Georgia Evans

Marketing, Communications and Analytics

Senior Editorial Officer Europeana Foundation Netherlands, NL

Georgia is Europeana’s Senior Editorial Officer. In her role she leads on editorial aimed at professionals and non-formal professionals across the cultural heritage sector, creates and and aligns communications that meet our aims and the needs of our stakeholders, and is Editor-in-Chief of Europeana Pro.

Before working at Europeana, Georgia worked in the higher education sector in the UK. She has a BA degree in English Language and Literature, and an MA in Early Modern Studies.

News posts

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Out of space and time

Creator:

Schöpe, Viola (Herstellung) (Künstler/in)

Institution:

State Association of Fine Arts Saxony eV

Country:

Germany

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 28 January 2025 Georgia Evans

Europeana Foundation and Europa Nostra amplify Heritage Hub’s call for a heritage-led future

Projects Digital-transformation

In a recently published opinion piece on Digital Meets Culture, Harry Verwayen and Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović, (on behalf of the Europeana Foundation and Europa Nostra), highlight digital cultural heritage as a catalyst for positive change in Europe.

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Title:

Europeana Transcribathon Campus Berlin 2017

Creator:

Sebastiaan ter Burg

Date:

23 June 2017

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 8 January 2025 Georgia Evans

Seven ways to stay up to date with digital cultural heritage in 2025

Build-digital-capacity Projects

Do you work in, with or around cultural heritage? This year, do you want to develop your digital skills, stay up to date with news from the sector and learn from and network with peers? Then read on and discover seven ways to stay up to date with digital cultural heritage in 2025!

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Title:

Strandurlaub

Creator:

Franz von Matsch

Date:

1904

Institution:

Austrian Gallery Belvedere

Country:

Austria

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 20 November 2024 Georgia Evans Milena Popova

Europeana to help build the Common European Tourism Data Space

Projects Tourism Data-space

The Europeana Foundation- already at the heart of the common European data space for cultural heritage - is delighted to be participating as a project partner in DEPLOYTOUR, which will establish the European Tourism Data Space. Discover more about the project and what it has planned!

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Title:

Tallinna Spordiinternaatkooli õpilased telekat vaatamas

Creator:

Salmre, Viktor

Institution:

Estonian Sports and Olympic Museum

Country:

Estonia

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 29 October 2024 Georgia Evans

Share your feedback on the Watching Videos Like a Historian educational toolkit

Projects Education Audiovisual-heritage

The Watching Videos like a Historian project has recently published a Toolkit which supports educators to use audiovisual cultural heritage materials in their classrooms. Discover the Toolkit and give your feedback on its first version!

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Title:

Bucharest

Creator:

Girona City Council

Country:

Spain

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 1 October 2024 Georgia Evans

Europeana Foundation champions digital transformation at Heritage Hub Forum

Projects Digital-transformation

Together with Europa Nostra and the expert partners of the European Heritage Hub, the Europeana Foundation is proud to be organising the project’s upcoming Forum, ‘Championing a responsible digital transition for and with cultural heritage.’ Discover everything you need to know about the event, and five reasons why you should join it online.

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Twin it! logo. A composition of Windmolen van Elene by FrDr, CC BY-SA 4.0 and Elene windmill by visualdimension, CC BY-NC-ND

Creator:

Ana Moreno

Date:

2023

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 3 June 2024 Georgia Evans

High-level event celebrates the achievements of Twin it! 3D for Europe’s Culture

Member-states 3d Data-space Twin-it

A high-level event organised by the Europeana Foundation and the European Commission, under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU, saw the unveiling of the Twin it! pan-European collection of heritage 3D models, the launch of the Twin it! Call to action, and a celebration of the potential of 3D for reuse, access and preservation.

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Title:

Practitioners Guide illustration - in copyright.

Creator:

Magda Rysuje

Date:

2024

Institution:

Beeld & Geluid

Country:

The Netherlands

News Created: 15 May 2024 Georgia Evans

Five reasons to use the Practitioner's Guide for audiovisual collection holders

Projects Education Audiovisual-heritage

In 2023, the Watching Videos Like a Historian project launched a guide with practical tips, information and examples to support cultural heritage institutions to turn audiovisual heritage materials into resources for education. As the Guide is translated into Dutch, we share five reasons to use it!

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Title:

Evolution of household articles, animals. Table 1.

Creator:

Fr. Schmidt

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 1 May 2024 Georgia Evans

Discover innovative examples of digital storytelling

Digital-storytelling

With our Digital Storytelling Festival taking place in May, the Europeana Communicators Community Steering Group inspire us with examples of digital storytelling which have recently caught their attention.

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Title:

Malerei | Paris

Creator:

Düblin, Lukas

Date:

1955

Institution:

Kooperationinitiative Museen Baselland

Country:

Switzerland

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 24 April 2024 Georgia Evans

What is digital storytelling?

Europeana-communicators Digital-storytelling

With our Digital Storytelling Festival taking place in May, we ask the mentors of its Online Creative Residency to finish the sentence: ‘Digital storytelling is…’ Discover their insights!

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Title:

Digital Storytelling Festival

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 17 April 2024 Georgia Evans

Five reasons to attend the Digital Storytelling Festival

Digital-storytelling

This year’s Digital Storytelling Festival takes place from 21 - 22 May and we can’t wait to see you there! Whether you’re an educator, creative, cultural heritage professional or student, here are five reasons that you should attend.

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Twin it! logo. A composition of Windmolen van Elene by FrDr, CC BY-SA 4.0 and Elene windmill by visualdimension, CC BY-NC-ND

Creator:

Ana Moreno

Date:

2023

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 4 March 2024 Georgia Evans

Croatia and Poland share their Twin it! 3D for Europe’s culture stories

3d Data-space Twin-it

The Twin it! campaign invites EU Member States to submit a 3D digitised heritage asset to the common European data space for cultural heritage. With the campaign in full swing, colleagues from Poland and Croatia share how they selected their submissions.

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Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, Delhi: women working in a laboratory. Photograph, 1921.

Date:

1921

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 9 February 2024 Georgia Evans

Eight questions to women working in tech and digital cultural heritage

Europeanatech Womens-history-month

International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February celebrates the important contributions which women make to science and technology. To mark the day, we are highlighting women across the Europeana Initiative who lead the way in tech, research and development in cultural heritage, asking them, ‘What would you like to be asked about your work - and what is the answer?’

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EuropeanaTech 2023 visual - This collage is composed of three images. Check our event's page for detailed attribution

Creator:

Ana Moreno

Date:

2023

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

2023

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 29 November 2023 Georgia Evans

Recordings from EuropeanaTech 2023 now live - relive the conference!

Europeanatech Europeanatech2023

We were delighted to welcome over 1,100 of you to EuropeanaTech 2023, which took place onsite and online for three exciting days in October. Look back on the conference with us and discover how you can access the recordings.

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EuropeanaTech 2023 collage. This collage is composed of three images. Check our event's page for detailed attribution

Creator:

Ana Moreno

Date:

2023

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 20 September 2023 Georgia Evans

Five reasons to attend EuropeanaTech 2023 online

Europeanatech Europeanatech2023

Tickets to attend EuropeanaTech 2023 onsite in the Hague have sold out but never fear - you can still reserve your spot online for free! Discover five reasons why you should book your ticket to attend our conference.

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Title:

Brödbakande kvinnor på bild tagen runt förra sekelskiftet.

Creator:

Anna Ollson

Institution:

Värmlands Museum

Country:

Sweden

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 1 March 2023 Georgia Evans

How to surface women’s history - insights from expert organisations

Womens-history-month womens-history-month-2023

As 1 March marks the start of Women’s History Month, we ask expert organisations: what steps can cultural heritage institutions take to acknowledge, surface and highlight women’s history in their own collections?

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Mr Gee performing at Europeana 2022

Date:

2022-09-29

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 25 October 2022 Georgia Evans

Discover the beauty of data poetry with Mr Gee

Europeana-2022

At Europeana 2022, we were delighted to be joined by data poet Mr Gee, whose poems on each day of the conference gave rich new perspectives on the topics in focus. Watch the poems being performed and discover the beauty of data poetry!

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Title:

Detail from Ruum

Creator:

Vardi, Aleksander

Institution:

Muzeum umění Tartu

Country:

Estonia

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 18 August 2022 Georgia Evans

New project explores crowdsourcing in Estonian cultural heritage institutions

Academic Research Crowdsourcing Research-grants-interviews

In 2021, the Europeana Research Grants Programme awarded funding for innovative projects exploring crowdsourcing and research. Hear from a winning project at the Estonian War Museum – General Laidoner Museum.

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Title:

Image from page 19 of Merriment and Mirth for Merry Little People. [Verses, illustrated by P. Cox and others.]

Date:

1889

Institution:

British Library

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 16 May 2022 Georgia Evans

Get inspired by examples of digital storytelling in action

Network Europeana-communicators Digital-storytelling Digital-storytelling-2022

This month, Europeana and the Heritage Lab are running the digital storytelling festival, encouraging people to tell stories with digital cultural heritage. Members of the Europeana Communicators Community Steering Group share examples of the stories told online and in digital formats that excite them - and can inspire you!

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Title:

Rosario Soler

Creator:

ALFONSO (Alfonso Sánchez García)

Date:

1905/01/01

Institution:

Digital Library Memory of Madrid

Country:

Spain

Copyright:

CC BY-NC

News Created: 11 May 2022 Georgia Evans

Sharing women’s history through digital storytelling

Digital-storytelling Womens-history-month Womens-history-month-2022 Digital-storytelling-2022

This month, Europeana and the Heritage Lab are running the Digital Storytelling Festival, encouraging people to tell stories with digital cultural heritage. Today, we reflect on how digital storytelling can uncover new stories from women throughout history, looking back on Europeana’s activities for Women’s History Month.

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Title:

ESACH coordination committee

Creator:

ESACH

Date:

2022

Institution:

ESACH

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 1 March 2022 Georgia Evans

Supporting new professionals: the European Students' Association for Cultural Heritage

New-professionals New-professionals-interviews

As 2022 celebrates European Year of Youth, we are highlighting resources, networks and organisations within the cultural heritage sector which support students and new professionals. Today, we hear about the work of the European Students' Association for Cultural Heritage (ESACH).

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