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Europeana 2022

Europeana 2022 will take place from 28 - 30 September 2022. It will be a hybrid conference, and we hope to welcome cultural heritage professionals from around the world both in person, to the KB, National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague, and digitally. We aim to explore how we can collaboratively build a common data space for cultural heritage and raise voices from across the sector to empower digital transformation and explore the role digital cultural heritage plays in today’s and tomorrow’s world.

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Call for proposals

The call for proposals for Europeana 2022 is now open! Find out more about the themes and process for applying through our Call for Proposals page and apply through the form below. The deadline has been extended to 10 June 2022.

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Watch sessions from Europeana 2021

Europeana 2021 took place from 10 -12 November 2021. It aimed to raise voices from across the sector to empower digital transformation and explore the role digital cultural heritage plays in supporting a sustainable, responsible and inspiring cultural heritage sector for today and tomorrow. Explore the conference - and get excited about Europeana 2022! - through the sessions below.

Keynotes

Title:: Yvo Volman
Institution:: Europeana Foundation
Country:: The Netherlands
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Towards a common data space for cultural heritage

In this keynote from Europeana 2021, Yvo Volman discusses the potential of a common data space for cultural heritage, followed by a panel discussion on the topic of putting values at the heart of Europe's digital future.

Title:: George Oates
Institution:: Europeana Foundation
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Coming of age in the Digital Decade: A 17 year old software company and what it means to look ahead

In this keynote from Europeana 2021, George Oates explores the case of Flickr, as it reaches 17 years old. The talk is followed by a panel discussion on the topic of putting values at the heart of Europe's digital future.

Title:: Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović
Institution:: Europeana Foundation
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Call to action for a more sustainable, inclusive and beautiful Europe

In this keynote from Europeana 2021, Sneška Quaedvlieg-Mihailović explores how cultural heritage can help shape a more sustainable, inclusive and beautiful future, followed by a Q&A and panel session on sustainable digital transformation.

Title:: Pier Luigi Sacco
Institution:: Europeana Foundation
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Cultural participation, digital technologies and transformational social change

In this keynote from Europeana 2021, Professor Pier Luigi Sacco shines a light on cultural production and participation, followed by a Q&A and panel session around using technology to drive social change.

Day one parallel sessions

Title:: Personer
Creator:: Neupert, Herman Christian
Institution:: Norsk Folkemuseum
Copyright:: Public Domain

A New Open GLAM Program at Creative Commons

This workshop from Europeana 2021 explores Creative Commons’ Open GLAM Program, which will build a coordinated global effort to help GLAMs make the content they steward openly available.

Title:: Gyárlátogatás a telefongyárban
Creator:: Bauer Sándor
Date:: 1955
Institution:: Fortepan
Country:: Hungary
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Cultural heritage hackathons in the realm of all-digital solutions

This session from Europeana 2021 explores the impact and future of hackathons.

Title:: Collage of Michael Culture projects
Creator:: Lucie Bertaut
Institution:: Michael Culture Association
Copyright:: CC BY

Culture heritage supporting creative and critical thinking in education

This session from Europeana 2021 explores projects which engage students and young people with digital cultural heritage.

Title:: Composition
Creator:: Dimitar Buyuklinski
Institution:: Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Country:: Bulgaria
Copyright:: CC BY

Digital heritage tools for the common good

This session from Europeana 2021 explores how cultural heritage institutions can assess the public value of the tools they use.

Title:: Coral tree in blossom
Creator:: Gallen-Kallela, Akseli
Institution:: Finnish National Gallery
Country:: Finland
Copyright:: CC0

Editorial and engagement with Europeana

This session from Europeana 2021 describes Europeana’s editorial and engagement activities, formats and campaigns.

Title:: 2016 Breakdance session
Creator:: Polana Kumelji
Institution:: Culture.si Photo Library
Country:: Slovenia
Copyright:: CC BY-NC

Hack4OpenGLAM

This session from Europeana 2021 explores the Hack4OpenGLAM co-creation initiative.

Title:: Large mathematical audience
Institution:: State Polytechnic Museum
Country:: Ukraine
Copyright:: Public Domain

Online teaching and learning with digitised collections in Higher Education contexts

This session from Europeana 2021 explores how digitised collections can be used for teaching and learning post-pandemic.

Title:: Persfoto Olympische Zomerspelen 1928 Amsterdam, 1111 100 meter - finish 14e heat met Bracey USA en Auvergne FRA, Algemeen Fotobureau (Ltd.) Amsterdam 1928
Creator:: Algemeen Fotobureau (Ltd) Amsterdam
Date:: 1928-08-12
Institution:: The Dutch Olympic Committee, Dutch Sports Federation
Country:: The Netherlands
Copyright:: Public Domain

OpenGLAM translation sprint (multilinguality)

This session from Europeana 2021 introduces a translation sprint to translate key documents which support the OpenGLAM movement.

Title:: Image obtained from https://glamers.eu/
Copyright:: CC0

Rethinking GLAM future through youth engagement with digitised heritage collections

This session from Europeana 2021 looks at digital transformation, collaboration, and resource sharing in relation to young people’s engagement with digitised collections.

Title:: Image obtained from inDICEs
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

The evolution of cultural participation. Embracing digital trends and cultural participation and production

This session from Europeana 2021 explores the impact which cultural heritage institutions’ focus on digital and digitalisation has had on digital users.

Title:: Europeana 2014 - 2018 collection days in Poznan Poland
Date:: June 2016

Transcription and enrichment of historical documents

This session from Europeana 2021 explores how we can make historical documents more searchable and accessible.

Day two parallel sessions

Title:: Emissive

Boosting engagement with collaborative XR

This session from Europeana 2021 explores how museums have approached new, immersive technologies like virtual reality.

Title:: Hawaiian bobtail sqiud
Creator:: Microscopic solutions
Institution:: Wellcome Collection
Country:: United Kingdom
Copyright:: CC BY-NC

Bridging the collaboration gap

This session from Europeana 2021 explores collaboration by looking at FAIR data integration.

Title:: Study of Cut Down Trees
Creator:: Scheidlin, Friedrich Carl von
Date:: 1881
Institution:: Slovak national gallery
Country:: Slovakia
Copyright:: Public Domain

Carbon footprinting in cultural institutions

This session from Europeana 2021 offers guidance about how to measure the carbon footprint of your own institution.

Title:: WEAVE slide using image Jongetje in de rokken met druivenboezel
Date:: 1925 - 1935
Institution:: Zuiderzeemuseum
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Connecting heritage with cultural communities: the WEAVE project

This session from Europeana 2021 explores how we can preserve the tangible and intangible heritage of cultural communities.

Title:: Worldwild Wall
Institution:: Associazione culturale GoTellGo
Country:: Italy
Copyright:: CC BY

Fostering Diversity and Inclusion in Europeana: lessons and opportunities after a year of D&I work

In this session from Europeana 2021, we hear from members of the internal Diversity and Inclusion cross-team at the Europeana Foundation.

Title:: Shall I dance?
Creator:: Knopperts, Harry
Date:: 1977
Institution:: Deventer Museums
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

How do you put your visitors into your stories?

In this session from Europeana 2021, the UK National Archive shares learnings from a participatory project that reflects their public engagement mission: to make a programme that is inclusive and accessible for all.

Title:: Birch trees
Creator:: Kézdi-Kovács, László
Date:: 1909
Institution:: Slovak national gallery
Country:: Slovakia
Copyright:: Public Domain

How to green your CHI

This session from Europeana 2021 shows how your organisation can help make a difference with climate action.

Title:: Slide from presentation 'how to make people feel heard and welcomed'
Creator:: Alice Orru
Copyright:: CC BY

How to make people feel heard and welcomed

This session from Europeana 2021 explores what inclusive language is and why it is important in our communications.

Title:: Let's impact - digital storytelling and gaming towards a sustainable future title slide
Copyright:: CC BY

Let’s Impact! - Digital storytelling and gaming towards a sustainable future

This session from Europeana 2021 explores how digital storytelling can be used to engage audiences with sustainability.

Title:: Screenshot of OCCAM presentation
Date:: 2021
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

OCCAM: a tool for OCR & Machine Translation for Europeana items

This session from Europeana 2021 explores the ‘OCCAM’ tool, which provides a workflow for making items on Europeana available in a machine-readable format (OCR).

Day three parallel sessions

Title:: Yoga practice
Institution:: Thermal Vision Research Wellcome Collection
Country:: United Kingdom
Copyright:: CC BY

Accessible tangible user interfaces in eXtended reality experiences for cultural heritage

This session from Europeana 2021 explores Tangible User Interface systems, which allow people to interact with digital information through the physical environment.

Title:: Lauron III
Date:: 1999
Institution:: Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum
Country:: Germany
Copyright:: CC BY-NC-SA

AI in Archives: I Trust AI Sets a Grand Scene

This session from Europeana 2021 explores how artificial intelligence can be used to deepen research, innovation and education in digital cultural heritage.

Title:: Villa lagarina
Creator:: paolo monti
Institution:: Fondazione Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura
Country:: Italy
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Capturing contentiousness in historical newspapers

This session from Europeana 2021 explores how crowdsourcing can support cultural heritage institutions in addressing contentious terminology in their collection data.

Title:: Woman at the Virginal
Date:: 1630 - 1640
Institution:: Rijksmuseum
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: Public Domain

Enhancing visitors’ experience through musical archives

This session from Europeana 2021 explores how virtual reality can support engagement with archival music collections.

Title:: חברת בזק.
Creator:: Simionski, Israel
Date:: 1988
Institution:: National Library of Israel
Country:: Israel
Copyright:: CC BY

How to measure the carbon footprint of your website

This session from Europeana 2021 explores how to measure the carbon footprint of your digital services and how you can avoid or reduce carbon emissions elsewhere.

Title:: Living Proof
Creator:: Jen Davies
Country:: Scotland

Living Proof: a climate story

This presentation from Europeana 2021 explores how we can use our moving image heritage to explore climate change and crisis.

Title:: Geheugen van Nederland logo
Institution:: Geheugen van Nederland
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Memory of The Netherlands - bringing digital cultural heritage to the public

This session from Europeana 2021 explores an innovative approach to engaging the public with cultural heritage content.

Title:: Fish swimming. Colour woodcut, 18--.
Institution:: Wellcome Collection
Country:: United Kingdom
Copyright:: CC BY

New storytelling formats in the Europeana stage

This session from Europeana 2021 explores how we can tell engaging online stories about cultural heritage collections.

Title:: Träsnitt, Bildkonst, Woodblock, Print, Woodcut
Creator:: Ma Yali
Institution:: Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities
Country:: Sweden
Copyright:: CC BY

Things that talk: telling stories with linked cultural heritage objects

This session from Europeana 2021 explores a platform which supports engagement with students while sharing objects from cultural heritage collections.

Title:: Auld reekie retold Transcription and tribulations Europeana 2021 title slide
Institution:: Museums and Galleries Edinburgh
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Transcription and tribulations: digital volunteering

This session from Europeana 2021 explores how cultural heritage institutions can involve volunteers in digital projects.