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Task Forces and Working Groups

Task Forces are designed to help solve specific issues and challenges affecting the digital heritage field while Working Groups are set up to address ongoing activities and issues of continuing relevance within the Europeana Network Association. Propose a Task Force.

Running

Capacity Building Working Group
Title:
A classroom with children sitting at long tables and a teacher standing with a book in her hand.
Creator:
Lithograph by J.B. Sonde.
Institution:
Wellcome Collection
Country:
United Kingdom

Capacity Building Working Group

This working group aims to support the implementation of a capacity building working plan for the common European data space for cultural heritage.

Country Groups pilot project
Title:
Europa. Europe
Creator:
Liebenwein, Maximilian (1869-1926)
Date:
ca 1918
Institution:
Biblioteka Cyfrowa Wojewódzkiej Biblioteki Publicznej im. Hieronima Łopacińskiego w Lublinie
Country:
Poland

Country Groups pilot project

The Country Groups pilot project aims at improving national cooperation throughout the common European data space for cultural heritage in three EU member states: Bulgaria, Italy, and Slovenia.

Data Quality Committee
Title:
Hacking Culture Bootcamp
Creator:
Sebastiaan ter Burg
Date:
2016
Country:
Netherlands

Data Quality Committee

Quality is a key priority for our whole community! The Data Quality Committee is a EuropeanaTech Working Group which aims to address key data quality issues. 

Governance Working Group
Title:
Hacking Culture Bootcamp
Creator:
Sebastiaan ter Burg
Date:
2016
Country:
Netherlands

Governance Working Group

This Working Group aims to address the governance of the Europeana Network Association and ensure its good and democratic development.

Heritage Acoustics Task Force
Title:
Acoustics: an electrically-powered [?] Edison-type phonograph demonstrated at an exhibition [in Paris?]. Wood engraving.
Institution:
Wellcome Collection
Country:
United Kingdom

Heritage Acoustics Task Force

This Task Force aims to assess the current state of affairs, and to identify key needs, to move towards a unified approach to the preservation and presentation of acoustic heritage related metadata and content.

IIIF & Europeana Working Group
Title:
[Retrat de l'equip de futbol del Girona FC]
Creator:
Desconegut
Date:
1937 - 1938
Institution:
Ajuntament de Girona
Country:
Spain

IIIF & Europeana Working Group

This Working Group helps to steer the ongoing collaboration between the Europeana Initiative and International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).

Innovative Operating Models Working Group
Title:
Detail from C. Lycosthenes, 1340 comet in sky and plague at Florence
Institution:
Wellcome Collection
Country:
United Kingdom

Innovative Operating Models Working Group

The Working Group advises on, supports and complements tasks and activities around concepts which are likely to play a vital role in defining and establishing innovative operating models for the common European data space for cultural heritage.

Out of Commerce works Working Group
Title:
Helsingin rautatieasema, perspektiivipiirustus keskushallista, 1913
Creator:
Saarinen, Eliel
Institution:
Museum of Finnish Architecture
Country:
Finland

Out of Commerce works Working Group

This Working Group provides a space to exchange information and recommend approaches to successfully use the legal solution to make out of commerce works available online.

Workflow from shelf to Europeana
Title:
Schachbrettblume (Fritillaria), Blütenknospe und Blüte von unten
Creator:
Blossfeldt, Karl (Herstellung) (Fotograf)
Date:
1930
Institution:
Deutsche Fotothek
Country:
Germany

Workflow from shelf to Europeana

This Task Force aims to support cultural heritage organisations, especially smaller ones, establish an easy-to-use workflow for each step 'from shelf to Europeana'. 

Recommendations

Impact Assessment 2.0
Title:
Venez voir le village et les spectacles des lilliputiens de Gnidley. Unique; troupe au monde
Institution:
Circus Museum
Country:
NL

Impact Assessment 2.0

The impact assessment Task Force 2.0 supported the development of the final three phases of the Impact Playbook: assessment, narration and evaluation. 

Europeana Migration
Title:
Emigrants [à Ellis Island], un bureau de change
Creator:
Agence Rol. Agence photographique
Institution:
National Library of France
Country:
France

Europeana Migration

This Task Force aimed to create a Europeana community that can influence the position of cultural heritage in the debate around European identity and migration.

The Impact Assessment Task Force 2017
Title:
Resident impact expert, Prof Simon Tanner, entertaining us with stories of impact
Creator:
Harry Verwayen

The Impact Assessment Task Force 2017

This Task Force supported the development of the Europeana impact assessment toolkit - a new way for the cultural heritage sector to assess and manage their impact.

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