Jolan Wuyts

Audience Engagement

Collections Editor Europeana Foundation Netherlands, NL Cultural Heritage

Member of EuropeanaTech Community | Member of Research Community | Member of Education Community | Member of Communicators Community | Member of Copyright Community

Jolan currently works in the Europeana Collections team to improve collections visibility, innovate editorial and thematic collection production, and support campaigns and external projects. Jolan co-chairs the Diversity and Inclusion cross-team. He is a project manager for multiple Generic Service and H2020 projects.
Jolan holds Master's degrees in Digital Humanities from KU Leuven and History from Ghent University. He is interested in digital library science, information databases, and knowledge communication and dissemination in a historical perspective. He also enjoys Calvin & Hobbes, Magic: the Gathering, and Critical Role.

News posts

Title:

Screenshots of the 'Bringing Digital To Life' spatial.io site

Institution:

La Coruna

Country:

Spain

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 6 March 2024 Jolan Wuyts

Discover how Low-Code Fest supports creative student projects

API Education Low-code-fest

Low-Code Fest is back for another exciting edition in 2024! Discover how you can take part and get inspired by the projects produced by participants in last year’s hackathon.

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Title:

Heritage Heist front cover

Creator:

Heritage Heist team

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 8 February 2024 Jolan Wuyts

How to create a VR game using Europeana.eu

Api 3d Hackathon Virtual-reality

Discover how a team of students from Rotterdam Hogeschool combined cultural heritage data from Europeana.eu with exciting technologies to create an immersive storytelling experience at the Immersive Tech Week Hackathon - and how you can follow in their footsteps!

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Title:

Bauernschuster

Creator:

Carl Freiherr von Merode (Künstler/in)

Date:

1897

Institution:

Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

Country:

Austria

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 10 November 2023 Jolan Wuyts Georgia Evans

CRAFTED wins Lovie Awards for work on crafts heritage

Projects Award Handicraft

We are delighted that the Europeana Generic Services project CRAFTED has received both a Bronze and People’s Lovie Award! These prestigious and pan-European awards recognise European Internet excellence in the fields of culture, technology and business. Discover the work behind the win!

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Title:

Bauhinia variegata

Institution:

Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum

Country:

Germany

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 2 February 2023 Jolan Wuyts Marijke Everts

How we are supporting underrepresented voices on the Europeana website

Collections Diversity-and-inclusion

Discover the challenges and learnings from our first year of running the Europeana Editorial Grants programme, which aims to increase underrepresented voices telling stories about Europe's cultural heritage.

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Title:

An example of a piece of a 3D design created with automatically reconstructed 3D models from audiovisual content fed through the V4Design pipeline.

Date:

2021

Institution:

V4Design Project

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 11 May 2021 Jolan Wuyts

Fostering reuse of digital cultural heritage with V4Design

Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions V4design 3d

The V4Design Horizon2020 project has integrated 3D cultural heritage objects into the daily workflow of creative designers, encouraging the reuse of digital cultural heritage in architecture, video game creation, and creative design. Explore what the project has achieved!

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Title:

Screenshot of the Viziel platform

Creator:

Viziel

Date:

2021

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 7 April 2021 Jolan Wuyts

Viziel: 'learning more than you see' with Europeana content

Collections API Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative industries

Europeana’s APIs allow people to build applications that use the wealth of our collections and Europe’s cultural heritage. Viziel, a platform which has used these APIs to encourage the discovery of digitised cultural heritage objects, shows the breadth of what they can achieve. Jolan Wuyts interviews the platform creator, Avigail Soloveychik to find out more about the platform and process of building it.

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Title:

Worldwild Wall

Date:

2017

Institution:

Associazione culturale GoTellGo

Country:

Italy

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 23 March 2021 Jolan Wuyts Marijke Everts Gina van der Linden

Meet the Europeana Foundation Diversity and Inclusion cross team

Campaigns Cultural Heritage Institutions Europeana-foundation Diversity inclusivity

Europeana's commitment to Diversity and Inclusion translates to many different actions we will take as an organisation and around it. One of them was formalising a Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) cross-team that can structure the work across the Europeana Foundation. But what is a cross-team? How does it fit in the wider structure of the Europeana Foundation, and who is involved?

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Title:

Dog in the woods

Creator:

Weisz-Kubínčan, Arnold Peter

Date:

ca. 1937

Institution:

Slovak National Gallery

Country:

Slovakia

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 11 January 2021 Jolan Wuyts

#publicdomainday: a few of Europeana's public domain favourites, highlighted for you

Collections Network Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Europeana-communicators Open-access Public-domain

With the 1st of January each year marking Public Domain Day, this month on Europeana Pro we are exploring the public domain and open access to cultural heritage. In this post, members of the Europeana Network Association Communicators and Copyright communities share some of their favourite public domain works available on the Europeana website.

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Title:

A Day of Celebration

Creator:

Fanny Brate

Date:

1902

Institution:

NationalMuseum

Country:

Sweden

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 20 February 2020 Jolan Wuyts

Exploring public domain artists through Europeana Collections

Collections Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Culture lover Publicdomain 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. In this post, Jolan Wuyts highlights notable European artists whose work entered the public domain this year and can be viewed through Europeana Collections!

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Title:

V4Design booth at Digital Assembly in Sofia in June 2018

Creator:

V4Design

Date:

2018

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 12 November 2018 Jolan Wuyts

How to bring digital cultural heritage to 3D design and virtual reality

Projects Academic Research V4design 3d Vr Virtual-reality Architecture costume design

As the technological capabilities to digitise cultural objects in 3D increases, so too does the value of these data sources for architects, designers, and video game creators. The real challenge lies in making 3D cultural heritage easily accessible and reusable for those audiences. That is precisely the challenge that the V4Design project is taking on.

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Title:

workshop attendees

Creator:

Jolan Wuyts

Date:

2018-10-12

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 31 October 2018 Jolan Wuyts

What Dutch GLAMs want from Wikidata

Collections Network Cultural Heritage Institutions Europeanatech Wikidata Wikimedia glamwiki

After the past few Wikidata workshops, it has become clear that Wikidata is in demand in GLAM. The main question now is: ‘how do we start?’.

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Title:

A view of the early prototype of the web platform Caterina and co. are developing.

Creator:

Caterina Preda

News Created: 12 April 2018 Jolan Wuyts

Visual representations of Romani in 19th and 20th centuries

Funding Academic Research Grants-programme romania

Hear from 2017 Europeana research grant winner Dr. Caterina Preda, lecturer and researcher at Bucharest University in Romania.

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Title:

Illuminated Psalm 68 Initials, In A Psalter In Latin And French

Creator:

anonymous

Date:

1225

Institution:

The British Library

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 5 April 2018 Jolan Wuyts

Medieval manuscript databases

Funding Academic Research Grants-programme

Hear from 2017 Europeana research grant winner Dr. Krista Murchison, lecturer and researcher at Leiden University in the Netherlands.

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Title:

Image from the PARTHENOS training suite website

Blog Created: 1 February 2018 Jolan Wuyts Nicole McNeilly

PARTHENOS releases new training module for digital humanities researchers

Projects Academic Research web-resources

The project organisers have released a new training module entitled “Manage, Improve and Open Up Your Research Data”. The module addresses concepts such as the FAIR Principles, Open Science, and Data Management Plans, and is geared towards researchers in the digital humanities.

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Title:

Chromo-lithograph of Scott Monument by T. Nelson and Sons, [Monuments], and Princes Street: Looking West - Edinburgh

Creator:

Kemp, George Meikle and Thomas Nelson & Sons

Date:

1890

Institution:

the European Library

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 21 December 2017 Jolan Wuyts

Meet the winners of the Europeana Research Grants Programme 2017

Collections Funding Academic Research Research Grants-programme

We're thrilled to announce our three Grants Winners for the Europeana Research Grants Programme 2017, together with the short list of promising proposals.

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Title:

a view of the SIAMESE live demo

News Created: 1 December 2017 Jolan Wuyts

Using computer vision tools for historical newspaper analysis: SIAMESE and Europeana Newspapers

Collections Academic Research Newspapers Artificial-intelligence

An interview with Melvin Wevers, Digital Humanities researcher at KNAW, and Clemens Neudecker, coordinator of Europeana Newspapers.

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Title:

Spitalul Clinic de Adulţi Cluj-Napoca (strada Constanţa) and Kolozsvári Felnőtt Klinikai Kórház

Creator:

Kolozsvári Felnőtt Klinikai Kórház

Date:

1930

Institution:

Images of old Cluj

Country:

Romania

Copyright:

Public Domain

Blog Created: 3 October 2017 Jolan Wuyts

Fostering Digital Humanities projects in the Dutch heritage sector

Collections Academic Research

Inspired by initiatives likes the Programming Historian and Library Carpentry, the DH Clinics cover theory and practice of digital humanities in libraries with five days of lectures and workshops.

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Title:

Exposition universelle de Gand - 1913. Le dôme central et la section belge

Creator:

de Graeve

Date:

1913

Institution:

Ghent University Library

Country:

Belgium

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Blog Created: 29 September 2017 Jolan Wuyts

Fill out the Cultural Heritage Data Reuse Charter Survey

Collections Academic Research

Europeana, working together with several European organisations and projects, wants to get input from different communities that relate to the domain of cultural heritage.

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Title:

A girl singing

Creator:

Pieter Fransz. de Grebber

Institution:

Nationalmuseum

Country:

Sweden

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 23 August 2017 Jolan Wuyts

The Visualising Voice project

Academic Research Case-studies Grants-programme poetry audio performance france

Read about the outcomes from 2016 Europeana research grants winner Dr Caroline Ardrey, University of Birmingham, UK.

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