European Cultural Heritage Online
ECHO - Cultural Heritage Online (formerly European Cultural Heritage Online) is a web portal and research infrastructure for the humanities , in which 120 partner organizations (mainly research institutes and museums) from 22 countries are involved. The portal was founded in 2003 on the initiative of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science with initial support from the European Commission and Switzerland . On the one hand, it is intended to bring "cultural heritage on a large scale and of high technical quality" (Rieger and Schöpflin) to the Internet, and on the other hand to offer electronic tools that allow the scientific processing of digital sources. At the same time, access to cultural artefacts should be improved in terms of open access . The initial 70 collections were also intended to serve as "seeds" to motivate other institutions to also present their collections online. So far, over a million data records (over 200,000 documents and 890,000 images) have been made accessible.
ECHO network
The ECHO project works with institutions in Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Mongolia, Nepal, Norway, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland , Thailand, the Netherlands, the US and the UK together.
Web links / literature
- Portal homepage
- Simone Rieger, Urs Schöpflin: European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO) - a research infrastructure for the humanities. in: Kunstchronik - monthly journal for art history, museums and monument preservation 2007 (11), p. 510ff. PDF, 490 kB
- Jürgen Renn: ECHO - A Vision for European Culture. MaxPlanckResearch 4/2001, p. 84 , PDF, English (688 kB)
- The ECHO Charter
- Flyer about ECHO
Individual evidence
- ↑ As of November 2014, see ECHO homepage.