International

Last week saw the final conference of the EC-funded ATHENA Project and the kick-off meeting of its successor, Linked Heritage, in Rome.

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c50 attended the conference at an excellent venue, with lovely home made refreshments. Attendees came from a range of organisations including:  the national, local authority, university and small, volunteer-run, local museums. All parts of Scotland were represented. A great achivement given the weather!

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Earlier this month the European Commision’s three-person Comité des Sages (Reflection Group) on “bringing Europe’s cultural heritage online” launched a public consultation on boosting cultural heritage online in Europe. Here are some details, reflections and a call to take part.

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On Monday last week Collections Trust hosted the second Europeana-UK Conference at the Kingsway Hall Hotel in London.

Over 75 attended the conference this year, an increase of 25% on 2009. Organisations included the full range from nationals to small local museums, and all parts of the UK were represented.

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Europeana has just harvested, and put online in its portal two major collections. Both were harvested from our national aggregator - Culture Grid. The first is c93,000 records, from many organisations, in the Vissual Arts Data Service collections. At the same time the c55,000 English Heritage’s ViewFinder images were also made available.

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Today the results of the elections to the Europeana Council of Content Providers and Aggregators were announced.

We are pleased to announce that Nick Poole, CEO of Collections Trust was one of six persons elected. Nick was in the most hotly contested section of the election, that for cross domain bodies.

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Dodging the volcano ash, I have just given a the first public presentation on the new harvesting schema - LIDO - at the EVA Florence conference in Italy. EVA Florence is Europe’a foremost electronic imaging event in the visual arts.

It is also a major venue for the dissemination of the Italian led ATHENA project.

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Europeana has successfully ingested the first set of content via the Collections Trust run national aggregator, Culture Grid. (more…)

A new chapter has opened in my work on the European projects in the last month. One of data modelling, persistent identifiers and linked open data. All these might sound daunting but should enable a smarter and more useful Web. (more…)

Just back from 3 days in a snowy Luxembourg where the first review of the ATHENA project took place at the European Commission offices. (more…)