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Pathways to a Shared European Information Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage

Jonathan Kenny and Julian D. Richards

With a contribution from Stewart Waller

Table of Contents

Summary

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Getting beyond identity politics: why a European Information Infrastructure is important for archaeology
• 2.1 Fostering common European identity: a problem for heritage projects
• 2.2 Constructing prehistoric 'origin myths'
• 2.2.1 Prehistoric Europeans: our farming ancestors
• 2.2.2 The Bronze Age: a golden age of Europe
• 2.2.3 Celtic Europe: a pan-European Celtic empire
• 2.3 Classical Europe: threats from the East and superiority over the barbarian
• 2.3.1 Classical Greek constructions of Europe
• 2.3.2 Roman constructions of Europe
• 2.4 Medieval Europe: Christendom (the cross) opposed to Islam (the crescent)
• 2.5 Cross border resources: an enabling role for researchers and citizens alike
• 3.0 Development of an idea: why European data sharing is important
• 3.1 The importance of networks
• 3.2 The real problems for sharing
• 4.0 Dealing with language
• 4.1 Multilingual resources: how far can we go?
• 4.2 Meaning and language: how far can we go?
• 5.0 Spatial issues
• 5.1 The ARENA spatial search
• 5.2 The technology behind the ARENA spatial search co-authored with Stewart Waller
• 5.3 Density layers
• 5.4 Data visualisation
• 6.0 Describing data: the role of metadata
• 7.0 Digitisation: making more data digital
• 7.1 Digitised records through a map interface
• 7.2 Images, context and online publication
• 7.3 Digitisation of research resources
• 8.0 Preservation and publication: online archives
• 9.0 Drawing together the paths: networks, continuity and availability
• Bibliography

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