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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 Open Content Toolkit highlights openly licensed digital resources and content from around the world and encourages educators to use them in the classroom. We interview its creator, Europeana Education community member Theo Kuechel, about how the Toolkit can be used by teachers and the inspiration that he draws from Europeana.
The EuropeanaTech Community and Europeana Foundation are delighted to introduce a new webinar series to explore the opportunities and challenges of working with Artificial Intelligence in the cultural heritage and arts sector. We invite you to join us!
We’re really excited to announce details of our digital events ‘Spring Programme’. Between April and summer we will be joined by over 22 experts in digital cultural heritage who will share their experiences on topics related to our capacity building work. Read on to find out more about the programme of events and how you can participate.
The inDICES project is hard at work carrying out research into the impact of digitisation and intellectual property regulations on cultural heritage institutions. Colleagues from the project share the findings of a recent analysis on copyright for cultural heritage institutions in different countries.
Europeana’s APIs allow people to build applications that use the wealth of our collections and Europe’s cultural heritage. Viziel, a platform which has used these APIs to encourage the discovery of digitised cultural heritage objects, shows the breadth of what they can achieve. Jolan Wuyts interviews the platform creator, Avigail Soloveychik to find out more about the platform and process of building it.
Mollusc shells: classification chart showing 132 varieties, with a diagram below outlining details of the three main shapes. Coloured lithograph, 1830/1860?
With lowered barriers to access and the development of new practices for Artificial Intelligence (AI), it’s no surprise that AI-related activities in the cultural heritage sector are increasing - a topic in focus on this month on Europeana Pro. In this post, we share work taking place at the Europeana Foundation to create an image classification pilot which uses computer vision algorithms to improve metadata in our records.
It is time to launch the fifth call for proposals within the Europeana Research Grants Programme to support events around the theme Crowdsourcing and Research. This year, part of the programme’s budget (EUR 25,000) is allocated to special prizes for tutorials showcasing innovative ways to use digital cultural heritage in Higher Education.
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, Georgia Manolopoulou shares her work and the important role Europeana can play in shaping cultural citizenship.
On Europeana Pro this month, we are exploring AI-related activities in the cultural heritage sector, and shining a light on women leading research, projects and work in this area. Today, Dr. Marieke van Erp discusses the importance of collaboration between computer science and cultural heritage, and introduces us to the new Cultural AI Lab.
How do we embed digital transformation in an institution? How do we make digital strategy a priority and influence policy-making? A new leadership programme, run by Europeana and the DEN Academy, aims to explore this question at an organisational level for the cultural heritage sector - find out how.
On Europeana Pro today, we launch the ‘Europeana Foundation Business Plan - Towards a digital public space for cultural heritage’. In this post, we look at how we have approached our business planning during these turbulent times.
Europeana's commitment to Diversity and Inclusion translates to many different actions we will take as an organisation and around it. One of them was formalising a Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) cross-team that can structure the work across the Europeana Foundation. But what is a cross-team? How does it fit in the wider structure of the Europeana Foundation, and who is involved?
