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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!

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
(CET)
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
(CET)
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.

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
(CEST)
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. 

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.

Opening Up Google Books

Opening Up Google Books

Created: 11 May 2015

Like explorers cutting through the jungle, so digital humanists continue to slice through swathes of large sources of data, the so called 'big data'.

Some resources are already fully open online, in all sense of the words. The recent publication of transcribed data from TheTextCreationPartnershiponearlyEnglishlanguagetexts is a great example.

But many mass digitisation datasets are not quite as open, meaning they cannot be used in for text and data mining.

Found ! Researchers wanting to use Historic Newspapers

Found ! Researchers wanting to use Historic Newspapers

Created: 16 April 2015

A while back we put out a call for researchers to work with the Europeana Newspaper corpus. 

The call was hugely successful, demonstrating both the popularity of historic newspapers and the potential for exploiting that data in new ways.

Around 40 separate research projects got in touch and suggested different research questions and methodologies they would like to explore in greater depth.

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