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Title:
Portrait of Marie Jeanette de Lange
Creator:
Jan Toorop
Institution:
Rijksmuseum
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 8 March 2018 Larissa Borck
Gender discrimination in the cultural heritage sector
Advocacy Cultural Heritage Institutions Culture Glam gender-studies
The hashtag #Metoo has evolved from a debate on social media to a topic that sparks discussions throughout the world. It also reached the cultural heritage sector.
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Title:
A screenshot from the Greetings From Zagreb app
Creator:
NSK
Date:
December 2017
Institution:
NSK
Country:
Croatia
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 6 March 2018
Greetings From Zagreb - a journey through time
API Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative-industries Croatia
We talk to the people behind 'Greetings From Zagreb', an app that uses historical postcards that are available on Europeana Collections.
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Title:
Link to background image
Copyright:
CC0
News Created: 1 March 2018 Julia Fallon
Can we achieve multilingual copyright information on Europeana?
Cultural Heritage Institutions Multilinguality Rightsstatements-org Copyright Europeanarightsstatement translation
Everyone should know what they can do with the works they discover through Europeana Collections. This is the basic premise that drives our work to help data partners apply the most appropriate rights statements to the objects they publish. What if we made the information we publish about copyright and reuse available in your native language? Would it make it easier for you to understand and share?
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Title:
Peter Soemers and Jill Cousins
Creator:
Peter Soemers
Date:
2017
Country:
The Netherlands
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 28 February 2018 Peter Soemers
Meet the Members Council: Peter Soemers
Network Cultural Heritage Institutions Member-council
Hear directly from each of your elected Members Council representatives, and get to know them a little better.
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Title:
The Madrid Codices of Leonardo Da Vinci (Vol. I), f. 7r
Creator:
Leonardo Da Vinci
Date:
c.1493
Institution:
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Country:
Spain
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 27 February 2018 Nicholas Jarrett
EuropeanaTech 2018 - first speakers announced
Network Cultural Heritage Institutions Europeanatech Creative-industries Europeanatech2018
On 15-16 May, the third international EuropeanaTech conference will take place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. EuropeanaTech 2018 will place tech firmly at the centre of the European Year of Cultural Heritage, and we are delighted to announce the first wave of conference details and programme.
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Title:
Still Life with a Roemer and Watch, 1629
Creator:
Willem Claesz Heda
Institution:
Mauritshuis
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 26 February 2018
Beyond the walls of our museum: open access insights from the Mauritshuis
Collections Cultural Heritage Institutions Case-studies Openglam Open-access Art
Mauritshuis curator Lea van der Vinde tells Douglas McCarthy how open access helps the Mauritshuis fulfil its mission
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Title:
The Studio
Creator:
Carl Larsson
Date:
1900
Institution:
Nationalmuseum
Country:
Sweden
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 22 February 2018 Aleksandra Strzelichowska
Pencils ready! Get colouring for the European Year of Cultural Heritage
Collections Cultural Heritage Institutions Eych
Europeana's third colouring book is available now.
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News Created: 21 February 2018 Adrian Murphy
Mapping Migration in the arts: Another England
Collections Cultural Heritage Institutions Education Migration Mapping-migration
As part of the upcoming Europeana Migration campaign, we highlight more initiatives relating to migration and culture beyond our own network.
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Title:
Europeana Business Plan
Creator:
Europeana
Date:
February 2018
Institution:
Europeana
Country:
The Netherlands
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 20 February 2018 Harry Verwayen
The Europeana Business Plan 2018 is out!
Network Cultural Heritage Institutions Business-plan
The Business Plan 2018 outlines an exciting and busy year for Europeana - our tenth anniversary year and the European Year of Cultural Heritage.
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Title:
Trouwjurk.
Date:
Trouwjurk. 1898-1908.
Institution:
The Frieda Dauphin-Verhees' Study Collection. MoMu.
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 16 February 2018 Dieter Suls
Capturing Fashion in the 20th Century with Frieda Dauphin-Verhees' Study Collection
Funding Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative-industries Fashion Matchfunding
After collecting fashion objects for almost her entire life, costume design teacher Frieda Dauphin-Verhees decided to donate a part of her impressive clothing archive to the Antwerp Fashion Museum - MoMu.
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Title:
Love (detail)
Creator:
Jalmari Ruokokoski
Date:
1910
Institution:
Finnish National Gallery, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki
Country:
Finland
Copyright:
CC0
News Created: 15 February 2018
Hello world! The Finnish National Gallery opens up its collections
Collections Cultural Heritage Institutions Openglam Open-access
Collections Management Director Riitta Ojanperä tells us what’s driving the Finnish National Gallery's new Open Access policy
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Title:
D100. Japanese Lantern Makers | Unbekannt.
Date:
1880-1890.
Institution:
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
Copyright:
CC0
News Created: 14 February 2018 Milena Popova Nicole McNeilly
#MakeWithEuropeana: Makers market pilot report
Funding Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative-industries Makers
Europeana releases its report of the makers market and sets out recommendations for our future approach to reaching this segment of the creative industries.
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