CARARE - D6.6 CARARE International Workshop Year 3- 2012 (Final)

Two international workshops were held in the third year of the CARARE Project. The first one was organised jointly by DCU and ADS at the international CAA conference in Southampton in March 2012, this event doubling up as the UK National Dissemination Workshop and is reported in the CARARE report on National Workshops (D6.8). The second international workshop was held in Mykonos on the 24th and 25th May, 2012 and was organised by NTUA and DCU. The CARARE international workshop at Mykonos is the main subject of this report.

The workshop was marketed through the main CARARE channels (website, newsletter, LinkedIn and Twitter) and via the Europeana mailing lists. It was attended by over thirty people and proved to be two days full of intense ideas and discussions, and finding solutions to technical problems across the wide range of activities covered in the CARARE project. The first day included a number of guest speakers from other Europeana-related projects such as Europeana Fashion, EUscreen, ECLAP and PATHS who explained the rational and structure of their particular projects. Some technical aspects of CARARE were also presented, these being the MINT and MORE tools, 3D and Geospatial data. EUscreen and Europeana also presented the results of their Linked Open Data initiatives.

The second day was a technical workshop aimed mainly at CARARE partners, although external partners were welcome to attend if they wished. Further training was provided on the MINT and MORE tools to bring partners up to speed with the latest additions and improvements in functionality of the tools. Daniel Pletinckx and Franc Zacrajsek held informal round table discussions where partners were able to discuss and resolve the current issues and solutions they had with their 3D and geospatial data collections. In the afternoon, CARRAE content providers who were experiencing problems with uploading their data to Europeana were able to get together with the technical support team from NTUA and DCU to discuss the outstanding issues with Dimitra Atsidis and Antoine Isaac from the Europeana Ingestion team and Kate Fernie of MDR. This face to face meeting proved to be very valuable as many of the outstanding issues were resolved and a better understanding gained of both the CARARE and Europeana metadata requirements from both sides.