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Researchers from the Universities of Utrecht (NL), Éxeter (UK), Antwerp (BE), Girona (ES) and Salamanca (ES) are working on the project A Million Pictures: Magic Lantern Slide Heritage as Art in the Common European History of Learning with the aim of preserving the cultural heritage of magic lantern slides. A task that we are carrying out in close collaboration with cultural institutions – such as museums, archives, film libraries, libraries or private collections - and which is open to the participation of contemporary artists working with magic lantern slides. The research team from the University of Salamanca, whose members are part of the Audiovisual Content Observatory - Research Group of Excellence in Castilla y León -, in collaboration with the Science Culture Space of the University of Salamanca, has contributed with two results of special relevance to the project: 1) A controlled vocabulary that facilitates the classification of magic lantern slides according to their discursive genre that was the result of an empirical study using content analysis. This vocabulary will be used on the web Lucerna and in many other international databases related to the magic lantern. Using the vocabulary obtained through the content analysis an app that helps with the interpretation of the cultural heritage of the collections of magic lantern slides of those Spanish institutions collaborating in the project has also been developed.