Description:
MCA is the Expert Hub for museums in Europe
MCA manages MUSEU-HUB , a reference point for European museums and other cultural institutions hosting museum collections in the field of digital cultural heritage and aggregation for Europeana. It provides services, good practices, training, help-desk, documentation, updating on digitisation, standards, aggregation, IPR and reuse, multilingualism and terminologies, digital exhibitions, digital storytelling tools.
The DSI 1 (April 2014 – June 2016) + the DSI 2 (June 2016 – August 2017)
Objective:
DSIs are composed of ‘core service platforms’ which enable trans-European connectivity and interoperability, and related ‘generic services’ which link national and sectorial infrastructures to the platforms.
Under funding from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) Trans-European Telecommunications Networks Work Programme 2014 & 2016 , Europeana developed into a widely recognised platform of services and resources, not only for metadata references, but also for access to cultural content, tools and technologies, projects and other services.
As a Digital Service Infrastructure, Europeana continues to connect the online collections of Europe’s cultural heritage institutions.
The core objectives of the Europeana DSI are to innovate the aggregation infrastructure, boost the distribution infrastructure and work towards long-term financial stability through business model innovation.
To create a complete, cohesive and integrated Digital Service Infrastructure, Europeana relies on its partnerships with domain and national aggregating partners – including Michael Culture – are involved in the project, leading by Stichting Europeana Europeana Foundation.
The DSI-3 project operates the Europeana core service platform from mid-2017 to mid-2018.
The Europeana DSI-3 consortium consists of Europeana Foundation as coordinator as well as 28 partners from ten different countries represented by aggregators and expert hubs, developers, experts and organisations with relevant distribution networks. Read More
The DSI-4 operates the Europeana core service platform from mid-2018 to mid-2020.
The Europeana Digital Service Infrastructure (DSI) showcases and provides online access to Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage.
