Aggregators work with cultural heritage institutions to gather authentic, trustworthy and robust data and make it accessible through Europeana. All Europeana aggregators are members of the Europeana Aggregators' Forum (EAF), a network of national, regional, domain and thematic aggregators who - among others - work to exchange the knowledge and best practice that supports aggregation and data sharing with Europeana.
Domain and thematic aggregators define their scope by cultural sector (such as museum, archive or library) or by topic and theme (such as fashion). They work with contributors based in different European countries.
National and regional aggregators define their scope by specific country or region. They work with contributors situated within that country or region.
Austria
Cultural heritage objects and research data from all periods of time
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Austria
Austrian digitised cultural heritage from museums, libraries, archives, university and non-university institutions, public and private institutions; all periods
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Croatia
All periods, all subjects
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Czech Republic
Mainly modern Czech literature (from 19th century until now)
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Estonia
Cultural heritage, scientific materials
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Greece
Various periods, subjects and types, ie archeology, art, ethnology, history, literature, etc
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Hungary
Hungarian cultural heritage, unique collections, virtual exhibitions
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Ireland
Irish contemporary and historical cultural heritage
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Latvia
Cultural-heritage content with historical value
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Lithuania
Books: Old Lithuanian books (1547-1863); Books from the press ban period (1864-1904); Books of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th-17th c. in Latin and Polish; Books from Lithuania Minor; Books in Lithuanian and other languages published in Lithuania
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Portugal
Bibliographic heritage from Portuguese Cultural Institutions
Learn moreThe Steering Group of the Europeana Aggregators’ Forum is made up of elected representatives from accredited aggregators and one representative of the Europeana Foundation.
Project Manager
Ministry of Culture
Europeana Aggregators' Forum Chair
APEF Manager
Archives Portal Europe
Metadata Coordinator
The British Library
Partner & Operations Manager
Europeana Foundation
Data Publishing Services
The Europeana Aggregators’ Forum organises regular events to show cultural heritage institutions how they can engage with and share their data with Europeana.
This event from the Europeana Aggregators' Forum explored aggregation and the data sharing process.
Discover the role of aggregators and cultural heritage institutions in collecting, maintaining and increasing discoverability of content in the context of the common European data space for cultural heritage.
Through Task Forces and Working Groups, the Europeana Aggregators’ Forum collaborates with other pillars of the Europeana Initiative to address key issues in the digital cultural heritage sector. Explore some below.
This Task Force aimed to build capacity for digital transformation across Europeana. It was a joint Task Force from the Europeana Foundation, Europeana Network Association and Europeana Aggregators’ Forum.
This Task Force will develop and manage a consultation on behalf of the Europeana Initiative to address Diversity and Inclusion across its operation.
This Working Group aims to support existing initiatives and develop new, concerted actions that respond to the current needs of the Ukrainian digital heritage sector. It is a joint Working Group from the Europeana Initiative.
This Working Group follows the first of the proposals from the Task Force Preparing Europeana for IIIF involvement.
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.
This Task Force (run by the Europeana Aggregators’ Forum) studies the feasibility of moving forward to decentralised (e.g. SOLID-based) aggregation.
Explore highlights from the Europeana Aggregators' Forum's activities in 2022.
Explore what the Europeana Aggregators' Forum has planned for 2022.
Explore highlights from the Europeana Aggregators' Forum's activities in 2021.
The Europeana Aggregators’ Forum enables cultural heritage institutions to share their content with Europeana and open it up to new audiences. We explore their activity highlights and achievements in 2020, and outline some of their priorities for 2021.
Earlier this year, the Hunt Museum published a case study which shared insights from their experience digitising items from their collections in 3D. Read on to hear about their experience and learn how objects digitised in 3D can form an important part of engagement strategies.
Europeana’s accredited aggregator for photography, Photoconsortium, has published two case studies which highlight the benefits that publishing cultural heritage data on Europeana has brought for two cultural heritage institutions.
