Europeana Inside

zetcom is proud to announce, that after a thorough evaluation procedure the collaborative best practice project „Europeana Inside“ has been approved by the EC. Together with our Athens based partner firm PostScriptum Ltd. we will participate as technology partners in a consortium of 28 international companies and museums, among them our MuseumPlus clients State Museums of Berlin, The Royal Museums of Art and History in Bruxelles and the Benaki Museum Athens.

The 30 month project, which will take off in 2012, is led by the UK Collections Trust and aims to achieve a lasting transformation in the quantity and scope of digital material contributed to Europeana. This will be achieved by the development of open-source tools, which reduce or remove the legal, technical, financial and operational barriers to participation in aggregated services by cultural institutions.

The Europeana Inside Network brings together world-leading cultural heritage institutions with global Collections Management System providers to provide a combination of sector and technical expertise.

Europeana Inside
Collections Trust
Europeana

Standards are an essential basis for managing and sharing information.
Especially in the field of museums and cultural heritage institutions it is very important to work according to agreed principles to ensure a consistent result and the highest quality of data and information. Standards are the key to successful data retrieval and research.

On this account zetcom cooperates with national and international committees and associations, acknowledge their guidelines and standards in the product design of MuseumPlus and eMuseumPlus. zetcom attends regular conferences and meetings of a number of professional associations. We are a member of numerous organizations including:

ICOM - International Council of Museums

CIDOC - International Committee for Documentation

MCN - Museum Computer Network (USA)

Collections Trust (UK)

DMB - Deutscher Museumsbund (DE)

CHIN - Canadian Heritage Information Network (accreditation)

CCPA - The Europeana Council of Content Providers and Aggregators

Perfect data integration and interchange is based on seemless integration of documentation standards. That is why our products are compliant to the following standards and guidelines:

SPECTRUM

ICCD - National documentation standard of the Italian Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione

CDWA Lite - Categories for the Description of Works of Art, Getty Research Institut

LIDO - Lightweight Information Describing Objects

Dublin Core

Joconde - catalogue for collections of French museums