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 and Tools
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
The Europeana Initiative offers capacity building activities which support the development of, and participation in, the common European data space for cultural heritage.
- 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:
- Still Life with Books and a Violin
- Creator:
- Still Life with Books and a Violin
- Date:
- 1628
- Institution:
- Mauritshuis
- Country:
- Netherlands
- Copyright:
- Public Domain
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.
Tools
- Title:
- Screenshot of Crowdheritage website
- Institution:
- August 2020
- Copyright:
- CC BY-SA
CrowdHeritage Platform
CrowdHeritage is an online platform for enriching the metadata of digitised cultural heritage collections through crowdsourcing campaigns.
- 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.
Enhanced Unified Playout Service
A universal audiovisual player offering a set of functionalities for reuse of AV cultural heritage content.
Europeana Essentials
A slide deck series 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:
- Subtitled logo
Europeana Subtitled AI pipeline and training suite
An AI pipeline for creating subtitles and translation to audiovisual collections.
- Title:
- SJ, Statens Järnvägar. IBM datamaskiner
- Creator:
- Gylldorf, J.N.
- Institution:
- Järnvägsmuseet
- Country:
- Sweden
- Copyright:
- Public Domain
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 J-Ark website
J-Ark tutorial: submitting collections to Europeana.eu
A multilingual training kit to learn how to submit collections to Europeana.eu and the J-Ark preservation system. This kit was created as part of the J-Ark project.
- 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:
- Seven digital storytelling tips for the cultural heritage sector
- Creator:
- Europeana Foundation
- Date:
- April 2021
- Institution:
- Europeana Foundation
- Country:
- Netherlands
- Copyright:
- CC BY-SA
Seven tips for digital storytelling
A resource to support telling engaging and inspiring stories with cultural heritage online.
- Title:
- Screenshot of the Storymaker tool on the Share3D website
- Date:
- July 2020
- Copyright:
- CC BY-SA
Storymaker
A tool giving expert and non-expert users the opportunity to create stories with 3D content.
- Title:
- Subbit! logo
Subbit! platform
An audiovisual editing platform which allows people to run crowdsourced campaigns to edit automatically generated subtitles.
- Title:
- Subtitle-a-thon platform
- Date:
- 2021
- Institution:
- Subtitle-a-thon
- Copyright:
- CC BY-SA
Subtitle-a-thon platform
A platform that facilitates crowdsourcing initiatives which invite the public to create and add subtitles to archival audiovisual clips.
- Title:
- Computers op Erasmusschool voor LEAO
- Institution:
- Gooi en Vecht Historisch
- Country:
- Netherlands
- Copyright:
- CC BY-SA
Transcribathon
A platform for the enrichment of digitised material from Europeana.
- Title:
- A screenshot of a user gallery
- Institution:
- Europeana Foundation
- Country:
- Netherlands
- Copyright:
- CC BY-SA
User Galleries
A tool that allows users to curate their own gallery on the Europeana website.