ATHENA, presented as a Network of Best Practice within the eContentplus Programme, takes its origins from the existing MINERVA network.
ATHENA will bring together relevant stakeholders and content owners from museums and other cultural institutions all over Europe and evaluate and integrate specific tools, based on a common agreed set of standards and guidelines to create harmonised access to their content.
ATHENA will contribute in the content provision to Europeana.
Events
USA, Denver: Museums and the Web 2010
13-17 April, 2010
Finland: Meeting and training for ATHENA ingestion for National Content Providers
10 March, 2010
Sofia: Open Doors Day at CL-BAS (intended mainly for young scholars)
11 May, 2010
News
2010-03-10
Spanish Museum Collections available though the CER.es portal
CER.es (Collections on line) is the new catalogue on line of the Digital Network of Spanish Museum Collections. It offers, for the first time, a unified access to cultural goods of 61 Spanish museums, regardless of their thematic scope or of the institution they are run by. More
2010-02-13
A new digital project: Judaica Europeana
Judaica Europeana : ten institutions in London, Frankfurt, Athens, Bologna, Budapest, Paris, Rome and Warsaw join forces to offer worldwide access to the treasures of European Jewish culture. More
2010-01-24
LIDO: the harvesting format used within ATHENA
LIDO is an harvesting schema for delivering metadata for use in the service environment of an organisation’s online collections database, portals, and aggregations, including Europeana itself. Its strength lies with its ability to support the full range of descriptive information about museum objects.More
2010-01-24
ATHENA Booklet: Digitisation: standards landscape for european museums, archives, libraries
An useful tool to support especially museums in providing object data for publication in Europeana and making them aware about the standards currently available for digitisation. More
