An Introduction to CARARE Aggregation Services: A step by step guide to sharing your data
At CARARE we work with state heritage authorities, museums, libraries, research teams, digital archives, companies and individuals to share the digital archaeological and architectural heritage internationally for education, research and enjoyment.
CARARE collaborates with Europeana, the cultural heritage platform, and with ARIADNE Plus the archaeology research infrastructure.
STEP 1: BENEFITS
CARARE is a membership association and if you would like to find out more about joining us, please see: https://www.carare.eu/join-us/
STEP 2: PREPARATION
The main requirements for sharing your data are:
We will ask you to sign cooperation agreements with us to enable us to share your data with Europeana and/or ARIADNE Plus.
STEP 3: TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS
The technical aspects of sharing your data include:
The technical criteria for sharing data with Europeana include:
CARARE offers advice and support on all the technical aspects of data sharing.
STEP 4: SHARE
CARARE is metadata aggregator. We provide services to gather metadata and help you to get your data published in Europeana and other international platforms.
MINT is a mapping and ingestion service. You can use this service to:
REPOX is a repository management software which implements the OAI-PMH web service protocol. You can use this service to:
Share3D dashboard is a service which allows Sketchfab users to share 3D models with Europeana. You can use this service to:
CARARE is an accredited Europeana aggregator, we work with Europeana’s data ingestion team who harvest our metadata repository and publish it on Europeana.
All metadata provided to Europeana metadata is transformed to the Europeana Data Model (EDM) format for ingestion by Europeana.