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Title:
Towards a New Audiovisual Think Tank for Audiovisual Archivists and Cultural Heritage Professionals . page 15.
Creator:
Peter B. Kaufman
Date:
2018
Institution:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Country:
The Netherlands
Copyright:
CC BY
News Created: 23 January 2018 Zuzana Malicherova
Shaping the future of audiovisual archiving: New international think tank identifies strategic priorities
Data standards Network Cultural Heritage Institutions Audiovisual Netherlands-institute-for-sound-and-vision white-paper
The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision's White Paper identifies strategic priorities for audiovisual archiving in the coming decade and puts forward 10 concrete recommendations for collective action.
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News Created: 22 January 2018 Małgorzata Szynkielewska
World War One 'Living Memories' inspire generations in TuEuropeana Transcribathon
Education 1914-1918 Transcribathon
Europeana Transcribathon 1914-1918 in Warsaw - almost 200 documents and 90 000 characters has been transcribed within 24 hours in Poland.
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Title:
(en) Celebration of the 30 years existence of the student corporation from Nijmegen; (nl) Viering van het 30-jarig bestaan van het Nijmeegse studentencorps
Creator:
(en) Polygoon-Profilti (producer); (nl) Polygoon-Profilti (producent);
Date:
1954
Institution:
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision; Nederlands Instituut voor Beel
Country:
Netherlands
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 18 January 2018
MashUp Film Festival: 1,000+ films available for new creations
Collections Content promotion Creative industries Culture lover short-films MashUp
Films from Europeana Collections are available for use in this year’s MashUp Film Festival.
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Title:
Your Story Our Story Explore page
Creator:
Tenement Museum
Date:
2018
Institution:
Tenement Museum
Country:
USA
News Created: 16 January 2018 Adrian Murphy
Mapping migration in the arts: Your Story, Our Story
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:
Vanitas Still Life
Creator:
Edwaert Collier
Date:
1662
Institution:
Rijksmuseum
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 15 January 2018 Milena Popova
Europeana #edTech Challenge
Creative industries Europeana-challenge
Win up to €30,000 for the best ideas reusing Europeana's openly licensed content for innovative learning
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Title:
Front cover of the EOSC's First report
News Created: 12 January 2018
Europeana and partners to showcase big data collaboration at European Open Science Cloud conference
Collections Academic Research
The outcome of Europeana’s collaboration with EUDAT and CLARIN on big data in cultural heritage will be presented at EUDAT’s conference, ‘Putting the EOSC vision into practice’ in Porto, Portugal, from 22-25 January.
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News Created: 11 January 2018 Maria Drabczyk
TuEuropeana EduLab: Archives Inspire… and Teach
Education Elearning gamification
The Poznań EduLab invited educators to create new interactive teaching activities based on technology and archival content.
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News Created: 9 January 2018 Maria Drabczyk Małgorzata Szynkielewska
Game Jam with History - TuEuropeana: Archives Inspire
Creative industries Games Tueuropeana
Weekend session for video game developers in Poland resulted in 11 games inspired by First World War digital archives.
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Title:
Nokturno
Creator:
Matoš, Antun Gustav (13.6.1873.–17.3.1914.)
Date:
1914?
Institution:
National and University Library in Zagreb
Country:
Croatia
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 4 January 2018
Digitising our literary heritage: The Antun Gustav Matoš collection (1873-1914)
Collections Data publication Academic Research Photographs Poetry Literature Croatia literary-history letters
Read all about the digitisation project of a collection of personal documents by one of the greatest Croatian authors.
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Title:
Macreanu Iulian, project representative. Photo by staff photographer/Europeana AGM 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 22 December 2017 Iulian Macreanu
The story of Marin Gogoloi: a ’Wiki-Europeana’ odyssey of a World War I soldier
Content promotion Creative industries Case-studies Wikimedia 1914-1918 First-world-war
How a digitisation project brought the engraving of a Romanian soldier of the First World War back to his ancestors a century later.
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Title:
Chromo-lithograph of Scott Monument by T. Nelson and Sons, [Monuments], and Princes Street: Looking West - Edinburgh
Creator:
Kemp, George Meikle and Thomas Nelson & Sons
Date:
1890
Institution:
the European Library
Country:
United Kingdom
Copyright:
CC BY
News Created: 21 December 2017 Jolan Wuyts
Meet the winners of the Europeana Research Grants Programme 2017
Collections Funding Academic Research Research Grants-programme
We're thrilled to announce our three Grants Winners for the Europeana Research Grants Programme 2017, together with the short list of promising proposals.
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Title:
Omakuva, Helene Schjerfbeck, Finnish National Gallery, Tekijänoikeuslain alainen
Creator:
Helene Schjerfbeck
Institution:
Finnish National Gallery
News Created: 20 December 2017
Open access insights from the Finnish National Gallery
Collections Cultural Heritage Institutions Openglam Open-access Art Exhibition
As part of our series dedicated to museums opening up their collections, we speak to Hanna-Leena Paloposki, Chief Curator and Archive & Library Manager at the Finnish National Gallery
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