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The main goal of the COMMUNIA project is to build a network of organisations that shall become the single European point of reference for high-level policy discussion and strategic action on all issues related to the public domain in the digital environment. It will also extend into related topics, such as alternative forms of licensing for creative material (e.g. Creative Commons licenses); open access to scientific publications and research results, and management of works whose authors are unknown (i.e. orphan works).

EBLIDA is one of the original 36 members. The network was extended in 2008 and will undergo further expansion in 2009.

The COMMUNIA Thematic Network is funded by the European Commission within the eContentplus framework and is coordinated by the Politecnico of Torino's NEXA Research Center for Internet and Society. It started its activities on 1 September 2007 and will end on 31 August 2010.

The project has been extended and will now end on 28 February 2011.

The Europeana group comprises a number of projects run by different cultural heritage institutions. All are part-funded by the European Commission’s eContentplus programme. Over the next 3 years these projects will be contributing technology solutions and content that will create the fully operational Europeana.eu.

Europeana v1.0 is a core project that will develop and implement a new version of Europeana with added functionality and give access to over 10 million digital items during 2010. The second phase of the project will see the launch in 2011 of a fully-operational Europeana.eu with improved multilinguality and semantic web features.

The project is funded under the Commission's eContentplus programme. It's a Thematic Network that brings over 100 partners from libraries, museums, archives and audio-visual collections together. EBLIDA is part of the Workgroup 1.2: Licensing. The Europeana v1.0 Thematic Network started in February 2009. It is a 2.5 year project that will bring the Europeana.eu prototype to full service.