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
CC BYBuilding Digital Capacity
A phased project to identify and shape a capacity-building framework for digital transformation in the cultural heritage sector.
Date: 1662
Institution: Rijksmuseum
Country: Netherlands
Public DomainCopyright and digital cultural heritage
Expert guidance, online training, webinars and an active community for professionals working with copyright in digital cultural heritage.
Title: Esbjörn at the study corner
Creator: Carl Larsson
Institution: Nationalmuseum Sweden
Country: Sweden
Public DomainEducation
Cultural heritage has a crucial role to play in education. Explore information, guidance and resources to enrich and inspire learning practice.
Date: c.1615 - c.1620
Institution: Rijksmuseum
Country: Netherlands
Public DomainThe Europeana website
A multilingual resource providing online access to a vast store of cultural heritage material from across Europe.
Creator: Abraham Delfos, after Johannes Vermeer
Date: 1794
Institution: Rijksmuseum
Country: Netherlands
Public DomainResearch
Funding, resources and a community to bring together digital cultural heritage, academia and research.
Creator: Desconegut
Date: 1930/1940
Institution: Ajuntament de Girona
Country: Spain
Public DomainWebinars
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
CC BYWorking 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: Screenshot of Crowdheritage website
Institution: August 2020
CC BY-SACrowdHeritage 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
CC BY-SACulture 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
Public DomainCurated 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.
Title: The Basic Programmer's Toolkit
Date: 1979
Institution: Museon
Country: The Netherlands
CC BYEuropeana 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
CC BY-NC-SAEuropeana Archaeology Vocabulary Services
An online mapping tool for interlinking metadata terms with Linked Open Data resources.
Title: Historiana.eu landing page
Creator: Historiana
Date: 2021
CC BY-SAHistoriana
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
CC BY-NC-SALinBi 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
CC BY-SAMotionNotes
A multimodal video annotator that facilitates the use of digital technologies in art and dance performances.
Title: Screenshot of MovesScrabook
Date: August 2020
CC BY-SAMovesCollect and MovesScrapbook
Interconnected tools which offer new ways to interact with and use content on Europeana.
Title: Seven digital storytelling tips for the cultural heritage sector
Creator: Europeana Foundation
Date: April 2021
Institution: Europeana Foundation
Country: Netherlands
CC BY-SASeven 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
CC BY-SAStorymaker
A tool giving expert and non-expert users the opportunity to create stories with 3D content.
Title: Computers op Erasmusschool voor LEAO
Institution: Gooi en Vecht Historisch
Country: Netherlands
CC BY-SATranscribathon
A platform for the enrichment of digitised material from Europeana.