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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.
We are constantly working to improve the Europeana website and add new features which allow people to explore Europe’s cultural heritage. Explore highlights of some recently released features that make it easier to search and browse the content.
The Europeana XX - Century of Change project has significantly expanded the high quality curated collections on Europeana focused on 20th-century content, and created technologies and tools to enrich cultural heritage data. Find out more about two new tools.
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Created: 23 June 2022
Marianna Marcucci
Georgia Evans
In our ‘Professionals in Focus’ series, we speak to Councillors about their roles, working lives and plans for their time on the Members Council. Today, Marianna Marcucci tells us about how her experiences in pharmacy and the hotel industry all contributed to her love for digital engagement.
How to approach cultural heritage content which can cause offence, or is no longer in line with contemporary standards, is a question which faces professionals across the sector. Europeana interns Sofia Guido and Aida Fadioui explore possible approaches to contentious cultural heritage data and tell us about how Europeana is exploring the issue.
Find out how a series of LabDays organised by the WEAVE project brought people from diverse backgrounds together to explore how the heritage of minority communities is often misunderstood or misrepresented in digital collections; and what can be done to improve representation.
Do you work in cultural heritage institution and are you interested in finding out more about aggregation? The Europeana Aggregators’ Forum outreach event will discuss every step of the data sharing process - register now!
Bringing educators and GLAM professionals together to explore the educational potential of cultural heritage collections benefits both groups and can introduce new collections into the classroom. EuroClio shares the fruitful outcomes of their co-creation meetings with these professionals.
Earlier this year, Dublin City Library and Archive and the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) collaborated on running ‘Transcription Week’, a crowdsourcing campaign to transcribe and enrich handwritten documents and maps. Find out more about the campaign.
As we move into the summer, Harry Verwayen, General Director of the Europeana Foundation, looks forward to Europeana's plans for the coming months and the topics in focus for the cultural heritage sector.
Celina Bebenek, an intern in Europeana’s Service Experience Team, shares her research into making the Europeana website more accessible to people with visual impairments.
Built with Bits Brussels kicks off on Saturday 11 June 2022 as part of the Festival of the New European Bauhaus. This educational challenge invites students, educators and residents of Brussels to combine collaborative learning experiences and digital technologies to imagine improvements to real spaces in Brussels.
The ‘Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ (ARMA) project saw curators work with educators to design inspiring and innovative learning materials using digitised medieval manuscripts. Find out the work done for pupils in primary and secondary schools.
