1. Overview of the Partage
Plus project
25-26/09/13 – Erik Buelinckx
Europeana Project Group Assembly, Den Haag
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2. Objective
‘Partage Plus will create an access point to information
(through the project website) and digital content
(through Europeana) on the European cultural heritage
of the Art Nouveau period. It provides a means and a
structure for the digitisation of content from different
domains and different countries and making it available
for citizens using Europeana.’
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3. The Project...
• ‘Digitising and enabling Art Nouveau for
Europeana’
• Significantly increase the number of Art Nouveau
collections available online;
• 24 Months, started in March 2012;
• Digitising 75,000+ Art Nouveau objects;
• 2,000 3D models created;
• 23 partners from 17 European countries;
• Includes paintings, drawings, furniture, sculpture,
ceramics and architecture;
• Content will be contributed to Europeana,
Europe’s digital cultural heritage portal;
• Use existing Art Nouveau in Europeana and
encourage others to do the same.
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4. Masterpieces...
Partage Plus will feature ‘Masterpieces’ by:
• Alphonse Mucha;
• Victor Horta;
• Henri van de Velde;
• Charles Rennie Mackintosh;
• Hector Guimard;
• Emile Gallé;
• René Lalique;
• Paul Hankar;
• Josef Maria Olbrich;
• Wilhelm Jost;
• Charles Tiffany
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5. Project Partners
• Collections Trust, UK
• Osterreichisches Museum fur Angewandte
Kunst Mak/Gegenwartskunst, AT
• Stad Gent, BE
• Koninklijk Instituut voor het
Kunstpatrimonium, BE
• Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en
Geschiedenis, BE
• Muzej za umjetnost i obrt, HR
• Umeleckoprumyslove Museum v Praze, CZ
• National Board of Antiquities, FI
• Philipps Universitaet Marburg, GE
• Steinbichler Optotechnik GmbH, GE
• National Technical University of Athens, GR
• Iparművészeti Múzeum, HU
• Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle
biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni
bibliografiche, IT
• Stichting Drents Museum, NL
• Stiftelsen Kulturkvartalet, NO
• Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, PL
• Muzeum Wojciecha Weissa Fundacja, PL
• Camara Municipal de Aveiro, PT
• Urbanisticni Institut Republike Slovenije, SI
• Museu Nacional d'art de Catalunya, ES
• Goteborgs Kommun, SE
• Rörstrand Museum, SE
• University of East Anglia (Sainsbury Centre
for Visual Arts), UK
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6. Target Users...
The target user groups for project content:
• Curators of Art Nouveau;
• Communities interested in Art Nouveau in their area;
• Cultural Heritage Institutions;
• Private sector including: collectors, dealers, and relevant publishers;
• Education sector;
• Media;
• Academic researchers.
The Partage Plus website provide users with the opportunity to:
• Gather information about the Art Nouveau style;
• Find out general information about the project;
• Experience Art Nouveau works online through Europeana;
• Visit institutions with Art Nouveau collections;
• Discover how to engage with the project;
• Take part in project events.
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7. Art Nouveau
Why Art Nouveau?
• One of the most prominent European art styles;
• Resurgence in popularity;
• Very well represented in almost every art form;
• Europeana is lacking – around 5000 records;
• Number of collections in European museums;
• Partage Plus aims to demonstrate the wealth of
the Art Nouveau collections within Europe!
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8. Content - IMM
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9. Content - CT
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10. Content - MNW
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11. Content - UNIMAR
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12. Content – KIK-IRPA
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13. What’s next?
• Content appearing in Europeana and national
aggregators;
• Content from all partners available together;
• 75,000 records ;
• Increased dissemination activities – events,
presentations, publications;
• 3D model PDF’s available;
• 3D ‘showcase’;
• Research into wider use of 3D models;
• Greater accessibility to Europe’s Art Nouveau
heritage!
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14. Get involved...
• Visit the project website www.partage-plus.eu
• Do you have content you want to contribute?
• Share information about the project via your own networks
• Talk to us!
Subscribe to our Newsletter:
www.partage-plus.eu/en/newsletter/subscribe
www.twitter.com/partage_plus
www.facebook.com/partageplus
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15. Thank you!
Erik Buelinckx
Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage
(KIK-IRPA), Brussels, Belgium
erik.buelinckx@kikirpa.be
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