CARARE - D4.1: Live harvesting system for CARARE (Final)

The goal of the project is to harvest content regarding archaeology and architecture (mostly monuments) from
a number of content providers, and deliver it to Europeana. The technical architecture has been implemented
and supported by the two technical partners of the project: National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
and Digital Curation Unit of the Athena Research Centre (DCU).

This deliverable describes in detail the live harvesting system for the CARARE project, which allows content
providers to provide their content to the CARARE system using a methodology which will allow for regular
automated harvests. There are two main components:

a) The CARARE metadata mapping and ingestion system and
b) The CARARE repository.

Section 3 summarises the main components of the aggregation service.
Section 4 summarises the CARARE metadata mapping and ingestion system which was described in full in
earlier deliverables (D2.3 and D3.4). The systems went live in April 2011 following testing.
Section 5 describes the CARARE repository and the functionality that it offers to CARARE content providers
to search for and manage their content, and the OAI-PMH delivery services provided to supply metadata to
Europeana. Content ingestion began in April 2011 when the system went live following testing.
Section 6 confirms the metadata formats that CARARE will deliver to Europeana.

This report presents the CARARE harvesting system and its two main components, the metadata mapping and
ingestion tool and the repository service, which both went live during April 2011 to coincide with the delivery
of a series of training workshops for content providers. The harvesting of content via the mapping tool to the
CARARE repository has now begun.