Europeana Generic Services Projects Meeting, 29-30 October 2018, The Hague, Byzart
1. BYZANTINE ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY
ON EUROPEANA
Europeana Generic Services projects meeting
The Hague, 29th-30th October 2018
BYZART
2. Scope and objectives of
the action
The "BYZART - Byzantine Art and Archaeology on Europeana" action:
• aims at making about 75.000 new cultural and artistic multimedia
contents accessible online through the Europeana platform
• features collections of newly digitized photos, video and audio
contents from previously unexploited archives, as well as
reconstructions about Byzantine history and culture.
3. The "BYZART - Byzantine Art and Archaeology on Europeana" action:
• enhances Europeana accessibility and visibility, by linking and
classifying Byzantine-related items already on Europeana platform
to Byzart collection.
• has devoted specific attention to multilingual enrichment, by
collecting all the features and tools already available (from other
projects or institutions) and has created a proper BYZART
vocabulary
Scope and objectives of
the action
4. • UNIBO - University of Bologna, Department of History and Cultures: Coordinator
• IU-AVARTS - Ionian University, Department of Audio and Visual Arts
• OUC - Open University of Cyprus
• AUTH - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• BAS-IAS - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences - Institute of Art Studies
• NHRF-IHR - Institute of Historical Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation
• MAR - Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna (MAR) - International Centre for
Documentation of Mosaic (CIDM) – Biblioteca Classense
BYZART Consortium
5. BYZART Project activities
Activity
number
Activity title Indicative
start date
Indicative
end date
Milestone
number
1 Scientific Coordination and Project
Management
01/10/2017 30/04/2019 7
2 Applying appropriate intellectual
property rights (IPR)
01/11/2017 30/04/2018 1
3 Europeana Liaison - digital archive
liaison
01/02/2018 31/10/2018 4
4 Metadata Modelling, metadata
guidelines and metadata quality check
01/12/2017 30/11/2018 2
5 Content provision; metadata
catalogue and quality control
01/01/2018 31/12/2018 6
6 Multilingual Metadata Enrichment 01/01/2018 31/12/2018 3
7 Helpdesk facility and Extending
networks
01/10/2018 28/02/2019 5
8 Dissemination and Awareness 01/02/2018 30/04/2019 8
6. 75000 new digital items
related to the Byzantine and
Post Byzantine heritage