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Walking tours on mobile apps can lead visitors to places of cultural interest, and digital objects integrated into the apps can help them interpret what they’re looking at. Read on to discover how to connect cultural heritage collections with real-world locations by creating your own walking tour!
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The European leg of Taylor Swift’s billion dollar Eras Tour has just finished in Europe, uniting fans across the continent. How have museums and cultural heritage institutions been using the tour to engage audiences with their collections?
Earlier this year, the Hunt Museum published a case study which shared insights from their experience digitising items from their collections in 3D. Read on to hear about their experience and learn how objects digitised in 3D can form an important part of engagement strategies.
This week sees the launch of the innovative new digital archive, the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, which makes a rich array of historical documents available. Europeana Members Councillor and Dublin City University archivist Killian Downing tells us about how the Virtual Record Treasury was created and its significance.
Earlier this year, Dublin City Library and Archive and the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) collaborated on running ‘Transcription Week’, a crowdsourcing campaign to transcribe and enrich handwritten documents and maps. Find out more about the campaign.
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As Europeana marks Women’s History month in March, we speak to different projects and cultural heritage institutions to find out more about how they are highlighting women's history. Today, we hear about Mná100, an online research platform which documents women in Irish history 100 years ago.
