CARARE

Connecting ARchaeology and ARchitecture in Europeana

Since 2019, ICCU has been a member of CARARE, the non-profit organization that gathers agencies, research institutes, specialized digital archives and other stakeholders involved in the valorization of archaeological and architectural heritage.

CARARE originates from a European Commission co-funded project, whose original objective was to harvest archaeological and architectural data for the Europeana portal. Today CARARE aims to disseminate digitising, connecting and valorizing activities to the public and to foster the use of digital content at both national and international level, in order to promote cultural heritage and enhance the related professions. These activities are carried out by

• Providing advice, guidance and training on good practices in the creation, publication and use of digital data.
• Providing technical services to enable institutions around Europe to share their digital content with users via Europeana and the CARARE channel.
• Maintaining the CARARE metadata schema.
• Working to foster appreciation of the digital cultural heritage and its potential uses by the wider community

Since 2019 ICCU and CARARE have worked together on many projects. Among them Europeana Archaeology, Ariadne Plus and 4CH.

For more information about CARARE see the official website.