Nicole McNeilly

Community & Partner Engagement

Impact Advisor Europeana Foundation Netherlands, NL Cultural Heritage

Nicole is a runner, reader, cyclist, traveller, foodie, Russian language learner, and a keen but lapsed trombonist. She feels most at home near water, the countryside or mountains.

News posts

Title:

A Celectial Sphere, Sextant and Equinoctial Sphere

Date:

1860

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 7 November 2024 Nicole McNeilly

Foresight thinking and futures scenarios with the Europeana Initiative

Impact

In 2024, the Europeana Initiative launched a strategic foresight process to help us explore possible futures for our long-term vision and strategy. Read on to discover more about foresight and futures thinking, what emerged from our work in this area and how to embed futuring into your own planning and preparations.

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Title:

Tiger

Creator:

Anton Romako

Date:

1870

Institution:

Albertina

Country:

Austria

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 19 September 2024 Nicole McNeilly

Measuring the impact of reuse of digital heritage

Impact Reuse

Earlier in 2024, the Europeana Foundation and a student group from the Erasmus Impact Centre undertook research into the indicators we might use to measure instances of reuse of digitised cultural heritage and its impact. Discover what we’ve learned about this priority area in the common European data space for cultural heritage.

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Title:

Digital cataloguing, City Museums Wetzlar

Creator:

Katrina Friese

Date:

2023

Institution:

Museumsverband Hessen

Country:

Germany

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 13 August 2024 Nicole McNeilly Chiara Marchini Domenic Staedtler

Europeana Impact Playbook helps to develop recommendations for cultural heritage metadata

Impact framework Impact Impactplaybook

The Europeana Impact Playbook is a step by step approach to help cultural heritage professionals design, measure and narrate impact. Discover how a working group of key players in the digital cultural heritage field in Germany used the playbook to develop recommendations to support museums make their collections’ metadata fit for publication online.

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Title:

Autumn Landscape

Creator:

Churberg, Fanny

Date:

1877

Institution:

Finnish National Gallery

Country:

Finland

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 1 December 2023 Nicole McNeilly

How to narrate your heritage impact story and embed impact

Impact framework Impact

Europeana started talking about impact over a decade ago, and as we celebrate the launch of a revised and now online Impact Playbook, we want to bring you along on the journey. Read on for the final post in our news series on the Playbook, dedicated to Phases three and four - telling your impact story and evaluating your impact approach.

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Title:

Autumn

Creator:

Helmer Osslund

Institution:

Nationalmuseet Sweden

Country:

Sweden

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 15 November 2023 Nicole McNeilly

How to measure your impact with Phase two of the Impact playbook

Impact framework Impact Impactplaybook

Europeana started talking about impact over a decade ago, and as we celebrate the launch of a revised and now online Impact Playbook, we want to bring you along on the journey. We’re exploring each of the four Playbook phases in an introductory series - read on to find out more about Phase two, dedicated to impact measurement, and its challenges and opportunities.

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Title:

Trees in autumn with orange leaves

Creator:

Lember-Bogatkina, Valli

Date:

1972

Institution:

Eesti Kunstimuuseum

Country:

Estonia

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 1 November 2023 Nicole McNeilly

Designing for impact: Phase one of the Impact Playbook

Impact framework Impact

Europeana started talking about impact over a decade ago, and as we celebrate the launch of a revised and now online Impact Playbook, we want to bring you along on the journey. We’re exploring each of the four Playbook phases in an introductory series here on Europeana Pro - read on to discover Phase one, which focuses on impact design.

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Title:

Maleri

Creator:

Ukjent

Institution:

Norwegian Pharmacy Museum

Country:

Norway

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 25 October 2023 Nicole McNeilly

Sign up now for our Impact Cafés and discover the online Impact Playbook

Network Impact framework Impact

We are delighted to announce that the Europeana Impact Playbook is now available as an interactive, online resource! Discover how to use it, and sign up for our Impact Cafés to ask any questions you might have on how to learn more about your impact.

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Title:

Passion fruit, axial view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 27 February 2023 Nicole McNeilly

Impact Assessment Report: Europeana 2021

Network Impact framework Impact Europeana-2021

This Impact Assessment Report explores Europeana’s annual conference, Europeana 2021 - Recover, Rebuild, Grow.

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Title:

Malerei | S2310-7

Creator:

Z'Graggen, Maria Magdalena

Institution:

Kooperationinitiative Museen Baselland

Country:

Switzerland

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Publication Created: 31 January 2023 Nicole McNeilly Ad Pollé

Europeana Impact Community Work Plan 2023

Network Impact

The Europeana Impact Community is one of the Europeana Network Association's specialist communities. Explore their work plan for 2023.

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Title:

Shofar blowing on New Year

Creator:

Bernard Picart

Date:

1725

Institution:

Jewish Historical Museum

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 2 November 2022 Nicole McNeilly Pavel Kats

16 sustainability indicators for digital heritage projects: a Jewish History Tours reflection

Impact framework Impact Sustainability

To what extent does the Jewish History Tours project strengthen the ecosystem around digital storytelling in cultural route creation? With project partners, we mapped out 16 sustainability indicators to guide the project’s next steps. Find out more about the indicators and see how they can help you evaluate and plan for your own project’s sustainability and impact.

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Title:

Detail from Vas cu flori

Date:

1930-1940

Institution:

National Heritage Institute, Bucharest

Country:

Romania

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 8 August 2022 Nicole McNeilly

How to use Outcome Harvesting to investigate your impact

Impact framework Impact

In 2020, Europeana piloted the use of Outcome Harvesting in our impact work, an evaluation method increasingly applied in the development sector. Here we share what we learned about the methodology, how we used it and how it could be useful to cultural heritage impact practitioners.

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Title:

Detail from Landscape with a Chair

Creator:

Galanda, Mikuláš

Date:

1929/1930

Institution:

Slovak national gallery

Country:

Slovakia

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 12 July 2022 Nicole McNeilly

Our impact word of the year: embedding

Impact framework Impact

For a decade, Europeana has been working to standardise an approach that we - and others - could adopt to better understand the impact of digital cultural heritage. We look at the progress we have made towards this goal over the last year.

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Title:

Monastère fortifié de l'Ile Saint-Honorat, Abbaye de Lérins, Cannes (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)

Creator:

Jerome Kelagopian

Institution:

© Fondation du patrimoine

News Created: 3 March 2022 Nicole McNeilly

How impact assessment helps us to understand the value of built cultural heritage

Impact framework Impact

We interview Ana Aziza, Project Manager, Fondation du patrimoine (France), who shares how an economic impact assessment completed by the Fondation provided insights into the value of the work they do and cultural heritage in France.

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Title:

Cabbage, sagittal view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 16 December 2021 Nicole McNeilly

Impact Assessment Report: Europeana Network Association 2021

Network Impact framework

This report sets out the findings from the second investigation into members’ satisfaction and the outcomes of their participation in the Europeana Network Association.

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Title:

New bone growth within a bioceramic bone substitute

Creator:

Karin Hing

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 22 September 2021 Nicole McNeilly

Highlights from a year of working on impact for cultural heritage

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions Impact Europeanaimpact Impactplaybook Impactcommunity

Embedding impact at the heart of Europeana’s work on capacity building for digital transformation has been a major focus of our activities over the past year. We share highlights from our work and tools to support your own impact practice!

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Title:

Europeana 2019 - Connect Communities

Creator:

Sebastiaan ter Burg

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 4 August 2021 Nicole McNeilly Gina van der Linden

Convening for change: the impact of our annual conferences

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions Impact Events Conference Europeana-2020 europeana-2021

We are delighted to have published our Europeana 2019 and Europeana 2020 impact assessments! We share learnings from the reports, explore how virtual and in-person events create different outcomes for participants and look at what this means for our future plans.

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Title:

Pumpkin, sagittal view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 15 July 2021 Nicole McNeilly

Impact Assessment Report: Europeana 2019

Network Cultural Heritage Institutions Impact Case-studies Conference Event

This Impact Assessment Report explores Europeana’s annual conference, Europeana 2019: Connect Communities.

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Title:

Lemon, axial view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 15 July 2021 Nicole McNeilly

Impact Assessment Report: Europeana 2020

Network Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions Impact Events Case-studies Conference Impactplaybook Europeana-2020

This report explores Europeana’s annual conference, Europeana 2020: Crisis, Change and Culture.

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Title:

Vitamin C imaged with polarised light.

Creator:

Kevin Mackenzie, University of Aberdeen

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 20 April 2021 Nicole McNeilly

Supporting impact practice with the Europeana standardised question bank

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions Impact Impactplaybook Build-digital-capacity

Today, we publish Europeana’s standardised question bank, a tool to support cultural heritage organisations to investigate the impact they create for their stakeholders. The tool is one of a number of resources being developed to accompany Phase 2 of the Europeana Impact Playbook - explore how to use it.

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Title:

Collage of mixed fruits and vegetables, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 24 February 2021 Nicole McNeilly

Understanding Europeana’s impact - introducing our impact assessment reports

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions Impact Case-studies Europeanaimpact Impactplaybook

We are delighted to share the first in a series of impact assessments we have conducted using and testing the Europeana Impact Playbook. The reports, carried out between 2019 - 2020, are the result of an intensive year of looking into the impact of Europeana’s work to support the digital transformation of the heritage sector. Explore the findings.

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