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Title:
A man conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic, in the foreground, in the background a female figure representing the world observes a man of the new school of chemistry who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle: a represent
Creator:
Richard Corbould
Date:
1805
Institution:
Wellcome Collection
Country:
United Kingdom
Copyright:
CC BY
News Created: 14 February 2020 Milena Dobreva
Innovation through GLAM Labs
Collections Academic Research Data Labs Innovation Glam
Milena Dobreva is an Associate Professor in Library and Information Studies at UCL Qatar, as well as one of Europeana 2019’s Unsung Heroes for her work with the Europeana Research Community. In this post, she discusses the concept of a GLAM lab and her contribution to Open a GLAM Lab, a book for everyone interested in experimentation with digital collections.
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Title:
An Amateur Concert
Creator:
Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro
Date:
1882
Institution:
Museu do Chiado – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea
Country:
Portugal
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 12 February 2020 Marco De Niet Zuzana Malicherova
Contribute to the Europeana Network Association in 2020
Network Cultural Heritage Institutions Europeana2019
The Europeana Network Association is a democratic community of cultural heritage professionals who work together to plan activities and priorities each year. In this post we explore the documents which were approved by the Association in 2019, how these influence plans for 2020 and how you can get involved!
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Title:
Sessions with the students and teachers
Date:
2019
Institution:
National Library of the Republic of Moldova
Country:
Moldova
Copyright:
CC BY
News Created: 10 February 2020 Diana Silivestru
Europeana Education in the Republic of Moldova
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As part of European Heritage Days in October 2019, the National Library of the Republic of Moldova organised a series of educational sessions with the theme ‘10 things to discover with Europeana - the cultural friend of the student and the teacher’. In this post we explore the activities in the Republic of Moldova and the Europeana resources which support students and teachers throughout Europe.
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Title:
Balloon
Creator:
Pál Szinyei Merse
Date:
1878
Institution:
Museum of Fine Arts - Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
Country:
Hungary
Copyright:
CC BY-NC-SA
News Created: 5 February 2020 Georgia Evans
Exploring the global picture of Open GLAM
Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Publicdomain Open-access Open-glam Public-domain-day-2020
This month, Europeana Pro looks at how the public domain contributes to the re-use of cultural heritage and explores different aspects of open access. Europeana Collections Manager Douglas McCarthy has interviewed a number of cultural heritage professionals about open access for Europeana Pro, but today he tells us more about his own research and the global picture of Open GLAM.
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Title:
Still Life with Flowers, Fruit, a Great Tit and a Mouse
Creator:
Herman Henstenburg
Date:
c.1700 - c.1710
Institution:
Rijksmuseum
Country:
Netherlands
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 4 February 2020 Georgia Evans
Bringing Europeana to new audiences with Unsplash for Education
Collections Education Partners
At Europeana, we want to bring the richness of digital cultural heritage to both students and educators, and we work with partners to ensure that these groups can access Europeana’s collections and resources. In this post, we explore how Europeana is working with the platform Unsplash to reach new educational audiences.
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Title:
Film laddas.
Creator:
Lundquist, Eric
Date:
1950-01-01 - 1959-01-01
Institution:
Järnvägsmuseet
Country:
Sweden
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 3 February 2020 Annabelle Shaw
Approaching rights research at the British Film Institute
Collections Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Rightsstatments Copyright Film
Annabelle Shaw is copyright and rights systems manager at the British Film Institute (BFI) and leads on the rights work for archive digitisation and access projects. In this post for Europeana Pro, she reflects on the approach her institution has taken towards rights research ahead of mass digitisation projects and suggests a fresh way for cultural heritage institutions to look at this important practice.
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Title:
Merry Company Dining and Making Music
Creator:
Anthonie Palamedesz
Date:
1632
Institution:
Mauritshuis
Country:
Netherlands
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 29 January 2020 Isabel Crespo
ENA Education Community in practice: 10 ways to promote the use of digital cultural heritage
Network Education
Explore how ENA Education Community members have been fostering the use of digital culture in education at the national level, as well as 10 ways new members can contribute in the future!
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Title:
Personeel van Verkade nv. (mij. t.v.d.z. v/h C.L. Verhagen & van Oorschot nv.). voor de bussen bij de start van een personeelsuitstapje
Creator:
Zuiden, Fotopersbureau Het
Date:
20/3/1948
Institution:
Stadsarchief 's-Hertogenbosch
Country:
The Netherlands
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 27 January 2020 Adrian Murphy
Europe at Work – end of season review
Collections Network Campaigns Cultural Heritage Institutions Digital-transformation Collection-day Europe-at-work
From September to December 2019, Europeana’s ‘Europe at Work’ season encouraged the public to share their work-related stories, and demonstrated that the working world we inhabit today is rich and varied and is the result of a series of technological and societal changes over time.
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Title:
Lóa Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir
Creator:
Hafsteinn Óskarsson
Date:
2019-10-09
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 24 January 2020 Loa Steinunn Kristjansdottir Georgia Evans
Professionals in Focus: Lóa Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir, History Teacher
Network Education Members-council Professionals
In our ‘Professionals in Focus’ series, we speak to our Councillors about their roles, working lives and plans for their time on the Members Council. This month, Lóa Steinunn Kristjánsdóttir discusses her 30 year career as a teacher and the importance of embracing digital resources.
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Title:
The posters for Europeana Collection Days and for Transcribathon 1989, Cluj-Napoca
Date:
December 2019
Institution:
Cluj County Library
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 22 January 2020
Marking 1989 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions Generic-services Transcribathon Europeana1989 Collection-day Romania Enrich-europeana
The Enrich Europeana project aims to make it possible for users to transcribe and enrich a wide variety of digital heritage collections. To implement the tool, the consortium partners organised events around the theme of the 30th anniversary of the Fall of the Iron Curtain.Anca Docolin and Georgeta Topan of the Cluj County Library (Octavian Goga) - partner in Enrich Europeana - explore the events that took place at their venue last December.
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Title:
Cykelloppet Herrhagen runt 1941. Mål vid Herrhagsparken.
Creator:
Dan Gunner
Institution:
Värmlands museum
Country:
Sweden
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 21 January 2020 Andrea Wallace Ariadna Matas
Keeping digitised works in the public domain: how the copyright directive makes it a reality
Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyright Open-glam Public-domain-day-2020
The principle that works in the public domain should remain in the public domain once digitised, which Europeana has defended for almost ten years, was recently incorporated into European law. In this post, we interview Dr. Andrea Wallace, Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter, about the importance of this provision for the cultural heritage sector and her research on Article 14.
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Title:
Harry Verwayen and Federica Bressan record Technoculture podcast for EuroScientist.com
Creator:
Federica Bressan
Date:
November 2019
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 20 January 2020 Beth Daley
Harry Verwayen talks culture, science and carbon footprints in new Technoculture podcast
Strategy Network Academic Research Digital-transformation Europeana2019 Climate-change Carbon-footprint science
Technoculture podcaster Federica Bressan caught up with Europeana Foundation Executive Director Harry Verwayen at the recent Europeana 2019 conference in Lisbon. In a special podcast edition for EuroScientist, Harry talks about the relevance of Europeana for science professionals, and what Europeana is doing to reduce its carbon footprint.
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