Accreditation of aggregators for Europeana

Abstract

Europeana, the European Union's digital library, was introduced ten years ago in Brussels. When it was launched, the interest in the cultural portal was so great that the website soon ceased operation due to overload. Over the past decade, many aggregators have been created across Europe to provide data to Europeana, but some of them are no longer working today. That is why Europeana staff has developed an accreditation scheme that will help identify currently active aggregators and recognize them as reliable partners for cultural heritage institutions that want to publish their data on Europeana.