European digital library Europeana (www.europeana.eu) provides a common multilingual virtual access to Europe’s rich cultural and scientific resources: books, journals, photographs, films and audiovisual works, archival documents, museum exhibits, architectural and archaeological heritage, etc. (daugiau…)
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3rd EuropeanaPhotography partners Plenary meeting and Aggregation workshop held in Athens
All EuropeanaPhotography partners met on March 13, 14 and 15, 2013 in Athens for the 3rd Plenary meeting and the Aggregation workshop, where Lithuanian Museums’ Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS was represented by administrator, responsible for International Relations Viktorija Jonkutė and system engineer Ernestas Adomaitis. (daugiau…)
DigCurV
Project Digital Curator Vocational Education Europe (DigCurV) is funded by the European Commission’s Leonardo da Vinci programme to establish a curriculum framework for vocational training in digital curation. (daugiau…)
A Look at the Spanish Museums: Dissemination of Digital Cultural Heritage
Spanish museums are proud of cultural assets preserved at their institutions. To please a contemporary person, however, they should not only make their expositions attractive but to also present their collections online. Such portals and virtual exhibitions invite attention and increase museums’ popularity. In this brief review several Spanish portals presenting digital content will be discussed and thus you are kindly invited to visit them. (daugiau…)
Lithuanian Cultural Heritage in Europeana
Digital library of European cultural heritage Europeana comprises of more than 15 million cultural objects provided by various European cultural institutions. Europeana was launched in 2008 with around 2 million objects whereas in 2010 it reached a substantial number of 10 million digital items. Europeana Strategic plan 2011–2015 sets a goal to acquire up to 30 million items by the end of 2015.
Europeana stores variously sized digital images of cultural heritage objects preserved at memory institutions of all types. Digital photographs, maps, paintings, museum objects and other images make up 64 percent of Europeana collection; 34 percent of the collection are digital texts with more than 1.2 million books that could be previewed on or downloaded from the internet; for now, video and audio material makes up only 2 percent of the collection.
Lithuanian museums submits their content to Europeana via ATHENA project the principal aim of which is to promote museums’ collections and which has already provided around 2 million digital items to Europeana (ATHENA is the biggest aggregator for Europeana). In 2009 Lithuanian Art Museum joined ATHENA project, in 2011 it was followed by M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum (Kaunas), Lithuanian Sea Museum (Klaipėda) and Šiauliai Aušros Museum (Šiauliai). For now, there are 535 items (digital images and descriptions) of Lithuanian folk art in Europeana.
Europeana has been recently provided with digital items from other Lithuanian museums and cultural institutions. For example, 5 700 exhibits from the collection of photographs and archives were submitted by Sėla Biržai Region Museum; the items depict Biržai town, its castle and related historical figures. Moreover, Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum supplemented Europeana collection with 2000 posters printed out in Polish and Russian – coming from the 19th century they reflect a significant historical period of Lithuanian Press Ban.
The European Digital Library contains early works of Lithuanian literature as well, for example Martynas Mažvydas’ Catechismus. Europeana’s virtual library “Reading Europe” comprises of 1000 most significant books in the course of history that national libraries of European countries have selected and provided. Among them one can find Mikalojus Daukša’s Catechismus and Simonas Daukantas’ The Ways of the Ancient Lithuanian Highlanders and Samogitians.
For those interested in traditional culture Europeana may be appealing for its folklore collection with 222 222 Lithuanian folk songs that the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore provided via “Europeana Connect” project.
More about Lithuanian cultural heritage on Europeana >
More about today’s Europeana in 18 Nov 2010 Press Release from the European Commission and on Europeana portal.
Prepared by G. Stankevičiūtė according to Europeana information and newsletters 8 February, 2011
A Look at the Spanish Museums: an Integrated Documentation and Museum Management System DOMUS
For almost a decade Spanish museums have been using DOMUS, an integrated collections documentation and museum management system. Triggered by the new technological challenges and aiming for the modernisation of museums and their management, in 1996 the Spanish Ministry of Culture initiated the development of the system. It is obvious today that the direction towards an integrated museum system that cultural policy makers took was, indeed, far-sighted; at this moment, there are more than 150 museums that use DOMUS for their collections documentation and promotion. (daugiau…)
Linked Heritage Fourth Plenary Meeting and WP Technical meetings (Lisbon, Portugal)
29-30 November, 2012 Linked Heritage Fourth Plenary Meeting and WP Technical meetings took place in Lisbon (Portugal). Lithuanian Museums’ Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS was represented by system engineer Ernestas Adomaitis. More www.linkedheritage.org >
ATHENA
ATHENA is an eContentPlus Best Practice Network targeting the museum sector that aims at providing better facilities to access museums digital heritage through Europeana portal (www.europeana.eu). (daugiau…)