carare: connecting archaeology and architecture in europeana
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CARARE: Connecting Archaeology and Architecture in Europeana
Henrik Jarl Hansen, Kulturarvsstyrlsen
Kate Fernie, MDR Partners
Euromed 2010, 11th November 2010
CARARE in a nutshell
• CARARE is a Best Practice Network funded under the ICT
PSP 2009 programme of the European Commission. It is
designed to involve the network of heritage organisations,
archaeological museums, research institutions and specialist
digital archives:
• in making the digital content that they hold available to Europeana,
the European Digital Library,
• establishing a sustainable aggregation service for archaeology and
architecture resources and
• enabling the integration of 3D and Virtual Reality content in
Europeana.
• 3 year project which started on 1st February 2010
CARARE Consortium
• 28 partners in 20 countries
• 11 National Heritage Agencies
• 2 Archaeology museums
• 6 Research institutions including 2 data archives
• 1 Ministry of Culture
• 1 National advisory body
• 2 Technology institutions
• 4 Private sector organisations
• European Digital Library
Coordinator:
Danish Heritage Agency
with MDR Partners
Background
• International collaboration on heritage data going back to the 1980s:
• CIDOC , ICOM, Council of Europe
• Aquarelle – Terminology
• HEREIN – Policy +
• Arena - portal
• DARIAH – research grid
• Technical infrastructure for interoperability
• Digitisation of heritage information
• Development of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and 3D
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Culture without borders
Information across borders
Vision
Including unique archaeological monuments,
architecturally important buildings, historic town
centres, industrial monuments and landscapes in
Europeana, the European Digital Library
www.carare.eu
CARARE content objectives .
• 2 million content items for
• 1 million unique monuments, buildings, landscapes and heritage sites
Image © of Deutsche Archaeologische Institut D-DAI-ATH-Mykenai-0063
Content: 2D
• National inventories of monuments and buildings for conservation/protection• Contemporary images
• Descriptions, locations
• Historical images of sites in Europe and worldwide• Photographs, illustrations, paintings
• Research archives• Excavations, surveys etc
Images by courtesy of
Kulturarvsstyrelsen
Deutsche Archaeologische Institut
CARARE work on 3D and Virtual Reality
• 3D is not yet a content type in Europeana, there is some
• CARARE is defining the functional requirements for Europeana to include 3D and
• Workflow for content providers – preparation of metadata, publication and delivery online for education, tourism and general public
• Supporting content providers in preparing their 3D content and metadata for harvesting
Issues:
• 3D models of heritage sites generate huge files
• Conversion for online publication
• Suitable formats including 3D PDF
• Resource discovery metadata for Europeana
• Relations between 3D and 2D objects
3D model prepared by Prof. Guidi, INDACO, Milan in cooperation with the Archaeological Superintendence
of Pompeii, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and ARCUS s.r.l. Fortuna Visiva di Pompeii project
Heritage places…
CARARE will contribute geo-referenced content to
Europeana
• Big opportunity to improve place-based searching and
• Add Map-based searching
CARARE: where are we?
• Year 1 = preparation
• Setting up aggregation services
• Reviewing and preparing the content
• Defining metadata
• Implementing the CARARE metadata mapping tool
• Building and testing the harvesting and aggregation systems
• Year 2 implementation
• getting content into Europeana
• Year 3 sustainability
• getting more content into Europeana
• Establishing a sustainable business model
Approach
• The content remains on our partners’ websites
• Content partners map their metadata to the CARARE schema
• CARARE transforms the metadata to Europeana’s format
using CARARE tools
• Metadata is ingested into the CARARE repository
• Europeana harvests the CARARE repository
Native
metadata
CARARE
metadata
schema
Europeana
enabled
metadata
Implementing OAI-PMH metadata harvesting
for sustainability and to enable updates
Europeana content - summer 2011
• CARARE want to maintains the rich semantics of heritage
data especially key information about time and place
• Content -> Europeana Danube release, 2011
• EDM metadata
• Semantically richer than current ESE schema
• Enhanced searches for time and place
• 3D will be added in the next release
CARARE as an aggregator
• Some of the partners are already national or regional aggregators,
some are setting up services to aggregate content for archaeology
and architecture in their countries
• Some are individual content providers setting up OAI-PMH for the first
time to enable harvesting by CARARE
• CARARE will make a contribution to the Europeana’s infrastructure
• Harvesting starts next year!
CARARE is a best practice network
which is open to new content providers
Follow us!
You can find out more about what's happening in the CARARE project and get involved through:
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Or contact us to find out about the working groups
