hope in a nutshell @ialhi international conference 2012
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HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
43rd IALHI Annual ConferenceLisbon, 19-22 September 2012
HOPE in a nutshellMarco Rendina
CGIL (Italy)
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
The HOPE Vision
HOPE would like to put together on-line social and labour history collections which have been scattered throughout Europe.
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
The HOPE partners so far• Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (IISH - Netherlands)• Amsab-Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis
(AMSAB - Belgium)• Confederazione Generale Italiana del Lavoro (CGIL - Italy)• Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung: Archiv und Bibliothek
(FES - Germany)• Fundação Mário Soares (FMS - Portugal)• Schweizerisches Sozialarchiv (SSA - Switzerland)• Työväen Arkisto (TA - Finland)• Verein für Geschichte der Arbeiterbewegung (VGA - Austria)• Nyílt Társadalom Archívum (KEE/OSA - Hungary)• Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (UPIP - France)• Génériques (GENERI – France)• Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
(CNR-ISTI - Italy)• Stichting European Digital Library (EDLF - Netherlands)
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
The HOPE objectives• To develop and share best
practices in the field of digitisation, preservation and on-line access
• To engage the community of social history institutions
• To build a Social History Metadata Aggregator for Europeana
• To build a Social History Digital Content Repository
• To build an upgraded version of the Labour History Portal
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
What does HOPE provide?
• More than 880,000 digital objects.
• Ranging from the late 18th century to the present.
• Coming from several European countries
• Including pictures, videos, audio documents and texts.
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
HOPE picturesExamples
• Objects: photographs, posters, pins and badges, postcards, banners and flags.
• Occasions and topics: labour movement, Spanish Civil War, World Wars, resistance, migration, human rights, student movement, etc.
• Photo archives of trade unions, Socialist and Social Democratic parties
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
HOPE textsExamples
• Social history and political science documents and publications
• Political programme documents from the beginnings of the labour movement in the 19th century until the student movement of the 1960s.
• Publications (periodicals and fliers) from trade unions and social democratic / socialist parties from the middle of the 19th century down to the present
• Publications and brochures from individuals, e.g. Marx and Engels.
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
HOPE audio documents Examples
• Conferences of historians and political scientists.
• African independence movements.
• Interviews on the social movements of the 20th century.
• Recordings from the 1956 Hungarian uprising.
• Recordings from meetings of trade unions and socialist / social democratic parties.
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
HOPE videosExamples
• Social history films from 1926 to 2002.
• Interviews on the social movements of the 20th century.
• Moscow television programme 1985 to 1994: glasnost, perestroika.
• Propaganda and educational films from 1957 to 1990.
• Demonstrations by trade unions and socialist / social democratic parties.
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
HOPE architectureFor dummies
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
What is Europeana
• Europeana is a common access point to digital cultural and scientific heritage in Europe.
• Giving access to more than 24 millions digital objects.
• Coming from more than 1500 European institutions.
• Publishing all the metadata under Creative Commons license
http://www.europeana.eu
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
Who submits data to Europeana
Europeana
Individual institutionsAggregators
Projects Institutions
Aggregators are
TEL
BAM
SCRAN
Kultura.hr
EFG APENet
BHL EuropeEUScreen
JudaicaMIMO
Travel
ATHENA
CARARE
HOPE
Metadata Contribution
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
Social history content in Europeana
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
Social history content in Europeana
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
Social history content in Europeana
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
Benefits for Content Providers
• All participating organisations profit from an international cooperation.
• Reaching out to new user groups through the Europeana portal.
• Applying best practices for digitisation, preservation and access.
• Using the HOPE infrastructure to store and publish their digital content.
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
Benefits for Users• Research and use documents on
the labour and social history of Europe.
• Browse and use collections which are spread across Europe.
• As a researcher: for study and publications.
• As a student or pupil: for presentations and homeworks.
• As journalist: for articles and publications.
• As an amateur historian: for looking into the social and labour history of Europe.
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.
More information www.peoplesheritage.eu
Thank you for your attention!
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