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.

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EuropeanaTech 2023

Title:
Save the date Europeana 2025
Date:
2024
Institution:
Europeana Foundation
Country:
Netherlands
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
PageCreated: 14 April 2020
Europeana 2025
Conference Event Webinars
Europeana 2025 will be held on 11-12 June 2025 during the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU. It will be organised in collaboration and partnership with the Ministry of Culture and the National Institute of Cultural Heritage, hosted by POLIN Museum in Warsaw.
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EuropeanaTech 2018

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:: Frost Fair on a Frozen River with Ships
Date:: 1773
Institution:: Rijksmuseum
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: Public Domain

Europeana and IIIF

Resources and information to support cultural heritage professionals to work with the International Image Interoperability Framework.

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 Community Work Plan

The EuropeanaTech Community is one of the Europeana Network Association's specialist communities. Explore their work plan for 2024.

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.

Meet the Steering Group

Henk Alkemade

Enterprise archtitect/ (Historic) Landscapes specialist

Independent

Members Council Member

Andrija Sagic

Head of Digitization Department

Milutin Bojić Library

Clemens Neudecker

Project Coordinator

Berlin State Library

Members Council Member

Georgia Angelaki

National Aggregator to Europeana Project Lead

National Documentation Centre, Greece

Advisory Board member

Johan Oomen

Head of Research and Development

Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision

Advisory Board member

Ina Blümel

Senior Scientist

German National Library of Science and Technology

Network Association Member

Cosmina Berta

Advisor for Project Management, Tools and Workflows

German Digital Library

Martin Weiss

Film Restorer / Senior Researcher

University of Zurich

Glen Robson

IIIF Technical Coordinator

IIIF

Tiziana Lombardo

Senior Project Manager

Net7 srl

Abdul Gafur Sk

International Society of Bengal Studies

Jill Cousins

CEO & Director

The Hunt Museum

Sonja Thiel

Curator & Researcher

AI & Museum

Juha Henriksson

Director

Music Archive Finland

Management Board Member

Gregory Markus

EuropeanaTech Community Manager

Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision

Antoine Isaac

R&D Manager

Europeana Foundation

Research and Development

Evelien Wolda

Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision

Latest news

Title:: Lady Hardinge Medical College and Hospital, Delhi: women working in a laboratory. Photograph, 1921.
Date:: 1921
Institution:: Wellcome Collection
Country:: United Kingdom
Copyright:: CC BY

Eight questions to women working in tech and digital cultural heritage

Created: 9 February 2024

International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February celebrates the important contributions which women make to science and technology. To mark the day, we are highlighting women across the Europeana Initiative who lead the way in tech, research and development in cultural heritage, asking them,‘What would you like to be asked about your work - and what is the answer?’

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Title:: EuropeanaTech 2023 visual - This collage is composed of three images. Check our event's page for detailed attribution
Creator:: Ana Moreno
Date:: 2023
Institution:: Europeana Foundation
Country:: 2023
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

Recordings from EuropeanaTech 2023 now live - relive the conference!

Created: 29 November 2023

We were delighted to welcome over 1,100 of you to EuropeanaTech 2023, which took place onsite and online for three exciting days in October. Look back on the conference with us and discover how you can access the recordings.

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Upcoming events

Title:: Dominika Čupková
Copyright:: CC BY-SA

4 December 2024
16:00 — 18:00
(CET) Online

Archival Images of AI - Launch and Playtest

This event - organised by AIXDESIGN - will launch of the Archival Images of AI (AIoAI) playbook.

Europeanatech Webinar Artificial-intelligence

EuropeanaTech Community

Who we are

What we do

Why join?

EuropeanaTech 2023

EuropeanaTech 2018

Activities and resources

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.

Meet the Steering Group

Henk Alkemade

Andrija Sagic

Clemens Neudecker

Georgia Angelaki

Johan Oomen

Ina Blümel

Cosmina Berta

Martin Weiss

Glen Robson

Tiziana Lombardo

Abdul Gafur Sk

Jill Cousins

Sonja Thiel

Juha Henriksson

Gregory Markus

Antoine Isaac

Evelien Wolda

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