LINKED HERITAGE WAS A 30 MONTHS EU PROJECT, STARTED ON 1st April 2011 AND ENDED THE 30th SEPTEMBER 2013.

The main goals were: 1) to contribute large quantities of new content to Europeana, from both the public and private sectors; 2) to demonstrate enhancement of quality of content, in terms of metadata richness, re-use potential and uniqueness; 3) to demonstrate enable improved search, retrieval and use of Europeana content.

The consortium includes representatives of all the key stakeholder groups from 20 EU countries, together with Israel and Russia: among them ministries and responsible government agencies, content providers and aggregators, leading research centres, publishers and SMEs.

Publications
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YOUR TERMINOLOGY AS A PART OF THE SEMANTIC WEB RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT (PDF, 2.5MB)

This publication, edited by Linked Heritage WP3 and ATHENA WP4 "Terminology and multilingualism", aims in priority at people working in European museums, experts or non-experts in Information Engineering and/or Linguistics, who have an interest on terminology and multilingualism. It proposes recommendations helping you to manage your terminology, to make it compliant and optimized for improving multilinguality on Europeana and to make it as a part of the Semantic Web following. The more you respect them, the more you improve the future retrievability of your digital collections online.

The French translation is also available:
Votre terminologie comme élément du web sémantique: Recommandations de conception et de management (PDF, 3631 kb)


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GEOCODED DIGITAL CULTURAL CONTENT (PDF, 2731 kb)

This new book Geocoded Digital Cultural Content, edited by Franc J. Zakrajsek and Vlasta Vodeb focuses on Geographic location, which is a very important attribute of a cultural heritage item. It can describe provenience, the current institution, as well as the location of the event or other related events. The added value of the geo-coded cultural content is in the browsing of cultural portals efficiently through space and time, and searching for content in a more user friendly way. This work is a result of a strong cooperation between Linked Heritage and the INDICATE project, a concluded European Union FP7 project which aimed to establish a network of common interest made up of experts and researchers in the field of e-infrastructures and digital cultural heritage at Euro Mediterranean level.

Best Practices recommendations
Best practiceRead all the recommendations given by our thematic working groups and extracted from the relevant deliberables on:
Training Programme

The course "EU project: Linked heritage" is focused on the key aspects of the project: Europeana, metadata standards, linked data, permanent identifiers, multilingual terminologies, public-private partnerships.

The course is in English, but the Learning Objects have been translated in several languages.

The training programme includes four modulesspecifically tailored for the following target user groups:
  • Cultural institution decision makers
  • Teachers and researchers
  • Library and Information Science (LIS) professionals
  • Market players
Further information can be found in the University of Padova site
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