Enhanced Archaeological Map of Bulgaria Presentation by Nadezhda Kecheva National Institute of Archaeology with Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria ARIADNE Final Event, Florence, 16 December 2016

1. Enhanced Archaeological Map of Bulgaria
National Institute of
Archaeology with Museum
of the Bulgarian Academy
of Sciences
• Dataset publication and
availability at inter-
national level
• Geographical location of
archaeological sites
• Access to legacy data
• Improving data quality
• Overcoming fragmen-
tation and isolation
Overcoming
incomplete-
ness and
isolation
Mapping
Spatial
location

2. Impacts and recognition
• Impact
– Easy access to the data at international level
– Spatial location of archaeological sites
• Also we did…
– Mapping of metadata to a common dataset model and
international thesaurus
– Translation in English
– Training of young scientists on data standardisation
• “The ARIADNE project made it possible for the Archaeological
Map of Bulgaria to become known on the international level
through improved data management, mapping and sharing. All
this is useful for both national and international researchers” –
Bulgarian Ministry of Culture

3. Bulgarian Cultural Heritage