The EuropeanaTravel project was the first European digitisation project the University and National Library of Debrecen (UDUNL) participated in. One aim of the project was to digitise documents of university, research and national libraries in Europe on the theme of travel and tourism and made them accessible through the Europeana portal. The other important objective of the project was to create the LIBER aggregator for those LIBER members who do not have other routes into Europeana and in this way making LIBER partners’ digitised material available to Europeana. UDUNL was one of these LIBER libraries. OAI-PMH was used for data aggregation. The project started on 1^st May 2009 and lasted for two years with 17 libraries from 16 countries in it. From Hungary only UDUNL participated in the project.

UDUNL digitised books, maps and periodicals. In the project only copyright free documents were to be digitised. In the plan of document selection for digitisation among other important aspects this one was a crucial one. In the digitisation process of books Dotproject, a project management tool, was used in order to follow the documents through the working phases. This method provided up-to-date, correct and reliable data from each item in the process. In the process of digitisation both protection and follow-up of the items is really important.

The metadata in the right format was created in the process of automatic conversion first for the digital library of UDUNL (called DEA) and then for Europeana (for LIBER aggregator). First the bibliographic records of the documents were created in MARC format and for each document type crosswalks were created for the conversion of metadata from MARC into Dublin Core. Using bibliographic records and the appropriate crosswalk automatic conversion of metadata was implemented first for DEA and then for Europeana in the ESE (European Semantic Elements) format.

It is useful to have a look at the chart of the crosswalk form MARC into DC and also ESE and study the problems emerged in the process of creating these crosswalks.

The material digitised in the project is available in the digital library of UDUNL, DEA http://ganymedes.lib.unideb.hu:8080/dea/handle/2437/1 , and also in Europeana http://www.europeana.eu/portal/.