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

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

Building Digital Capacity

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

Title:: Vanitas Still Life
Date:: 1662
Institution:: Rijksmuseum
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: Public Domain

Copyright and digital cultural heritage

Resources and information for professionals who want to improve the quality of their collections data with reliable information around copyright, open access and rights statements.

Title:: Esbjörn at the study corner
Creator:: Carl Larsson
Institution:: Nationalmuseum Sweden
Country:: Sweden
Copyright:: Public Domain

Education

Resources and information to help educators reuse cultural heritage data and collections in their classrooms and institutions.

Title:: Enjoying the Ice
Date:: c.1615 - c.1620
Institution:: Rijksmuseum
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: Public Domain

The Europeana website

A multilingual resource providing online access to a vast store of cultural heritage material from across Europe.

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

Impact

Resources and information for professionals to understand the impact of their work and activities.

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

Research

Resources and information to enable those working in research and academia to reuse cultural heritage data.

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

Webinars

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

Title:: The regular washing of hands. Lithograph, ca. 1960
Institution:: Wellcome Collection
Country:: United Kingdom
Copyright:: CC BY

Working with and for you in the time of COVID-19

Tools, resources and inspiring examples of how the cultural heritage sector is responding to the challenge of COVID-19.

Tools

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

APIs

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

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

CrowdHeritage Platform

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

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

Culture Chatbot

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

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

Curated datasets

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

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

Dashboard

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

Title:: Screenshot of 'European Treaties celebrate their first year' in the player on Europeana collections website
Date:: 2020
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Enhanced Unified Playout Service

A universal audiovisual player offering a set of functionalities for reuse of AV cultural heritage content.

Title:: The Basic Programmer's Toolkit
Date:: 1979
Institution:: Museon
Country:: The Netherlands
Copyright:: CC BY

Europeana Essentials slide deck

A slide deck covering a range of topics to support presentations about work from, or with, the Europeana Initiative.

Title:: Valentinianus I. und Valens
Institution:: Münzkabinett
Country:: Germany
Copyright:: CC BY-NC-SA

Europeana Archaeology Vocabulary Services

An online mapping tool for interlinking metadata terms with Linked Open Data resources.

Title:: 7.2 IBM Service
Institution:: Telemuseet
Country:: Norway
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Events toolkit

Guidance, tips and resources to run successful online and hybrid events around digital cultural heritage.

Title:: A screenshot from the API Swagger page, which shows available endpoints for translation of the text segments or OAI feed as well as language detection,
Creator:: Pangeanic
Date:: 2021
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Heritage Metadata Automatic Translation system

A set of APIs for language detection and translation of text data fields submitted directly or via Open Archives initiative (OAI) feeds.

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

Historiana

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

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
Copyright:: 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.

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

MotionNotes

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

Title:: Screenshot of MovesScrabook
Date:: August 2020
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

MovesCollect and MovesScrapbook

Interconnected tools which offer new ways to interact with and use content on Europeana.

Title:: Screenshot of the Recommendation Engine on the Europeana website
Creator:: Pangeanic
Date:: 2021
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

The Recommendation System

A system which recommends cultural heritage objects on the Europeana website to users based on their previous interactions.

Title:: A screenshot from the validation progress tab indicating the percentage of enrichments that have been manually validated.
Creator:: SAGE
Date:: 2021
Copyright:: CC BY-SA