Is ATHENA in Rome?
February 11th, 2009Tomorrow I am off to Rome to a meeting of the ATHENA project. So what happens at one of these?
Contributing to Europeana?
January 23rd, 2009Just spent an afternoon in discussion with a national museum about them possibly contributing to Europeana. So it be a good point to discuss some of the issues to do with submission of content. Read the rest of this entry »
Surveying Standards in European Museums
January 20th, 2009For 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.
Sharing Knowledge - Working in Concert
January 15th, 2009The last two days have been spent at Europeana ‘Central’ in their offices in the Royal Library in the the Dutch capital Read the rest of this entry »
ATHENA Project Begins Today
December 1st, 2008Today sees the official start of the European Commission (EC) funded project ATHENA - Access to cultural heritage networks across Europe.
Visitor from the Antipodes
November 26th, 2008Margaret Birtley, CEO of the Collections Council of Australia, visted Collections Trust today and gave us a short presentation about the work of the Council.
Informing the Croats
November 21st, 2008Nick Poole, CEO of Collections Trust was in Zagreb in Croatia today at the invitation of the Museum Documentation Centre. While there he is giving a presentation on: The UK Experience of Taking Culture Online.
Europeana Launches to ‘Overwhelming’ Success
November 20th, 2008
Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, Europeana, was launched to the public today. It attracted so much interest that it website was swamped within the first few hours.
Introduction to EuropeanaLocal Project - Surveying Standards
November 1st, 2008The EuropeanaLocal project began in June. This month sees the start of an important aspect of its work - a survey of metadata and terminology used by cultural organisation in Europe.
