CARARE: project overview Sheena Bassett MDR Partners Greek National Workshop, 30 th January 2013
CARARE: project overview
Sheena Bassett MDR Partners
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About Europeanap
•A central point of access to information about digital t t h ld b E lt l h it i tit ticontent held by European cultural heritage institutions
• Funded by the European CommissionS li d b j t lik CARARE d di tl b (l )• Supplied by projects like CARARE and directly by (larger) institutions
•Catalyst for new servicesCatalyst for new services • Exhibitions• Repositories tools standards Linked Open DataRepositories, tools, standards, Linked Open Data• New content‐based applications (Hackathons)
•Network of cultural heritage organisations and expertiseNetwork of cultural heritage organisations and expertise
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Current Status of Europeanap
•By September 2012• over 20 million objects• from more than 2,200 institutionsf 33 t i• from 33 countries
•Predominantly y• Images • Text• Audio• Video
( f h )• 3D (just a few at the moment)
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CARARE project basics
• Best Practice Network
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Best Practice Network, • funded under the EC’s CIP ICT programmeprogramme
• 3 years – Feb 2010 to Jan 2013• involves Europe’s network of heritage agencies, archaeological g g , gmuseums, research institutions and digital archivesdigital archives
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ki th i di it l t t f th…making their digital content for the archaeology and architectural
heritage available through Europeana
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Project activities
• developing aggregation and delivery services
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• developing aggregation and delivery services• has a special focus on making 3D content accessible to Europeana’s users, and in bringing geographically referenced content to g g g g p yEuropeana
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Content
The type of content CARARE is making available is:
images text videos 3D models andimages, text, videos, 3D models and reconstructions…
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Archaeology and Architecture content
National inventories of monuments and historic buildings maintainedNational inventories of monuments and historic buildings maintained for conservation management, protection and education reasons
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Digital resources
The monument as the key to a librar of related photographslibrary of related photographs,
maps, archives, objects, stories and 3D modelsand 3D models
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Activities
Information about modern i tifi ti dscientific excavations and
surveys, and historical events th t t k l th itthat took place on the site
© English Heritage
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Geographically referenced content
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CARARE contentCARARE content includes map
coordinates which mean thatwhich mean that
users can enter a location and...
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Go directly to a site
• Europeana users will be able to discover t t b t C id d th hcontent about Cyprus provided through
CARARE
For example,Roman theatreRoman theatre,
Paphos, 3D model © Cyprus Research
InstituteInstitute
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Archaeology crosses borders...
Aggregation to EuropeanaAggregation to Europeana becomes an obvious choice
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The content stays at home
• CARARE harvests metadata from our partners for EEuropeana
• The original content remains on our content partners websites
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CARARE aggregatorgg g• CARARE has defined a metadata schema
P id t l t h l l t d t t E• Provides tools to help supply metadata to Europeana:• MINT – metadata mapping tool • CARARE MORE repository• CARARE MORE repository
• Offers a service to convert CARARE metadata to Europeana’s current specificationEuropeana s current specification
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Where are we now?
• CARARE is in its final monthCARARE is in its final month• We have an established aggregation service with
technology which will be built on in 3D ICONS and future gyprojects
• 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…
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Europeana 3D p
Greek National Workshop, 30th January 2013Archaeology here!
Archaeology in Europeana
• Books and Other projects are also supplying archaeology content to Europeana journals from archives and
ti l lib i
archaeology content to Europeana
national libraries• Some images
and films (TVand films (TV documentaries) from archives
• Museum objects• Other related
t i lmaterials
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Access for users
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Opportunities for users to get involved
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Thanks for your attention!
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Dissemination ManagerDissemination Manager:[email protected]
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