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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

EuropeanaTech FLOSS
Title:
De vier regenten, de secretaris en de binnenvader van het Leprozenhuis te Amsterdam
Date:
1773
Institution:
Rijksmuseum
Country:
Netherlands

EuropeanaTech FLOSS

The EuropeanaTech task force on the FLOSS Inventory enriched, improved and structured the Inventory which contains over 300 free, open source tools relevant for the EuropeanaTech community.

The final recommendations

Hierarchical objects
Title:
A blind man on his knees begging, a woman and dog behind him
Institution:
Wellcome Collection
Country:
United Kingdom

Hierarchical objects

Hierarchical objects are important for Europeana' s network of projects and data providers. This Task Force made recommendations for the representation of hierarchical objects in Europeana.

The final recommendations

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