New Europeana Aggregator Forum Steering Group voted Chair
On April 25, 2018, when the election for the Europeana Aggregator Forum Steering Group closed, 31 aggregators have casted their vote.
OpenUp! is a growing network of European institutions from the natural history domain, providing multimedia objects to the Europeana portal www.europeana.eu. This includes digitized specimens, natural history artwork, animal sounds, and videos. The OpenUp! Natural History Aggregator for Europeana is coordinated by the Botanic Garden und Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM), Freie Universität Berlin, and AIT-Graz (Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH).
Collections provide standardised metadata via the BioCASe Provider Software (Biological Collection Access Service), the GBIF Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) or the Museum standard LIDO. During the aggregation process that includes the harvest, transformation and transfer of scientific metadata, these items are enriched by i) literature references, ii) geo names, and iii) multilingual common names of plants and animals to increase the accessibility of objects by non-scientific users.
12 European countries take part in the OpenUp! Network and contribute 3.2 million records by now.
Data providers benefit from reaching new audiences, increasing web traffic to institutional websites and gaining better visibility towards research funding organizations and also within society.
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Website for Aggregators established on EuropeanaPro:
Europeana Aggregators: domain, thematic, national, regional
Europeana Aggregators Forum Meeting Spring 2018
The next Aggregator Forum is to take place from March 22 to 23, 2018 in Berlin, hosted by the State Library of Berlin. See you there...
OpenUp! established another standard workflow, supporting rich metadata museum objects for Europeana
Using the XML harvesting schema LIDO (Lightweight Information Describing Objects), OpenUp! established another standard workflow, designed in particular for delivering rich metadata museum objects to Europeana
Article on BioCASe Monitor published in the Biodiversity Data Journal !
Article on the BioCASe Monitor Service has been published in the first volume of the Biodiversity Data Journal earlier this month. You can access the article using this link or through the "Publications" section.
Second OpenUp! Annual Meeting in Prague
Last week the OpenUp! project successfully reached its second year and on that occasion we organized the 2nd Annual meeting in Prague.
4th OpenUp! Newsletter
The fourth OpenUp! Newsletter has recently been published at the project website.
Content Highlights – Death cap (Amanita phalloides)
The death cap is one of the most poisonous mushrooms in the northern hemisphere. However, did you know that food prepared with a death cap is extremely tasty?
Content Highlights - Deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna)
Look at one of the most poisonous plants in Europe - deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). Did you know that in the early and middle ages, women of all ages rubbed belladonna juice into their eyes to make them large and beautiful, from which also comes the species name of the plant (bella donna = beautiful woman)?
Content Highlights – Woolly Mammoth (Mamuthus primigenius)
The winter is slowly ending; snow is melting and we dedicate a short piece to one of the largest mammals from the last Ice Age – the woolly mammoth (Mamuthus primigenius).
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