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Posted on Monday July 19, 2021
Updated on Wednesday May 28, 2025
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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.
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Maria Inês Cordeiro, Director-General of the National Library of Portugal
We talk to Maria Inês Cordeiro, Director-General of the National Library of Portugal, about how the Portuguese Presidency put culture at the heart of both its policy and its event programming.
With 23 June marking Olympic Day, the Netherlands Institute of Sound and Vision share work they have been doing to make new sporting heritage available through Europeana and encourage audiences to engage with their sports heritage.
The National Library of France (BnF) has recently launched a new digital strategy - we speak to Céline Leclaire, Strategic content production officer, to explore the strategy and what it means for the organisation’s digital transformation.
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Compilation of photographs from the ‘European Heritage Label Exhibition’
The European Heritage Label (EHL) recognises sites that have a symbolic European value and have played a significant role in the history and culture of Europe or the building of the Union. The initiative is increasingly using digital approaches to promote and support engagement with built heritage. Find out more about the Label and the work they are doing!
One of the examples that Europeana's Task Force on Europeana as a ‘powerful platform for storytelling’ came across during its research was a Digital Storytelling Manual from IFLA - the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions. Task Force member Cristina Roiu talks to Kristīne Pabērza Ramiresa, Member Engagement Officer for IFLA about the manual.
On 3-4 June, Europeana and the National Library of Portugal hosted an online conference in partnership with Portugal’s Presidency of the Council of the European Union on building capacity for the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector. In this post, we tell you all about the event and our next steps.
Risk management remains important for cultural heritage institutions who are clearing rights and publishing their collections online, particularly for UK cultural heritage institutions which are no longer able to use the Orphan Works Directive as a basis for sharing their collections online. Naomi Korn offers advice on this approach!
In 2021, we celebrate the welcome return of sport to our summers, with the Olympic Games, the European Football Championships and many more sporting events. Explore how our Sports season will share the story of Europe through our sporting heritage in the past and the present.
About two years ago, the Copyright in the Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive was adopted, obliging European Union Member States to ‘bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 7 June 2021’. On this date, we take a look at the progress of Member States, and at some of the policy choices they have made.
Insects: classification chart showing various varieties and stages of development, including larvae, beetles and butterflies. Coloured lithograph, 1850/1870?
Previously, we introduced you to the Europeana Foundation’s image classification pilot, for which we had selected a target vocabulary and gathered a dataset to train a model to classify images from digitised cultural heritage. In this post, we analyse the results of the training, identify some challenges with our current approach, and propose future lines of work!
Building on methodologies developed in the Europeana Impact Playbook, Shalen Fu’s PhD research investigates how to best assess the impact of digital heritage and focuses on digital museum resources in China. She shares her findings, what it means for our understanding of the impact of digital cultural heritage, and in particular, what European institutions can do next.
Digital storytelling is the topic in focus this month on Europeana Pro, as we hear from the Europeana Network Association’s Task Force on Europeana as a ‘powerful platform for storytelling’. Today, discover the Task Force’s seven tips for digital storytelling with cultural heritage.
