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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.
As part of the European Year of Cultural Heritage 2018, Europeana in partnership with museums, galleries, libraries and archives across Europe, held 18 collection days in 12 countries on the theme of migration.
With over one billion monthly active users, Instagram is fast becoming the place to see and be seen. You can now follow Europeana on Instagram. Find out why we made the leap and how we squared it with our strict sharing policies.
Speaking at Digital Day 2019 on 9 April, Harry Verwayen, Europeana Foundation Executive Director, said that the Digitising Cultural Heritage declaration was a 'sign of confidence' that the European Union sees the cultural heritage sector as of great social and economic relevance to Europe.
Earlier this week we announced that the 2019 Europeana conference will take place at the National Library of Portugal, Lisbon on 26-29 November 2019. You can win a free ticket by helping us decide a new name for this world-class event experience.
The Europeana Foundation’s Business Plan for 2019 is now available for download. Discover our ‘three horizons of innovation’, all of which have human interaction at their heart. What role will you play?
Breaking news! The 2019 Europeana conference/Europeana Network Association Annual General Meeting will take place at the National Library of Portugal, Lisbon on 26-29 November 2019.
This will be a unique interdisciplinary event bringing together communities from tech, communications, impact, research, education and copyright.
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Moodboard-style display of images tagged ‘flower’ and ‘floral design’ by Google Vision.
In 2017, CLARIN carried out a pilot exploring the possibilities of integrating Europeana Collections’ material into its infrastructure and thus opening up new possibilities for the discovery and linguistic processing of textual cultural heritage content for a social sciences and humanities research audience. This integration is now entering a new stage, offering improved quality and increased processing potential.
Are you interested in the unusual and complex jobs in digital cultural heritage? So are we, so each month we are going to take a deep-dive into the work of professionals in the sector. This month we speak with newly elected Members Councillor Henk Alkemade on the importance of immersive cultural heritage and the challenge of showing its value outside of the financial.
On 18 January, Europeana, in collaboration with Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, opened the digital exhibition Pioneers in order to highlight the lives and achievements of historical European. Now that Women’s History Month is coming to a close, we’re excited to hear from Commissioner Gabriel once more, as she shares her vision for women in today’s digital world.
Today we interview Evelin Heidel (aka Scann) - academic and digital cultural heritage and copyright expert. She has some extremely powerful words in her hard-hitting response that doesn't shy away from critical topics such as the intersection of feminism and decolonisation, racism and sexism in copyright law, equal pay for equal work including a very pointed message on male privilege.