Culturaitalia, the Italian National Content Aggregator in Europeana

CulturaItalia is the Portal of Italian Culture, managed by the Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries (ICCU) the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Activities and Tourism (MiBACT); it involves cultural institutions from all sectors and levels (national, regional and local). CulturaItalia, as national aggregator, plays an important role in the development of Europeana, making available cooperative networks and agreements and coordinating technical activities leading to the establishment of Europeana. In line with the Europeana strategy of data re-use, CulturaItalia recently presented a section devoted to open data (http://dati.culturaitalia.it), which also makes it possible to search a selected dataset, available in Linked Open Data Format, using SPARQL END POINT. In this way the aggregated metadata can be widely distributed, connected and enriched.