Project title
Europeana Common Culture
Funder
Funding Program
Europeana
Award URL
https://pro.europeana.eu/
Funding code
INEA/CEF/ICT/A2018/1633581
Start date
January 1, 2019
Expected Completion
2020-06-30
Description
"The aim of the Action is to develop a harmonised and coordinated environment for national aggregators (NAs), to collaborate, share resources and technical means, and agree on common recommendations and standards. Moreover, it will improve the quality of content and metadata, in order to widen the range of usage of Europeana and increase the satisfaction for its users. The Action will contribute to the improvement of up to 4 million records out of 13.9 million metadata records currently provided by NAs to Europeana. These records will be improved to reach at least Tier 2 specifications of the Europeana Publishing Framework (EPF). Additionally, up to 1.7 million new records that comply with Tier 3 or 4 will be delivered to Europeana. Concrete use cases, applying the functional applications will be used to assess and demonstrate innovation in aggregation. Semantic enrichment will be experimented to improve discoverability and indexing of Europeana records with the intention to make the records better findable and useful for any type of user. Lastly, the Action includes a rich programme of events, training seminars, online presence, and publications, in order to increase awareness of Europeana, and capacity building in the cultural sector The results of the Action will benefit the whole value chain of digital cultural heritage: memory institutions, digital content holders, educational sector, creative sector, private citizens and public administrations, including cultural tourism sector."