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[FYI] (Fwd) EU Archive Network Project



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Date:          Fri, 18 Dec 1998 18:34:37 +0000
From:          Emanuella Giavarra <ecup.secr@dial.pipex.com>
To:            ecup-list@kaapeli.fi
Subject:       EU Archive Network Project
Reply-to:      ecup-list@kaapeli.fi

(from lis-european-programmes)

European Union Archive Network Project

EUAN is  a  project for the Info2000 initiative launched by DGXIII of
the 
European Commission, responsible for telecommunications and the
information 
market. Info2000 called for multi-national, public-private sector 
partnerships with imaginative projects to exploit public sector 
information.

EUAN is about opening up access to archives across the European Union. 
The 
underlying vision is that a citizen should be able, using Internet, to
get 
information about the contents of the national archives of another
country 
of the Union.  At present geographical, language and cultural barriers 
impede this.  

The archives of the partners contain a wealth of information from the
11th 
century to the 20th, ranging from government files to collections of 
private papers of prominent individuals, from records of the Socialist 
International to registers of property rights in Scotland and from
Swedish 
diplomatic correspondence to the records of the Allied Control
Commission 
for Italy.   The project will open up access to the top level catalogues
of 
all these records.    

EUAN will examine both archival questions: how to ensure consistent 
description independent of language, and information technology
questions: 
how to navigate between different computer systems.  The project will 
produce a prototype user interface together with reports and guidelines
on 
promoting further European standardisation in these areas.

The EUAN partners are:
the National Archives of Scotland (co-ordinator) 
the National Archives of Sweden
the National Archives of Italy
the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam 
Scottish Archive Network Ltd
EUAN is an inclusive rather than exclusive project and dissemination and 
sharing of results will go far beyond the consortium partners.

The project, which is expected to begin in January1999 and run for 2
years,
 is worth approximately 0.5 million ECUs (about USD 0.5 million) of
which
around half  will be contributed by the EC.

EUAN will be run in close partnership with other European initiatives, 
including another archive project selected in Info2000, the European
Visual 
Archive (EVA). It will also work closely with international archival
bodies 
including the ICA committees on Information Technology and on
Descriptive 
Standards, and will complement the Swiss initiative to provide a common 
Internet gateway for European archive websites.


For further information contact:
George MacKenzie  (the National Archives of Scotland, 
Edinburgh EH1 3YY  United Kingdom/ Royaume Uni
Tel: +44 131 535 1313 or 1382; 
Fax +44 131 535 1360; 
<gmackenz@sro.gov.uk>