[foundation-board] Fwd: DM2E: excellent news!

[Jonathan Gray]

On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Ben Laurie <ben at links.org> wrote:
> Speaking as the n00b ... what's DM2E?

Of course! My original briefing email to the board is below.

Happy to answer any questions.

(BTW: team at okfn.org goes to the OKF's core team, including folks from:
http://okfn.org/about/team/)

All the best,

Jonathan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jonathan Gray <jonathan.gray at okfn.org>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 6:17 PM
Subject: New EU ICT PSP bid: DM2E
To: OKF Board Mailing List <foundation-board at lists.okfn.org>


(Got to love those acronyms!)

Just a note to say I'm currently contributing towards drafting another
EU bid. This is in the area of cultural heritage content and metadata.
We're working with some of the existing team from Europeana, which is
Europe's Digital Library.

I've included a rough Q&A below. I'll be working on this for the next
48 hours or so. If anyone has any questions, please don't hesitate to
ask!

J.

## What is this?

Broadly speaking this is about encouraging reuse of EU cultural
heritage material and open (hooray!) metadata about this material.

## How does this fit with OKF objectives?

Completely in line with several OKF initiatives in this area -
including Public Domain Works, public domain WG, cultural heritage WG,
Bibliographica, open bibliographic data WG, and others.

We've pushed very hard for Europeana to open up their metadata. Now
this will be under CC0 - hooray!

## What will we actually be doing?

We would mostly be doing community building, dissemination and other
non-technical things. E.g. organising hackdays, workshops,
competitions, etc.

## What are the financials? How big a project is it?

€4.5 million total. Around 10 major partners (we're a major partner)
and some minor ones. We'd be allocated something in region of €3-400k
for around 36 months.

## Which bit of the EC is funding this?

This is from ICT PSP = Policy Support Programme. Used to be called
eContentplus. For the brave, more information is available here:

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm

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Jonathan Gray

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