ATHENA, presented as a Network of Best Practice within the eContentplus Programme, takes its origins from the existing MINERVA network. 

ATHENA is bringing 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 is contributing in the content provision to Europeana.

ENJOY
THE VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

ATHENA Virtual exhibition: a voyage with the Gods: logo

ATHENA BOOKLETS

I like the new booklets very much. They are as useful as the other publications from Athena (Minerva, MICHAEL etc.) [Irene Hyna, MUKK, Austria]

 
Digitisation: standards landscape for european museums, archives, libraries: Cover
Digital cultural content: guidelines for geographic information: Cover 

Digitisation Standard Landscape
Download English Version PDF (297 kb)
Download Russian Version

Guidelines for geographic information
Download PDF (2450 kb)

 
  Persistent identifiers (pids): recommendations for institutions: Cover LIDO: Cover 

Persistent identifiers:
recommendations
Download PDF (275 kb)

Lightweight Information
Describing Object: LIDO)
Download PDF (512 kb)

 

Events

Roma: ATHENA Final International Conference: Cultural institutions online: Only those who show themselves will be seen: PRESENTATIONS AVAILABLE

28 April, 2011

Michael Culture Association International Workshop "Innovative Services for Education" / "Servizi innovativi per la didattica": MATERIAL AVAILABLE ONLINE

28 April, 2011

San Francisco: International Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Summit (LOD-LAM)

2-3 June, 2011

News

2011-08-01

Initial release of the MINT platform, mint-athena

MINT facilitates the aggregation of rich and divergent cultural heritage metadata. It is employed from the first steps of such workflows, corresponding to the ingestion, mapping and aggregation of metadata records, and proceeds to implement a variety of remediation approaches for the resulting repository.More

2011-05-27

Towards a new Europeana Data Exchange Agreement

Faq available on the Europeana website.More

2011-05-06

Improvements to the Europeana Semantic Elements - ESE v3.4

Changes have been made to the ESE Specification to support the improvement in data quality.More

2011-03-08

ATHENA website: implemented the Europeana Search Widget

Today the Europeana Seacrh widget was implemented into the ATHENA Website.More

2011-02-23

Uncommon Culture - Athena journal is available on-line

The first volume 2010 vol. 1 no 1/2 - about 200 pages is available online. Volume title: Think Culture (Europeana slogan) More
RSS