Europeana releases its report of the makers market and sets out recommendations for our future approach to reaching this segment of the creative industries.
This is the third blog in a series dedicated to end-of-the-year festivities and highlighting Europeana content that can inspire festive creative reuse by makers.
This is the second blog in a series dedicated to end-of-the-year festivities and highlighting Europeana content that can inspire creative reuse by makers.
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Illustration created during the "Uncharted Territory" session, by graphic recorder Anne Lehmann.
Platsminnen (in Swedish “Place Memories”) is an iPad app that uses cultural heritage as a resource for reminiscence activities and communication in …
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Postcard by designer Willem Driebergen. Image credits: "A sheet showing optical instruments, eye examinations and anatomical diagrams of the eye with a numbered key", The Wellcome Library, CC BY.
The Chrome browser extension Art Up Your Tab shows you an enticing, inspiring painting or photograph from the rich collection of Europeana with every …
A collection of over 400 beautiful black-and-white images by Swedish photographer John Hertzberg (1871-1935). Provided by the Swedish National Museum …
A collection of almost 2,000 satirical drawings that portray the Dutch Labour Movement in the early 20th century. These public-domain marked artworks …
A collection of drawings illustrating plants and their ornamental applications during the famous Art Nouveau movement. Designers found inspiration in …
A collection of over 200 posters, sketches and drawings by celebrated post-impressionist artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Provided by the library of …
An extensive collection of over 13,000 photographs, postcards, posters, floor plans, and caricatures, documenting the development of the Swedish Air Force.
The Europeana Music Collection is a selected sub-set of items which uses multi-lingual, diverse, topic-based API query terms to surface diverse content on the theme of Europe's Music Heritage
The Europeana Art History Collection is a carefully selected sub-set of items which uses multi-lingual, diverse, topic-based terms to query the Europeana API
WUD is a customised search engine helping you to pull, link and organise data from two major cultural heritage repositories: Europeana and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
This tool, created for the Europeana Food & Drink project, allows users to supply a url for a Europeana page and generate an attribution snippet in either text or html
The EBSCO Discovery Service brings together a comprehensive collection of content from major collections and provides a full-featured, customisable discovery layer experience.
DPLA/Europeana Query from Spanish software company Digibis allows simultaneous searching of Europeana and DPLA and presents key object information in a clear and easy to use format
Australian artist Andy Thomas specializes in creating ‘audio life forms’: beautiful abstract shapes that react to sounds. In this animated short, he visualizes two recorded bird sounds from the archives of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
The aim of this site is to help you to find out who from particular country is delivering data to Europeana and which metadata aggregators are active in this country.
The Image Similarity Search tool is allowing users to navigate image repositories basing of the visual similarity of the content and using a text-free interaction.
Meath Heritage website allows you to discover over 3000 Monuments and Heritage sites in County Meath, Ireland. Through the integration of the Europeana API, users can now also explore related content from Europeana.
The collections of the Historical Museum Deventer and the Deventer Toy Museum, including more than 37,000 items of local art, toys, product packages and textile designs, as well as many other historical and archaeological artefacts.
An incredible collection of more than 33,000 (illuminated) manuscripts from the 4th century onwards, including pages from Leonardo da Vinci's notebook and illustrations for Mandeville's travels.
More than 14,000 contributions by users to the Wikimedia Commons' Wiki Loves Monuments project, showing Sweden's natural, architectural and historical monuments in all their beauty.
Over 27,000 black-and-white pictures from the collection of Malmö Museer, showing working life, daily activities, interior design and architecture in early 20th-century South Sweden (Skåne).
A rich collection of more than 20,000 historic photos preserved at various Lithuanian museums. Taken between 1838 and 1939, they depict scenes from village life and Lithuanian ethnography, as well as historical images of cities and architectural monuments.
More than 137,000 colour and black-and-white photographs documenting the diversity of Swedish church architecture, interiors, ritual objects, frescoes and all kinds of religious art.
More than 6,500 text posters from all parts pf the Austrian-Hungarian monarchy including the important Emperor manifestos, announcements managing mobilisation, administration and shortages with information on dates and places.
More than 37,000 photographs illustrating the Great War at the eastern and south eastern front, the back country and further areas of the former Monarchy.
A small collection of nearly 60 colour photographs of Swedish architectural or natural monuments, representing the outcome of a Wikimedia Sweden re-photography contest.
More than 3,500 historical documents relating to the history and collections of the University of Edinburgh - from illuminated manuscripts, anatomical drawings and honorific medals to personal letters, travel reports and student registers.
More than 150,000 portraits from the Austrian National Library including European and non-European regent dynasties, divided into categories like popes, emperors, kings, nobles, Austrian dukes and other kings.
More than 1,600 high-resolution Medieval manuscripts and parchment fragments with Latin texts in pdf format, ranging from breviaries and liturgical calendars to psalters, from the The Fragmenta Membranea Collection of The National Library of Finland.
More than 3,500 topographical recordings, images of cities, villages, buildings, architecture, landscapes and pictures of natural events from the areas of the former Austrian crown-lands, but also from modern day Germany, Italy, France, England, Spain, Switzerland and The Netherlands.
More than 30,000 black-and-white pictures showing occasions from everyday life in the Dutch city of Apeldoorn, from traditional holidays and official openings to groups of construction workers at their site.
More than 56,000 pictures and postcards showing the day-to-day life of the inhabitants of the Dutch city of Den Bosch - shops, houses, celebrations, local dignitaries and ice-skating parties.
More than 480,000 pictures (colour and black-and-white) of Dutch buildings of various kinds and different periods in time, from windmills and monasteries to train stations and shops.
More than 300 memorabilia and stories from Poland documenting the political and social changes in Central and Eastern Europe in the year 1989. Provided by Europeana 1989, which is a pan-European project concerning the changes related to what is commonly known as the fall of the Iron Curtain.
More than 300 memorabilia and stories from Lithuania documenting the political and social changes in Central and Eastern Europe in the year 1989. Provided by Europeana 1989, which is a pan-European project concerning the changes related to what is commonly known as the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Almost 200 memorabilia and stories from Latvia documenting the political and social changes in Central and Eastern Europe in the year 1989. Provided by Europeana 1989, which is a pan-European project concerning the changes related to what is commonly known as the fall of the Iron Curtain.
More than 90 memorabilia and stories from Estonia documenting the political and social changes in Central and Eastern Europe in the year 1989. Provided by Europeana 1989, which is a pan-European project concerning the changes related to what is commonly known as the fall of the Iron Curtain.
A collection of about 500 photographs (in colour) of buildings in Iceland, including regular houses, lighthouses, and churches, provided through CARARE. The dataset has very rich object descriptions in Icelandic.
Nearly 3,000 videos from the Open Images (Open Beelden) dataset of the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. The collection contains newsreels from the Polygoon collection and several other films on the Netherlands in the twentieth century. It contains historical news events, with topics such as art, culture, transportation, health and healthcare, nature, politics, sports, pets and fashion.
More than 5,000 historical photographs from the Netherlands covering a variety of subjects. Provided by the Gemeentearchief Gemert-Bakel via Digitale Collectie.
A collection of about 7,000 items from Bulgaria, provided through the Athena Plus project. The collection includes a large number of sketches in different styles, mostly showing people.
Around 400 items from two Estonian institutions via Athena. The Järvakandi Klaasimuuseum provides glass objects, while the Conservation Centre Kanut / Kadriorg Art Museum provides a variety of objects, including maps, photographs, documents, medals, tools.
More than 500 drawings, sketches, scribblings (b/w and colour, various techniques) of landscapes, with a focus on the UK but also other countries. Other items like architectural drawings are included too.
A collection of more than 30,000 images covering a diverse range of objects, including furniture, dishes, jewellery, fashion, cityscapes, packaging material, etc.
A collection of over 72,000 pictures of glassware such as bottles, glasses, vases and bowls. The collection also includes a large number of (technical) drawings of glassware.
A collection of 27 incunabula from Edinburgh. These books, printed before the year 1501, are among the most precious items in any library and Edinburgh University is privileged to have a significant collection of nearly 300 such books.
An ever-growing collection of over 185,000 medals, letters, postcards, pictures, diaries and other memorabilia brought together during the Europeana 1914-1918 roadshows.
More than 18,000 drawings and photographs of butterflies, birds, minerals and fossils, with additional scientific information on scanned labels. In English with scientific names.
A collection of more than 7,000 photographs and postcards from the late 19th and the beginning of the 20th century depicting the city of Girona and its inhabitants.
This collection of about 300 items is based around the architectural drawings of William Henry Playfair (1789-1857) and Robert Rowand Anderson (1834-1921).
A collection of around 500 archaeological artefacts such as jewellery, pottery, vases and statutes from the Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology. In Bulgarian.
A collection of around 1,000 drawings, prints and artworks of popes through the centuries and related documents. This is a subset of the Rijksmuseum dataset in Europeana.
Almost 600 examples of photographs, prints and posters from the Biblioteca Valenciana Digital. In Spanish. This dataset also contains photographs from Barcelona.
More than 75 paintings and drawings of flowers and animals from the collections of the Rijksmuseum. In Dutch. This is a subset of the Rijksmuseum dataset in Europeana.
More than 40,000 butterflies, moths, plants and mushrooms from the Natural History Museum at the University of Tartu. In English with Latin species names.
Europeana, Google's Niantic Labs and partner memory institutions in Austria, Sweden, Estonia and Poland have successfully completed a pilot project to integrate curated cultural content in Google's Field Trip app
Ajapaik (translated from Estonian to English as 'Timepatch') is a location based site inviting users to look around and add metadata to historical images. It also adds a social and competitive element, with points awarded for contributions made.
The Culture Collage MS Office App allows easy embedding of images, together with their associated descriptions and license information, directly into documents such as Powerpoint presentations.
Memory Match – Natural History Edition, is an educational game combining the classic memory game of finding pairs with a quiz game testing player’s knowledge of natural history.
The online portal of the Swedish National Heritage Board (SOCH) www.kringla.nu allows users to search in both the national heritage repository 'SOCH' and the Europeana repository presenting the search results in different tabs.
The National Library of Spain has implemented the Europeana API in their online portal, Biblioteca Digital Hispánica. The portal now enables their users to access related Europeana content via a single link on their search results header.
The Royal Museum for Central Africa in Belgium is one of Europeana's content providers. On their Plone powered website, they have made their contributed content searchable using the Europeana API.
This open source app allows search for images in multiple online collections, such as Europeana, New York Public Library, Library of Congress, California Digital Library, Digital Public Library of America, LIFE Magazine photo archive, National Library of Australia (Trove) and Flickr Commons.
The digital service of the National Library of New Zealand - Digital New Zealand (DigitalNZ) - uses the Europeana API (1.0) to harvest and locally store New Zealand-related Europeana records in their own aggregation.
PATHSenrich is web service prototype developed by PATHS project which allows independent content providers to enrich their cultural heritage at item level.