Contents: 1. Introduction and Background 2. Calls for Tenders by Film Archives 3. Sample Descriptive Documents This deliverable from the European Film Gateway 1914 project explains the process of preparing and issuing an RFT (Request for Tender). It was written by the EYE Film Institute staff who built up considerable experience during its participation in the Images for the Future …

Contents: 1 Executive summary 2 Introduction 3 Response to the survey Digitisation activity 5 Digital access 6 Digital preservation 7 Digitisation expenditure This is the first report on the state of digitisation in Europe’s cultural heritage institutions published by the ENUMERATE Thematic Network. The report is based on nearly 2000 ‘core’ survey responses, from 29 European countries. The survey, carried …

Bij het toegankelijk maken van erfgoedcollecties verschuift de nadruk van het online toegankelijk maken van collecties via institutionele websites, naar een ‘open’ benadering, waarbij het publiek participeert. Het open karakter van de nieuwe aanpak is ook terug te zien aan de voorwaarden waaronder archieven hun (AV-)collecties beschikbaar stellen (creative commons). De auteurs gebruiken het Open Beelden-platform als voorbeeld om de …

Contents: 1 Context 2 Project Methodology 3 The Findings 4 Recommendations 4.1 For the Europeana Inside Consortium 4.2 For organisations wishing to participate in Europeana Appendix 1 National Library of Luxembourg Appendix 2 Wellcome Trust Library Appendix 3 Visual Arts Data Service Appendix 4 Europeana Inside Use Cases EUROPEANA INSIDE is seeking to put into the hands of (AV-)content providers …

This short recommendation offers advice on naming conventions for files. This is a very practical and useful guideline to help archivists avoid pitfalls when creating a file naming system.