Aisha Villegas

Outreach and Communications Coordinator Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision Netherlands Other

I'm a communications specialist at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. I'm currently collaborating on great EU projects to make more Cultural Heritage content largely available for everyone.

Blogposts

Title:

[Retrat en automòbil]

Creator:

Desconegut

Date:

1920/1930

Institution:

Girona City Council

Country:

Spain

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 15 February 2022

Going the 'eXXtra' mile: novel outreach routes to European audiences

Projects generic-services

The Europeana XX - Century of Change project has significantly expanded the high quality curated collections on Europeana focused on 20th-century content. The project also encouraged engagement with cultural heritage through novel editorial formats and outreach activities - read on to find out what it achieved.

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Title:

Eine Kochklasse mit lauter Burschen, die einen Fisch-Auflauf machen

Institution:

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek - Austrian National Library

Country:

Austria

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 29 October 2021

Engaging students with audiovisual heritage through Subtitle-a-thons

Projects Education audiovisual generic-services

A Subtitle-a-thon is a crowdsourcing initiative which invites the public to create and add subtitles to archival audiovisual clips from European heritage collections available on the Europeana website. We share how this tool can be used by educators to help students engage with and explore audiovisual heritage.

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Title:

Event banner for 'In Conversation with Mariya Gabriel.' New Astor Hotel and 20 story Times Building, New York, U.S.A.

Date:

1906

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 2 November 2020

In conversation with Commissioner Mariya Gabriel - Europeana XX Ambassador of Change

Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions projects digital-transformation education generic-services

The team behind the Europeana XX project shares insights from their recent interview with European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, one of the project’s Ambassadors of Change, who shared her thoughts on the opportunities and challenges facing the cultural heritage sector in the time of COVID-19.

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Title:

Reunió fejocistes

Creator:

Desconegut

Date:

1936

Institution:

Ajuntament de Girona

Country:

Spain

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 25 March 2020

Introducing Europeana XX - Century of Change

Collections Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions aggregation projects generic-services

In this post, we explore Europeana XX, a new Generic Services project focused on the 20th century and its social, political and economical changes as documented in photographs, videos, and works of art.

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