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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.
What are the benefits and challenges of Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) Tools? Mª Ángeles García, Pangeanic Machine Learning Project Director, explains what their CAT tool is and how it will be made available for cultural heritage institutions - part of the AI4Culture interviews series.
As part of the European Heritage Hub project, the Europeana Foundation has curated a review of the digital policy landscape across Europe, based on the policies available on the Hub’s Policy Monitor. Discover the findings and why they matter!
The cross-disciplinary musical heritage project Polifonia built a Knowledge Graph of music heritage data, improved the FAIRness of existing collections and launched tools for representing and analysing music heritage data. Discover more about the project and the steps it took to create musical (linked) data across existing collections.
EFHA’s Marco Rendina and CrossLang’s AI advisor Tom Vanallemeersch delve into the challenges of automatically transcribing texts. How can Optical Character Recognition (OCR) transcriptions be further enhanced for Machine Translation applications, and how does this benefit cultural heritage institutions? Read the interview - part of the AI4Culture interviews series - to find out.
As Europe - and the world - experiences a record-breaking warm summer, the Environmental Sustainability Practice Task Force of the Europeana Climate Action Community reflects on sustainable digitalisation processes in our sector and shares an interim report from their recent survey.
Leo Cao, who recently received his PhD in Journalism and Media from the University of Texas at Austin, shares his internship experience at Europeana Foundation. His work focused on researching the integration of digital cultural heritage in higher education and organising events for new professionals entering academia or the cultural heritage sector.
Why is it important to enrich cultural heritage metadata with linked open data? How can state-of-the-art technologies automate this task? Alexandros Chortaras and Eirini Kaldeli, explain what semantic enrichment is and how cultural heritage organisations can use AI4Culture project tools to improve metadata quality - part of the AI4Culture interviews series.
In a previous post, Dr. Lozana Rossenova explored the introduction of 3D models into the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF), emphasising the need for interoperability in digital collections. Significant advancements have been made since then - read on to discover them!
Angelica Giallombardo, an MA student in Audiovisual Translation, shares her experience of an internship at the Europeana Foundation - and the power of collaborative learning, practical application and cultural discovery.
How can crowdsourcing be used and combined with state-of-the-art algorithms in the context of cultural heritage? Spyros Bekiaris, Software Engineer at Datoptron, and Eirini Kaldeli, coordinator of the AI4Culture project, talk with Marco Rendina about a crowdsourcing platform designed for the needs of the cultural heritage sector, as part of the AI4Culture interviews series.
The Europeana Initiative is delighted to be represented in the consortium creating the Collaborative European Cloud for Cultural Heritage, with the Europeana Foundation as full partner and the Europeana Network Association as affiliated partner, together with 49 other European partners.
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Twin it! logo. A composition of Windmolen van Elene by FrDr, CC BY-SA 4.0 and Elene windmill by visualdimension, CC BY-NC-ND
The Twin it! campaign invited EU Member States to submit at least one 3D digitised heritage asset to the common European data space for cultural heritage, and Member States rose to this challenge. Colleagues from Austria share insights into their submitted asset, the Roman monument the Heidentor, and reflect on the power of digital archaeology.
