ATHENA - Access to cultural heritage networks across Europe

Spanish Museum Collections available though the CER.es portal

2010-03-10T09:07:46+01:00

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.

A new digital project: Judaica Europeana

2010-02-13T08:56:27+01:00

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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-.

Banska Bystrica: Digitisation of Museum Collections and Knowledge Base of Slovak Museums

2010-01-07T20:54:01+01:00

Meeting of various Slovak museums which are using different informational systems for collection management was an opportunity to show advantages of national integration of systems.

Around 100 participants: private sector, curators and cataloguers; museum founders.

Riga: Inform%u0101cijas tehnolo%u0123iju projekti Latvijas muzejos. Retrospekcija un n%u0101kotnes v%u012Bzija.

2010-01-07T19:06:43+01:00

Presentations and programme available in Latvian at: http://www.kis.gov.lv/lv/c4/n749/

Targeted to representatives from:

State agency “Culture Information Systems”
the State Authority on Museums of Latvia
71 museum of Latvia
Directorate General of Latvia State Archives
National Library of Latvia

Goals of the workshop:

to present the ATHENA project (goals, expected results, project plan, work packages, etc.)
to present work done during the first 12 months and plans for the future actions.

Tel Aviv: SKOS Workshop

2009-12-24T14:47:19+01:00

The workshop will be conducted by Regine Stein, Dipl.-Math., Head of Information Technology of the German Documentation Center for Art History.

It is held by the Israeli Internet Association, which operates the Israeli W3C office, and by MAKASH coordinator of the ATHENA project in Israel.

Further details about the workshop (in Hebrew): http://www.w3c.org.il/article/skos_workshop

Programme and resources in English: http://www.minervaisrael.org.il/s558.html

Berlin: 5th ATHENA Plenary Meeting

2009-12-19T11:35:40+01:00

The next ATHENA plenary meeting will take place in Berlin on 25 and 26 February (Thursday and Friday) at the Pergamonmuseum (room Theodor-Wiegand-Saal).

The meeting is reserved to the partners of the project.

The meeting will start the 25th at 11.00 and end on the 26th at 3pm.

You can confirm your presence writing to mariateresa.natale@gmail.com (MAIL SUBJECT: ATHENA Fifth Plenary Meeting, 25-26 February 2009, Berlin).

Map

AGENDA

25 February 2010

11:00-13:00

WP4 TECHNICAL MEETING

Agenda

Main outcomes from the WP4 meeting in Budapest (13/11/09)
Feedback from the Review in Luxembourg (02/02/10)
Workplan
D4.2 : collaborative preparation?!
Athena thesaurus
Athena Wiki : short tutorial
Perspective

13:00-14:00

Lunch

PLENARY MEETING

Agenda

14:00-14:20

Rossella Caffo (ATHENA Project Coordinator), Welcome

Participants' self presentation / round table

14:20-14:50

Updating from Europeana (Lizzy Komen)

WP Leaders presentations (including answers and questions)

14:50-15:05 WP1 Leader Presentation (Project management, monitoring and evaluation)

15:05-15:35 WP3 Leader Presentation (Identifying standards and developing recommendations)

15:35-15:55 WP4 Leader Presentation (Integration of existing data structure into Europeana)

15:55-16:15 Coffe break

16:15-16:35 WP5 Leader Presentation (Coordination of contents)

16:35-17:15 WP5-WP7 Technical Meeting (Coordination and guidelines for the contents ingestion)

Recommended the participation of National Contact Points

17:00-18:00
Steering Committee Meeting (Reserved to the Steering Committe's members)

18:00 Visit to the Museum of Prehistory and Early History

26 February 2010

9:30-10:00 Administrative Issues

10:00-10:45 WP6 Leader Presentation (Analysis of IPR issues and definition of possible solutions)

It includes discussion on the Europeana Licensing Framework and the ATHENA Agreement.

10:45-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-11:20 WP7 Leader Presentation (Development of plug-in to be integrated within Europeana)

The presentation will focus on the state of the art of the software developed

11:20-11:40 WP2 Leader Presentation (Awareness and dissemination)

The presentation will focus on the ATHENA Journal

11:40-12:00 Enlargement of the network: guidelines

12:00-12:30 DC-NET

12:30-12:45 Conclusions

Each WP must present

1) the summary of the activities and results carried out

2) the revised WP work plan

3) a detailed description of activities and deadlines for the next three months

The participation of WP leaders is mandatory.

The participation of partners is kindly requested.

The participation of National Contact Points is recommended.

Berlin: ATHENA Training Workshop

2009-12-14T15:00:06+01:00

The participation in the workshop is open to the ATHENA network, but is particularly devoted to ATHENA National Contact Points (or persons appointed by them), in particular those who are coordinating, in their country, the content ingestion starting from the end of January 2010.

Please, fill in and send the registration form.

Venue: Konrad Zuse Institut
Takustr. 7 14195 Berlin (Dahlem)

Nearesr Underground Station: Dahlem-Dorf http://www.zib.de/besucher/index.en.html

Workshop Programme

FIRST DAY

10:30 Registration

11:00-11:15 Welcome (15 minutes)

11:15-12:00
Introduction to Lido (Axel Vitzthum) (45 minutes)
(Background; What is the purpose of Lido? How is it structured?)

12:00-12:30
Questions and answers (30 minutes)

12:30-13:30
Lunch

13:30-14:15
Using Lido (Gordon McKenna) (45 minutes)
(Practical guidelines on how to map your metadata from you system to Lido)

14:15-14:30
Questions and answers (15 minutes)

14:30-15:30
Practical training on mapping with examples of data structures brought by participants (60 minutes)

15:30-15:45
Coffe break

15:45-17:15
Ingestion tool presentation (NTUA team) (90 minutes)

17:15-18:00
Questions and answers; discussion (45 minutes)

SECOND DAY

9:30-13:30
Ingestion tool: practical training (coordinated by NTUA team)

Info: mariateresa.natale@gmail.com

As far as the training on the ingester tool is concerned, the participants in the Rome and Berlin training workshops should bring a sample of their items metadata in xml (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/). Particular attention is required for characters in metadata that need escaping (like: &, <, >) http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#dt-escape.

To clarify the part about escaped sequences:

Characters like "<" and "&" are illegal in XML elements. In text and attribute values, you need to escape those ASCII characters using the following encodings:

' '
" "
< <
> >
& &

For example, the text:

"Me, Myself & "
should be encoded in XML as:
"Me, myself & "

Rome: ATHENA Training Workshop

2009-12-14T09:38:46+01:00

The participation in the workshop is open to the ATHENA network, but is particularly devoted to ATHENA National Contact Points (or persons appointed by them), in particular those who are coordinating, in their country, the content ingestion starting from the end of January 2010.

Please, fill in and send the registration form.

Venue: ICCU (c/o National Central Library)
Viale Castro Pretorio 105
00185 Roma
IV Floor

Workshop Programme

FIRST DAY

13:30 Registration

14:00-14:15 Welcome (15 minutes)

14:15-15:00
Introduction to Lido (Regina Stein) (45 minutes)
(Background; What is the purpose of Lido? How is it structured?)

15:00-15:15
Questions and answers (15 minutes)

15:15-15:30
Coffee break (15 minutes)

15:30-16:15
Using Lido (Gordon McKenna) (45 minutes)
(Practical guidelines on how to map your metadata from you system to Lido)

16:15-16:30
Questions and answers (15 minutes)

16:30-17:30
Practical training on mapping with examples of data structures brought by participants (60 minutes)

SECOND DAY

9:30-11:00
Ingestion tool presentation (NTUA team) (90 minutes)

11:00-11:15
Coffe break

11:15-12:00
Questions and answers; discussion (45 minutes)

12:00-13:00
Practical training (coordinated by NTUA team)

13:00-14:00
Lunch

14:00-17:30
Practical training (coordinated by NTUA team)

Info: mariateresa.natale@gmail.com

USA, Denver: Museums and the Web 2010

2009-12-08T21:52:35+01:00

ATHENA will be presented at the international conference for culture and heritage on-line.

Information: http://www.archimuse.com/mw2010/

Tallinn, Estonia: ATHENA National Workshop: Museaalide digiteerimiskoolitus

2009-11-24T15:48:17+01:00

Working language: Estonia

Target group: museum professionals.

Venue: Renovation Centre "Kanut", 2 Pikk Street, Tallinn

09.30 - 09.45	Registreerimine
09.45 - 10.00	ATHENA projekti tutvustus	Indrek Eensaar, EV Kultuuriministeerium
10.00 - 10.20	Autoriõigused ATHENA kontekstis	Toomas Seppel, EV Kultuuriministeerium
Küsimused - Vastused
Kohvipaus
MuIS - ATHENA - Europeana. Digiteerimistööde teostamise lähtekohad. Digitaalkaamerast digiteerimiseni.
10.45 - 11.15	Vajalikud juhendmaterjalid ja töövoog digiteerimise läbiviimiseks	Andres Uueni, EK Kanut
11.15 - 11.45	Digiteerimise tehnilised vahendid ja nende ettevalmistus	Martin Sermat, EK Kanut
Küsimused - Vastused
12.00 - 13.00	Lõuna (omal käel)
13.00 - 13.30	Ekskursioon Kanutis
13.30 - 15.00	Digiteerimise läbiviimiseks vajalikud seaded	Jaanus Heinla, EK Kanut
	Praktiline digiteerimine
	Küsimused - Vastused
	Kohvipaus
15.30 - 16.00	Loodud andmete salvestamine ja säilitamine	Andres Uueni, EK Kanut
	Vajalikud programmid
	Andmete sisestamine MuIS-i
Küsimused - Vastused