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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: 13 December 2017
European Culture Forum: kicking off the European Year of Cultural Heritage and the Europeana Migration campaign
Campaigns Cultural Heritage Institutions Migration 1914-1918 Eych
Cultural sectors' key players gathered in Milan to discuss possibilities for cultural collaboration during the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
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Title:
Christmas card design.
Creator:
Napper, Harry.
Date:
20th century.
Institution:
Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture, Middlesex University.
Copyright:
CC BY
News Created: 11 December 2017
#MakeItFestive: Greeting cards
Creative industries Makers
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Title:
Martijn Kleppe, photo by Jos Uljee, Koninklijke Bibliotheek/National Library of the Netherlands.
Creator:
Jos Uljee
Date:
2017
Institution:
Koninklijke Bibliotheek/National Library of the Netherlands
Country:
The Netherlands
News Created: 7 December 2017 Beth Daley
Open culture in the Netherlands - an interview with the National Library of the Netherlands’ Martijn Kleppe
Collections Campaigns Cultural Heritage Institutions Netherlands Open-culture Year-of-open
As part of our 'open culture' blog mini-series, we talk to Martijn Kleppe, advisor for Digital Scholarship & International Relations at the National Library of the Netherlands.
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Title:
Volker Agueras Gaeng
Copyright:
CC BY
News Created: 6 December 2017 Clemens Neudecker
Coding da Vinci Berlin 2017: gathering German hackers, designers, and cultural heritage providers
API Academic Research Open-culture hackahton codingdavinci
We tell you more about the main hackathon for cultural heritage in Germany.
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Title:
Still from 'National Digital Library of India - your library in your pocket'
Creator:
National Digital Library of India
Date:
2017
Institution:
National Digital Library of India
Country:
India
News Created: 30 November 2017 Beth Daley
Open culture in India - an interview with the National Digital Library of India’s Dr Partha Pratim Das
Collections Campaigns Cultural Heritage Institutions Open-culture Year-of-open India
As part of our 'open culture' blog mini-series, we talk to Dr Partha Pratim Das, Joint Principal Investigator, National Digital Library Project.
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Title:
The Alien Trail exhibition
Creator:
Andreas Constantinou
News Created: 24 November 2017 Adrian Murphy
Mapping Migration in Arts: The Alien Trail
Collections Cultural Heritage Institutions Migration mapping-migration
As part of the upcoming Europeana Migration campaign, we highlight more initiatives relating to migration and culture beyond our own network.
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News Created: 22 November 2017 Lars Rogstad
Meet the Member Council: Lars Rogstad
Network Cultural Heritage Institutions Member-council
Hear directly from each of your elected Members Council representatives, and get to know them a little better.
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Title:
photo by Luigina Ciolfi on Twitter, @luiciolfi
News Created: 21 November 2017
"Cultural Heritage Infrastructure in Digital Humanities" is out now!
Collections Academic Research
In this book, authors from a wide range of countries, representing some of the best research projects in digital humanities related to cultural heritage, discuss their latest findings, both in terms of new tools and archives, and how they are used (or not used) by both specialists and by the general public.
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Title:
Joe Conzo, “The Mean Machine performing at street festival, Third Ave. Hub, Bronx, 1981.” Courtesy of Cornell University via ArtStor.
Creator:
Joe Conzo
Date:
1981
Institution:
(c) Cornell University and Joe Conzo
Country:
USA
News Created: 16 November 2017 Beth Daley
Open culture in the USA - an interview with the DPLA’s Franky Abbott
Collections Campaigns Cultural Heritage Institutions Openglam Open-access Year-of-open
As part of our 'open culture' blog mini-series, we talk to Franky Abbott, Curation and Education Strategist for the Digital Public Library of America.
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News Created: 13 November 2017 Steven Stegers
EUROCLIO and Europeana: building better resources for teaching history
Education History Elearning
Over the course of Europeana DSI2 (July 2016 to August 2017), EUROCLIO has led the development of 20 learning activities for educators using Europeana content.
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News Created: 8 November 2017
The BYZART project: creating one of the widest online collections of Byzantine art and archaeology
Collections Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions History Art Culture architecture
Giulia Marsili from the University of Bologna, and BYZART consortium, introduces a new Generic Services project to digitize and promote Byzantine art and archaeology
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News Created: 7 November 2017
Designing learning scenarios with the Europeana Teacher Developer Group
Education Workshops Elearning
A lively workshop held at the Future Classroom Lab in Brussels on 28 and 29 October kick started the work of the Europeana Teacher Developer Group.
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