Julia Fallon

Community & Partner Engagement

Community and Partner Engagement Manager Europeana Foundation Netherlands, NL Cultural Heritage

[email protected]

Julia is the chair of the rights statements consortium. At Europeana, she is the manager of the Community and Partner Engagement Team - together we support the development of professionals and organizations working in and around digital cultural heritage. Together we lead the development of our digital programme & a knowledge hub of events, webinars and resources all supporting the sector in their digital transformation journey. Also passionate about supporting emerging professionals & advocating for inclusive and diverse conversations.

News posts

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Diversity and inclusivity icon

Creator:

Carlos Marcelino

Date:

2021

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 1 February 2022 Julia Fallon Beth Daley

Talking diversity and inclusion at the European Foundation: being bold and learning from others

Business-plan Diversity-and-inclusion

The Europeana Foundation’s Business Plan 2021, ‘Towards a digital public space for cultural heritage’, highlights five themes that run through all aspects of our work. Here, Julia Fallon, Community and Partner Engagement Manager at the Europeana Foundation, talks about the work around diversity and inclusion.

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Star fruit, axial view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 1 May 2020 Julia Fallon

Impact Assessment Report: 'Europeana in your classroom' MOOC

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions Education Impact Mooc

This report focuses on the impact of the ‘Europeana in your classroom' MOOC, which supports teachers to use digitised cultural heritage material by providing an introduction to Europeana and relevant resources.

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Borax extract of soap makes washing a pleasure.

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 8 April 2020 Julia Fallon

Working from home: How OF/BY/FOR ALL is helping us adjust our working practices

Cultural Heritage Institutions Coronavirus Covid-19 of-by-for-all

We recently shared the results of an internal webinar we ran at Europeana with the aim of supporting organisation-wide remote working. In this post, we also want to share the approach that underpinned this webinar, and how the philosophy of OF/BY/FOR ALL is shaping our approach to supporting staff.

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Teatrul Naţional din Iaşi

Creator:

Badana, Abdel

Date:

1896

Institution:

Biblioteca Judeţeană „V.A. Urechia” Galaţi Romania

Country:

Romania

Copyright:

Public Domain

Publication Created: 1 October 2019 Julia Fallon

Recommendations for a common strategic approach to support digital transformation

During the Romanian Presidency, Europeana held a meeting with high-level policymakers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of preparing a common European approach for Members States to locally support the digital transformation of cultural heritage.

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Title:

Fruit Tree in Blossom

Institution:

Finnish National Gallery

Country:

Finland

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 20 May 2019 Julia Fallon

Europeana Impact Community seeks enthusiastic members to join new Steering Group

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions Impact Impactcommunity

Read how the Impact Community plans to move forward under the steer of the Europeana Network Association, and community chairs Maja Drabczyk and Dafydd Tudur. Find out what the plans are for 2019, and how you can apply to join the Steering Group and help shape the Community’s activities.

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Title:

Gleichen's microscope

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

UK

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 6 May 2019 Julia Fallon

Seven years and still going - how we're improving the accuracy of rights statements in Europeana data

Data publication Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Data-quality Copyright Licensingframework Rightscampaign

Julia Fallon, Europeana Foundation’s Senior Policy Adviser, talks about what we’ve learned in the past seven years and how we’re bringing this into our work throughout 2019.

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Map from "Historical Researches on the wars and sports of the Mongols and Romans (...)"

Institution:

British Library

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 14 March 2019 Julia Fallon Paul Keller

We have updated the Data Exchange Agreement

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The Europeana Data Exchange Agreement (DEA) is the legal agreement that structures the relationship between Europeana and its data partners. In this post, we announce the publication of an updated version.

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Title:

SMK at 'Byens Hegn'

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CC BY

Publication Created: 7 February 2019 Julia Fallon

Making the case for impact at SMK

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions Impact Case-studies smk

The challenge to transform the artworks of Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK) from passive to active assets, a journey fuelled by digital transformation, began in 2012. Explore the process.

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Title:

Zuidgevel Rijksmuseum en Villa tijdens de verbouwing

Date:

2012-12-18

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

Publication Created: 6 November 2018 Julia Fallon

How the renovation of a world renowned art museum is inspiring a sector in digital transformation

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions Impact Case-studies Digital-transformation

Building on the Rijksmuseum's own impact assessment looking at the economic and social impact of a renovation, we've taken a look at what we can learn and how it starts to articulate the value of their digital strategy.

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Title:

Falbalas et Fanfreluches. Almanach des modes... Mlle Sorel au bal du grand prix

Creator:

George Barbier

Date:

1923

Institution:

Victoria and Albert Museum

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 3 August 2018 Julia Fallon Zuzana Malicherova

Introducing the Copyright Community

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If you’re interested in keeping up with how copyright works in the cultural heritage sector, or want to learn from best practices and even share your own, the Copyright Community is for you!

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Screenshot from RightsStatements.org website, CC0

Creator:

RightsStatements.org

Date:

2018

Institution:

DPLA and Europeana

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 8 June 2018 Julia Fallon

Multilingual rights statements - now available in German and Estonian

Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyrightcommunity Multilinguality Rightsstatements-org Europeanarightsstatement

RightsStatements.org provides 12 rights statements that can be used to describe digital cultural heritage items and all of them have now been translated into German and Estonian

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Title:

RightsStatements.org Business Plan 2018

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CC0

News Created: 13 March 2018 Julia Fallon

Developing the RightsStatements.org Consortium in 2018

Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Rightsstatements-org Business-plan

Today, the RightsStatements.org Consortium publish their 2018 Business Plan. To help you get to know the work of the Consortium, read on for a whistlestop introduction to the Consortium and their goals for 2018.

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Link to background image

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 1 March 2018 Julia Fallon

Can we achieve multilingual copyright information on Europeana?

Cultural Heritage Institutions Multilinguality Rightsstatements-org Copyright Europeanarightsstatement translation

Everyone should know what they can do with the works they discover through Europeana Collections. This is the basic premise that drives our work to help data partners apply the most appropriate rights statements to the objects they publish. What if we made the information we publish about copyright and reuse available in your native language? Would it make it easier for you to understand and share?

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Title:

Court in session from BL Harley 2681, f.2

Creator:

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Date:

1483

Institution:

British Library

Country:

UK

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 2 February 2018 Julia Fallon

62% of rights statements are accurate - together, we can improve on that

Advocacy Data standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyright Europeanarightsstatement Ipr

Recent research by Kennisland identified that 62% of content published via Europeana have accurate rights statements, and that there are common issues that lead to the 38% that are inaccurate.

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Title:

Venez voir le village et les spectacles des lilliputiens de Gnidley. Unique; troupe au monde

Institution:

Circus Museum

Country:

NL

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 26 January 2018 Julia Fallon

Looking ahead at impact: what’s in store for 2018

Cultural Heritage Institutions Impact impactTF2.0

Let's take a look at the year ahead, and how we are developing the impact toolkit: Building on the work in 2017 and the first release of the impact playbook, we'll be moving into a new gear to deliver the impact playbook 1.0, supported by lots more case studies, research and of course an impact task force.

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Creator:

Europeana

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Publication Created: 6 December 2017 Julia Fallon

Impact insights 2017

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions Impact Impacttoolkit

Read about how we tested the impact toolkit on Europeana and our partners to develop a better understanding of our impact in 2017.

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Creator:

Europeana

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Publication Created: 6 December 2017 Julia Fallon

Developing the impact toolkit

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions Impact Impacttoolkit

Read about the work behind the scenes developing the impact toolkit in 2017.

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Title:

Working through the empathy map and change pathway

Creator:

Harry Verwayen

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Blog Created: 18 October 2017 Julia Fallon Harry Verwayen

Introducing the Impact Playbook: the cultural heritage professionals’ guide to assessing your impact

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions Impact Impactassessmentframework

Learn more about the new methodology we have developed to help museums, libraries and archives manage their impact

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Cover of the Impact Playbook

Creator:

Europeana Foundation

Date:

October 2017

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Publication Created: 18 October 2017 Julia Fallon Harry Verwayen

Europeana Impact Assessment Playbook

Impact framework Cultural Heritage Institutions Impact Impacttoolkit

Download the playbook and start your impact assessment journey

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Blog Created: 5 September 2017 Julia Fallon

September update: extending the reach of rightsstatements.org, one country at a time

Advocacy Cultural Heritage Institutions Rightsstatements-org Europeanarightsstatement

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