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a connection between museum

and tourism sector

the current status in the euromuse.net-project

the European exhibition portal

The informationrelevant for visitors in one spot

„in short“ - description

„in detail“ - description

links to the

museum‘s website

opening hours

images from the exhibtion

contact data and

street addresse

exhibition title

duration

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• presents exhibitions from 160 museums and 17 European countries

• all the information is available in two languages - the national language and English

• constantly growing number of museums participating

• continuous updates

•multinational editorial teamguarantees high quality of information

• all the information is available in one spot

euromuse.net – the origin

• the portal was created in 2001

• the portal has been developed by a preparatory group comprising the …

•National Gallery, London

•Museé du Louvre, Paris

•Réunion des museés nationaux, Paris

•Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

•Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam

•Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

•Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin

euromuse.net-Projekt

• a project financially supported by theEU-Commission in the framework of the eTEN-programm

• project duration:from 01.01.2008 until 31.12.2010

• project partners:

� enhancing the existing exhibition portal

http://www.euromuse.net

� connecting the euromuse.netmuse.netmuse.netmuse.net database to the tourism sector via HARMONISE interface

Main goals of the euromuse.netmuse.netmuse.netmuse.net project:

Creating an online service to spread out information about permanent and temporary exhibitions in Europe.

euromuse.netmuse.netmuse.netmuse.netexhibition information for tourism

museum sector tourism sector

intermediator euromuse.net

- interest to communicate theiroffers internationallyand to a wide spread interested community

- difficulties, because of high effort to fully achieve and serve an internationalized markets

- interest to integrate museums and exhibitionsinto their touristical offerings

- difficulities to overviewthe complex European museum scene / market

the challenge

• several parties want to exchange differently structured data

� e.g. museums and tourism players

• everyone has to develop special data formats and agree on several bi-lateral „standards“?

Museum1

Museum2

DB 1

DB 2

Museum3

DB 3

Tourism1

Tourism2

DB 1

DB 2

Webportal

DB 3

Tourism & Museum Tourism & Museum Tourism & Museum Tourism & Museum

OntologyOntologyOntologyOntology

the euromuse.net & Harmonise solution

Harmonise SpaceHarmonise SpaceHarmonise SpaceHarmonise Space

Museum1

Museum2

DB 1

DB 2

Museum3

DB 3

Tourism1

Tourism2

DB 1

DB 2

Webportal

DB 3

M1

M2

M3

T1

T2

WP

Museum4 TYPO3 backend

direct input

pilotuser (test stage):

National museums in Berlin

pilotuser (test stage):

European Travel Commission

• Displaying your exhibitions in a most exclusive neighbourshipwithin the major European exhibitions and museums, relevant on a European level

• Assistance to your press department:Entering the information once and display it

on further internet platforms like visiteurope.com

• Zero/Low effort in human ressources while using Harmonise-interface

• Editorial checks and assured quality of information by the euromuse.net team

Easy and effective

� euromuse.net for museums

Advantages for tourism professionals!

• access information on Europe‘s most important exhibitions and the major European museums

• receive multilingual information

• no effort – no content management for you

• garanteed quality of content – assured by the editorial checks

• euromuse.net-data is compatible to your in-house database system

• concrete search queries

• overview about a very complex and confusing European museum market

• integration of the new Content Management System TYPO3 completed…– simplification of the data input

– time to enter an exhibtion cut in half

– data updates can be done directly by the members

• improved search engine optimization– for instance by indexed sub pages of the website

• networking activities– for instance: co-operation with NEMO -

Current status of work (1/2)

• user interface in three languages– currently in Italian, German and English

– further languages will be integrated

• constantly growing interest – growing amount of members

– latest entrances, for instance• Jüdisches Museum Berlin (Jewish Museum Berlin), Germany

• Mart - Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy

• new country (since 2008): Luxembourg

Current status of work (2/2)

Please find further information online

• the euromuse.net portal:http://www.euromuse.net

• the euromuse.net-project:http://www.euromuse-project.net

• the harmonise interface: http://www.harmonet.org

… and please get in contact to join euromuse.net with your museum:

Monika Hagedorn-Saupe (contact@euromuse.net)

Thank you very much for your attention!

Monika Hagedorn-Saupe contact@euromuse.net