Posted on Thursday February 6, 2020

Updated on Monday November 6, 2023

Generic Services projects

Generic Services projects supported the digital transformation of cultural heritage institutions by providing innovative tools for user engagement and crowdsourcing activities, data enrichment and translations, enhancements of APIs and the Europeana website, as well as making the aggregation process to Europeana.eu more efficient.

Projects also supported cultural heritage professionals to build capacity through relevant recommendations, webinars, workshops and toolkits on various topics such as IIIF, copyrights, machine learning, AI, storytelling as well as diversity and inclusion practices within the sector.

Projects increased the amount of high-quality content and metadata in various formats including audiovisual and 3D content. They engaged the Europeana Initiative's audiences by creating editorials in various formats and on diverse topics such as sport, manuscripts, and the 20th century.

Projects were funded under the CEF Telecom - Connecting Europe Facility Programme of the European Union. The programme facilitated cross-border interactions between public administrations, businesses and citizens during 2014-2020. Europeana participated in Generic Service projects from 2016.

Past projects

Title:: Crafted logo and tagline - on wood
Creator:: Europeana
Date:: 2021
Institution:: Europeana Foundation
Country:: The Netherlands
Copyright:: CC BY

CRAFTED: Enrich and promote traditional and contemporary crafts

CRAFTED aimed to support the transfer of European crafts to future generations by aggregating, enriching and promoting tangible crafts heritage and preserving intangible skills and knowledge from craftspeople and artisans.

Title:: A New Year’s card featuring a Boeing 747 from Israel’s national airline ELAL
Creator:: 1997
Date:: Otto Treumann
Institution:: Joods Historisch Museum
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: Public Domain

Jewish History Tours

Jewish History Tours aimed to create engaging online tours with Jewish heritage data on pan-European topics, such as multiculturalism, persecution, and migration.

Title:: [Glas-in-lood raam westkant J. Obrecht Synagoge]
Creator:: Willem Bogtman
Date:: (1882-1955) - 1927
Institution:: Joods Historisch Museum
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: Public Domain

J-Ark - European Jewish Community Archive

This project aimed to promote the adoption of eArchiving solutions and standards by the European cultural heritage sector, focusing on Jewish heritage.

Title:: Saint George and the Dragon
Creator:: Luca Signorelli
Date:: 1495 - 1505
Institution:: Rijksmuseum
Country:: The Netherlands
Copyright:: Public Domain

Saint George on a Bike

This project aimed to improve the quality and quantity of open metadata associated with imagery from European cultural heritage, in particular addressing the challenges of endowing AI with insights into culture, symbols and traditions.

Title:: Woman who writes letters
Creator:: Albert Edelfelt
Date:: 1887
Institution:: Nationalmuseum
Country:: Sweden
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

EnrichEuropeana+

EnrichEuropeana+ aimed to enhance the Transcribathon Platform as a service for cultural heritage institutions.

Title:: Tilts pār Lielupi pie Jelgavas
Creator:: Volfeils Ervīns
Date:: 1900-1991
Institution:: National Library of Latvia
Country:: Latvia
Copyright:: CC BY

Europeana Translate

Europeana Translate aimed to build connections between the Europeana and Automated Translation Digital Service Infrastructures (DSIs) to improve the usability of heritage resources by translating the metadata of more than 25 million records available on Europeana.

Title:: Laterna-Magica-Zubehör
Creator:: Glasdia & Bildstreifen
Date:: 1876- 1925
Institution:: Spielzeugmuseum der Stadt Nürnberg (Museum Lydia Bayer)
Country:: Germany
Copyright:: CC BY-NC-SA

Europeana Subtitled

Europeana Subtitled enabled audiovisual media heritage to be enjoyed by professional and non-professional audiences and increased its use through closed captioning and subtitling.

Title:: Bonad
Creator:: Unknown
Date:: 1913
Institution:: Sörmlands museum
Country:: Sweden
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

WEAVE - Widen European Access to cultural communities Via Europeana

This project developed guidelines to link the tangible and intangible heritage of cultural communities, safeguarding the rich and invaluable cultural heritage which they represent.

Title:: Volvelle from BL Sloane 702, ff. 21v-22
Date:: c. 1482
Institution:: The British Library
Country:: United Kingdom
Copyright:: Public Domain

ARMA -The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages

ARMA showed how medieval reading culture evolved and became a fundamental aspect of European culture.

Title:: Kvinne og mann på ski i snødekt landskap
Creator:: Lund, Solveig
Date:: 1900-1907
Institution:: Norsk Folkemuseum
Country:: Norway
Copyright:: Public Domain

Europeana Sport

Europeana Sport highlighted the rich heritage of sport across Europe.

Title:: 22.0 IBM Diverse maskiner
Institution:: Telemuseet
Country:: Norway
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Europeana XX

The Europeana XX project (EXX) focused on the 20th century and its social, political and economic changes as documented in photographs, videos, paintings and files.

Title:: The solitary stillness of the mountains and ravines
Creator:: Qian Songyan
Date:: c. 1980
Institution:: Östasiatiska museet
Country:: Sweden
Copyright:: CC BY

Pagode - Europeana China

Pagode supported cultural heritage institutions to increase the amount of high-quality Chinese heritage records available on Europeana and create new ways for people to explore them.

Title:: Schönberg family
Creator:: Richard Gerstl
Date:: 1907
Institution:: MUMOK
Country:: Austria
Copyright:: Public Domain

Judaica Europeana 2.0

Judaica Europeana 2.0 aimed to increase the amount of high-quality data and metadata that Jewish cultural heritage institutions provide and make it accessible through Europeana.

Title:: Null
Creator:: Gustav Borgen
Institution:: Norsk Folkemuseum
Country:: Norway
Copyright:: Public Domain

Europeana Common Culture

Europeana Common Culture contributed to the development of a harmonised and sustainable data aggregation infrastructure in Europe, improved data quality and encouraged engagement with cultural heritage through the Europeana website.

Title:: Tutankhamun, arkeologi, Photograph
Creator:: Harry Burton
Date:: 1920
Institution:: Medelhavsmuseet
Country:: Sweden
Copyright:: Public Domain

Europeana Archaeology

Europeana Archaeology aimed to increase the amount of high-quality digital content for Europe’s rich heritage of archaeological monuments, historic buildings, cultural landscapes and artefacts.

Title:: LinBi project logo
Date:: 2019

LinBi

LinBi (Linking Bioheritage and culture information) aimed to enrich Europeana Natural History collection and increase its use by non-scientific audiences of Europeana.

Title:: Kaart van Zeeland
Creator:: Cornelis de Joode
Date:: 1593
Institution:: CODA Apeldoorn
Country:: The Netherlands
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Opening Up Historiana

Opening up Historiana aimed to improve the experience of educators who create eLearning resources with materials available through Europeana.

Title:: David George van Lennep, Senior Merchant of the Dutch Factory at Smyrna, and his Wife and Children
Creator:: Antoine de Favray
Date:: 1769 - 1771
Institution:: Rijksmuseum
Country:: The Netherlands
Copyright:: Public Domain

Culture Chatbot

Culture Chatbot aimed at improving the search functionality for digitised cultural heritage content by building, deploying, evaluating and maintaining a standalone chatbot platform: Culture Chatbot.

Title:: CultureMoves project logo c.2017

CultureMoves

CultureMoves developed three tools that support the creative processes of both professional and amateur users of cultural heritage content from Europeana.

Title:: Share 3D Project logo
Date:: c. 2019

Share3D

Share3D developed two web applications, a dashboard and a storytelling tool, which integrated APIs available from Europeana to help end-users to engage with 3D archaeological content.

Title:: Lány a traktoron (girl on the tractor)
Creator:: Sándor Bauer fényképész
Date:: 1956
Institution:: Fortepan
Country:: Hungary
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Fifties in Europe Kaleidoscope

50s Kaleidoscope project aimed to leverage photographic content in Europeana on the topic of the 1950s in Europe by developing crowdsourcing campaigns and an online exhibition.

Title:: Trio of musicians
Creator:: Valerius Maximus
Date:: 1473 - 1480
Institution:: The British Library
Country:: United Kingdom
Copyright:: Public Domain

Europeana Media

Europeana Media project developed an Enhanced Unified Playout Service (EUPS), offering heritage institutions a media playout with market-competitive quality, user-friendly design, and cross-border content reusability.

Title:: Crowd Heritage project logo
Date:: 2018
Copyright:: CC BY

CrowdHeritage

CrowdHeritage developed a standalone online crowdsourcing platform for enriching metadata of selected cultural items from Europeana collections

Title:: John Jennings Esq., his Brother and Sister-in-Law
Creator:: Alexander Roslin
Date:: 1769
Institution:: Nationalmuseum
Country:: Sweden
Copyright:: Public Domain

Enrich Europeana

EnrichEuropeana developed a crowdsourcing platform that enables citizens to transcribe and enrich cultural heritage material from Europeana Collections and national aggregator portals.

Title:: Salonicco. Chiesa di S. Demetrio
Creator:: unknown
Date:: unknown
Institution:: University of Bologna
Country:: Italy
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Byzantine Art and Archaeology

Byzantine Art and Archaeology significantly increased the content on Byzantine history, art and culture available through Europeana.

Title:: Jean de Meun writing in his study
Creator:: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun
Date:: c. 1380
Institution:: The British Library
Country:: United Kingdom
Copyright:: Public Domain

Rise of Literacy

Rise of Literacy project explored the history of the written text in Europe and aimed to showcase related cultural treasures on the Europeana collections website.

Title:: Anke Wolff
Date:: 1942-1945
Institution:: Museon
Country:: The Netherlands
Copyright:: CC BY

Migration in the Arts and Sciences

The Migration in the Arts and Sciences project created a curated collection about migration to, from and within Europe and explored the effects migration has had on European culture.