European public archives who will be
able
to benefit from the EVA project studies on description standards, image
quality, metadata, copyright and pricing policies.
At the end of the project a working model will be developed so that all
European public archives will be able to use the system. The model will
have solutions to language barriers, use appropriate search and
navigation
methods, employ direct charging systems and thereby introduce a very
easily
accessible tool for the multimedia industry and all archive users.
The EVA partners are : Telepolis Antwerpen (TA) Belgium
London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) UK
Stadsarchief Antwerpen (SAA) Belgium
Nederlands Instituut voor Wetenschnappelijke Informatiediensten (NIWI)
Netherlands
European Commission of Preservation and Access (ECPA) Netherlands
Lernout and Hauspie Speech Products (L+H) Germany
The project is worth approximately 1 million Euros of which 50% is
contributed by the European Commission.
EVA will run in partnership with a number of other information projects
including EUAN (the European Union Archive Network) from the INFO2000
programme. Whereas EVA is starting at item-level description of
archives,
the EUAN project is starting at series-level description of archives.
It
will be useful to construct an interface between these 2 projects which
have
similar challenges both technical and legal to meet.
EVA will work within international standards already established and
looks
forward to close co-operation with the ICA and regional and national
archives in the European Union. The results of the EVA project will be
disseminated as widely as possible.
To find out more about EVA please visit the website at www.eva-eu.org/
or contact
Tim Harris, London Metropolitan Archives
40 Northampton Road, London EC1R 0HB
Tel + 44 171 332 3841
Fax + 44 171 837 4306
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