AthenaPlus - Access to cultural heritage networks for Europeana

AthenaPlus is a CIP best practice network started in March 2013 and ending in August 2015. The consortium is composed by 40 partners from 21 Member States countries.

AthenaPlus will build on the successful experience developed by the previous ATHENA project – where LIDO and the ATHENA Ingestion Server and Mapping Tool (MINT), widely used across the Europeana’s ecosystem of projects including the ongoing Linked Heritage project were developed, in order to further advance and complete the effective infrastructure and tools developed to support museums and other cultural institutions in their work to making available digital content through Europeana.

The best practice network created by AthenaPlus is in a strategic position to address this challenge, due to:

•  its high institutional value (hundreds of European institutions are involved or associated with the project);

•  the large amount of content made available to Europeana;

•  the powerful services for institutions to be created by the project;

•  the new services for specific communities of users and generic citizens.

The principal objectives of the AthenaPlus project are to:

•  Contribute more than 3.6 millions metadata records to Europeana, from both the public and private sectors, focusing mainly on museums content, with key cultural stakeholders (ministries and responsible government agencies, libraries, archives, leading research centres, SMEs).

•  Improve search, retrieval and re-use of Europeana’s content, bettering multilingual terminology management, SKOS export and publication tool/API for Content Providers;

•  Experiment with enriched metadata their re-use adapted for users with different needs (tourists, schools, scholars) by means of tools that support the development of virtual exhibitions, tourist and didactic applications, to be integrated into Europeana repositories and the repositories of national aggregators or individual Content Providers.

More information: www.athenaplus.eu

Partners

Italy Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche ICCU

Austria UMA Information Technology GmbH UMA

Belgium Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis KMKG

Belgium PACKED Expertisecentrum Digitaal Erfgoed Vzw PACKED

Belgium Openbaar Kunstbezit in Vlaanderen Vzw OKV

Belgium Michael Culture Aisbl MICHAEL

Cyprus The Cyprus Institute Limited CYL

Czech Republic Narodni Muzeum-National Museum NM

Estonia Eesti Vabariigi Kultuuriministeerium EVKM

France Ministère de la culture et de la communication MCC

Germany Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz SPK

Germany Philipps Universitaet Marburg UNIMAR

Greece National Technical University of Athens NTUA

Greece Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism HMCT

Hungary Petofi Irodalmi Muzeum PIM

Italy Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma BNCRM

Italy M.E.T.A SRL META

Ireland Board of the National Museum of Ireland NMI

Lithuania Lietuvos Dailes Muziejus LAM

Poland Stowarzyszenie Miedzynarodowe Centrum Zarzadzania Informacja ICIMSS

Slovenia Javni Zavod Republike Slovenije za Varstvo Kulturne Dediscine IPCHS

Spain Departament de Cultura - Generalitat de Catalunya GenCat

Spain Fundacio privada i2cat, Internet i innovacio digital a Catalunya i2CAT

United Kingdom Collections Trust Lbg CT

Sweden Riksarkivet RA

Lithuania Siauliu Ausros Muziejus Valstybes Biudzetine Istaigasam SAM

Croatia Muzej za umjetnost i obrt MUO

Spain Ayuntamiento de Girona SGDAP

Greece University of Patras UP

Latvia Kulturas Informacijas Sistemu Centrs KIS

France Association Européenne pour la Culture Juive EAJC

France Université de Savoie UniSav

Romania Biblioteca Academiei Române BAR

France Association Dedale Dedale

France Université Pierre Mendes France UPMF

Bulgaria Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences CL-BAS

Romania Institutul National al Patrimoniului INP

Belgium Koninklijk Instituut voor het Kunstpatrimonium KIK-irpa

Italy Istituto Luigi Sturzo ILS

Ireland Local Government Management Agency L