AthenaPlus is a CIP best practice network started in March 2013 and ending in August 2015. The consortium is composed by 40 partners from 21 Member States countries. AthenaPlus will build on the successful experience developed by the previous ATHENA project – where LIDO and the ATHENA Ingestion Server and Mapping Tool (MINT), widely used across the Europeana’s ecosystem of projects including the finished Linked Heritage project were developed, in order to further advance and complete the effective infrastructure and tools developed to support museums and other cultural institutions in their work to making available digital content through Europeana.

Project news, activities and results:

• 5 Reasons for Excitement while Creating Virtual Exhibition Using “MOVIO”: Lithuanian Art Museum’s Experience
• AthenaPlus creative tools – “MOVIO” and “Plan Your own school trip” – were presented to teachers and educators in Lithuania
• National AthenaPlus and Lithuanian Council for Culture Conference “The Reuse of Digital Cultural Heritage for the Development of Tourism in Lithuania and Increasing Museum Attendance”
• International Conference „The Reuse of Digital Cultural Content in Education, Tourism and Leisure”
• Create your own digital exhibition(s) using MOVIO (AthenaPlus blog about MOVIO training in Vilnius)
• About the project in Judaica Europeana Newsletter
• AthenaPlus uploads more than 800,000 metadata records (Europeana Professional blog)
• Recomendations on digital storytelling
• The complete list of projetc’s deliverables and documents

More about the project:

The best practice network created by AthenaPlus is in a strategic position to address this challenge, due to:

• its high institutional value (hundreds of European institutions are involved or associated with the project);
• the large amount of content made available to Europeana;
• the powerful services for institutions to be created by the project;
• the new services for specific communities of users and generic citizens.

The principal objectives of the AthenaPlus project are to:

• Contribute more than 3.6 millions metadata records to Europeana, from both the public and private sectors, focusing mainly on museums content, with key cultural stakeholders (ministries and responsible government agencies, libraries, archives, leading research centres, SMEs);
• Improve search, retrieval and re-use of Europeana’s content, bettering multilingual terminology management, SKOS export and publication tool/API for Content Providers;
• Experiment with enriched metadata their re-use adapted for users with different needs (tourists, schools, scholars) by means of tools that support the development of virtual exhibitions, tourist and didactic applications, to be integrated into Europeana repositories and the repositories of national aggregators or individual Content Providers.

Project‘s Website: www.athenaplus.eu

Project’s Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/athenaplusproject

Project‘s Twitter account: https://twitter.com/AthenaPlusEU

Project’s blog: http://athenaplus.wordpress.com/

Project’s partners in Lithuania: Lithuanian Art Museum and Šiauliai “Aušros” Museum

The complete list of project‘s partners and contributors >>>

Contacts: Danutė Mukienė, Donatas Snarskis (e-mails: danute@limis.lt, donatas.s@limis.lt)