CARARE: project overview Sheena Bassett MDR Partners
About Europeana A central point of access to information about digital content thldb held by European cultural l heritage institutions Funded by the European Commission Supplied by projects like CARARE and directly by (larger) institutions Catalyst for new services Exhibitions Repositories, tools, standards, Linked Open Data New content based applications (Hackathons) Network of cultural heritage organisations and expertise
Current Status of Europeana By September 2012 over 20 million objects from more than 2,200 institutions from 33 countries ti Predominantly Images Text Audio Video 3D (just a few at the moment)
CARARE project basics Best Practice Network, funded under the EC s CIP ICT programme 3 years Feb 2010 to Jan 2013 involves Europe s network of heritage agencies, archaeological museums, research institutions and digital archives
making their digital it content t for the archaeology and architectural heritage available through Europeana
Project activities developing aggregation and delivery services has a special focus on making 3D content accessible to Europeana s users, and in bringing g geographically g referenced content to Europeana
Content The type of content CARARE is making available is: images, text, videos, 3D models and reconstructions
Archaeology and Architecture content National inventories of monuments and historic buildings maintained for conservation management, protection and education reasons
Digital resources The monument as the key to a library of related photographs, maps, archives, objects, stories and 3D models
Activities Information about modern scientific excavations and surveys, and historical events that t took place on the site English Heritage Greek National Workshop, 30th January 2013
Geographically referenced content 34.754942 N 32.405344 E CARARE content includes map coordinates which mean that users can enter a location and...
Go directly to a site Europeana users will be able to discover content t about Cyprus provided d through h CARARE For example, Roman theatre, Paphos, 3D model Cyprus Research Institute
Archaeology crosses borders... Aggregation to Europeana becomes an obvious choice Greek National Workshop, 30th January 2013
The content stays at home CARARE harvests metadata from our partners for Europeana The original content remains on our content partners websites Greek National Workshop, 30th January 2013
CARARE aggregator g CARARE has defined a metadata schema Provides tools to help supply metadata t to Europeana: MINT metadata mapping tool CARARE MORE repository Offers a service to convert CARARE metadata to Europeana s current specification
Where are we now? CARARE is in its final month We have an established aggregation service with technology which will be built on in 3D ICONS and future projects We have provided 1.36 million items to Europeana (and rising) Nearly 6% of Europeana content is now from CARARE The first CARARE 3D collections are online and available through Europeana Greek National Workshop, 30th January 2013
Europeana 3D Greek National Workshop, Archaeology 30th January here! 2013
Archaeology in Europeana Other projects are also supplying archaeology content to Europeana Books and journals from archives and national libraries i Some images and films (TV documentaries) from archives Museum objects Other related materials
Access for users
Opportunities for users to get involved
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