EuropeanLocal's approach will involve:

• the establishment of a harvestable network of OAI-PMH compliant metadata repositories;
• aggregating content at a level which makes sense in terms of local situations and which complements the existing and planned Europeana network.

EuropeanaLocal’s job is to enable aggregators and individual providers of digitized cultural heritage content to make it available for harvesting, indexing, enriching and other operations by Europeana (and indeed any other service).

OAI-PMH repositories, Europeana metadata application profiles and SKOS are probably the most prominent standards/tools envisaged at this stage but EuropeanaLocal partners are committed to try to conform with/adapt/utilize whatever technologies and standards the Europeana service adopts or creates as it develops.

EuropeanaLocal will ensure that the approaches, standards and tools developed by Europeana are adopted widely across the cultural heritage sector, thereby supporting the interoperability of content within Europeana beyond that which is held by purely national level institutions.