Linked Heritage Glossary

Europeana is the European Commission's flagship digital cultural heritage portal. It can be found at: www.Europeana.eu. It is a central discovery and access point for European historical, social, cultural and artistic materials that have been made available online in digital form by (mainly) cultural / public heritage institutions. Freely accessible to the public, and entirely publiccaly funded, Europeana itself primarily aims to offer:

• Aggregation of metadata about digitised cultural content (again, not the content itself)
• Facilitation of mass digitisation and expertise-sharing projects in the heritage sector
• Distribution of the metadata about existing content (but only the metadata)
• Engagement with European digital culture in new ways developed by Europeana Foundation's projects and those of its network of contributors.