ECLAP is presently distributing more than 1.000.000 items which are more than 175.000 content objects, coming from more than 32 prestigious European institutions: images, video, documents, audio, ebook, ePub, animations, slides, playlists, collections, 3D, braille music, annotations, etc.
All interested institutions and stakeholders are invited to contact coordinator Paolo Nesi atpaolo.nesi@unifi.it . See also the Affiliation Agreement web page in which you can get info and advantages to join ECLAP, such as creating your distribution channel/group, share and promote your content on ECLAP and Europeana. More then the 90% of the ECLAP content is indexed in Europeana, while the real content file is only accessible on ECLAP service portal. |
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ECLAP best practice network
ECLAP is creating a best practice network, making use of advanced database and delivery tools for the production and dissemination of the rich multilingual European heritage. This will result in cultural enrichment and promotion of European culture, and in improvements in learning and research in the field of performing arts. ECLAP started as a co-funded project by the European Union ICT Policy Support Programme as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme, Theme CIP-ICT-PSP.2009.2.2, Grant Agreement N° 250481. ECLAP project phase complted in September 2013. All interested institutions and stakeholders are invited to register, and to see the Affiliation Agreement web page in which you can get all the needed information.
ECLAP Major objectives
- Bring together Europe's most relevant performing arts content, content never before accessible via the Internet, coming from major institutions; performing art material coming from theatre, dance, music, cinema and film, …: representing performances, lessons, master classes, teaching material, etc., in the forms of videos, audio, documents, images, animations, playlists, annotations, interactive content, etc.; available through ECLAP portal and published on Europeana;
- Create a stable and open best practice network of European performing art institutions, to help them to exploit digital content and to talk about new technologies and tools;
- Providing solutions and services to major performing arts institutions such as: content ingestion, metadata enrichment, content distribution, content aggregation into Europeana, IPR management, content channel visibility, play lists, annotations, multilingual semantic/fuzzy search queries, partner/colleague search, ...;
- Provide solutions and services for a variety of users: teachers, students, performers, researchers, and performing arts lovers for edutainment, infotainment and entertainment.
ECLAP provides
to registered users and partners many functionalities and facilities, such as:
- Search, retrieve extensive high quality multilingual content;
- access and play a large range of cross media content from video to e-books
- Enrich and contextualize, annotate, aggregate content;
- Upload and share multilingual content, get them indexed with the others;
- content and tools for mobiles
- Comment, annotate, rate and vote on content;
- create non linear story and annotations by using MyStoryPlayer;
- Register and networking with others users and institutions;
- refer to ECLAP content from your portals, embed, citation
- Create discussion groups and forums;
- create playlist, collections and annotations.
- e-learning support, create and distribute courses;
- Upload digital resources for professional and User Generated Content;
- Use tools to manage and define IPR issues and accesses;
- access to metadata via OAI-PMH as Europeana and Linked Open Data, LOD
- automated tool for audiovisual annotations via MyStoryPlayer
- distribution and access all content via different devices such as PCs, tablets and smartphones.
- ingestion and publication of metadata to Europeana, to conquer more visibility at your content.
- mobile tools: ipad, iphone android, windows phone
- usage and exploitation of e-learning facilities.
- statistical analysis
- Workshops and events
ECLAP is establishing a set of best practice guidelines covering performing art key areas, such as metadata and content modelling, mapping metadata standards, semantic enrichment, IPR management tools, business models, ingestion and integration of end-user contributions, education and leisure tools, digital libraries tools. To this end, ECLAP work is going to organize international workshops, conferences, via a number of working groups. The ECLAP also supports clustering between several projects identified by the European Commision: ECLAP will place at their disposal all solutions and analyses performed, as well as procedures for transcoding metadata and content, and all the experience and codes to replicate ECLAP solutions.
ECLAP Consortium brings together European leading national performing arts institutions, universities and research institutes. The partners belongs from thirteen countries combine their expertise and scientific minds to achieve the ECLAP goals see ECLAP partners' page with all the activities performed in the ECLAP consortium: deliverables, documents, slides, meetings, video, etc.; and the planned activities of the next period.
Join the ECLAP community
ECLAP also organises workshops and conferences, to actively fostering networking and strengtheninglinks among the performing arts institutions throughout Europe and at an international level. The ECLAP is developing best practice guidelines. All interested institutions and stakeholders are invited to register, to use and to be an active part and partner of the ECLAP programme and collaboration framework.
If you are intersted in getting involved, you can collaborate with ECLAP to exploit ECLAP services and tools.
If you have any questions or would like to find out more about ECLAP tools and services, please contactinfo@eclap.eu or visit our website at http://www.eclap.eu/.
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