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

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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!

Project Manager: ojec a agekate.fernie@mdrpartners.com

Dissemination ManagerDissemination Manager:sheena.bassett@mdrpartners.com

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