thinkMOTION – DMG-Lib Goes Europeana

In 2011 the thinkMOTION project started. It focuses on making knowledge in the field of motion systems accessible to a broad public. The collected material covers forgotten treasures as well as current day research results. Different kinds of representation are supported, most notably books, articles, patents, images, videos, interactive animations and formalized mechanism descriptions. From the technical point of view the work in thinkMOTION is based on the DMG-Lib which was started as a German national project. Now workflow and tools were adapted to fit the needs of the work on European level. The content is collected on the DMG-Lib platform and presented to the international audience in different ways. The most important way for thinkMOTION is to make all the content accessible via Europeana, a multi-lingual online collection of millions of digitized items. This article focuses on the thinkMOTION workflow and the support of multilingualism.