Project description
Enhancing/Aggregating content in Europeana
European natural history collections manage and give access to over 1.5 bn objects from the world's biodiversity heritage, covering most of the species described worldwide. These are reference objects for all the common and famous species in the world, incl. those of high economic importance and even those that have already gone extinct. Many have great cultural value as they were collected during historic expeditions and scientific endeavours by well known epochal explorers or scientists like Darwin, Linnaeus, Humboldt, or Stanley. EUROPEANA will make these treasures for the first time available to the general public, in addition to providing scientists and policy makers with a substantial information source needed in the understanding and protection of global biodiversity.Although being clearly within the scope of EUROPEANA as part of the scientific and cultural heritage, multimedia objects from the natural history domain are still dramatically underrepresented. This project aims at closing this gap. It will initially make available over 1 M high quality images, movies, animal sound files, and natural history artwork from 23 institutions in 12 European countries. Access will be based on the established technical infrastructure of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Once the pathway from museums and GBIF to Europeana has been created, it will provide a steadily stream of additional objects that have entered the network.The project will address the following objectives: Mapping between Community and EUROPEANA data standards Adding data providers for multimedia content Enrichment of metadata towards compliance with EUROPEANA standards Incorporation of multilingual metadata, in particular common names of organisms A single access point to distributed natural history multimedia content for EUROPEANA A sustainability plan for network maintenance Development of a consistent copyright strategy for participating data providers
Call for proposal
CIP-ICT-PSP-2010-4
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Funding Scheme
BPN - Best Practice NetworkCoordinator
14195 Berlin
Germany
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Participants (22)
4021 Linz
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8010 GRAZ
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1010 Wien
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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3080 Tervuren
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1860 MEISE
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11579 Praha
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53113 Bonn
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10115 Berlin
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2100 Copenhagen
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1165 Kobenhavn
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51005 Tartu
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00014 Helsingin Yliopisto
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75005 Paris
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DUBLIN 12
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2333 CR Leiden
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2333 CC Leiden
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845 23 Bratislava
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EH3 5LR Edinburgh
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CF14 7EQ Cardiff
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TW93AB Richmond
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SW7 5BD London
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