Sofie Taes

Vice-Chair - Management Board

MC Term: January 2022 - December 2024

Research Assistant / Curator / Comms officer Catholic University of Leuven Belgium, BE

Member of Research Community

Sofie Taes, a graduate in Musicology and Medieval and Renaissance Studies, has been working for over a decade at the Department of Cultural Studies at KU Leuven, mostly in international projects in Digital Cultural Heritage. In 2022, she became the Innovation Manager for DigitGLAM, a research valorisation consortium at the intersection of humanities and innovative technologies. Also in 2022, Sofie became the vice-chair of ENA and a member of the Expert Group of the EC dedicated to the Data Space for Cultural Heritage (CEDCHE). Sofie also works as a freelance author on classical music.

News posts

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Project banner

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QIRI'M Young

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News Created: 3 December 2024 Sofie Taes

Crimean Tatar Language Project wins Europeana Digital Heritage Nomination at Hatathon 2024

Digital-cultural-heritage Ukraine

Hatathon is an annual online ideathon and educational programme digitising Ukraine's cultural heritage. In the fifth edition, the Europeana Initiative awarded a Europeana Digital Heritage Nomination to the Online Service of the Crimean Tatar Language project. Sofie Taes speaks to the winners about their work.

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Ühendus

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News Created: 29 August 2024 Sofie Taes

DE-BIAS project launches a Community Engagement Methodology

Projects Diversity-and-inclusion

The DE-BIAS project is thrilled to announce the online publication of a new resource for the cultural heritage sector - a Community Engagement Methodology: Resources, Reflections, Recommendations. This guide aims to inspire community engagement practices within GLAMs (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums) across Europe.

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Collecting stories and images from Cypriotic communities for WeAre#EuropeForCulture, Limassol

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2019

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Cyprus University of Technology

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CC BY-SA

News Created: 21 March 2022 Sofie Taes Georgia Evans

Professionals in Focus: Sofie Taes

Network

In our ‘Professionals in Focus’ series, we speak to Europeana Network Association Members Councillors about their roles, working lives and plans for their time on the Members Council. This month, Sofie Taes tells us about her musical background, the joys and challenges of juggling projects and her aim to ‘curate and care’ with Europeana’s collections.

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Journey through China

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United Archives / Carl Simon

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1910-01-01

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United Archives / Carl Simon

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Germany

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CC BY-SA

News Created: 30 September 2021 Sofie Taes Valentina Bachi

PAGODE - Europeana China: landmarks and legacy

Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions Generic-services

The PAGODE project aimed to increase engagement with the Chinese heritage collections preserved in Europe, and established a dedicated section in the Europeana website to share this rich content. We look back over the last 18 months of the completed project.

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Luca Missoni filmed by Giorgio Bosisio during the EFHA-interview in the Missoni archive. In Copyright.

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March 2021

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EFHA

News Created: 12 July 2021 Sofie Taes

Creating podcasts and vlogs with audiovisual cultural heritage

Collections Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions Fashion

With vlogs and podcasts created in the scope of Europeana XX - Century of Change, new and innovative editorial formats enter the Europeana stage. Sofie Taes shares the team’s learnings and experiences creating these formats and how they communicate around about digital cultural heritage.

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