EuropeanaTravel is a targeted project for cultural content in the target area digital
libraries of the eContentplus 2008 Work Programme funded by the European
Commission.1 Its overall objective is to digitise content on the theme of travel and
tourism for use in Europeana2 as requested by the EDL Foundation.3 The themed
content will come from the wonderful collections of major university libraries and
national libraries. The project is supported by CENL4 and LIBER,5 two founder
members of the EDL Foundation, and by the Foundation itself. A secondary objective
of the project is further to strengthen collaboration between CENL and LIBER
by extending their experience of joint working, thus increasing human interoperability
in support of Europeana. Other objectives include creating a LIBER closed
access aggregation service to aggregate material from LIBER members for Europeana,
continuing to mobilise support for Europeana amongst university libraries
in a systematic way, and supporting the spread of best practice in digitisation
by libraries. The consortium’s 19 members include 17 library members providing
content from 16 countries drawn roughly equally from the membership of CENL
and LIBER and from all European regions. The project will run for two years and
work closely and flexibly with the Europeana team. The EuropeanaTravel project
was launched in Tallinn on 11 May 2009 and this article has been compiled to
celebrate that event