Building new cultural knowledge services with BRICKS

Information Society Technologies
reported an innovative approach, Bricks, to archive integrated cultural knowledge that envisions enhanced capabilities for providing various cultural organisations with new methods to share and exploit their content.

Excerpts: “BRICKS Integrated Project, absolute winner in the prestigious selection process of the European Sixth Framework Programme, was selected as one of the most important and innovative ICT projects in the European Cultural field. BRICKS aims at integrating the existing digital resources into a common and shared Digital Library, a comprehensive term covering ‘Digital Museums’, ‘Digital Archives’ and other kinds of the digital memory systems. The results of the Project will constitute the main assets of a Factory, which has been subsidised by the Consortium partners and the EU for the duration of the Project, but will sustain itself in the future.”

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Building new cultural knowledge services with BRICKS