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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.

News Created: 21 April 2015
The Europeana Statistics Dashboard: Let us know what you need!
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News Created: 21 April 2015
Excellent rating for Europeana Cloud in second Technical Review
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News Created: 20 April 2015 Liam Wyatt
Wikidata emerges as central element of GLAM-WIKI 2015
Advocacy Network Projects Campaigns Wikidata Wikimedia Glam-wiki
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News Created: 17 April 2015
Images for the Future: Lessons learned from 7 years of digitisation
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News Created: 16 April 2015
Found ! Researchers wanting to use Historic Newspapers
Academic Research
A while back we put out a call for researchers to work with the Europeana Newspaper corpus.
The call was hugely successful, demonstrating both the popularity of historic newspapers and the potential for exploiting that data in new ways.
Around 40 separate research projects got in touch and suggested different research questions and methodologies they would like to explore in greater depth.
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News Created: 16 April 2015
Europeana Food and Drink launches video storytelling Open Innovation Challenge
Creative industries Challenge
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News Created: 15 April 2015
Europeana Cloud: Ingesting for the Future
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News Created: 15 April 2015
Europeana Creative Tourism Pilot Wins 'Best of the Web Awards' in Chicago
Content promotion Creative industries Europeana-creative
Europeana Creative's Tourism Pilot, VanGoYourself.com has received two prestigious "Best of the Web" awards in the categories of Digital Exhibition and People's Choice at the Museums and the Web conference in Chicago.
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News Created: 15 April 2015
Why are projects like Digital Manuscripts to Europeana important for Europeana’s future?
Academic Research Edm Europeanatech Linked-open-data Lodlam Multilinguality Data-quality Enrichment
Moving from a portal to a platform: this is one of Europeana’ s major objectives for 2015-2020 in order to allow “people to re-use and play with the material, to interact with others and participate in creating something new”.
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News Created: 14 April 2015
Why are projects like DM2E important for Europeana’s future?
Academic Research Europeanatech Linked-open-data Lodlam Multilinguality Data-quality Enrichment
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News Created: 14 April 2015
Introducing Europeana Research
Academic Research
The digitisation of Europe's cultural heritage has provided ample opportunity for researchers to accelerate or make substantial changes to their working processes.
The explosion of the digital approaches to this data means that researchers are increasingly asking for more than traditional interfaces to search and browse. Access to entire datasets for download for text and data mining, or access to APIs to build specific tools.
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News Created: 13 April 2015
Making a big impact on a small budget - How the LSH Museums shared their collection with the world
Advocacy Data publication Cultural Heritage Institutions
The Rijksmuseum was largely closed for ten years, which gave them a lot of room to work on their online presence. It is also one of the most visited museums in the world and has a considerable amount of resources for digitisation, marketing and copyright clearance. These are all things that are lacking for most institutions around Europe.
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