AthenaPlus GIS pilot has been developed to demonstrate the use and re-use of Europeana, AthenaPlus and the other cultural heritage content, when browsing the content geographically. The AthenaPlus GIS pilot has been development in the framework of eCultureMap.The eCultureMap is the effort of the Europeana partners to put their cultural content on the one single geographical knowledge map when ingesting their metadata to Europeana. The eCultureMap currently displays more than 2 millions objects from several Europeana projects as are Athena, Carare, LinkedHeritage, AthenaPlus, PartagePlus and others.

 

Spatial accuracy:


The tool supports navigation and search of the content:
- to move the map press either left or middle mouse button while over the map and drag; - to change the magnification use the mouse scroll wheel or the magnification tool on the right sidebar; you can also hold a shift key while drawing a rectangle with the left mouse button to zoom-in;
- to identify features use the left mouse button and click on them, then select the thumbnail to connect to Europeana meta data.

 

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Filtering the heritage on the map according to term. When multilingual option is checked enter the term in English and it will be automatically translated into other languages.

A tool for planning the cultural route. Click the points on the map and end the route by double-click.

Find tool. Enter the place name.

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Search Europeana content and find geographical location of selected object.

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Zoom the map to full extent.

Selecting base layers:
Google Physical
 
 Satellite 
 Streets 
 Hybrid
 

Zoom tool.

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The tool could be efficiently used also on mobile devices with additional locational and navigation features.The first version of the eCultureMap has been developed within Carare project.

 

 

.Please send comments to Franc J. Zakrajsek: franc.zakrajsek@guest.arnes.si

Developed by IPCHS, eCultureLab in cooperation with Europeana projects partners.