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Research

The digital transformation of Europe’s cultural heritage institutions makes varied and valuable resources available to researchers, professors and university students. We connect academia with cultural heritage institutions, and support heritage professionals in working with researchers. We encourage the development of skills to embrace digital change in research and new ways of teaching and learning at university. We nurture forms of community engagement involving non-professional researchers. 

Through this page, explore resources to support these activities and find out more about how you can collaborate with Europeana Research. For any enquiries, contact Alba Irollo.

Europeana data reuse in academia and research

Join our new webinar series

As we enter the third year of the common European data space for cultural heritage, and as universities across Europe inaugurate the new academic year, Europeana Research is thrilled to launch a series of webinars on Europeana data reuse for Higher Education and Research!

Resulting from the close and consistent collaboration with our data space partner DARIAH and the ENA Research Community, these webinars build on real-world experience and strengthen our commitment to empowering academia professionals and university students with the knowledge and tools to reuse cultural heritage data.

You will have the opportunity to explore the potential of Europeana data from three different perspectives, with:

  • the technical experts who operate behind the scenes of Europeana.eu;
  • colleagues at DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities), which is a strong point of reference for digital scholarship and digital humanities in Europe;
  • representatives from a community of practice which makes the most of cultural heritage data opening new frontiers of experimentation in academic teaching and learning.

Who should attend?

Faculty members, researchers, university students, data stewards, (digital) librarians and cultural heritage domain experts who support academic and research communities in their daily practice.

Explore and register for the webinars below!

How to search data on Europeana.eu: from the website to the Search API
Title:
Europeana 2022 - making digital culture count
Creator:
Sebastiaan ter Burg
Date:
2022
Institution:
Europeana Foundation
Country:
Netherlands
15 October 2024
15:00 — 16:00 Online

How to search data on Europeana.eu: from the website to the Search API

Join the first webinar in the 'Europeana data reuse in academia and research' webinar series, focusing on tips and good practices to search Europeana data using the Europeana website and the Search API. 

DARIAH Campus courses on digital cultural heritage: a path through cultural heritage data, data modelling and Europeana APIs
Title:
Europeana 2022 - making digital culture count
Creator:
Sebastiaan ter Burg
Date:
2022
Institution:
Europeana Foundation
Country:
Netherlands
12 November 2024
15:00 — 16:00 Online

DARIAH Campus courses on digital cultural heritage: a path through cultural heritage data, data modelling and Europeana APIs

Join the second webinar in the 'Europeana data reuse in academia and research' webinar series, focusing on the DARIAH Campus. The series is organised by Europeana Research.

Experiences from the Europeana Research Community: data science and reuse of Europeana data at Leiden University
Title:
Europeana 2022 - making digital culture count
Creator:
Sebastiaan ter Burg
Date:
2022
Institution:
Europeana Foundation
Country:
Netherlands
3 December 2024
15:00 — 16:00 Online

Experiences from the Europeana Research Community: data science and reuse of Europeana data at Leiden University

Join the third webinar in the 'Europeana data reuse in academia and research' webinar series, focusing data science and reuse of Europeana data at Leiden University. The series is organised by Europeana Research.

Tools and knowledge

Access the tools, documentation and case studies we have developed to support researchers and academics who work with digital cultural heritage.

APIs
Title:
Spents.
Creator:
Lövqvist, Albin
Institution:
Länsmuseet Gävleborg
Country:
Sweden

APIs

Europeana APIs allow you to build applications that use the wealth of our collections drawn from the major museums and galleries…

Activities

Datasets on other platforms

In close collaboration with the Europeana Foundation’s technical colleagues, Europeana Research works to make our data available across different platforms with the aim to bring them closer to academia and research. Explore some examples below.

CLARIN Virtual Language Observatory

Through the Virtual Language Observatory, researchers can explore the language resources made available within the CLARIN research infrastructure and reuse them in combination with a variety of tools. It aims to provide an easy-to-use interface which facilitates a uniform search and discovery process for many resources. Thanks to CLARIN’s long standing contribution to the Europeana’s infrastructure, users can find a selection of Europeana datasets on the Virtual Language Observatory which are relevant to research based on language resources. Discover the dataset.

SSHOC

The Social Sciences & Humanities Open Marketplace is a discovery portal which pools and contextualises resources for Social Sciences and Humanities research communities: tools, services, training materials, datasets, publications and workflows. The Europeana dataset is discoverable via the SSH Open Marketplace. Discover the dataset.

European Open Science Cloud

The European Open Science Cloud, or EOSC, is an environment for hosting and processing research data to support EU science. Europeana’s APIs are accessible through EOSC’s Portal Catalogue and Marketplace, an integrated platform that allows access to resources for various research domains along with integrated data analytics tools. Discover the dataset.

Data.europa.eu

Data.europa.eu is the official portal for European data, managed by the Publications Office of the EU. It aims to collect the metadata of public sector information available on public data portals across Europe. Europeana has published its metadata and APIs on data.europa.eu. Discover the dataset. 

Research grants programme

Partnerships and collaborations

To build capacity across the sector, we build partnerships and collaborate closely with established research infrastructures and take part in relevant projects. Explore them below.

Board

Meet the experts in digital humanities who help us grow and strengthen our research services.

Community

Join our dedicated community for professionals interested in cultural heritage as a subject and a source for research

Latest news

Keep up to date with the latest news, policies and good practice around for researchers and academics in cultural heritage.

How to bring digital cultural heritage to 3D design and virtual reality
Title:
V4Design booth at Digital Assembly in Sofia in June 2018
Creator:
V4Design
Date:
2018

How to bring digital cultural heritage to 3D design and virtual reality

Created: 12 November 2018

As the technological capabilities to digitise cultural objects in 3D increases, so too does the value of these data sources for architects, designers, and video game creators. The real challenge lies in making 3D cultural heritage easily accessible and reusable for those audiences. That is precisely the challenge that the V4Design project is taking on.

Culture, impact and artistic expression in the digital transformation of society: Lessons from Professor Pier Luigi Sacco
Title:
Pier Luigi Sacco at A Vision for European Cultural Heritage 2025, May 2018, Varna, Bulgaria
Creator:
Sebastiaan ter Burg
Date:
May 2018
Institution:
Europeana Foundation
Country:
The Netherlands

Culture, impact and artistic expression in the digital transformation of society: Lessons from Professor Pier Luigi Sacco

Created: 9 October 2018

We discuss cultural heritage and impact with acclaimed professor of Cultural Economics and Deputy Rector for International Relations at IULM University, Milan, Pier Luigi Sacco - a self-proclaimed optimist who vividly illustrates the potential of free expression and unbridled content creation in the digital transformation of society.

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