CARARE - D3.5 Report on Europeana GIS services and archaeology/architecture site data (Final)

The deliverable Report on Europeana GIS services and archaeology/architecture site data introduces the Europeana GIS services to the archaeology/architecture site data sector. The added value of the inclusion of geographic location data in Europeana is in the:

• browsing of Europeana efficiently through space and time,
• searching for content in a more user friendly way, without need to type geographical names,
• making it possible to discover overlapping cultural content at the same location but originating from different sources and at different times,
• mapping and visualization of the content,
• performing GIS calculations and simulations.

The objectives of this deliverable are:

• to inform content providers, aggregators, cultural institutions and others with geographic information services especially Europeana GIS services,
• to present the results of the initial testing Europeana GIS services,
• to give recommendations on a few topics such as co-ordinate systems and the INSPIRE directive when providing geographical data to aggregators,
• to investigate the potential for enriching the place-name services on the basis of geographical information contained in archeological and architectural inventories.