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Europeana Archaeology

The project aimed to increase the amount of high-quality digital content for Europe’s rich heritage of archaeological monuments, historic buildings, cultural landscapes and artefacts that are accessible online through the Europeana Archaeology collection.

Posted on Thursday March 14, 2019

Updated on Monday November 6, 2023

Projects Generic-services Archaeology

1 February 2019 to 31 October 2020
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Title:
Tutankhamun, arkeologi, Photograph
Creator:
Harry Burton
Date:
1920
Institution:
Medelhavsmuseet
Country:
Sweden

About the project

The project partners delivered more than 352,000 archaeological records from 28 data partners across Europe and Israel. 50% of the delivered content is of very high quality (Tier 3+) and almost 100% of the metadata is in Tier B+. From these records, 655 are new 3D high-quality records, which are available in Europeana.

Furthermore, the project developed a new enrichment pathway which focuses on improving the discoverability and multilinguality of Europeana archaeological content. The Europeana Archaeology Vocabulary Services tool allows enriching the metadata provided by organisations and aggregators to Europeana according to the Europeana Data Model. 

Additionally, the project engaged the Europeana audiences by creating an online exhibition called ‘Uncovering hidden stories: an introduction to European Archaeology‘ and 28 editorial works. 

For more information, visit the project website 

This project was a Europeana Generic Services project and it was co-financed by the Connecting Europe Facility of the European Union.

Project partners

  1. University of Vilnius Faculty of Communication - Lithuania (coordinator)
  2. Data Archiving and Networked Services (KNAW-DANS), The Netherlands
  3. Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche (ICCU), Italy
  4. Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis (KMKG-MRAH), Belgium
  5. Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (UNIBO), Italy
  6. Universidad de Jaén (UJA-IUIAI), Spain
  7. Athina - Erevnitiko Kentro Kainotomias Stis Technologies Tis Pliroforias Ton Epikoinonion Kai Tis Gnosis (ATHENA R.C.), Greece
  8. Technologiko Panepistimio Kyprou (CUT), Cyprus
  9. The Hunt Museum (HM), Ireland
  10. Institutul Naţional al Patrimoniului (INP), Romania
  11. Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (SPK), Germany
  12. Lunida Ltd (Lunida), United Kingdom
  13. Musée d'Archéologie nationale Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye (MAN), France
  14. 2Culture Associates Ltd (2Culture), United Kingdom
  15. Georg-August-Universitaet Goettingen Stiftung Oeffentlichen Rechts (UGOE), Germany
  16. Muzej za umjetnost i obrt (MUO), Croatia

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Europeana Foundation
Prins Willem-Alexanderhof 5
2595 BE Den Haag
Netherlands

Our mission

Europeana empowers the cultural heritage sector in its digital transformation. We develop expertise, tools and policies to embrace digital change and encourage partnerships that foster innovation.

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Europeana Foundation is registered at the Chamber of Commerce under number 27307531, RSIN number is 8186.80.349.

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