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Overview for 'Projects'

    Saint George on a Bike
    Title:
    Saint George and the Dragon
    Creator:
    Luca Signorelli
    Date:
    1495 - 1505
    Institution:
    Rijksmuseum
    Country:
    The Netherlands
    Project 1 September 2019 - 28 February 2023

    Saint George on a Bike

    This project aimed to improve the quality and quantity of open metadata associated with imagery from European cultural heritage, in particular addressing the challenges of endowing AI with insights into culture, symbols and traditions.

    The Culture Chatbot - engaging visitors with your collections
    Title:
    The Culture Chatbot on the CulturaItalia website
    Creator:
    Culture Chatbot
    Date:
    2019
    Institution:
    Culture Chatbot
    News Created: 18 November 2019 Pavel Kats Georgia Evans

    The Culture Chatbot - engaging visitors with your collections

    How can cultural heritage institutions use chatbots to engage visitors, help them find content and answer common questions? The Culture Chatbot project has been exploring these questions, and in this post Pavel Kats from the Jewish Heritage Network, the organisation behind the project, explains the work they have done so far and how you can benefit from their expertise.

    Enrich Europeana: launching the renewed Transcribathon platform
    Title:
    Transcribathon participants
    Creator:
    Ingrid Oentrich
    Date:
    2019
    Institution:
    Austrian National Library
    Country:
    Austria
    News Created: 15 November 2019 Georgia Evans

    Enrich Europeana: launching the renewed Transcribathon platform

    The Enrich Europeana platform aims to make it possible for users to transcribe and enrich a wide variety of digital heritage collections. In this guest post, Ting Chung of the Austrian National Library - a project partner in Enrich Europeana - gives us an update on the launch of the project’s new crowdsourcing tool for transcribing, annotating, and georeferencing historical documents. 

    Open GLAM now! A webinar series for Europeana Common Culture
    Title:
    Fonograf
    Creator:
    The American Graphophone Co
    Date:
    1898-01-01 - 1901-01-01
    Institution:
    Tekniska museet
    Country:
    Sweden
    News Created: 25 October 2019 Larissa Borck Georgia Evans

    Open GLAM now! A webinar series for Europeana Common Culture

    The Europeana Common Culture project aims to improve the content from Europeana’s national aggregators. The Swedish National Heritage Board - a Common Culture project partner - discusses their open-access webinar series, ‘Open GLAM now!’.

    The Rise of Literacy: bringing 13 cultural heritage institutions together to connect written cultural treasures
    Title:
    Aristotle and Alexander from BL Royal 20 B XX, f. 10v
    Date:
    c. 1420 1415 - 1429
    Institution:
    The British Library
    Country:
    United Kingdom
    News Created: 22 October 2019 Georgia Evans

    The Rise of Literacy: bringing 13 cultural heritage institutions together to connect written cultural treasures

    Running from September 2017-February 2019, the Rise of Literacy in Europe Generic Service project explored the use of written text in European culture from the 6th to the 20th century to tell the story of literacy in Europe. Renata Šolar from the National and University Library of Slovenia discusses its achievements and why it was so important for her institution to be involved.

    How we’re using smart tech to create richer cultural experiences
    Title:
    The handles of a machine are being turned by small people as a figure in the machine is flattened and stretched.
    Creator:
    Coloured etching by G.A. Sasso after himself.
    Institution:
    Wellcome Collection
    Country:
    United Kingdom
    News Created: 11 October 2019 Beth Daley

    How we’re using smart tech to create richer cultural experiences

    Today, we look at what Europeana is doing to take advantage of the advances in digital technology, particularly ‘smart’ technology, that can bring our cultural heritage to life in exciting ways. 

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