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Posted on Monday July 19, 2021
Updated on Monday October 21, 2024
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Explore the latest news from the common European data space for cultural heritage, Europeana Initiative and cultural heritage sector as we work towards digital transformation.
Text as data for research in social science and the humanities has been a hot issue in methodological debates for decades. Interest in large quantities of text started with investigations especially of propaganda in press coverage of hostile countries during the first half of the 20th century.
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The missing decades: the 20th century black hole in Europeana
For the last couple of years librarians have talked about a 20th century black hole when trying to describe the effect that copyright has on making cultural heritage available online.
Rather remarkably for a Dutch November morning, it was with blue skies overhead that 240 members of the Europeana Network Association gathered in Amsterdam for the 2015 AGM, this year bearing the title ‘We are Europeana’. So what did we all get up to?
We are delighted to announce that the Europeana Research Advisory Board has now been established, and are very happy to have a wide ranging spectrum of digital humanities expertise included. The role of the board will be to develop and steer the work of Europeana Research
Often in the research community, the mention of Europeana draws mixed responses. "It's a good idea, but the depth of data is not suitable for research use." But Europeana is not just about its portal (currently being renamed Europeana Collections, by the way)
Semantic metadata enrichments can be hugely beneficial for searching Europeana in different languages and adding context to resources accessible via Europeana.
Omeka is perhaps the most well known and widely used open-source web-publishing platform for libraries, museums, archives, and storytelling enthusiasts.
