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News Created: 23 July 2015

Hallo aus Wien! The Members Council meet in Vienna

Last week, the Europeana Network Association’s Members Council met at the Austrian National Library in Vienna. It was a chance to come together to discuss the year so far, as well as plan for the next six months ahead. Here, Max Kaiser, Chair of the Members Council, and Merete Sanderhoff, Vice Chair of the Members Council, fill us in on the day’s events.

News Created: 22 July 2015

Meet the Members Council: Jana Hoffmann

News Created: 20 July 2015

Experimental text dumps from Europeana Newspapers

As part of the Europeana Newspapers project, millions of word of public domain text were created via OCRing the historic newspapers that the library partners made available.

After aggregating and text and making it searchable via The European Library, we are now making the raw text available

News Created: 17 July 2015

Meet the Members Council: Olivier Schulbaum

News Created: 17 July 2015

#CultJam15: Where cultural heritage and creative industries came together

News Created: 15 July 2015

Help us tear down language barriers together

News Created: 13 July 2015

“Archaeologists like us”: One ring to rule us all?

During a recent ARIADNE Expert Forum on the digital futures of archaeological practice held in Athens, Professor Gary Lock expressed a rather provocative idea: Digital Archaeology, he said, may be an established self-contained sub-discipline of Archaeology. It sounded interesting. If Digital Archaeology is indeed a sub-discipline of Archaeology, let alone a self-contained one, one would be safe to assume that Archaeology is indeed a self-contained discipline in its own right

News Created: 10 July 2015

20th Century School History for 21st Century Scholars

The 20th century saw a rapid development in schools and education throughout Europe, and school history is a topic of interest to a wide range of researchers in a variety of disciplines throughout Europe and beyond. Much of our cultural heritage is in some way or other tied to the education of school children: of pedagogical and social situations as well as physical environments. For this reason, one of the topics selected for the future content strategy of Europeana Research is European school history of the 20th century

News Created: 9 July 2015

‘Europeana helps us tell a better story’: an interview with Koehorst in ‘t Veld

News Created: 7 July 2015

Spreading the word on Europeana Research

Last month, I travelled to Paris to take part in the Digital Humanities Experiments Conference #dhiha6 held at the German Historical Institute Paris. Revolving around the theme of “experiments”, this two-day conference gave to approximately 20 young researchers, including me, the opportunity to express their own views and experience from the area of Digital Humanities in a friendly, highly dialogical environment

News Created: 1 July 2015

Cultivating a Commons approach: Europeana Governance

News Created: 1 July 2015

Parliamentary Papers in Europe

Parliamentary Papers provide the best laboratory for studying the workings of government. They are essential tools for democracy, holding government to account and allowing historians to trace the political development of nation states