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

                                   

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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.

                                   

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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

                                   

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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.

                                   

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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.

                                   

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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.

                                   

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HOPE architectureFor dummies

                                   

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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

                                   

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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

                                   

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Social history content in Europeana

                                   

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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.

                                   

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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.

                                   

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More information www.peoplesheritage.eu

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