Work Packages
The project includes seven WPs.
WP1 - Project Management, monitoring and evaluation
This work package intends to guarantee the best possible administrative and organisational conditions for the project start-up, implementation and development. It aims to manage the links with the European Commission, to ensure the communication and the diffusion of information among the partners, to develop and implement a quality and assessment plan, to develop strategies to provide a wider dimension and make the target beneficiaries aware of the opportunities offered, and to diffuse the results of the project.
Coordinated by:
- Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC), Italy
Contact persons:
- Rossella Caffo (Project Coordinator), rcaffo[at]beniculturali[dot]it
- Pier Giacomo Sola (Administration), pgsola[at]amitie[dot]it
- Maria Teresa Natale (Organisation), natale[at]mclink[dot]it
- Marzia Piccininno (Organisation), marzia.piccininno[at]beniculturali[dot]it
- Giuliana De Francesco (Technical issues), defrancesco[at]beniculturali[dot]it
- Andrea Tempera (Webmaster), minerva1[at]beniculturali[dot]it
- Antonella Fresa (Peer reviewer), fresa[at]promoter.it
WP2 - Awareness and dissemination: enlarging the network and promoting the service
This WP has the objective to make European museums and other cultural institutions aware of the benefits of making available their digital contents through Europeana, identify new Best Practices, and disseminating to a larger audience the results achieved. The activities in this WP2 will focus on enlarging the network by providing easy to handle information on how to participate and which steps to be taken to join, promoting the tools developed within ATHENA for joining Europeana and clear presentation of the benefits that the new participants can gain by adhering to Europeana.
Coordinated by:
- Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), Germany
- Stowarzyszenie Miedzynarodowe Centrum Zarzadzania Informacja (ICIMSS), Poland
Contact persons:
- Monika-Hagedorn Saupe (SPK), m.hagedorn[at]smb.spk-berlin[dot]de
- Maria Sliwinska (ICIMSS), M.Sliwinska[at]bu.uni.torun[dot]pl
WP3 - Identifying standards and developing recommendations
The main objective of this WP will be to review the different standards in use by museums, facilitate their mapping to a common metadata standard and assess the requirements for the persistent identification of digital objects and collections. WP3 will also produce tools to support the convertion of museums data into the common harvesting format for Europeana.
Coordinated by:
- Royal Museums of Arts and History (RMAH), Belgium
- Collections Trust, United Kingdom
Contact persons:
- Chris De Loof (RMAH), c.deloof[at]kmkg-mrah[dot]be
- Gordon McKenna (Collections Trust), gordon[at]collectionstrust.org[dot]uk
WP4 - Integration of existing data structure into the EDL
WP4 intends to develop and broaden the integration of all kinds of resources used by museums and other heritage domains in the multilingual EDL, and in particular to focus on terminologies and semantic tools. It will work on the thesauri and multilingual issues. It will be also responsible for aligning the thesauri in use by museums and to publish them in SKOS-based thesaurus. WP4 will also work on the integration of terminologies and thesauri and of existing multilingual tools.
Coordinated by:
- Michael-Culture (Aisbl), International Association under Belgian Law
Contact persons:
- Christophe Dessaux, christophe.dessaux[at]culture.gouv[dot]fr
WP5 - Coordination of contents
This WP intends to keep under control the digital content contributed by the participating cultural institutions and to realise the full potential of the different content for their effective inclusion into Europeana. In general, one organisation per country has been chosen to manage and support the participation of the other national institutions that provide the content. One of the main objectives of the WP is contributing to identify national practices and standards, and transfer them to WP3 to check their integration into the common standard to be used for European museums.
Coordinated by:
- Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (MiBAC), Italy
- Institute of Communication and Computer Systems-National Technical University of Athens), ICCS-NTUA, Greece
Contact persons:
- Marzia Piccininno, marzia.piccininno[at]beniculturali[dot]it
WP6 - Analysis of IPR issues and definition of possible solutions
This WP intends to verify if any legal constraints existing in the national legislations of EU Member States, might create difficulties in making available the digital contents present in European museums through Europeana, and propose solutions rapidly applicable. In practical terms, to avoid the risk of duplicating efforts and resources, its activities will consist of collecting inputs and results coming from other projects working in this area (with a special focus on "Europeana: the European digital library network" and MinervaEC), and localising and adapting these models to European museums. The WP also aims at investigating on emerging standard or collective licensing models and open access and at presenting the state of the art technologies for DRM systems for IPR protection and management by museums and other cultural organizations.
Coordinated by:
- Packed, Belgium
- Panepistemion Patron - University of Patras (UP), Greece
Contact persons:
- Barbara Dierickx (Packed), barbara.dierickx[at]packed[dot]be
- Dimitrios Koutsomitropoulos (UP) - kotsomit[at]hpclab.ceid.upatras[dot]gr
- Theodore S. Papatheodorou (UP), tsp[at]hpclab.ceid.upatras[dot]gr
- Tzanetos Pomonis (UP), pomonis[at]hpclab.ceid.upatras[dot]gr
- Dimitrios Tsolis (UP), dkt[at]hpclab.ceid.upatras[dot]gr
WP7 - Development of plug-ins to be integrated within the European Digital Library
The objective of this WP is to exploit and integrate existing tools and technologies in order to create a technical framework, aiming to support the access to digital contents of European museums through Europeana.
Coordinated by:
- Institute of Communication and Computer Systems-National Technical University of Athens), ICCS-NTUA, Greece
Ministrstvo za Kulturo Republike Slovenije (MKRS), Slovenia
Contact persons:
- Vassilis Tzouvaras (CCS-NTUA), tzouvaras[at]image.ntua[dot]gr
- Franc Zakrajsek (MKRS), Franc.zakrajsek[at]guest.arnes[dot]si
