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Explore the latest news from the common European data space for cultural heritage, Europeana Initiative and cultural heritage sector as we work towards digital transformation.

Title:
Maskeradbal 14 april 1856. Oscar Björnsjerna och C F Piper bland övriga gäster. Akvarell av Fritz von Dardel.
Date:
1856
Institution:
Stiftelsen Nordiska museet
Country:
Sweden
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 9 December 2019 Ariadna Matas
Public Domain Day 2020 - how to get involved
Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative industries Publicdomain Open-access public-domain-day-2020
Europeana, together with cultural heritage institutions across the globe, is preparing to join the Public Domain Day celebrations in January. In this post, we look at the different ways cultural heritage institutions can get involved.
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Title:
Mikrofon
Creator:
Standard Telephone & Cables Ltd
Institution:
Tekniska museet
Country:
Sweden
Copyright:
CC BY
News Created: 5 December 2019 Antoine Isaac
Help build multilingual systems for digital cultural heritage
Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative industries Europeanatech Multilinguality
Access to digital cultural heritage across languages is a priority for the Europeana community and beyond, with a recent EU Presidency meeting in Helsinki highlighting why multilingualism is crucial for us and society. In this post, we explore some of the proposals for improving the multilingual aspects of the Europeana Collections portal and tell you what you can do to help build multilingual systems for digital cultural heritage.
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Title:
Lancelot from BL Royal 14 E III, f. 146
Date:
1300 - 1325
Institution:
British Library
Country:
United Kingdom
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 4 December 2019 Ariadna Matas Brigitte Vézina
Be part of the discussions on out of commerce works
Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative industries Copyrightcommunity Copyrightreform
Do you work at a cultural heritage institution with out of commerce works in its collection? Thanks to the the Out of Commerce Works Provisions in the European Copyright Directive adopted in May 2019, it will soon become much easier to share these with the public. But there are some details to be defined at the national level. In this post Ariadna Matas, Junior Policy Advisor at the Europeana Foundation, offers advice on how to get involved in the stakeholder dialogues on out of commerce works that should take place in every EU member state.
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Title:
Rita Tori.
Creator:
ukjent person
Date:
c. 1935
Institution:
Oslo Museum
Country:
Norway
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 2 December 2019 Marco Rendina
CrowdHeritage: a crowdsourcing platform for enriching Europeana metadata
Collections Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions Culture lover Generic-services Projects Crowdsourcing
The CrowdHeritage project aims to develop an effective web platform to encourage people to help enrich and validate selected cultural heritage metadata - a crucial concern for domain, thematic and national aggregators. In this post, the CrowdHeritage team give us an update on the platform and the project.
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Title:
Europeana Demo website
Creator:
Europeana Foundation
Date:
2019
Institution:
Europeana Foundation
Country:
Netherlands
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 28 November 2019
Introducing the new Europeana demo
Collections API Cultural Heritage Institutions Entities
We’ve known for a while that our collections website was due for an upgrade, and we’re finally ready to show you what we’ve been working on for the past few months. We’ve developed a demo of an updated Europeana website that is faster, easier to explore, and more accessible. We are excited to be sharing this with you. The final design has not yet been applied, but the demo will give you a good sense of what is coming and give you the chance to provide feedback.
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Title:
An armillary sphere (part.)
Date:
19th century
Institution:
Wellcome Collection
Country:
United Kingdom
Copyright:
CC BY
News Created: 28 November 2019 Alba Irollo
Announcing the winners of the Europeana Research Grants Programme 2019
Funding Cultural Heritage Institutions Academic Research Europeanaresearcheventgrants Grants-programme
It is with great pleasure that we announce the institutions and proposals awarded a Europeana research grant this year! Read on to find out more about the events that we will support in 2020.
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Title:
Maria Engberg
Creator:
Malmö University
Institution:
Malmö University
Country:
Sweden
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 26 November 2019 Maria Engberg Georgia Evans
Professionals in Focus: Maria Engberg, Senior Lecturer at Malmö University
Network Cultural Heritage Institutions Academic Research Members-council Research Professionals Sweden
In our ‘Professionals in Focus’ series, we speak to our Councillors about their roles, working lives and plans for their time on the Members Council. This month, Maria Engberg, Senior Lecturer at Malmö University, discusses building an interdisciplinary research environment and her enduring fascination with digital literature.
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Title:
Interior with Lace-Worker and a Visitor; Reading Aloud
Date:
1650 - 1668
Institution:
Rijksmuseum
Country:
Netherlands
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 25 November 2019 Karin Glasemann Ariadna Matas Brigitte Vézina
Insights from the Europeana Copyright Community survey
Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Copyrightcommunity Survey
The Copyright Community of the Europeana Network Association was surveyed to help gain a greater understanding of the key challenges professionals face around copyright and invite possible solutions.
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Title:
Italian Landscape with Umbrella Pines
Creator:
1807
Institution:
Rijksmuseum
Country:
Netherlands
Copyright:
Public Domain
News Created: 21 November 2019 Nicholas Jarrett
Europeana 2019: Building a sustainable event
Network Cultural Heritage Institutions Academic Research Creative industries Education Event Europeana2019 Agm2019 Climate-change Carbon-footprint
In recent years, the threat of climate change has been a topic of conversation around the world, and Europeana has been listening. We have organised our annual conference, Europeana 2019, with our planet in mind, and this post explores some of the decisions we’ve made to help create a more sustainable event.
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Title:
Finland’s Ministry of Culture and Education State Secretary Tuomo Puumala
Creator:
Sebastiaan Ter Burg
Date:
2019
Institution:
Europeana Foundation
Country:
Netherlands
Copyright:
CC BY
News Created: 19 November 2019 Beth Daley Shadi Ardalan
Next steps for multilingualism in digital cultural heritage
Data standards API Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative industries Europeanatech Multilinguality Presidency
Making Europeana Collections more multilingual is a priority and so we were delighted to take part in an event on 24-25 October with the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture and cultural heritage institutions on the topic of multilingualism. The two-day event at the Hanaholmen Culture Centre, Espoo, Finland, titled ‘Multilingualism in Digital Cultural Heritage - needs, expectations and ways forward’ was carried out under the umbrella of the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which is currently being hosted by Finland.
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Title:
The Culture Chatbot on the CulturaItalia website
Creator:
Culture Chatbot
Date:
2019
Institution:
Culture Chatbot
Copyright:
CC BY-SA
News Created: 18 November 2019 Pavel Kats Georgia Evans
The Culture Chatbot - engaging visitors with your collections
Collections Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative industries Projects
How can cultural heritage institutions use chatbots to engage visitors, help them find content and answer common questions? The Culture Chatbot project has been exploring these questions, and in this post Pavel Kats from the Jewish Heritage Network, the organisation behind the project, explains the work they have done so far and how you can benefit from their expertise.
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Title:
Transcribathon participants
Creator:
Ingrid Oentrich
Date:
2019
Institution:
Austrian National Library
Country:
Austria
Copyright:
CC BY
News Created: 15 November 2019 Georgia Evans
Enrich Europeana: launching the renewed Transcribathon platform
Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions Culture lover Generic-services Transcribathon Crowdsourcing Enrich-europeana
The Enrich Europeana platform aims to make it possible for users to transcribe and enrich a wide variety of digital heritage collections. In this guest post, Ting Chung of the Austrian National Library - a project partner in Enrich Europeana - gives us an update on the launch of the project’s new crowdsourcing tool for transcribing, annotating, and georeferencing historical documents.
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