Services and Tools

Europeana seeks to support cultural heritage professionals and institutions in their digital transformation by creating and curating relevant services and tools. Use this page to explore our offer and tools for engaging with cultural heritage data. 

Services

Building Digital Capacity
Title: A Vision for European Cultural Heritage 2025
Creator: Sebastiaan Ter Burg
Date: May 2018, Bulgaria
Institution: Europeana Foundation
CC BY

Building Digital Capacity

A phased project to identify and shape a capacity-building framework for digital transformation in the cultural heritage sector. 

Impact
Title: Impact Workshop EDCR Glasgow
Creator: Sebastiaan ter Burg
Date: December 2016
Country: Netherlands
CC BY

Impact

The Impact Playbook, inspiration, practical resources and a community to help develop and refine impact practice.

Research
Title: De astronoom
Creator: Abraham Delfos, after Johannes Vermeer
Date: 1794
Institution: Rijksmuseum
Country: Netherlands
Public Domain

Research

Funding, resources and a community to bring together digital cultural heritage, academia and research.

Webinars
Title: [Ràdios Pla]
Creator: Desconegut
Date: 1930/1940
Institution: Ajuntament de Girona
Country: Spain
Public Domain

Webinars

Explore and watch previous webinars the Europeana Initiative and its communities have run for, and with, cultural heritage professionals.

Tools

APIs
Title: Spents.
Creator: Lövqvist, Albin
Institution: Länsmuseet Gävleborg
Country: Sweden
CC BY-SA

APIs

Europeana APIs can be used to build applications from the wealth of our collections, drawn from instiutions across Europe.

CrowdHeritage Platform
Title: Screenshot of Crowdheritage website
Institution: August 2020
CC BY-SA

CrowdHeritage Platform

An online crowdsourcing platform for enriching the metadata of digitised cultural heritage material.

Culture Chatbot
Title: Screenshot of the CultureChatbot for Europeana
Creator: Culture Chatbot
Date: 2020
Institution: Culture Chatbot
CC BY-SA

Culture Chatbot

A platform for building virtual assistants (called chatbots) for cultural heritage institutions.

Curated datasets
Title: Interiör från Tigers fabrik på Södra Hamngatan 1937
Creator: David Almquist
Date: 1937
Institution: Bohusläns museum
Country: Sweden
Public Domain

Curated datasets

Datasets grouping some of our best objects - newspapers, books, photos, art, artifacts, audio clips and more.

Dashboard
Title: Screenshot of the Dashboard on the Share3D website
Date: July 2020
CC BY-SA

Dashboard

An online tool allowing users to share 3D models and metadata for review and publication on Europeana.

Historiana
Title: Historiana.eu landing page
Creator: Historiana
Date: 2021
CC BY-SA

Historiana

An online learning platform which supports the use of cultural heritage collections in education.

LinBi Enrichment Platform
Title: Screenshot of the LinBi Enrichment platform Connecting content: link your items with other Europeana records and submit a user set
Creator: Martin Gordon
Date: 2020
CC BY-NC-SA

LinBi Enrichment Platform

A platform which supports data enrichment by providing tools for linking, enriching and creating new objects following Europeana Data Model guidelines.

MotionNotes
Title: Screenshot of MotionNotes Annotator from CultureMoves website
Date: May 2020
CC BY-SA

MotionNotes

A multimodal video annotator that facilitates the use of digital technologies in art and dance performances. 

Seven tips for digital storytelling
Title: Seven digital storytelling tips for the cultural heritage sector
Creator: Europeana Foundation
Date: April 2021
Institution: Europeana Foundation
Country: Netherlands
CC BY-SA

Seven tips for digital storytelling

A resource to support telling engaging and inspiring stories with cultural heritage online. 

Storymaker
Title: Screenshot of the Storymaker tool on the Share3D website
Date: July 2020
CC BY-SA

Storymaker

A tool giving expert and non-expert users the opportunity to create stories with 3D content.

Transcribathon
Title: Computers op Erasmusschool voor LEAO
Institution: Gooi en Vecht Historisch
Country: Netherlands
CC BY-SA

Transcribathon

A platform for the enrichment of digitised material from Europeana. 

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