The Iberians, an Iron age culture of the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian peninsula, are a focus of research for the University Institute for Iberian Archaeology. The Institute has carried out a series of excavations and researched museum collections particularly in the region around Jaén, and has made available its research archives to the public via Europeana. In his presentation, Sanchez described various collections relating to Iberian archaeology available in Europeana (including a collection from a museum in Brussels among others). He noted the importance of linking to new sources of information (such as archaeometry, gender archaeology and warfare archaeology) and connecting related items. Sanchez described the workflow from the Institute's database to publication of their content in Europeana, and improvements made to the records to increase their quality and relevance for users.

1. Updating the Iberians in Europeana
Alberto Sánchez, José A. Tuñón, Carmen Rueda,
David Parras, Carmen Rísquez, Pilar Amate,
University Research Institute for Iberian Archaeology
University of Jaén, Spain
Instituto Universitario de
Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica
Archaeology and Architecture in Europeana
by CARARE

2. Who are the Iberians?
Instituto Universitario de
Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica
Location:
East and Mediterranean
coast of the Iberian
Peninsula
Iron Age:
6th to 1st ct. BC

3. The Iberians
Oppidum Puente Tablas, Jaén
Instituto Universitario de
Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica
House 2. Oppidum Puente Tablas, Jaén
Sanctuary and exvotes. Despeñaperros Jaén
Kalathos and grave from
Cemetery of La Noria
(Fuente de Piedra,
Málaga, Spain)
Burial mound. Cemetery of La Noria (Fuente de Piedra,
Málaga, Spain
Goddess of Oppidum Puente Tablas, Jaén
Funerary urn.
Cemetery of Piguía,
jaén
Griphomaquia. Conjunto
Cerrillo Blanco Porcuna,
Jaén, Spain)

4. Aggregators: CARARE
3D-ICONS
590 3D models (HA)
1497 images (DR)
Instituto Universitario de
Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica
1707 3D models + images (HA)
3657 images (DR)
Data provider:
University Research Institute for Iberian Archaeology-University of Jaén
UPDATE
104 heritage assets
525 digital resources
CARARE association

5. • New metadata
• Improvement of descriptions
• New heritage assets
• More and better digital resources: at least Tier 2 (0.5 megapixel in size.
e.g. ~800 pixels wide, according to Europeana Publishing Guide)
• AAT (The Art & Architecture Thesaurus) subject concepts to each item
Archaeology http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300054328
Archaeological sites http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300000810
Iberian (culture and style) http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300305500
Two fundamental principles have been taken into account in the update:
1- Reinforce the contextual and historical information
2- The archaeological site is preferred as heritage asset. Isolated view of the
object should be avoided.
What has the update consisted of?
Instituto Universitario de
Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica

6. Instituto Universitario de
Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica
Title: generic, no information about time and archaeological site
Description: simple, no iconographic lecture.

7. Title: generic, no information about time and archaeological site
Description: simple

8. 457 3D models
Same description
Instituto Universitario de
Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica
Vessel 198614

9. Instituto Universitario de
Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica
BAECULA
Archaeometry
Warfare Archaeology
Gender Archaeology
Iberian-Roman Archaeology
www.arquiberlab.com
www.battlefieldofbaecula.es
www.pastwomen.net
What are the new sources of information?

10. Instituto Universitario de
Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica
Local Repository
Data set: The iberians
Carare schema
Metadata Interoperability Platform
• Import metadata using Xml
• Analysis of the imported metadata - elements, usage
• Preview metadata in CARARE and Europeana formats
• Publish metadata to the CARARE MORE repository
• Create mapping to the CARARE
metadata schema
• Transform metadata to CARARE
schema format
Europeana
The metadata is transformed into Europeana format
(currently to EDM) and made available for harvesting by
Europeana via an OAI-PHM target.
MORE
CARARE Monument Repository
MINT
WORKFLOW

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Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica

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Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica
Characters
References

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Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica

14. Burial mound 20 Cemetery of
Tútugi (Galera, Granada, Spain)
Heritage asset
Instituto Universitario de
Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica
Digital resources
Digital resource

15. Heritage asset
Burial mound E.
Cemetery of la
Noria (Fuente de
Piedra, Málaga,
Spain)
Instituto Universitario de
Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica
Digital resource
Digital
resources

16. HIPOGEO DE HORNOS DE PEAL
Instituto Universitario de
Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica
Heritage asset
Iberian hypogeum
Cerro de la Compañia
Hornos de Peal, Jaén,
Spain
Digital resources

17. Heritage asset
Iberian oppidum
of Puente Tablas
(Jaén, Spain)
Digital
resourses
Palace
Sanctuary
Houses
Gate of the Sun
Instituto Universitario de
Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica

18. Heritage asset
Battlefield of Baécula,
Cerro de las
Albahacas (Santo
Tomé-Cazorla, Jaén,
España)
Instituto Universitario de
Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica
Digital resources
Digital resource

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Investigación en Arqueología
Ibérica
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
University Research Institute for Iberian
Archaeology
University of Jaén, Spain
vizcaíno@ujaen.es