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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.
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.
Today the European Parliament passed the final compromise text of the Copyright in the Digital Market Directive. This brings an almost five-year-long process to modernise the EU copyright framework to a close. Together with other organisations representing cultural heritage, educational and research organisations, Europeana - on behalf of our Network members - has fought over the past five years to ensure that the package approved today includes measures that meaningfully address the challenges copyright poses for Europe's cultural heritage institutions.
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Silvia listening to co-panelists during the first OpenGLAM conference in Mexico, photo by Omar Sansi, CC-BY-SA 4.0
Today's woman in culture and tech is Silvia Gutiérrez De la Torre - a digital humanities Librarian at El Colegio de México. Silvia discusses following your passions and finding like-minded people (online and off) and the challenges of the 'economics of care' and the 'motherhood penalty'.
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