Digital Heritage 2015: Workshop Presentation by Irena Blazkova, Národní památkový ústav (National Heritage Institute), Czech Republic Granada, Spain 1st October 2015

1. local content in a Europeana cloud
Czech digital collections from the archeology and
architecture domain in Europeana
Irena Blažková
Národní památkový ústav
Digital Heritage, Granada, Spain, 1.10.2015
LoCloud is funded by the
European Commission's ICT Policy Support Programme

2. (National Heritage Institute) is statutory national institution
founded by the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic in
order to take care of cultural monuments, immovable and
movable.
Národní památkový ústav
• has a central office
and regional
branches in 14
regions (districts),
including Prague
• EU projects: CARARE
and LoCloud

3. Metainformation
System (digital
documents)
MIS
Geographical
Information
System
GIS
Central List of
Cultural
Monuments
MonumIS
adaptor adaptor adaptor
OAI PMH Provider
public portal www.npu.cz
CARARE
OAI PMH
harvester
MINT + MORE
metadata
content
links
NPU information system
Europeana
portal
public users

4. • on-line presentation of the Central List of Cultural
Monuments of the Czech Republic, movable and
immovable assets, protected areas
• presently under development
• main changes: not only the listed monuments, but all
historically valuable assets; compatible with other
systems
• new application „Heritage Cataloque“ will be launched in
December 2015
NPU: MonumIS

5. • storage of all geographic information created by
specialist of NPU
• online, live database
• http://gis.npu.cz/
• crowdsourcing within
institution
NPU: GIS

6. • storage of all digital documents created by specialists
of NPU
• online, live database
http://iispp.npu.cz/mis_public/homepage.htm
• crowdsourcing within
institution
• more than 400 000 items,
more than 250 000 items
public available
(not public domain)
NPU: Metainformation System - MIS

7. • National Heritage Institute provided to Europeana
6806 items
• we had about 100 000 public documents then
• why so few items were provided ?
– missing descriptions of heritage assets (they were in
many local databases)
– many documents were connected to parts of sites and
to unprotected buildings and also don´t have
requested fields in the old database MonumIS
CARARE project

8. • during the LoCloud project our CARARE dataset was
updated to about 125 000 items
using a trick: photographs and other documents are
considered to be heritage assets, so the originally
missing descriptions and other fields don´t matter
• provided a new dataset – VAL
- Significant archeological sites
- about 6 000 items
LoCloud
Nechvalín, Miroslav Bálek, 1998

9. eCultureMap
orange points– spatial accuracy
5m or less
purple points – lower accuracy
serching Europeana
content
from several projects
as Athena, CARARE,
LinkedHeritage,
AthenaPlus, 3DIcons
and others and its
geographical location
www.eculturemap.eu

10. Searching content in eCultureMap
11 results
video from the
Czech
Television
video from the
Czech
Television
latin book from
the Austrian
National
Library, 1689
glas photograph
from the
Austrian National
Library, 1780
photographs
from the National
Heritage Institute

11. Searching content in Europeana
13 results
2 documents don´t
have geographical
coverage

12. We are plannig to provide
• collection of vernacular architecture from a small
institution SOVAMM
• update of the CARARE dataset
• update of the archelogical dataset
Plans
Telecí 46, Zuzana Syrová, 1986

13. Thank you for your attention.
contact: blazkova.irena@npu.cz
Other information: http://www.locloud.eu/
http://www.npu.cz/locloud/

14. LoCloud is funded by the European Commission's
ICT Policy Support Programme
The views and opinions expressed in this
presentation are the sole responsibility of the
authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of
the European Commission.