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Posted on Monday July 19, 2021
Updated on Monday February 24, 2025
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Explore the latest news from the common European data space for cultural heritage, Europeana Initiative and cultural heritage sector as we work towards digital transformation.
In a collective effort led by the Europeana Initiative, a coalition of 32 organisations and networks - representing thousands of cultural and heritage organisations across Europe - are urging the European Commission to increase funding for the common European data space for cultural heritage in the Digital Europe Programme (DEP) Work Plan 2025-2027. Read the full letter and find out what inspired this call for action.
After two years of international cooperation, the 5DCulture project has achieved a remarkable transformation in how European cultural heritage is preserved, shared and reimagined through the power of 3D technologies. Read more about the project’s achievements!
After two years of intense and ambitious work, the DE-BIAS project has come to an end. Discover how it met its goal to support a more inclusive and respectful description of cultural heritage by addressing prejudices and stereotypes reflected in language, and how you can use the tools it created.
Europeana 2025 will take place in Warsaw on 11 - 12 June 2025 during the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU, and we are excited to announce the conference’s call for proposals! Read on to discover the themes, deadlines and how to apply.
As we approach the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, we share how the Europeana Initiative is working to support the Ukrainian digital heritage sector, and how you can get involved with the effort.
In a recently published opinion piece on Digital Meets Culture, Harry Verwayen and Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović, (on behalf of the Europeana Foundation and Europa Nostra), highlight digital cultural heritage as a catalyst for positive change in Europe.
Discover how the Policy for persistent identifiers in the data space can guide cultural heritage institutions to ensure that resources are reliably identified and remain accessible online now and in the future.
As the new year begins, Harry Verwayen, General Director of the Europeana Foundation, Kerstin Arnold, Chair of the Europeana Aggregators’ Forum and Rob Davies, Chair of the Europeana Network Association, share their message for the year ahead, on behalf of the Europeana Initiative.
Title:
Beyond the Bassline exhibition. In copyright.
Creator:
Terna Jogo
Institution:
British Library
Country:
United Kingdom
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Created: 15 January 2025
Mykaell Riley
Beth Daley
We talk to Dr Mykaell Riley, Director of The Black Music Research Unit at the University of Westminster, about Beyond the Bassline - an exhibition with the British Library that explored hidden stories of Black British music and ran from April to August 2024 throughout the UK.
What happens when artists and archives meet? ‘Open Archief, Artistic Reuse of Archives’, a new book from the Open Archief project, brings together the voices of artists, curators and researchers to explore the vast potential of creative reuse of archive material.
The Europeana Public Domain Charter is a key policy document within the Europeana Initiative that highlights the importance of the public domain. 15 years after its adoption, it has been reviewed and updated to ensure that it continues to reflect the challenges that the public domain faces today. We tell you all about it in this post.
