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Posted on Monday July 19, 2021
Updated on Monday October 21, 2024
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Explore the latest news from the common European data space for cultural heritage, Europeana Initiative and cultural heritage sector as we work towards digital transformation.
The Europeana Initiative is at the heart of the common European data space for cultural heritage. As of September 2022, together with our partners we have started turning the data space into a reality and we are excited to share what’s in store for the next year.
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Rebecca Kahn. CC-BY-SA 3.0
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2017
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Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, Berlin
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Created: 23 November 2022
Rebecca Kahn
Georgia Evans
In our ‘Professionals in Focus’ series, we speak to Councillors about their roles, working lives and plans for their time on the Members Council. Today, Rebecca Kahn talks about her career and work with Linked Open Data.
The Estonian National Museum shares tips from their recent ‘Numbers Fascination’ exhibition, organised by the Me-Mind project, about how cultural heritage institutions can embed impact thinking and data collection into their exhibitions.
Europeana Translate - a Europeana Generic Services project - explores how we can use machine translation to help make sure everyone can find what they need on Europeana - no matter what language they use. Learn about what the project has achieved so far and its plans for the coming months!
Can we use universal diversity and inclusion definitions to work within cultural heritage institutions? What affects our own interpretation of diversity and inclusion in our professional work? José Antonio Gordillo Martorell, member of Europeana’s Diversity and Inclusion Task Force, reflects on the topic.
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Burg Posterstein in Thuringia, Germany, with DigAMus Award
The Museum Burg Posterstein, based in Germany, has recently digitised and shared items from its collections by the artist Ernst Welker with Europeana. We hear more about the collection, the work of the museum and their digital approaches.
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.
As we mark Black History Month at Europeana, we ask three expert organisations: what steps can cultural heritage institutions take to acknowledge, surface and highlight Black history in their own collections?
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UNIOR NLP Research Group at the EU Datathon awards ceremony. From left to right: Gennaro Nolano, Johanna Monti, Maria Pia di Buono, Giulia Speranza.
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20 October 2022
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Johanna Monti
Georgia Evans
The UNIOR NLP Research Group from the University of Naples L'Orientale were recently awarded a prize in the open data competition, EU Datathon 2022. With their entry using the Europeana.eu dataset, we hear about the app they developed.
At Europeana 2022, we were delighted to be joined by data poet Mr Gee, whose poems on each day of the conference gave rich new perspectives on the topics in focus. Watch the poems being performed and discover the beauty of data poetry!
The Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive aims to harmonise certain aspects of EU Member States’ copyright legislation, and has important provisions for digital cultural heritage. Janina Marcinkevičienė tells you more about the legislative changes in Lithuania as a result of the Directive transposition.
Earlier this year, the Hunt Museum published a case study which shared insights from their experience digitising items from their collections in 3D. Read on to hear about their experience and learn how objects digitised in 3D can form an important part of engagement strategies.
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