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    Wiki Loves Monuments - work in Ireland
    Title:
    Hook Head, 2015 WLM 1st place winner
    Creator:
    Michael J Foley
    Country:
    2014-11-16
    News Created: 9 September 2020 Rebecca O'Neill

    Wiki Loves Monuments - work in Ireland

    September only means one thing for the Wikimedia community, and that is Wiki Loves Monuments! In this post, Rebecca O’Neill, Project Coordinator for Wikimedia Community Ireland, reflects on the competition’s influence in Ireland and how to take part. 

    Saint George on a Bike leverages the power of AI for European cultural heritage
    Title:
    George and the dragon from BL Royal 2 A XVIII, ff. 5v-6
    Date:
    1401 - 1415
    Institution:
    British Library
    Country:
    United Kingdom
    News Created: 13 August 2020

    Saint George on a Bike leverages the power of AI for European cultural heritage

    Saint George on a Bike is a Generic Services project which aims to improve the quality and quantity of open metadata associated with imagery from European cultural heritage. In this post, the project team take a look at what it aims to achieve. 

    Opening doors at EPIC and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
    Title:
    A visitor in the 'Discovering & Inventing' gallery of the EPIC museum
    Date:
    2020.07.29.
    Institution:
    EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum
    Country:
    Ireland
    News Created: 11 August 2020 Nathan Mannion Susan Hazan

    Opening doors at EPIC and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem

    In July, Europeana held its first ‘Lunch Café’ on the theme of ‘Opening Doors’, encouraging discussion around the re-opening of cultural heritage institutions. In this post, Nathan Mannion and Susan Hazan, who led the Café, reflect on re-opening at their own institutions.

    Turning digital art into designer face masks
    Title:
    Alexander Archipenko, Two women, 1920 (paper mask)
    Creator:
    Photo by Dušan Radovanović
    Date:
    July 2020
    Institution:
    National Museum in Belgrade
    Country:
    Serbia
    News Created: 6 August 2020 Tamara Butigan

    Turning digital art into designer face masks

    As part of our Discovering Europe season, last week we explored how cultural heritage institutions across Europe are starting to open their doors. In this post, Tamara Butigan takes a look at a special reopening initiative from two Serbian museums who are using digitised art from their collections on face masks, offering people a new and timely way to engage with their content. 

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