Heritage of the People's Europe (2010-2013)

The Archivum participated as a research partner and content provider in a three-year European Union project entitled the Heritage of the People's Europe (HOPE).

HOPE is a Best Practice Network of archives, libraries, and museums that works in close cooperation with the Europeana digital library to improve access to highly significant but scattered digital collections on social history throughout Europe. The project 1) promoted the adoption of standards and best practices; 2) relied on proven open source technologies to create a unified digital content repository service; 3) made metadata and content available through Europeana; 4) enhanced and extended labourhistory.net, the portal of the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI); and 5) implemented a full-scale discovery-to-delivery model.

The result was an enabling infrastructure that could never have been achieved by any of the individual partner institutions, big or small, by itself.

HOPE was supported through the European Union Competitiveness and Innovation Framework ICT Policy Support Programme on Digital Libraries.