PARTHENOS

PARTHENOS (Pooling Activities, Resources and Tools for Heritage E-research Networking, Optimization and Synergies) is a 4 year project started in May 2014 funded by the EU in the framework of  EU  Horizon 2020 Programme. It aims at strengthening the cohesion of research in the broad sector of Linguistic Studies, Humanities, Cultural Heritage, History, Archaeology and related fields through a thematic cluster of European Research Infrastructures, integrating initiatives, e-infrastructures and other world-class infrastructures, and building bridges between different, although tightly, interrelated fields. PARTHENOS will achieve this objective through the definition and support of common standards, the coordination of joint activities, the harmonization of policy definition and implementation, and the development of pooled services and of shared solutions to the same problems. The project is coordinated by Laboratorio Servizi Didattici e Scientifici (PIN) dell’Università di Firenze  and involves 15 partners from 9 European Member States.

The ICCU participates with different roles:
  • as a content provider, through CulturaItalia, which aggregates resources from Italian libraries and archives that will be made available to the system created by the project
  • as expert in data standardization and semantics for defining the knowledge representation model, which is being developed for integrating data
  • as coordinator of a wide Expert Group for the definition of guidelines on Copyright, Open Data and Open Access in the field of cultural heritage and digital humanities.
See the project’s website for further information: http://www.parthenos-project.eu/ or write to: ic-cu@beniculturali.it