Images for the Future

During the next seven years, the Images for the Future project will preserve a core collection of Dutch audiovisual heritage for future use through digitization. In total, 137.200 hours of video, 22.510 hours of film, 123.900 hours of audio, and 2.9 million photos from these archives will be restored, conserved, digitized, and opened for access via various services.

The digitized material will become accessible for education, the creative industry and the general audience. The focus in the coming year is directed towards developing services for educational purposes and stimulating users to become involved.

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Now Online: Europeana, Europe's Digital Library

Europeana, Europe’s multimedia online library opens to the public today. At www.europeana.eu, Internet users around the world can now access more than two million books, maps, recordings, photographs, archival documents, paintings and films from national libraries and cultural institutions of the EU's 27 Member States.

Europeana opens up new ways of exploring Europe’s heritage: anyone interested in literature, art, science, politics, history, architecture, music or cinema will have free and fast access to Europe's greatest collections and masterpieces in a single virtual library through a web portal available in all EU languages. But this is just the beginning. In 2010, Europeana will give access to millions of items representing Europe's rich cultural diversity and will have interactive zones such as communities for special interests.

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