1. 43rd IALHI Annual
Conference
Lisbon, 19-22 September 2012
HOPE in a nutshell
Marco Rendina
CGIL (Italy)
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

2. 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.

3. 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) HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

4. 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
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

5. 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.
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

6. HOPE pictures
Examples
• 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
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

7. HOPE texts
Examples
• 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.
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

8. 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.
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

9. HOPE videos
Examples
• 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.
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

10. HOPE architecture
mies
For dum
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11. 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
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

12. Who submits data to
Europeana
Europeana
Metadata Contribution
Aggregators Individual institutions
Aggregators are
Projects Institutions
EFG APENet ATHENA TEL
EUScreen BHL Europe CARARE BAM
MIMO Judaica HOPE SCRAN
Travel Kultura.hr
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

13. Social history content in
Europeana
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

14. Social history content in
Europeana
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

15. Social history content in
Europeana
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

16. 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.
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

17. 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.
HOPE is co-funded by the EU ICT Policy Support Programme.

18. More information
www.peoplesheritage.eu
Thank you for your
attention!
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questions or comments?
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