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Dr. Dr. Nikos Manouselis, Dr. Giannis StoitsisNikos Manouselis, Dr. Giannis StoitsisGreek Research & Technology NetworkGreek Research & Technology Network

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this is NOT athis is NOT an educational n educational resourceresource

……but but maymay become become oneone

how could natural how could natural history museums and history museums and

science centers science centers connect connect their their digital digital collections collections with their with their

educational educational activities?activities?

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Cultural Heritage in European Cultural Heritage in European Digital Libraries for EducationDigital Libraries for Education www.natural-europe.eu

• Funded under: CIP-ICT-PSP.2009.2.5 Funded under: CIP-ICT-PSP.2009.2.5 – Use of cultural heritage material for Use of cultural heritage material for

educationeducation– Budget: 4.700.000 euros (50%)

main assumptionsmain assumptions

1. 1. need to need to go to the go to the usersusers

• ……cannotcannot bring them bring them where where we assume that we assume that theythey are are

probably not here...

...but here

2. find their practices2. find their practices

• ……and mimic in the tools and mimic in the tools to make it easier for them to make it easier for them to connectto connect/integrate/integrate

teachers think pathways

…lets help them create/find

pathway conceptpathway concept

technology usedtechnology used

METADATA INFRASTRUCT

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EDUCATIONAL TOOLS

COLLECTION TOOLS

Organising/managing digital collectionsOrganising/managing digital collections

metadata infrastructure

Creating/publishing Creating/publishing pathwayspathways

Pathway SectionsPathway Sections

MetadataMetadata

Add pathway

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Potential synergies• Common names used in pathway tool

– translations in additional languages• Ingesting BHL resources

– using/referring to BHL resources when authoring a pathway

– use of Europeana/BHL API?• Setting up pathway tool for museums

– can use collections already in Europeana– apart from scanned literature?

• Joint training events? (DigiCurv)

thank you!thank you!

Dr. Dr. Nikos ManouelisNikos Manouelisnikos@ieee.org

Dr. Giannis StoitsisDr. Giannis Stoitsisstoitsis@ieee.org

http://www.natural-europe.eu http://www.natural-europe.eu