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Europeana's brand identity was built five years ago around the concept 'think culture'. Our strategy for 2015-2020 outlines a shift from 'thinking' to 'transforming' - making much greater use of our cultural assets and creating new things with them. We now have a new visual styling that reflects this shift.
Libraries, of course, support scholarship. But in the twenty-first century, scholars might occasionally be able to return the favor. As scholars develop experience mining large datasets, there is a growing area of overlap between the things libraries need done (organizing collections, enriching metadata), and the tasks that count as research in other fields. This area of overlap holds opportunities for both sides.
Text as data for research in social science and the humanities has been a hot issue in methodological debates for decades. Interest in large quantities of text started with investigations especially of propaganda in press coverage of hostile countries during the first half of the 20th century.
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The missing decades: the 20th century black hole in Europeana
For the last couple of years librarians have talked about a 20th century black hole when trying to describe the effect that copyright has on making cultural heritage available online.
