Carare is a non-profit association promoting the sharing of cultural heritage data in Europe since 2010, focusing on the integration of digital technology in storytelling through frameworks that support the fair reuse of data. This document emphasizes the importance of reliable sources, metadata, and access licenses to enhance the findability and accessibility of cultural data while ensuring interoperability and rights clarity for reuse. The adherence to FAIR principles is crucial for creating engaging narratives and facilitating collaboration among various cultural heritage stakeholders.

1. Ponte Molle bij Rome - 1821
- Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

2. About us!
CARARE has been working with heritage organisations
and archaeologists across Europe since 2010 offering
support and practical assistance in sharing datasets with
Europeana
• We are a non-profit membership association aiming to
advance professional practice and foster appreciation of the
digital archaeological and architectural heritage
• Our members include heritage bodies, universities, research
organisations, specialist digital archives, NGOs, charities,
private companies and individual specialist and experts.
• We participate in several EC funded projects.
https://www.carare.eu
Contact: info@carare.eu
Twitter:
@projectCARARE
Training hub:
https://www.carare.eu/
en/training/
Webinars on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/user
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3. Introduction
Digital technology offers a vibrant platform for
sharing stories, which integrate a range of
media to create rich, immersive experiences.
In this paper we look at the frameworks and
standards that allow for FAIR re-use of data in
narratives.

4. Modern landscapes only reveal a small part of what was
originally there to visitors
Image credit: Open Virtual Worlds, University of St Andrews

5. Bringing a site to life in a virtual
reconstruction
Ename 1665 - the timber harbour, Visual Dimension - https://youtu.be/HGd3LUrqNyI

6. Puutavaran kuljetus moottorikelkalla, The
Finnish Forest Museum, CC BY.
https://www.europeana.eu/item/2021008/
_knp_152987
Creating a narrative
To create a story, you need:
• Reliable sources
• Plans, drawings
• Archives
• Museum objects
• Points of interest
• Links between elements in
the story and to resources

7. Digging for data
https://open-science-training-handbook.github.io/Open-Science-Training-Handbook_EN/
You need to be
able to find good
reliable sources
and know whether
you can use them
in your project.

8. Unlocking data for re-use
● Finding data to use in
projects can be hard
● Standards, metadata
and access licenses all
help
● This is where the FAIR
principles come in!
Metal Key, Northern Heritage Network, CCO -
https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/181/share3d_972

9. Findability
● Metadata allows users to find content by searching a variety
of keywords, dates, subjects, creators, etc.
● Persistent identifiers mean that the content can be cited and
found again by future users
If you are the content creator, sharing your metadata with portals
like Europeana increases its findability
Finding good CH content (online) depends on good quality metadata:

10. Accessibility
Once users have found your data it needs to be accessible. This has two
aspects, the first is where the data is deposited and how it can be retrieved.
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Image: European Data Journalism Network
If a user must phone a curator or librarian to
ask for access to the data, it is not accessible.
FAIR data does not have to be fully open or
free, but it should be easy to find out how to
access and use the data.
One way of making sure your data will remain
accessible is by depositing in a Trusted
Digital Repository.

11. Interoperability
A single virtual reconstruction may reuse several data files (3D shapes, 2D
images, documents, sound files) and will create new data files. For
interoperability the focus is file formats and on documentation:
● To allow others (including future
members of your team) to open and re-
use the data in future
● Being able to connect 3D with other
data
● Metadata

12. Reusability
Rights statements are an important aspect of re-
usability as they provide information about whether
and how someone can re-use the object.
● Standardised rights statements (e.g. Creative
Commons or RightsStatements.org) give the
information in clear and simple language and
are machine readable.

13. You’ve created a digital narrative…
what next?

14. At the end of your project
The University Research Institute for Iberian Archaeology
educational event
The FAIR principles apply,
this means…

15. FAIR data in action
• Depositing your dataset and its documentation with a digital archive
at the end of the project
• Publishing the virtual reconstruction on a hosting platform
• Ideally one which can render your 3D model in a viewer
• Providing good quality metadata
• Licensing the data for reuse
• Sharing the metadata with discovery portals

16. Metadata example
Share3D dashboard
Follows metadata
standards
Uses Linked Open
Data
Exports metadata for
inclusion in
Europeana.eu

17. Frameworks for narratives
We began by noting how important digital technology has become
as a platform for sharing stories and rich, immersive experiences.
Our story today has mainly been about how following the FAIR
principles allows creatives and researchers to find and re-use
authentic cultural heritage content in their narratives.
We end with a reminder that by applying the
FAIR principles to your own work, you create
possibilities for new and exciting narratives in
future.
Image credit: the Hunt Museum

18. Thank you!
Kate Fernie
kate@carare.eu
Henk Alkemade
henkalkemade66@gmail.com
Website: https://www.carare.eu
Contact:info@carare.eu
Twitter:@projectCARARE
Training Hub:
https://www.carare.eu/en/training/
Webinars on Vimeo:
https://vimeo.com/user124611809