WHY AND HOWTO CONTRIBUTE TO EUROPEANA

How to participate in Europeana

A partner institution interested in participating in Europeana will follow a procedure of subsequent submissions of information about its objects that will lead to the final approval of the request by Europeana Operations Team.

The Operation Team will then supply guidance and support for the harvesting and metadata mapping. Guidelines and technical requirements documents will also be given for the ingestion of the data as well as a Content Checker, a web tool useful for the validation of the mapping.

On publication in the European Portal, but also in case of update or ingestion of new data, the European Operation Team gives notice to the Cultural Heritage Organisation.

This procedure summarises the steps that aggregators, projects and content providers need to follow in order to contribute their data directly to Europeana.

Indirect content providers (e.g. those organisations contributing to Europeana through an aggregator or project) have to meet the requirements provided by the consortium in which they are involved.

What to provide to Europeana

Content providers can contribute to Europeana with the following types of items:

• Texts: books, letters, archival papers, dissertations, poems, newspaper articles, facsimiles, manuscripts and music scores
• Images: paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, pictures of museum objects, maps, graphic designs, plans and musical notation
• Video: films, news broadcasts and television programmes
• Sound: music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts
• 3D: virtual 3D representations of objects, architecture or places
  Source: http://www.europeana.eu/portal/usingeuropeana_results.html

The categories Texts, Images, Video, Sound and 3D can be used by the users to filter search results in the Europeana portal.