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Posted on Friday September 5, 2025

Updated on Monday September 8, 2025

Europeana at Digital Heritage 2025

Digital Heritage (DH) World Congress & Expo is a widely recognised conference dedicated to the advancement of theory and practice within digital cultural heritage. Discover where you can find Europeana at the event!

Close up of circuitry on a silicon chip.
Title:
Silicon chip
Creator:
Paul Griggs
Institution:
Wellcome
Country:
United Kingdom
8 — 13 September 2025
09:30 — 18:00
(CEST)
Siena (Italy), San Niccolò Palace, Via Roma 56.

The fourth edition of Digital Heritage brings together leading international scientific organisations, initiatives and events, all in one venue with a prestigious joint publication. A groundbreaking public exhibition of cutting edge digital heritage projects will be there, and following the successful format of the previous editions, the conference had a single call for papers and a coordinated scientific review process.

Colleagues from Europeana and partners from across the common European data space for cultural heritage will be in attendance at Digital Heritage - find out where below!

3D Data in the data space for cultural heritage

This workshop will see Sander Münster, Marco Medici, Antonella Fresa, Alexandru Stan and Valentine Charles explore the 3D possibilities and projects taking place across the common European data space for cultural heritage, including XRculture, 3DBigDataSpace, 3D-4CH Online Competence Centre and EUreka3D-XR.

Time and date: Monday 8 September 2025, 15:30 - 17:00, room 15, San Nicolo Palace, Siena, Italy.

Publishing and reusing Collections as Data across GLAM Labs and infrastructures: from principles to practice

This workshop is organised by Europeana Research, DARIAH and the GLAM Labs Community. It will introduce relevant aspects concerning the curation and sharing of collections as data. It will include hands-on sessions to create awareness of computational access and reuse in the context of international movements such as the International GLAM Labs Community; and new ecosystems such as the common European data space for cultural heritage and the Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage. Hear from Alba Irollo, Gustavo Candela and Sally Chambers!

Time and date: Monday 8 September 2025, 17:00 - 18:30, Room 20, San Nicolo Palace, Siena, Italy. More information

Europeana Network Association members meet-up

Are you a member of the Europeana Network Association (ENA)? Do you want to become one? Are you curious about the work of ENA? Join us at Digital Heritage 2025 for an informal face-to-face meet up! 

Valentine Charles (Europeana Foundation Data Services Director), Rob Davies (former ENA Members Council Chair), and Maria Kagkelidou (ENA Members Council) will be there to welcome you, share information, answer questions or simply chat about all things Europeana.

Time and date: Tuesday 9 September 2025, 14:30 - 15:30, Room 149, San Nicolo Palace, Siena, Italy

Powering 3D digitisation of Europe’s heritage: challenges and opportunities

This scientific panel session will see an exploration of the challenges and opportunities around 3D digitisation and European heritage. With speakers including CARARE's Operations Manager Kate Fernie and Europeana Foundation's Data Services Director, Valentine Charles. 

Time and date: Tuesday 9 September 2025, 14:30 - 16:00, room 20, San Nicolo Palace, Siena, Italy.

    ECHOES in the spotlight 

    The Europeana Initiative is proud to be part of the ECHOES consortium leading the Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage. ECHOES will be in the spotlight at Digital Heritage in a number of places, including the below - for a full overview of their presence, check out their LinkedIn post.  

    • ECHOES Workshop – Opportunities and Tools from the Cultural Heritage Cloud (Xavier Rodier et al) – Part 1. Monday 9 September, 09:00–13:30, Plenary, San Nicolo Palace, Siena, Italy.
    • Scientific Panel, Collaborative Cloud for Cultural Heritage (ECHOES), Wednesday 10 September, 09:00–11:00, Room 101, San Nicolo Palace, Siena, Italy.
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