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Europeana Research Community

Who we are

We are a community of professionals interested in cultural heritage, both as a subject and a source for research. We believe that digital collections and digital tools are a means to foster innovation and we advocate for the principles of Open Science, mostly in the Humanities sector. Our community members work at cultural or research institutions, universities and infrastructures, ministries and local governments, or the private sector.   

What we do

The Europeana Research Community supports its members to gain insights into researchers’ needs and to meet them where they concern the use of digital cultural heritage. We share knowledge and experiences, promote digital literacy and explore the potential of Citizen Science. We participate in international projects. We commit to take actions that can have an impact on policy and connect the cultural heritage and research sectors.

Why join?

  • Benefit from our community channels to keep informed, build up your professional network and promote your activities

  • Raise your international profile by connecting with peers at Europeana events or in relevant research contexts 

  • Build collaborations and partnerships in the form of projects, task forces and working groups

Activities and resources

Research
Title:
De astronoom
Creator:
Abraham Delfos, after Johannes Vermeer
Date:
1794
Institution:
Rijksmuseum
Country:
Netherlands

Research

Funding, resources and a community to bring together digital cultural heritage, academia and research.

Community video series

Research Community video series: Odeuropa
Title:
How to smell a painting
Creator:
Odeuropa
Date:
2021

Research Community video series: Odeuropa

This video - supported by the Europeana Research Community - explores Odeuropa, a European initiative which uses artificial intelligence (AI) to investigate the importance of scents and smelling in cultural heritage. 

Latest News

Exploring new resources in CLARIN’s Virtual Language Observatory
Title:
A Zodial Sphere and Celectial Globe, Peking Observatory
Creator:
John Thomson
Institution:
Wellcome Collection
Country:
United Kingdom

Exploring new resources in CLARIN’s Virtual Language Observatory

Created: 15 October 2020

Since 2017, CLARIN and Europeana have worked together to increase the number of cultural heritage objects available for quick and easy discovery as well as processing by humanities and social sciences scholars. In this post, we take a look at the new resources integrated into CLARIN’s Virtual Language Observatory.

Facilitating archival research on the study of Greece in the 1940s
Title:
ΕΚΘΕΣΗ ΤΗΣ 8ης ΤΑΞΙΑΡΧΙΑΣ ΕΘΝΟΦΥΛΑΚΗΣ ΤΗΣ 03/07/1945 ΣΧΕΤΙΚΑ ΜΕ ΤΟΝ ΣΤΡΑΤΩΝΙΣΜΟ
Date:
3/7/1945
Institution:
Hellenic Army General Staff/ Army History Directorate
Country:
Greece

Facilitating archival research on the study of Greece in the 1940s

Created: 27 August 2020

Digital curation is becoming a familiar concept to many in the cultural heritage sector, but do we realise its potential in making digital cultural heritage reusable for research? Agiatis Benardou discusses the work of the APOLLONIS Task Force, and the processes it has followed to help researchers access disparate archives to study the 1940s in Greece.

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