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National Museum Warsaw and Partage Plus project awarded with the Sybilla 2015 prize

The National Museum Warsaw (MNW) received the Polish Sybilla 2015 award in the category "Best Digitisation Project" for the participation in the Partage Plus project. The international project kicked off in March 2012 with the aim of digitizing and 3D scanning more than 79.000 art works from the Art Nouveau period. All items were made available via the Euopeana platform and can be accessed under the following link. The Partage Plus team, composed of 25 partner institutions from all over Europe, feels immensely honoured by this award and thanks the organizers of Sybilla 2015 for this mention.

Partage Plus Vocabulary

Partage Plus Vocabulary

The PARTAGE PLUS VOCABULARY is a structured multilingual controlled vocabulary. It consists of components for the enrichment of metadata created for cultural heritage objects relating to Art Nouveau aesthetic production encompassing the visual arts, crafts and architecture, - referencing to and mainly based on the Art & Architecture Thesaurus of the Getty Research Institue.

The controlled vocabulary contains 705 concepts represented by labels in 16 languages for the indexing of cultural heritage metadata, referring to object/work types; techniques; materials; actor roles and Art Nouveau style specific differentiation. Additional material - including the Partage Plus Authority list of Art Nouveau Creators - is available for download on the page listing deliverables and documents.

The vocabulary is available for free reuse. You can also download an overview (pdf) of the Partage Plus Vocabulary or browse the complete list of concepts online here.

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