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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.

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Image by @eTwinningUK
News Created: 31 October 2017 Milena Popova
Culture for inclusive education at the eTwinning conference
Education elearning
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News Created: 30 October 2017
Make it Festive
Creative industries Makers
Get creative with Europeana’s openly licensed content for a joyful holiday season!
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The Raptor, inspired by a photograph of a whalebone hand from 1845. © Trove, National Library of Australia.
Creator:
Trove and Questacon
Date:
2016
Institution:
Trove
Country:
Australia
News Created: 27 October 2017 Beth Daley
Open culture in Australia - an interview with Trove’s Cathie Oats
Collections Cultural Heritage Institutions Network Open-culture Year-of-open
As part of our 'open culture' blog mini-series, we talk to Cathie Oats, Director of Trove, the digital arm of the National Library of Australia.
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Lizzy Jongma
Creator:
Anne Reitsma Photography
News Created: 26 October 2017
Meet the Members Council: Lizzy Jongma
Network Creative industries Council
Hear directly from each of your elected Members Council representatives, and get to know them a little better.
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News Created: 25 October 2017
Teaching History in an interactive way with the Transcribathon for Education
Education Transcribathon First-world-war
Launched in Summer 2016, Transcribathon for education is an online learning tool developed by Europeana and Facts and Files for the transcription of digital material from World War One
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Picture This! online exhibition
Creator:
Europeana Foundation
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 24 October 2017 Aleksandra Strzelichowska Małgorzata Szynkielewska
From an exhibition to a competition: wrapping up ‘Picture This! Vintage Postcards of Southeastern Europe’
Collections Content promotion Cultural Heritage Institutions Competition exhibition picture-this
Over summer, we focused on the rich cultural heritage of South and East European libraries in a user-friendly way. Learn more as we celebrate the end of the project.
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News Created: 20 October 2017
Europeana Collections teams up with Beneylu School to improve resources of primary school classrooms
Education Digital primary-schools
Teachers can now access Europeana Collections via the leading digital pedagogical platform Beneylu School.
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Creator:
Jonas Heide Smith
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CC BY-NC
News Created: 16 October 2017
The image recognition app Vizgu launches with SMK - The National Gallery of Denmark to provide instant art info
Content promotion Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative industries Case-studies Open-culture
The National Gallery of Denmark (SMK) collaborated with a group of Danish developers to release Vizgu, an app that comes up with related art information - descriptive text and audio - whenever a visitor points his smartphone at an SMK painting. Jonas Heide Smith, Head of Digital, tells us more about this innovative visitor guide which launched in September.
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News Created: 13 October 2017 Beth Daley
Open culture feeds our souls and a stable Europe - do you agree?
Collections Network Campaigns Cultural Heritage Institutions Open-culture Year-of-open Jill-Cousins
Continuing our mini series on 'open culture', with an interview with Jill Cousins, Executive Director of the Europeana Foundation
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'What is open culture?' Mirjam Rääbis, Adviser on Museums, Ministry of Culture, Estonia.
Creator:
Sebastiaan ter Burg
Date:
2017
Copyright:
CC BY
News Created: 29 September 2017 Beth Daley
Cultural heritage professionals tell us why GLAM collections should be opened up
Collections Network Campaigns Cultural Heritage Institutions Openglam Open-access Year-of-open
In the first of our 'open culture' blog mini-series, let's start by talking about what open culture means to you.
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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
Copyright:
CC BY
News Created: 28 September 2017 Nienke van Schaverbeke Marjolein de Vos Jolan Wuyts
Europeana Research Grants Programme: 2017 Call for Submissions
Collections Funding Academic Research Grants-programme Grants
Eligibility details, application guidelines, terms and other useful information.
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Carte nautique de l'Océan Atlantique Nord-Est de la Mer Méditerranée (...)
Date:
1600
Institution:
Bibliothèque nationale de France
News Created: 27 September 2017
Uncharted Territory
Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative industries Artsplus
Discussing Digital Strategies for Cultural Heritage Institutions at the Frankfurt Book Fair
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