The document outlines strategies for natural history museums and science centers to integrate their digital collections into educational activities. It discusses various pathways for teachers, museum educators, and lifelong learners to access and utilize these collections, as well as tools for metadata management and multimedia authoring. The aim is to enhance educational engagements around biodiversity and natural history while making resources more accessible through digital platforms.

1. How to support educational uses of biodiversity & natural history collections the approach of Natural Europe CIP PSP Dr. Nikos Manouselis, Dr. Giannis Stoitsis Greek Research & Technology Network Agro-Know Technologies

2. this is NOT a n educational resource

3. … but may become one

4. how could natural history museums and science centers connect their digital collections with their educational activities?

5. School community Pre-structured Pathway Pattern From Teachers & Museum Educators

6. Lifelong Learners Open Pathway Pattern From Museum Educators

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9. METADATA INFRASTRUCTURE EDUCATIONAL TOOLS COLLECTION TOOLS curators educators teachers pupils families

11. ESE-CHO Application Profile CHO Authoring & Annotation CHO Harvesting ESE Output Cultural Material Search service

12. IEEE LOM Application Profile Pathway Authoring & Annotation Pathway Template Authoring Specs & Prototype ARIADNE Validation Service

13. Field trip to a lake Kournas in Crete Data collection Field trip to the Caribbean in 2006 Exposes legacy data and photos to Manolis Provide raw data and photos to Manolis MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING TOOL Ingest Annotate Manolis Iasmi Apostolis Manolis

14. Ingests the data & content & enriches metadata Uploads content & provides metadata from scratch MULTIMEDIA AUTHORING TOOL I have to ingest and enrich! I have to upload and annotate! Multimedia Content Uploader Multimedia Authoring Environment Manolis Manolis

15. Data are published on the Natural Europe Federation Data are published on the Natural Europe Federation I want to teach my pupils about water pollution In NHMC we research environmental issues like water pollution Dimitris ARIADNE Infrastructure Apostolis Iasmi Manolis Catherina

16. PATHWAY AUTHORING TOOL Collections of Educational & Cultural Resources Pathway Editor Pathway Template Editor Learning Models Dimitris

17. Pathway accessible through ARIADNE Pathway accessible through NHM website Teachers Visitors Families PATHWAY AUTHORING TOOL Dimitris Europeana Objects findable through pathways in museum’s web site Catherina

18. demo

19. interesting(?) aspects

20. metadata aggregation

21. social research platform s

22. extracting research activities

24. p otential synergies make collections findable through other collection management systems Open Search APIs, OAI-PMH harvesting, ... set up instances of pathway tool for more museums enrich/enhance the educational community around the Web site use virtual cloud infrastructure for smaller institutions ...more?

25. thank you! Dr. Nikos Manouelis [email_address] Dr. Giannis Stoitsis [email_address] http://www.natural-europe.eu