ATHENA - Access to cultural heritage networks across Europe

Europeana Judaica newsletter

2010-07-19T08:50:29+01:00

Available online the summer issue

SKOS Workshop in TelAviv: videos available on line

2010-06-07T07:50:34+01:00

Videos produced during the ATHENA Workshop held in TelAviv last 11 January 2010.

Europeana Publishes First White Paper: Knowledge = Information In Context

2010-06-01T15:28:16+01:00

Europeana has published its first White Paper: a look at the key role linked data will play in Europeana's development and in helping Europe's citizens make connections between existing knowledge to achieve new cultural and scientific advances.

Survey on methods and Technologies used by EU Cultural Institutions for Inventory and Authentication of Objects

2010-05-13T08:36:19+01:00

A research activity is carried out by the Russian Federal Ministry of Culture within a EU-Russia exchange programme on the use of modern technical tools to support the inventory, identification, safety and security of cultural valuables in EU countries. (Deadline survey: 8 June 2010)

Europeana produces the Europeana Aggregators%u2019 Handbook

2010-05-13T08:24:54+01:00

A document targeted to all kind of aggregators feeding Europeana.

Call for papers: International Workshop on Semantic Web And Reasoning for Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries

2010-04-30T08:48:46+01:00

Paper Submission: June 17, 2010 Acceptance Notification: July 5, 2010

LIDO: the harvesting format used within ATHENA

2010-01-24T20:12:18+01:00

LIDO is an harvesting schema for delivering metadata for use in the service environment of an organisation%u2019s 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.

Europe 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

2010-05-02T08:58:01+01:00

Available the text of the Commission Communication on Europe 2020 and the relevand discussion held in the Council.

Europeana and ATHENA presented in Denver at MW 2010

2010-04-21T20:46:10+01:00

ATHENA and Europeana were presented at Museums and the Web 2010: the international conference for culture and heritage on-line.

ATHENA Booklet: Digitisation: standards landscape for European museums, archives, libraries

2010-01-24T18:46:11+01:00

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.

Berlin: Deutsches Kulturerbe auf dem Weg in die Europeana

2010-07-14T19:38:31+01:00

Venue: Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preussischer Kulturbesitz.

Conference website

D�sseldorf: Mit ATHENA in die EUROPEANA - Was tut sich in Nordrhein-Westfaken

2010-07-14T18:55:40+01:00

More information available soon.

Vilnius: ATHENA national workshop

2010-06-17T08:34:38+01:00

This National ATHENA workshop in Lithuania will be held 22 June, 2010 in the Lithuanian Art Museum (Boksto Str. 5, Vilnius).

Representatives from all Lithuanian museums are invited to participate in the workshop and to find out what ATHENA is and what are the possibilities to join the network and upload museum content to Europeana.

The workshop is organized by the branch of Lithuanian Art Museum Lithuanian Museums' Centre for Information, Digitization and LIMIS.

More information

Plovdiv: The Education in the Information Society

2010-05-26T08:53:33+01:00

Annual Conference (In Bulgarian).

Announcement in Bulgarian at: http://www.adis.org/pages/announcment.html

ATHENA presentation on "ATHENA Assisting the Modern University Education"

Stara Zagora: The Person in History

2010-05-26T08:47:12+01:00

National Conference (in Bulgarian).

http://kulturni-novini.info/news.php?page=news_show&nid=9754&sid=5 ;
Agenda in Bulgarian at http://museum.starazagora.net/events/person_conf.htm

(ATHENA presentation: "A New Perspective for the Museums and Archives in Bulgaria)

Varna: European Digital Library: Modern Approaches and Policies for Preservation and Dissemination of Cultural Heritage

International Conference (In Bulgarian)

http://www.libvar.bg/conferences/conference-march2010/index.html

See ATHENA presentation (in Bulgarian) at http://www.libvar.bg/conferences/conference-march2010/presentations/ATHENA.pdf (named "ATHENA an Opportunity to Popularise the Bulgarian Cultural Heritage")

Ljubljana: Sixth ATHENA Plenary Meeting

2010-05-26T08:37:48+01:00

The Plenary meeting is reserved to ATHENA partners and contributors.

Ljubljana, Slovenia, 10-11 June 2010

Venue: Narodni muzej Slovenije
Maistrova ulica 1
1000 Ljubljana

MEETING AGENDA

10 June 2010

WP3 MEETING
Discussion on D3.4 Persistent identifiers

11:00-13:00

PLENARY MEETING

14:00-14:30
Registration

Welcome speech
Peter Kos, Director of the National Museum of Slovenia
Marjeta Miku%u017E, Office for Movable Heritage and Museums

Introduction
Rossella Caffo (ATHENA Project Coordinator), Welcome

Participants’ self presentation / round table

14:30-15:00
Updating from Europeana (Lizzy Komen)

WP Leaders presentations (including answers and questions)

15:00-15:15 WP1 Leader Presentation (Project management, monitoring and evaluation)

15:15-15:35 WP3 Leader Presentation ((Identifying standards and developing recommendations)

15:35-15:55 Mapping of the MARC and MUSEUMDAT standards (Andrés Simon, Petofi Irodalmi Múzeum (PIM)

15:55-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-16:20 WP5 Leader Presentation (Coordination of contents)

16:20-16:40 WP6 (Analysis of IPR issues and definition of possible solutions)

16:40-17:00 Administrative Issues

17:00-17:20 DC-NET (Antonella Fresa, DC-NET Technical coordinator)

11 June 2010

9:30-9:50 WP7 Leader Presentation (Development of plug-in to be integrated within Europeana)

9:50-10:10 WP2 Leader Presentation (Awareness and dissemination)

10:10-10:30 WP4 Leader Presentation (Integration of existing data structure into the EDL)

10:30-10:40 Michael Culture (Christophe Dessaux)

10:40-11:00 Coffee-break

11:00-13:00 Tutorial: updates on LIDO and the ATHENA ingestion system

Afternoon

WP2 MEETING
16:30-17:30

ACCOMPANYING EVENTS

Thursday

10:00-18:00 Coffee, juice, fruits, cakes

13:00 Optional guiding tour to National museum of Slovenia and Slovene Ethnographic Museum, new Museum Quart (area of the plenary meeting)

19:00 Light dinner at Slovene Ethnographic Museum (next building to where plenary meeting takes place)

Welcome speech
Damjana Pe%u010Dnik, Director General, Directorate for Cultural Heritage,
Ministry of the Culture of the Republic of Slovenia

Friday

9:00-13:00 Coffee, juice, fruits, cakes

13:00 Optional guiding tour to National museum of Slovenia and Slovene Ethnographic Museum, New Museum Quart (area of the plenary meeting)

Please, write to franc.zakrajsek@guest.arnes.si to confirm the participation in accompanying events.

Florence: ATHENA-STACHEM joint workshop at EVA Florence 2010

2010-04-01T19:21:21+01:00

Workshop organised by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities (MiBAC) and the Cyprus Institute (CyI), in cooperation with MICHAEL Culture Association

Venue: Palazzo dei Congressi, Piazza Adua 1 - Florence, Italy, h 14:00-17:30.

Target: Experts from cataloguing offices, museums and on digitisation.

Free admittance.

The workshop aims at presenting the state of the art and some highlights of two European projects, ATHENA and STACHEM.

ATHENA was launched in 2008 under the coordination of the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities as contribution of the European museums to Europeana, the European Digital Library. The consortium is made up of ministries, museums, universities, and cultural agencies from 22 countries all over Europe and beyond. Thanks to ATHENA the presence of the heritage data bases in Europeana will be enhanced, especially those of the museums.

ATHENA is developing specific tools for the aggregation of museums content; among the most relevant results there are the elaboration of LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects), a harvesting format for increasing the relevance in the Internet of the museums and facilitating the resource discovery in a cross-collection manner, and the GIS guidelines (under preparation).

Two central institutes of the Ministry are working at and implementing the results of ATHENA at national level: ICCD is about to launch SIGEC WEB, the national system for the acquisition and integrated management of knowledge of Italian cultural heritage, and ICCU for the elaboration of MuseiD-Italia, the huge programme for the creation and integration of the Italian museum digital content.

STACHEM is a EU funded project coordinated by the Cyprus Institute. Its aim is to build a network of eastern Mediterranean institutions approaching archaeology by different point of view: underwater archaeology, archaeometry, digital heritage.

The Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities is partner of STACHEM and responsible of Working Package WP4 Digital Heritage because of its wide experiences in this field. Up to know, the Ministry has already realised an inventory of existing infrastructures for the digitisation of archaeological and cultural heritage artefacts in the Eastern Mediterranean.

The workshop organised on the occasion of EVA Florence is the follow up of the first one held in Paestum last 20 November 2009 during the XII Borsa Mediterranea del Turismo Archeologico. The Florence edition focuses on selected initiative of Web GIS application in archaeology. The experience in this field of another European project, 3D-COFORM, will be introduced.

PROGRAMME AND PRESENTATIONS

FIRST SESSION (14:00 - 15:20)

Chair:
Rossella Caffo - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche - MiBAC (Italy)
Welcome and introduction

14:10 - 14:20
Maria Teresa Natale - MiBAC/ATHENA project (Italy)
Progresses of the ATHENA project (PDF, 1320 Kb)

14:20 - 14:35
Gordon McKenna - Collections Trust (United Kingdom)
LIDO - Lightweight Information Describing Objects (PDF, 706 kb)

14:35 - 14:50
Maria Luisa Desiderio, Maria Letizia Mancinelli, Antonella Negri - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione - MiBAC (Italy)
SIGECWEB: the Italian national informative system for cataloguing cultural heritage (PDF, 2912 kb)

14:50 - 15:20
Franc J. Zakrajsek - GIS Consultant (Slovenia)
GIS Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content (PDF, 1421 kb)

BREAK (15:20 - 15:35)

SECOND SESSION (15:35 - 17:30)

Chair:
Marzia Piccininno - MiBAC/STACHEM project (Italy)
Introduction

15:45 - 15:55
Franco Niccolucci - CyI/STARC (Cyprus)
Progresses of the STACHEM project.

15:55 - 16:10
Antonella Negri - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione - MiBAC (Italy)
GIS 2D/3D in the knowledge process of cultural heritage. (PDF, 33000 kb)

16:10 - 16:25
(Speaker tbc) - Regione Toscana
Carta dei vincoli: Sistema informativo territoriale per i beni culturali e paesaggistici della Regione.

16:25 - 16:40
Achille Felicetti - PIN, Prato/3D-COFORM project (Italy)
Franco Niccolucci Franco Niccolucci - CyI-STARC/3D-COFORM project (Cyprus)
Integrating archaeological excavation diaries with GIS and 2D/3D data in the CIDOC-CRM framework.(PDF, 10048 kb)

16:40 - 16:55
Matteo Lorenzini - MiBAC (Italy)
A novel approach to GIS 3D documentation and description of of archaeological features. (PDF, 3573 kb)

16:55 - 17:30
Open discussion and conclusions

Info:
MiBAC
Tel. 0039 06 49210425
email: info@athenaeurope.org

Sofia: Open Doors Day at CL-BAS (intended mainly for young scholars)

2010-02-22T14:11:59+01:00

Canceled event.

Finland: Meeting and training for ATHENA ingestion for National Content Providers

2010-02-22T14:10:24+01:00

Dresden: Tagung 'Sammlungsmanagement - Standards in Theorie und Praxis'

2010-02-09T08:13:51+01:00

Programme, information and presentations

Brussels: Meeting of the European Vlaanderen Overlegplatform

2010-01-11T10:30:46+01:00

Every 3 or 4 months, the Agency for Arts and Heritage of the Flemish Government organises a meeting with Flemish / Belgian representatives of:

European projects on (digital) cultural heritage such as Europeana v1.0, ATHENA, EuropeanaLocal, GAMA, …
Agencies for cultural heritage such as FARO
Libraries and archives.

These meetings act as a platform for the exchange of experiences, updates on work in several heritage projects, etc. The name of these meeting series is ‘Europeana Vlaanderen Overlegplatform’ (Europeana Flanders Discussion platform). The main goals is to keep the Flemish heritage field informed about what projects are running, which institutions can participate, and use these experiences to develop an own strategy concerning digital cultural heritage for Flanders. The relevant stakeholders and institutions in Flanders are aware of the range of European projects on digital cultural heritage, and make suggestions to each other concerning contribution, participation, knowledge.

Each meeting consists of an update of the projects in which the people attending the meeting are involved. Announcements of plenary meetings or (international) relevant workshops are made.

The minutes are available in Dutch at the following URL:
Minutes availbale in Dutch (http://www.kunstenenerfgoed.be/ake/view/nl/1589834-Europeana.html#ppt_1589879)

Santiago de Chile: CIDOC 2009

2010-01-10T12:22:16+01:00

Programme: http://cidoc2009.cl/images/documentos/conference_program_corregido.pdf

Helsinki: Museum collections and the Public Interface of the National Digital Library of Finland

2010-01-08T10:40:40+01:00

Discussion about the Public Interface of the National Digital Library, in-house museum collection management database applications Musketti and Muusa and the ATHENA project.

Part of a series of courses organised by the Finnish Museums Association.

Programme

12.30 Welcome
Anja-Tuulikki Huovinen, Secretary General, Finnish Museums Association

12.35 Public Interface of archives, libraries and museums: what, why, when?
Ari Rouvari, Project Manager, The National Library of Finland

Questions and discussion

13.30 Coffee and tea

14.00 Museum collection management database application Musketti
Vesa Hongisto, Head of knowledge management, National Board of Antiquities

Sirkka Valanto, Senior Adviser, National Board of Antiquities
Museum collection management database application Muusa

Riitta Autere, Project Manager, Finnish National Gallery
ATHENA Project

Sirkka Valanto, Senior Adviser, National Board of Antiquities

Questions and discussion

16.00 End of seminar

More information
http://www.museoliitto.fi/index.php?k=9980

Helsinki: Developing Cataloguing of Collections

2010-01-08T08:57:15+01:00

Training for museum professionals working with cataloguing ie. researchers, curators and heads of collection management .

The seminar is divided into three sessions: talks, working group round tables and general discussion. There are eight speakers whose talks included live demonstrations. The working groups are three: objects, photographs and archival material.

Online documentation

London: Developing cataloguing of collections

2010-01-08T08:19:48+01:00

The goal of the workshop is to inform museum. library, and archive profesional, academics, consultants, and CMS software providers about Europeana, ATHENA, EC-funding, other Europeana Group project and the role of Collections Trust.

Programme and presentations:

http:// international.collectionstrustblogs.org.uk/2009/06/30/europeana-uk-conference-great-success/#more-95

Paris: ATHENA National Workshop

2010-01-07T22:49:00+01:00

Targeted to people from the museum department, people in charge of a national project "DO2" which intends to harmonise existing data models and terminologies at national level.

The goal is to inform on the scope of the ATHENA project.

Senec: National Conference on Digitisation

2010-01-07T21:23:19+01:00

The Ministry of Culture organises a two-day conference devored to digitisation of cultural heritage, targeted to representatives of the Ministry of Culture, representatives of public institutions, Slovak television, Slovak Radio, Press Agengy etc.

Banka Stiavnica: Museum Collectors' Catalogers Seminary

2010-01-07T21:11:15+01:00

A three-day meeting of museum collections’ catalogers organized by the Slovak National Museum and the Slovak Mining Museum offered rich programme devoted to main problems, aspects and intentions of the digital information system (project supported by the Ministry of Culture of the SR). It was also a place of knowledge sharing and for presentation of the cooperation of Slovak museums due to cataloguing and digitisation process.

Targeted to Ministry of culture representatives, private sector, curators and cataloger; museum founders

Bratislava: Digitisation Project: Museum of Jewish Culture

2010-01-07T21:03:01+01:00

Presentation of the project to the Minister of Culture of the Slovak Republic, press representatives, private sector and Slovak National Museum representatives-.