AQUARING addressed the cultural/scientific sector of marine and aquatic sciences with the aim at setting up a comprehensive digital content collection to integrate and harmonise original contents provided by science centres, natural history museums and aquariums in Europe.

Advanced semantic web technologies supported the creation of a unified access portal to a distributed content collection thus improving access to and use of a large content base which was otherwise hidden and difficult to exploit.

THE PROJECT

AQUARING addressed the cultural/scientific sector of marine and aquatic sciences involving science centres, natural history museums and aquariums in Europe.

The aim was to improve access to and use of the largely distributed collections of digital contents on all different and complementary aspects of the subject, enhance their impacts on the visitors, increase public awareness and the learning process thereof.

Particularly, the project looked at the large cultural heritage of knowledge and information on aquatic environment available from major European organisations, with emphasis on the relevant themes of environment preservation and sustainable management.

CONSORTIUM

A consolidated research group with a renowned academic and industrial profile.

• COSTA EDUTAINMENT S.p.A. – Acquario di Genova (IT)
• Stichting Koninklijke Rotterdamse Diergaarde (NL)
• TECNALIA Robotiker (ES)
• Lietuvos Juru Muziejus (LT)
• Università Degli Studi Di Genova, DISA (IT)
• algoWatt SpA (IT)
• Societe D’Exploitation Du Centre National De La Mer (FR)
• Association Europeenne Des Expositions Scientifiques, Techniques Et Industrielles (BE)
• Institut Royal Des Sciences Naturelles De Belgique (BE)