OpenUp! – accessing pictures on Europeana Zágoršek, Kamil & Berendsohn, Walter National museum Prague & Botanical Museum and Botanical Garden, Freie Universität Berlin open-up.eu

Vision open-up.eu OpenUp! aims primarily to unlock Natural History objects from partners collections and with specific biological and multilingual functionality link them through Europeana to a wide European cultural audience.

OpenUp! – What it aims at: Because access to multimedia resources from natural history collections in Europe is limited or impossible, especially for the public, OpenUp! mobilizes a large variety of multimedia resources from some of the most outstanding natural history museums and botanical gardens in Europe and opens them to a wider audience via the European digital library Europeana. © Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem; National Museum Prague; Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin.

OpenUp! – What it does: OpenUp! stands for Opening Up the Natural History Heritage for Europeana It implements a sustainable pipeline from natural history collections to Europeana (and potentially to other portals using the Europeana standards). The connection is accomplished using well established BioCASe and GBIF technologies. This is complemented with a system for – data quality control, – data transformation, – and semantic enrichment, including the common names of species in various languages to support data providers publishing their data and the public browsing through Europeana.

Its lean infrastructure is sustainable within the natural history community and will remain functional and effective in the post-project phase. With this approach, OpenUp! will provide at least 1.1 million multimedia objects from the natural history to Europeana by OpenUp! – What it will achieve:

Who is part of OpenUp! ? 23 institutions/organizations from 12 European countries

Content

Why not using Google for that? open-up.eu

Main differences Clear copyright status Thanks to DEA we are sure about the data copyright re-use and all pictures (multimedia content) has their own copyright status clearly defined. High quality of pictures The provided content (pictures) are of high quality, because the data itself stay on the provider served and can be easily downloaded Stable sustainability The Europeana portal is very stable, the pictures and data can be found in any time. Scientifically proofed data (metadata) All data (metadata) have been proofed by the specialist(s), so the truthfulness of the data is very high