![]() HOPE is a Best Practice Network of archives, libraries, and museums that works in close cooperation with the Europeana digital library to improve access to highly significant but scattered digital collections on social history throughout Europe. OSA is participating as a research partner and content provider in a three-year European Union project entitled the Heritage of the People's Europe (HOPE). More OSA programs related to the anniversary celebrations will be forthcoming. ![]() OSA has also selected from among its holdings and digitized recordings of historically significant public lectures given at the CEU during its first 20 years and made these available on OSA TV. ![]() An online version will be available soon. The story of the buildings is depicted through archival photos and architectural plans and includes background information on the architectural history and on the people who planned, built, owned, and lived and worked in these buildings. The exhibition presents the history of two CEU buildings, the Monument Building (the Festetics Palace) and the Open Society Archives (the Goldberger House) up to and including the future plans for the University Campus. As its first contribution, OSA has prepared and installed an exhibition titled Building CEU, which will run intermittently throughout the year in the CEU Octagon area. OSA, as the repository for historic CEU records, is actively taking part in the 20th Anniversary Celebration. We have recently reintroduced the site with an updated user interface and online cataloguing module and continue to showcase the material through periodic public screenings.įounded in 1991, the Central European University (CEU) is celebrating its 20th year as an internationally reputed teaching and research institution. In recent years, OSA has forged ties with local collectors and in 2006 agreed with the Neumann Digital Library to take over the hosting of the Virtual Filmstrip Museum (Virtuális Diafilmmúzeum) online catalogue and digital repository and to ensure long-term access to digitized filmstrip collections. ![]() By the 1970s, the form had largely lost its political edge, devolving into "home movie"-style entertainment for children and family projection.In 1998, OSA brought the culture of filmstrips to the attention of the wider public with an exhibition titled Freeze Frames of Communism, which explored the social, political, and technological circumstances behind the phenomenon. Mass production started in the 1950s when the format was used primarily as a tool for propaganda to be shown at schools, universities, and workplaces. In Hungary and other Soviet Bloc countries filmstrips were a strictly controlled form of mass media which came to serve both educational and entertainment purposes, paralleling the rise of television in the West. OSA actively collects digitized educational and propaganda filmstrips from the Cold War period. OSA is member of the 48-partner consortium to work on the Europeana Awareness project, which is a Best Practice Network of libraries, archives, and museums, as well as digital developers and innovators led by the Europeana Foundation and funded by the European Union under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework (CIP).Europeana Awareness is designed to publicize Europeana to users, policy makers, and cultural heritage organizations in every Member State to promote and encourage its use by a broad public for a variety of purposes (including research, learning, and tourism) to engage users via user generation of content, creation of digital stories and social networking to develop new partnerships with four key sectors which are currently underexploited by Europeana: public libraries local archival groups broadcast organizations and open culture re-users (programmers, developers, researchers and activists) and to further encourage cultural institutions to continue to provide content.OSA will work specifically on the national public media campaign and the end-user engagement to generate new content by organizing collection days for personal archives and memorabilia related to the regime change in Hungary in 1989.
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