Archive for the ‘ATHENA’ Category

A New Harvesting Metadata Format for Museums?

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

In the last few months Collections Trust has been working with colleagues in the ATHENA project on a metadata harvesting format specifically aimed at museum data. (more…)

Europeana-UK Conference Great Success

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

Last Friday Collections Trust hosted the first Europeana-UK Conference at the Commonwealth Club in London.

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Getting the Mesage Out There

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

One of the major tasks with any EC-funded project is dissemination. Yesterday I took the opportunity to tell the Archaeology Terminology Working Group (ATWG) about our international work. (more…)

Is ATHENA in Rome?

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

Tomorrow I am off to Rome to a meeting of the ATHENA project. So what happens at one of these?

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Surveying Standards in European Museums

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

For the last few days I have been designing a survey for the ATHENA project. The aim is to get a picture of the standards landscape in European museums.

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Sharing Knowledge - Working in Concert

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

The last two days have been spent at Europeana ‘Central’ in their offices in the Royal Library in the the Dutch capital (more…)

ATHENA Project Begins Today

Monday, December 1st, 2008

Today sees the official start of the European Commission (EC) funded project ATHENA - Access to cultural heritage networks across Europe.

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