[15] Booklet: Digital cultural content: guidelines for geographic information

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edited by
ATHENA WP7 Working Group "Development of plug-ins to be integrated within the European Digital Library"
texts by Franc J. Zakrajsek, Slovenia - Vlasta Vodeb, Slovenia

The text of this booklet is included in deliverables 7.2 (1306 kb) "Guidelines for Geographic Location Description" and "Adds: Possible GIS Models" of the ATHENA project.

This work by ATHENA project is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC-BY-NC-SA)

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Description

Foreword

It is the aim of the ATHENA project to support especially museums in providing object data for publication in Europeana.

Following the publication of "Digitisation: standards landscape for European museums, archives, libraries " which was received very well, we decided to produce another set of guidelines relating to "Geographic information (GIS)" and hope that these are also helpful for the cultural heritage community.

When seeing a museum object, a question of high interest is: where to find it? For that the knowledge of its geographic location is essential.

These guidelines aim at providing basic information for the description of geographic locations. It needs to be implemented in such a way that the geographic location information is machine-readable and thus can be used also in Europeana and other relevant portals to identify the place of objects. 

We hope that these guidelines are helpful for museums, other cultural institutions, content holders, curators and information engineers who wish to allow easy access to their heritage.

Monika Hagedorn-Saupe
WP2 - Awareness and dissemination: enlarging the network and promoting the service
 

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