MOVIO: A Toolkit for Creating Curated Digital Exhibitions

AbstractIn 2011, the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Tourism (MiBACT) published a guideline reference book analysing the state of the art and best practices of digital exhibitions made available on-line and offered a handbook successfully translated in English and even in Arabic. To satisfy the needs expressed by museum curators (but not limiting to them) GruppoMeta has implemented the MOVIO platform under the coordination of ICCU: MOVIO is a semantic CMS which provides tools to support the development of virtual/digital exhibitions, touristic and didactic applications. MOVIO supports the creation of a media archive and ‘non-scaring’ ontology builder for a storytelling approach and it allows cultural content publishing (it includes the creation of visit paths, up to mapping, time-line, galleries and social tools). The MOVIO open source SCMS platform is an easy and ready to use toolkit to build online and mobile virtual/digital exhibitions and narrations. It has begun to be experimented by several Italian institutions and several European partners from the AthenaPlus consortium

Il progetto Linked Heritage

ItLinked Heritage è uno dei progetti di punta finanziati dalla Commissione europea per alimentare Europeana, il portale dei contenuti culturali digitali europei. Linked Heritage raccoglie, sotto il coordinamento dell’ICCU, un consorzio molto vasto i cui partner provengono da quasi tutti i paesi dell’Unione più Russia e Israele; essi forniranno a Europeana ben 3 milioni di risorse digitali. Oltre al tema dell’aggregazione di contenuti culturali digitali, Linked Heritage sta esplorando altri temi fondamentali per Europeana come il multilinguismo, i linked data e il rapporto con possibili partner commerciali. Linked Heritage è l’ultimo in ordine di tempo di una serie di iniziative progettuali avviate da un consorzio europeo di istituzioni che opera insieme da oltre dieci anni nell’ambito del patrimonio culturale digitale.EnLinked Heritage is one of the flagship projects funded by the European commission to feed Europeana, the portal of the European digital cultural content. Linked Heritage has a very large partnership, coordinated by ICCU, whose members come from many European countries, Russia and Israel; they will supply Europeana with 3 million digital resources. Beyond the aggregation of digital cultural content, Linked Heritage is exploring other topics which are essential for Europeana, like multilingualism, linked data and the relationship with the commercial partners. Linked Heritage is the last one in time of a series of projects made up by a European consortium of institutions that has been working for over ten years in the field of digital cultural heritage

Digital Cultural Heritage and Tourism Recommendations for Cultural Institutions

The Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism launched in October 2014 a set of recommendations addressed to the cultural institutions that aim to promote their heritage and tourism offer through the use of technology and digital means. The editors of the recommendations were some Italian experts of the Ministry in the field of digital cultural heritage and tourism; the members of the AthenaPlus consortium reviewed and integrated the text that was presented on the occasion of the International Conference "The reuse of digital cultural content in education, tourism and leisure: an opportunity for cultural institund tions and creative industries, an investment for the future", held in Rome on October 2, 2014

Guidelines and Best Practices for Setting up National Co-operation Frameworks. Annex 1: Analysis of the Europeana and Athena Survey for Aggregators.

This report is a result of a joint work carried out by ATHENA and Europeana. Both projects worked together to recover information on aggregators for their own purposes but also for harmonising the respective content strategies and avoid overlapping and duplication of the efforts. The Survey for Aggregators was also a fundamental background document for the compilation of this report, since they are the realisation of effective cooperation strategies among memory institutions

EuropeanaPhotography: Early Photography accessible in Europeana

Abstract – EuropeanaPhotography is an EU-funded digitization project that will provide Europeana with over 430.000 of the finest examples of early photography, for an impressive increase in the number of photos available in the Europeana. These photographs provide a unique insight into the evolution of European society and of the art of photography between the 19th and 20th century, which is a valuable source for research in many fields (history, economics, sociology…). EuropeanaPhotography will also enrich Europeana with materials from countries with a currently limited display, for a wider overview of European history.status: publishe