EuropeanaTech Community

Who we are

EuropeanaTech is the community of experts, developers, and researchers from the R&D sector within the greater Europeana Network Association.

What we do

We coordinate research and development endeavors that seek to improve the standing of European digital cultural heritage and facilitate knowledge across the sector at large.

Why join?

Network and collaborate with multidisciplinary technical professionals from around the world in Europeana’s largest digital cultural heritage community
Contribute to the forefront of digital cultural heritage through proposing and participating in EuropeanaTech Task Forces
Engage in discussion on our EuropeanaTech mailing list with over 1,000 other heritage technical professionals
Share your work through blogs or tackle bigger topics through our own publication, EuropeanaTech Insight.

Join our Community through the Europeana Network Association

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Activities and resources

Title:: View of Haarlem with Bleaching Grounds
Creator:: Jacob van Ruisdael
Date:: Circa 1675
Institution:: Mauritshuis
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: Public Domain

R&D recommendations

Research and development recommendation reports produced as outcomes of activites of the EuropeanaTech special interest community.

Title:: Der Circus auf den Sie warten! Brumbach sehen heisst den Pulsschlag der Welt erleben
Institution:: Circus Museum
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

EuropeanaTech Insight

A multimedia publication about R&D developments by the EuropeanaTech Community

Title:: The Luxembourg Gardens, Paris
Creator:: Albert Edelfelt
Date:: 1887
Institution:: Finnish National Gallery
Country:: Finland
Copyright:: CC BY

Data and Multilinguality

This case study shows how to provide multilingual data in EDM.

Title:: Sonata No. 6 (Sonata of the Stars). Allegro. Andante
Creator:: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Date:: 1908
Institution:: M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art
Country:: Lithuania
Copyright:: Public Domain

EuropeanaTech Work Plan 2023

The EuropeanaTech Community is one of the Europeana Network Association's specialist communities. Explore their work plan for 2023.

Task Forces

As a member of EuropeanaTech you can lead the way by contributing to or proposing Task Forces centred around a specific area. Explore our Task Forces below.

Title:: 9 artworks depicting the brain
Creator:: Sarah Grice
Institution:: Wellcome Collection
Country:: United Kingdom
Copyright:: CC BY

AI in relation to GLAMs

This Task Force investigated the role and impact of artifical intelligence in the digital cultural heritage domain, especially with regards to collections analysis and improvement.

The final recommendation

Title:: The Women of Rome Gathering at the Capitol
Date:: c.1600 - c.1602
Institution:: Rijksmuseum
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: Public Domain

3D Content in Europeana

This Task Force focused on increasing the support for 3D cultural heritage in Europeana and the availability of this content for use in education, research and in the creative industries.

The final recommendation

Title:: Fishs Seller
Institution:: eSbírky
Country:: Czech Republic
Copyright:: CC BY

Interoperability of annotations and user sets

This Task Force aims to foster interoperability across the applications and projects in the Europeana context that produce, publish and/or consume annotations and user sets.

The final recommendations.

EuropeanaTech Insight

Title:: Still Life with Fish and Fruit
Date:: 1652
Institution:: Rijksmuseum
Country:: The Netherlands
Copyright:: Public Domain

Issue 17: Multilinguality

Created: 13 January 2021

In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight, the EuropeanaTech publication, we present three articles related to multilingual access of digital cultural heritage material.

Title:: A man reading a newspaper on a cafe terrace
Date:: 1930
Institution:: Wellcome Collection
Country:: UK
Copyright:: CC BY

Issue 16: Newspapers

Created: 16 October 2020

In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight we spotlight work being done around the world with regards to the digitization and presentation of historical newspapers online.

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More issues

Meet the Steering Group

Henk Alkemade

Enterprise archtitect/ (Historic) Landscapes specialist

Independent

Members Council Member

Chair - EuropeanaTech community

Georgia Angelaki

National Aggregator to Europeana Project Lead

National Documentation Centre, Greece

Advisory Board member

Network Association Member

Andrija Sagic

Head of Digitization Department

Milutin Bojić Library

Co-Chair - EuropeanaTech community

Antoine Isaac

R&D Manager

Europeana Foundation

Research and Development

Clemens Neudecker

Project Coordinator

Berlin State Library

Members Council Member

David Haskiya

Head of Unit, Digital encounters, Former CPO, Europeana Foundation

Swedish National Archives

Advisory Board member

Stephan Bartholmei

Head of Product Management

FITKO - Föderale IT-Koordination

Gregory Markus

EuropeanaTech Community Manager

Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision

Makx Dekkers

Independent Information Professional

Independent

Larissa Borck

Curator – Digital development

Sörmland Museum

Members Council Member

Cosmina Berta

Advisor for Project Management, Tools and Workflows

German Digital Library

Members Council Member

Marco Streefkerk

Information manager | Cultural Entrepreneur

Anne Frank Museum

Glen Robson

IIIF Technical Coordinator

IIIF

Martin Weiss

Film Restorer / Senior Researcher

University of Zurich

Marloes Bontje

Junior project manager

Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision

Tiziana Lombardo

Senior Project Manager

Net7 srl

Abdul Gafur Sk

International Society of Bengal Studies

Latest news

Title:: Sonata No. 6 (Sonata of the Stars). Allegro. Andante
Creator:: Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Date:: 1908
Institution:: M. K. Čiurlionis National Museum of Art
Country:: Lithuania
Copyright:: Public Domain

EuropeanaTech Work Plan 2023

Created: 31 January 2023

The EuropeanaTech Community is one of the Europeana Network Association's specialist communities. Explore their work plan for 2023.

Network europeanatech

Title:: RCA Studio B with Historic Marker
Creator:: Brent Moore
Date:: March 28, 2015
Copyright:: CC BY-NC

Preserving aural heritage, starting with historic recording studios in Nashville’s Music Row

Created: 20 December 2022

‘Heritage acoustics’ and the preservation and presentation of historic acoustic environments is a growing field of research within cultural heritage. Discover the role that it plays in American music heritage - part of a EuropeanaTech focus.

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