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epa european pressphoto agency is one of the leading European news agencies participating in the Euro-Photo project. The project is funded by the European Union's ICT Policy Support Programme designed to stimulate innovation and competitiveness through the wider uptake and best use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) by citizens, governments and businesses.

The EURO-Photo project aims to digitise 150.000 historical images from the archives of ten leading European news agencies during the project and to make them available to Europeana - together with a significant number of their historical pictures already digitised and captioned. Images in these archives are among the most valuable historical documents of the last century. They record the major domestic and international events (political, social, cultural, sporting), celebrities and daily life from the turn of the century to the mid 1990s.

The project aims at developing a unique pan-European historical press photo archive available to and usable by European Citizens through Europeana - a common multilingual access point to Europe's distributed digital cultural heritage. At present this common cultural and historical heritage is marginally accessible.

Euro-Photo will strategically comply with the major standards for EDL (European Digital Library) like Dublin Core and OAI PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol Metadata Harvesting).

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A mother and her daughter kiss farewell through a fence of the Federal German Embassy to Czechoslovakia in Prague, 30 September 1989. GDR authorities had permitted the emigration of thousands of GDR citizens occupying the Federal German Embassies to Czechoslovakia and Poland.

 

 

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RACAK, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA : (FILES) A picture dated 16 January 1999 shows an ethnic Albanian man sitting next to 23 bodies of ethnic Albanians shot in the village of Racak, some 25km south of Pristina. Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, who is representing himself at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, opened his defence 14 February 2002 by showing part of a controversial German television documentary about the Balkan wars. he film questioned the truth of the January 1999 massacre of Albania

 

RACAK, KOSOVO, YUGOSLAVIA : (FILES) A picture dated 16 January 1999 shows an ethnic Albanian man sitting next to 23 bodies of ethnic Albanians shot in the village of Racak, some 25km south of Pristina. Former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, who is representing himself at the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, opened his defence 14 February 2002 by showing part of a controversial German television documentary about the Balkan wars. he film questioned the truth of the January 1999 massacre of Albanians in Racak, widely seen as the turning point that prompted NATO to unleash the first offensive action in the peace alliance's history two months later. EPA PHOTO FILES EPA/LOUISA GOULIAMAKI/ao

This file picture dated August 1961 shows workers heightening the sector barrier at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin. The border was sealed on 13 August 1961. On 03 October 2009 Germans celebrate the Day of German Unity, a national holiday that commemorates the anniversary of German reunification in 1990. The reunification of East and West Germany was precipitated by the fall of the Berlin Wall on 09 November 1989. As a symbol for the fall of the Iron Curtain and collapse of Communism in the Eastern Bloc the 20th

 

This file picture dated August 1961 shows workers heightening the sector barrier at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin. The border was sealed on 13 August 1961. On 03 October 2009 Germans celebrate the Day of German Unity, a national holiday that commemorates the anniversary of German reunification in 1990. The reunification of East and West Germany was precipitated by the fall of the Berlin Wall on 09 November 1989. As a symbol for the fall of the Iron Curtain and collapse of Communism in the Eastern Bloc the 20th anniversary of this historic event is marked around the world in 2009. EPA/STR

Picture dated 04 October 1993 shows Russian T-80 type tanks firing at the parliament building in Moscow. Acting on orders from President Boris Yeltsin, army tanks parked on the embankment of the River Moscow opened fire across the water at the White House seat of the rebellious Russian parliament 04 October 1993. More than 120 people died as Russia's new leadership stifled the last throes of the crumbled Soviet system. A ten-hour bombardment forced the surrender of Yeltsin's opponents. EPA/Kortayev

 

Picture dated 04 October 1993 shows Russian T-80 type tanks firing at the parliament building in Moscow. Acting on orders from President Boris Yeltsin, army tanks parked on the embankment of the River Moscow opened fire across the water at the White House seat of the rebellious Russian parliament 04 October 1993. More than 120 people died as Russia's new leadership stifled the last throes of the crumbled Soviet system. A ten-hour bombardment forced the surrender of Yeltsin's opponents. EPA/Kortayev

This file picture dated 11 November 1989 shows people with sparklers celebrating the opening of the inner-German border on the Berlin Wall in Berlin. On 03 October 2009 Germans celebrate the Day of German Unity, a national holiday that commemorates the anniversary of German reunification in 1990. The reunification of East and West Germany was precipitated by the fall of the Berlin Wall on 09 November 1989. As a symbol for the fall of the Iron Curtain and collapse of Communism in the Eastern Bloc the 20th an

 

This file picture dated 11 November 1989 shows people with sparklers celebrating the opening of the inner-German border on the Berlin Wall in Berlin. On 03 October 2009 Germans celebrate the Day of German Unity, a national holiday that commemorates the anniversary of German reunification in 1990. The reunification of East and West Germany was precipitated by the fall of the Berlin Wall on 09 November 1989. As a symbol for the fall of the Iron Curtain and collapse of Communism in the Eastern Bloc the 20th anniversary of this historic event is marked around the world in 2009. EPA/STR

A file picture dated 28 October 1961 shows Soviet tanks standing at the sector crossing 'Checkpoint Charlie' at Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, Germany. The day before, several American tanks had taken their position at the border between East and West Berlin. 'Tear down this wall!'. On 12 June 1987, US President Ronald Reagan pronounced these words to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during a speech at the Brandenburg Gate commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin. The Berlin Wall came down two years later

 

A file picture dated 28 October 1961 shows Soviet tanks standing at the sector crossing 'Checkpoint Charlie' at Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, Germany. The day before, several American tanks had taken their position at the border between East and West Berlin. 'Tear down this wall!'. On 12 June 1987, US President Ronald Reagan pronounced these words to Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during a speech at the Brandenburg Gate commemorating the 750th anniversary of Berlin. The Berlin Wall came down two years later on 09 November 1989 and two parts of Germany was reunified after 28 years of separation. The building of the Wall began on 13 August 1961. German Democratic Republic (GDR) armed forces started to seal off the eastern part of the city with road barriers made from barbed wire, to build an 'anti-Fascist protective barrier.' On 09 November 1989, after the spokeperson of German Democratic Republic government Guenter Schabowski announced during a press conference the immediate opening of the inner German border, tens of thousands of GDR citizens flocked to the border crossing points. The Iron Curtain fell. On 09 November 2009 will be the celebration of this historic autumn night, the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. EPA/STR B/W ONLY

PALE, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA : (FILE) Picture dated 05 August 1993 of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (R) listening to Bosnian Serb Commander Ratko Mladic (L) during a meeting with the press in Pale. Like former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, whose trial in The Hague began Tuesday 12 February 2002, Karadzic and Mladic are accused by the UN court of involvement in the slaughter of more then 7,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in July 1995, but there is no chance that Bosnian Serb war time militar

 

PALE, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA : (FILE) Picture dated 05 August 1993 of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic (R) listening to Bosnian Serb Commander Ratko Mladic (L) during a meeting with the press in Pale. Like former Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic, whose trial in The Hague began Tuesday 12 February 2002, Karadzic and Mladic are accused by the UN court of involvement in the slaughter of more then 7,000 Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenica in July 1995, but there is no chance that Bosnian Serb war time military commander Mladic, sought for the alleged war crimes, will turn himself in to the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, a high-ranking Serbian government official said Thursday 14 February 2002. EPA-PHOTO/EPA/FILES/STRINGER/ao/rc/ow

GDR refugees occupy Federal German Embassy to Czechoslovakia in Prague, 04 October 1989. End of September 1989 GDR authorities permitted the exit of their citizens, which in final consequence led to the Fall of the Wall and the German Reunification.

GDR refugees occupy Federal German Embassy to Czechoslovakia in Prague, 04 October 1989. End of September 1989 GDR authorities permitted the exit of their citizens, which in final consequence led to the Fall of the Wall and the German Reunification.

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA: A Bosnian Muslim child leans against the wall in the backyard of the destroyed local mosque in the town of Ahmici, 60kms West of Sarajevo, on Saturday, 04 March, 2000. Ahmici is one of the locations where some of the worst atrocities happened during the war between Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats in central Bosnia (1993-1994). EPA PHOTO/ELVIS BARUKCIC

 

SARAJEVO, BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA: A Bosnian Muslim child leans against the wall in the backyard of the destroyed local mosque in the town of Ahmici, 60kms West of Sarajevo, on Saturday, 04 March, 2000. Ahmici is one of the locations where some of the worst atrocities happened during the war between Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats in central Bosnia (1993-1994). 
EPA PHOTO/ELVIS BARUKCIC