Content Highlights – Abrus precatorius known as “Jequirity”
As the content from the OpenUp! project gradually grows on the Europeana portal, we are preparing selections of natural history content highlights for you.
The OpenUp! Network - an international collaboration of some of the most outstanding Natural History and Science Museums, Botanical Gardens and University Collections worldwide.
Our partner institutions from many countries across Europe and beyond provide millions of records with multimedia objects from the field of natural history to Europeana.
BROWSE OpenUp! Data at www.europeana.eu!
The OpenUp! Natural History Aggregator encourages all kinds of natural history or scientific institutions to join and share their collections with the world.
Especially for smaller or medium size institutes we offer tailored support, a helpdesk and training events.
OpenUp! is accredited Natural History Aggregator for Europeana, coordinated by AIT-Graz (Angewandte Informationstechnik Forschungsgesellschaft mbH) and the Botanic Garden und Botanical Museum Berlin (BGBM), Freie Universität Berlin.
For more information on Biodiversity & Europeana, digital heritage and capacity building please visit the OpenUp! Knowledge Space!
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BHL-Europe Final Meeting, Europeana Plenary and other events
In recent weeks, several interesting events were held across Europe and of course OpenUp! was there: Long night of science, Symposium of Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), BHL-Europe Final Meeting , 11th Larwood meeting and Europeana plenary event.
LONG NIGHT OF SCIENCE IN BERLIN
On Saturday 2 June 2012, the Long Night of Science was held in selected institutions in Berlin. Exhibitions and research facilities were opened to the public. Museum für Naturkunde could not be missing, as well as presentations of the projects OpenUp! and BHL- Europe.
OPENUP! PROJECT IN MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE
The OpenUp! project was presented during the official inauguration of the new general director of the Museum für Naturkunde, Prof. Dr. Johannes Vogel, in Berlin 8th of May 2012.
The new OpenUp! roll-up screen was attracting a number of interested attendees. The ensemble was completed by a show case displaying original objects of the museum’s butterfly collection, already visible in Europeana.
The OpenUp! Newsletter
We are very proud that the second issue has been published. The content focuses on the progress that has been made in the past months including the most challenging tasks such as the first OpenUp! content for Europeana and more!
Read more about data quality enhancement and digitising the collections. Experience the whole ingestion process for OpenUp! biodiversity data into the Europeana portal and find out more about the Biodiversity Library Exhibition!
First Multimedia Objects
We are happy to announce that the first 223.953 multimedia objects have been delivered to Europeana via OpenUp!.
1st OpenUp! Annual Meeting 2012 Paris
The OpenUp! project successfully reached the end of its first year, so the 1st Annual Meeting was organized, this year in Paris. The conference was held in the Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle, for three consecutive days. It was a great opportunity for all 23 project partners to meet and discuss the project face to face. There were almost 60 attendees, including several guests.
OpenUp! annual meeting 2012 in Paris
Dear OpenUp! partners, dear colleagues,
The registration for the OpenUp! annual meeting in Paris already begun. The registration is held on the OpenUp! Helpdesk site under this link - http://bit.ly/registration_fro_OpenUp_Annual_Meeting.
Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation
The Commission has just adopted a Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation, asking Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve private actors in digitising cultural material and make it available through Europeana.
In particular, the Recommendation invites Member States to:
Data Flow Documentation and Storage Concept developed for OpenUp!
Workpackage 2 and the Technology Management Group have published a document describing the current state of the data flow documentation and storage concept for OpenUp! This is of interest for all those who want to get an overview of the entire technical architecture. [URL]
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