CARARE: Connecting ARchaeology and ARchitecture in Europeana
CARARE is a three-year project which will establish s Best Practice Network and aggregation service and improve the interoperability with Europeana of the digital content available from the archaeology and architectural heritage domain. It will involve heritage organisations, archaeological museums and specialist archives to expand Europeana’s network of content providers and make available the rich diversity of content for unique archaeological monuments, historic buildings and town centres. Distributed 2D and 3D content for heritage places will be brought together and linked up in Europeana with this critical mass of geographically referenced content creating the potential for new map-based commercial and public services for tourism, education and research to be set up. CARARE will work with the EDL Foundation to establish efficient processes to aggregate contents from heritage organisations, addressing practical issues relating to the harvesting of 3D/VR formats, the rich semantics of archaeology and architecture content and the handling of geographic information.
The network will implement the protocols, standards and schemas recommended for Europeana contributing expertise on 3D/VR, GI, time and space to the development of the Europeana object model and semantic tools. CARARE brings together a consortium representing 20 countries and organisations with broad ranging experience of the heritage sector, digital libraries, standards and aggregation services. It will make around 2 million items available with information for approximately 1 million unique heritage sites. The expected results include the establishment of an aggregator service for Europeana underpinned by a network of highly interoperable repositories and a sustainable business model to continue the service in future. For end-users the results include being able to explore content for heritage sties and to discover, access and use 3D/Virtual Reality content through Europeana.
CyI Researcher
Dr. Sorin Hermon
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Additional Info
- Acronym: CARARE
- Website: http://www.carare.eu/
- Center: STARC
- Funding Source: EU Digital Libraries (eContent+, ICT PSP and CIP)
- CyI Funding: €252,888
- Starting Date: 01/02/2010
- End Date: 31/01/2013
- Coordinator: Kulturarvsstyrelsen (DK) (Heritage Agency of Denmark)
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Partners:
Kulturarvsstyrelsen www.kulturarv.dk, MDR Partners (UK) www.mdrpartners.com, Stichting European Digital Library www.europeana.eu, Archaeology Data Service (UK) ads.ahds.ac.uk, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (IT) www.sns.it, The Cyprus Institute (CY) www.cyi.ac.cy, Heritage Malta (MT) www.heritagemalta.org, Visual Dimension bvba (BE) www.visualdimension.be, Athena Research and Innovation Center in Information Communication & Knowledge Technologies (EL) www.athena-innovation.gr, Riksantikvarieambetet (SE) www.raa.se, Erfgoed Nederland (NL) www.erfgoednederland.nl, Ministerie Van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap (NL) www.minocw.nl; n303bv www.n303bv.nl, Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa (PL) www.kobidz.pl, Deutsches Archaologisches Institut (DE) www.dainst.de, Ministère de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale/Ministerie van het Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest (BE) www.monument.irisnet.be/, Eesti Vabariigi Kultuuriministeerium (EE) www.kul.ee, Narodni pamatkovy ustav (CZ) www.npu.cz, Pamiatkovy urad Slovenskej republiky (SK) www.pamiatky.sk, www.heritage.sk, Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism (EL), www.culture.gr, Javni Zavod Republike Slovenije Za Varstvo Kulturne Dediscine (SI) www.zvkds.si, Fornleifavernd Rikisins (IS) www.fornleifavernd.is; www.heritage.is, Vilniaus Universitetas (LT) www.vu.lt, National Institute of Archaeology with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Science (BG) www.naim.bg, National Technical University of Athens (EL) www.ntua.gr, Koninklije Nederlandse Akademie Van Wetenschappen (NL) www.knaw.nl, Universidad de Jaen (ES) www.ujaen.es, Institutul de Memorie Culturala (RO) www.cimec.ro, Asplan Viak Internet AS (AVINET) (NO) www.avinet.no
