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What type of digital representations are acceptable for Europeana and how objects should be represented depends on the type of the objects. In most cases, audio/video snippets or a subset of pages for a multipage document (e.g. book, report) are not an adequate representation of a digital object in order to fulfil the user demands (The exceptions are manuscripts and illuminated manuscripts where it can be meaningful to users to have individual pages as separate metadata records). A 300-page book is expected to be represented in Europeana as one single object and not as 300 separate objects. Digital representations of paintings or artefacts are photographs or digitisation of the objects. If the cultural object is a photograph of a painting or an artefact (for instance, a gelatin dry plate negative representing a 19th century painting), it has to be clear from the metadata that the described object is not the painting or artefact itself.
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The requirements for media resources are specified in the Europeana Media Policy. The media files and MIME types supported by Europeana are also published on Europeana Pro.
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