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Europeana 1914-1918 Collection Days, Mikkel Christoffersen
Europeana 1914-1918 Collection Days, Mikkel Christoffersen
Janie Tremblay
To commemorate the centenary of World War I, Europeana has initiated a couple of projects under the header of Europeana 1914-1918. One of these is Collection Days. Modelled on the British antique road shows, at a Collection Day, people turn up with their 1914-1918 memorabilia and have them digitized and catalogued on the spot. They also get to tell their family story, which is the main thing. In this project, the object supports the story rather than vice-versa. In the spring of 2012, a Collection Day was held at Sonderborg Castle in Denmark. It is a democratisation of Denmark's cultural …
New Collection Gathers World War I Artifacts, John Charlton
New Collection Gathers World War I Artifacts, John Charlton
Janie Tremblay
It is no surprise that Europeana, Europe's online cultural archive, will be commemorating the start of World War I in 1914. With the help of eight national and major libraries across Europe, Europeana is ammassing digitized versions of relevant materials that illustrate the impact of the war into the Europeana Collections 1914-1918, which will be officially launched in 2014. More than 400,000 items will be digitized and offered online as part of this initiative, while personal material submitted from the public will be digitized and added to another Europeana online archive called Europeana 1914-1918. In other news, the European Library …
World War I Film Footage In Cyberspace
World War I Film Footage In Cyberspace
Janie Tremblay
The European Film Gateway 1914 (EFG1914) plans to digitise films about World War 1 that have never been seen outside a cinema or on television. This is the first time that such films will be made available on the Internet via two web sites: www.europeana.eu and www.europeanfilmgateway.eu. European archives are digitising the footage, which includes newsreels and documentary films as well as fiction films from and about World War I. The two-year project is a collaboration with partners in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Serbia, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Spain, and the Netherlands. Adapted from the source document.