Introduction Project Manager at the Open Knowledge FoundationTwitter @DM2EuropeanaTwitter @OKFNAn NGO founded in 2004 to promote information sharing especially between government’s and their citizens but also working with GLAMs to promote accessAlongside my colleagues here from JudaiciaEuropeana, the National Library of Israel, JudaicaEuropeana and the Staatsbibliotek in Berlin we are part of a three-year EC project called DM2E* So DM2E - like many technology projects, it's an acronym - unpacked = Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana - a fitting project for the annual conference on digitisation* But it is important to recognise the DM2E is not a digitisation project per se, while it has a multitude of content partners providing digitised manuscripts the focus of DM2E is the provision of tools to enable re-use of this material in scholarly environments* As was very forcefully remarked during yesterday’s Museum Track the true advantage of the digital is that it promotes access, a sentiment to which I wholly concur, not only as a representative of the DM2E project but also as representative of the Open Knowledge Foundation an organisation founded to promote digital access be it to government data or cultural resources.* But DM2E is about taking the digital access movement beyond just making things digital and making things available online - DM2E aims at making digital heritage available in a form and in tandem the tools that will actually enable re-use of that digital content