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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.

MUO: 1st Croatian Documentalist Conference

From 23rd to 25th October "The 1st Croatian Documentalist Conference" was organised by the Croatian Museum Association. Among many prominent documentalists, archaeologists, curators and cultural heritage professionals from various museums and institutions, a member of the Partage Plus team (Petra Milovac) held a presentation about the ongoing Linked Heritage projects at MUO, Partage Plus and Athena Plus. At the conference, photography standards and terminology translated for Partage Plus were discussed, particularly problems of assigning metadata to bordering examples of items included in the project, and the importance of selecting the appropriate term in order for the object to be retrievable on Europeana. Petra presented the semantic differences between Croatian and English with examples of near/partial equivalence. This presentation once again raised an urgent question of developing a Croatian thesaurus of art terms, as a basis for such projects.