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Tools

The Europeana Initiative takes parts in projects across the cultural heritage sector and data space which support the reuse of cultural heritage and seek to improve data quality. Discover the tools created by these projects for cultural heritage professionals, educators, researchers and creatives.

Are you looking for a tool or dataset that does not appear below? Please reach out to Georgia Evans ([email protected]) for more information.

3D Weaver
Title:
Homepage of 3DWeaver
Institution:
Arctur

3D Weaver

A tool that allows people to host, view, share and measure complex 3D models of cultural heritage.

CrowdHeritage Platform
Title:
Screenshot of Crowdheritage website
Institution:
August 2020

CrowdHeritage Platform

CrowdHeritage is an online platform for enriching the metadata of digitised cultural heritage collections through crowdsourcing campaigns.

Culture Chatbot
Title:
Screenshot of the CultureChatbot for Europeana
Creator:
Culture Chatbot
Date:
2020
Institution:
Culture Chatbot

Culture Chatbot

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

Share 3D Dashboard
Title:
Screenshot of the Dashboard on the Share3D website
Date:
July 2020

Share 3D Dashboard

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

The DE-BIAS Tool
Title:
Screenshot of the DE-BIAS tool
Creator:
DE-BIAS Project
Date:
2024

The DE-BIAS Tool

This tool detects outdated and potentially harmful language in descriptions of cultural heritage collections.

The DE-BIAS Vocabulary
Title:
Screenshot of the DE-BIAS vocabulary
Creator:
DE-BIAS project
Date:
2024

The DE-BIAS Vocabulary

This vocabulary, covering 700 words across five languages, supports professionals to review descriptions of cultural heritage collections with regards to potential bias.

Europeana Essentials
Title:
The Basic Programmer's Toolkit
Date:
1979
Institution:
Museon
Country:
The Netherlands

Europeana Essentials

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

Historiana
Title:
Historiana.eu landing page
Creator:
Historiana
Date:
2021

Historiana

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

LinBi Enrichment Platform
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

LinBi Enrichment Platform

A platform which supports data enrichment by providing tools for linking, enriching and creating new objects following Europeana Data Model guidelines.

MotionNotes
Title:
Screenshot of MotionNotes Annotator from CultureMoves website
Date:
May 2020

MotionNotes

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

The Recommendation System
Title:
Screenshot of the Recommendation Engine on the Europeana website
Creator:
Pangeanic
Date:
2021

The Recommendation System

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

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

SAGE

A semantic enrichment and validation platform.

Seven tips for digital storytelling
Title:
Seven digital storytelling tips for the cultural heritage sector
Creator:
Europeana Foundation
Date:
April 2021
Institution:
Europeana Foundation
Country:
Netherlands

Seven tips for digital storytelling

A resource to support telling engaging and inspiring stories with cultural heritage online. 

Subbit! platform
Title:
Subbit! logo

Subbit! platform

An audiovisual editing platform which allows people to run crowdsourced campaigns to edit automatically generated subtitles. 

Subtitle-a-thon platform
Title:
Subtitle-a-thon platform
Date:
2021
Institution:
Subtitle-a-thon

Subtitle-a-thon platform

A platform that facilitates crowdsourcing initiatives which invite the public to create and add subtitles to archival audiovisual clips.

Transcribathon
Title:
Computers op Erasmusschool voor LEAO
Institution:
Gooi en Vecht Historisch
Country:
Netherlands

Transcribathon

A platform for the enrichment of digitised material from Europeana. 

User Galleries
Title:
A screenshot of a user gallery
Institution:
Europeana Foundation
Country:
Netherlands

User Galleries

A tool that allows users to curate their own gallery on the Europeana website. 

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