Belgrade: 1788 – View of Belgrade from the Zemun side
Title:
National Libraries’ Workshop: “Exploring & Sharing Danube Collections”
Description:
The Austrian National Library secured funding from the Erland Kolding Nielsen Fund, an annual grant provided by CENL, for a collaborative project involving national libraries of the countries along the Danube River. Initially, plans were in place for the Austrian National Library in Vienna to host a workshop in March 2020, with a specific focus on collections related to the Danube. The goal was to create a shared virtual exhibition, which would be featured on the websites of participating national libraries and Europeana. However, due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were some modifications to the project’s original concept. In response, the workshop transitioned to an online format, and the project’s emphasis shifted towards digital collections and the preparation of a collective virtual exhibition on Europeana, scheduled for release in March 2021.
Area:
Digital Collections – Virtual Exhibitions – Europeana
Coordinator:
Austrian National Library
Partners:
The project brought together the national libraries of 10 countries (Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine) and Europeana (headquartered in the Netherlands).
Duration:
2019–2021
Project Team:
Laslo Blašković – Responsible Person for Project Implementation, NBS Director
Tamara Butigan Vučaj – Coordinator
Slaven Popara – Selection of Danube-related Materials and Metadata Specialist
Maša Miloradović – Metadata Specialist
Nataša Petrović – Metadata and Publication of Digital Collections on Digitalna NBS and Europeana
Tatjana Domazet – Metadata and Publication of Digital Collections on Digitalna NBS and Europeana
Jasna Majerle – Digitisation of the Selected Materials
Uroš Žugić – Digitisation of the Selected Materials
Nadja Stojković Jovanović – Selection of the Digitised Danube Materials for the Virtual Exhibition
Biljana Rakočević – Promotion of Project Outcomes on Social Media and the NBS Website
Jelena Vitezović – Promotion of Project Outcomes on Social Media and the NBS Website
Project Outcomes:
A thematic collection published on Digitalna NBS
Content published on Europeana
“Danube Connecting Europe” – a virtual exhibition on Europeana
The project was led by the Austrian National Library and funded by the Erland Kolding Nielsen Fund within CENL.
