Emily D’Alterio

Comms and External Relations

Former Editorial & PR Officer Europeana Foundation Netherlands

Emily is Europeana’s Editorial and PR Officer and Editor in Chief of the Pro blog. In her role she contributes to Europeana’s communications strategy and activities, and manages the planning, commissioning and editing of the Pro blog content.

Prior to working at Europeana, Emily was a senior editor for an educational book publisher in Melbourne, Australia. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Professional Communications (Journalism) and a Master’s degree in Editing and Publishing from Monash University, Melbourne.

Emily is a passionate book lover and word nerd. She collects early addition classics, and has lofty goals of founding Europeana’s first in-house book club.

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Europeana Romania Presidency event, Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC BY 2.0

News Created: 24 April 2019 Emily D’Alterio

Europeana event under the Romanian Presidency - supporting strong national infrastructures

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‘Europe’s large-scale digital transformation is a fact. Now is the time to make sure that the offline platforms and infrastructures supporting and driving digital transformation in the cultural heritage sector are as cemented as those online.’

Iași, Romania, (April 17-18) - Europeana brought together politicians, policymakers and professionals from across Europe, under the umbrella of the Romanian EU Presidency, to explore the next horizon of infrastructure needed to support digital cultural heritage.

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News Created: 29 March 2019 Emily D’Alterio

Women in culture and tech: Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society

Campaigns Digital-transformation Women European-commission Technology

On 18 January, Europeana, in collaboration with Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, opened the digital exhibition Pioneers in order to highlight the lives and achievements of historical European. Now that Women’s History Month is coming to a close, we’re excited to hear from Commissioner Gabriel once more, as she shares her vision for women in today’s digital world.

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Initiation? ceremony, Magdalenian. Nine partially clothed women and one young man.

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Wellcome Collection

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United Kingdom

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CC BY

News Created: 27 March 2019 Emily D’Alterio

A Season of Women in culture and tech: Scann, digital cultural heritage and copyright expert

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Today we interview Evelin Heidel (aka Scann) - academic and digital cultural heritage and copyright expert. She has some extremely powerful words in her hard-hitting response that doesn't shy away from critical topics such as the intersection of feminism and decolonisation, racism and sexism in copyright law, equal pay for equal work including a very pointed message on male privilege.

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Silvia listening to co-panelists during the first OpenGLAM conference in Mexico, photo by Omar Sansi, CC-BY-SA 4.0

News Created: 26 March 2019 Emily D’Alterio

Women in culture: Silvia Gutiérrez, digital humanities librarian

Collections Campaigns Women Technology

Today's woman in culture and tech is Silvia Gutiérrez De la Torre - a digital humanities Librarian at El Colegio de México. Silvia discusses following your passions and finding like-minded people (online and off) and the challenges of the 'economics of care' and the 'motherhood penalty'.

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Sandra Fauconnier, photo by Victor Grigas, CC BY-SA 4.0

News Created: 25 March 2019 Emily D’Alterio

Women in culture and tech: Sandra Fauconnier, art historian and GLAM project officer

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We hear from Europeana Network Association (ENA) member Sandra Fauconnier. She discusses the importance of building sustainable digital resources and the need to rethink traditional notions of leadership.

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News Created: 22 March 2019 Emily D’Alterio

Women in culture and tech: Petra Kammerevert, Member of European Parliament

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Today we speak with Petra Kammerevert - Member of the European Parliament and Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT). In her rousing interview, she discusses the barriers entrepreneurial women face and just why they are 'key to accelerating economic growth and social innovation'.

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News Created: 20 March 2019 Emily D’Alterio

Women in culture and tech: Medhavi Gandhi - leader in arts preservation and digital access

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Today we speak with Medhavi Gandhi, director of Happy Hands, an organisation that works on reviving traditional arts through building artisanal capacity and increasing youth/public access to folk arts, and founder of The Heritage Lab, a digital media platform for cultural heritage enthusiasts. She discusses the importance of female role models and the inherent strength of culture as a means of soft power.

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News Created: 18 March 2019 Emily D’Alterio

Women in culture and tech: Siobhan Leachman, Citizen scientist and wikimedian

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Today we speak with citizen scientist and Wikimedian Siobhan Leachman from her home office in New Zealand. She discusses the intricacies of curating data in Wikidata and contributing to Wikimedia Commons, as well and shedding some light on the challenges of 'imposter syndrome' and what it's like to live in a country where the top three leadership roles are filled by women.

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News Created: 13 March 2019 Emily D’Alterio

Women in culture and tech: Nora Al-Badri, media artist and activist

Collections Campaigns Women Media artist

Today we hear from renowned media artist Nora Al-Badri on the emancipatory powers of technology. Further, she discusses the importance of intersectional feminism and the challenges of producing art in a global society that values culture - but where this doesn't necessarily translate to financial freedom to the artists (especially women).

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News Created: 12 March 2019 Emily D’Alterio

Women in culture and tech: Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight, academic, Wikipedian and champion of 'impractical' girls

Collections Campaigns Women Wikipedia

Last week we introduced you to the content gender gap - and today we introduce you to someone whose initiatives, work and inspirations have added hundreds of thousands of female stories to the Wikipedia platform. Rosie Stephenson-Goodknight is the Vice-president of the Wikimedia District of Columbia, a Visiting Scholar to Northeastern University and on the Board of Advisors for Women in Journalism. We talk about filling the gaps in female history and fighting for girls with impractical dreams.

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Pressrelease Created: 8 March 2019 Emily D’Alterio

Europeana champions female innovators in digital and culture this International Women’s Day (March 8)

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Europeana calls on the cultural heritage and digital sectors to join the conversation in championing women in culture and tech.

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News Created: 8 March 2019 Emily D’Alterio

3 ways to be an activist on International Women's Day

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Want to get involved and show your support for gender parity this International Women’s Day? We’ve listed three key ways to get involved and show your support. So whether you are a woman in the sector or an ally - find out how you can advocate for women in culture and technology (all year round, but especially this March).

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News Created: 6 March 2019 Emily D’Alterio

Women in culture and tech: Isla Haddow-Flood and Florence Devouard of Wiki Loves Women

Collections Campaigns Women Technology

Today we hear from esteemed wiki leaders and Wikipedians Isla Haddow-Flood and Florence Devouard as they tackle the gender (digital) content gap and advocate for and promote the contributions of women and girls to our digital archives and media spaces.

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News Created: 4 March 2019 Emily D’Alterio

Women in culture and tech: Eva Fog, founder of tech organisation DigiPippi (and much, much more)

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In the lead up to International Women's Day (8 March), we speak with an expert in children, gender and IT, Eva Fog, who is a consultant, opinion leader, writer and educator. She is the Founder and Chairwoman of DigiPippi, an organisation which aims to bridge the gender gap in technology (oh, and WonderTech Summit Denmark's Role Model of the year 2018). We discover the importance of empowering girls in tech and why 'nice' and 'perfect' need to leave our professional vocabularies.

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Europeana Transcribathon Campus Berlin 2017, Sebastiaan ter Burg, CC BY 2.0

News Created: 22 January 2019 Emily D’Alterio

More than a buzzword: Why Transcribathon exemplifies the need for digital transformation (and just what that means!)

There has been a lot of buzz around digital transformation - but that doesn’t mean it’s a buzzword per se. Instead of offering to define the meaning of the word time and time again, we're committed to showing it in action. The Transcribathon Finale in Brussels showed this process of digitising once-analogue content - and more than that - offered a powerful way to connect past and present. We speak to competitors aged 16 to 86 about the significance of their contributions to remembering and preserving the past.

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Kaksi naisprofiilia (etualalla Marianne Preindelsberger)Netherlands

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Helene Schjerfbeck

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1881

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Finnish National Gallery

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CC0

News Created: 18 January 2019 Emily D’Alterio

A Season of Women in Culture and Technology

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Read about the launch of Women’s Season in collaboration with Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Digital Economy and Society, a leading campaigner for women in the digital sector. The Season is part of Commissioner Gabriel’s strategy to empower women and increase their participation in the digital economy. Women’s Season will culminate in March 2019 (with International Women’s Day celebrations on 8 March) and will highlight the achievements of both modern and historical women. Find out more, and how you can participate.

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Wilhelm Keefer in französischer Kriegsgefangenschaft - die Briefe | Gerhard Keefer

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1917-1920

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Europeana 1914-1918

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Netherlands

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Pressrelease Created: 27 November 2018 Emily D’Alterio

From the trenches to the web: World War One centenary event

Europeana brings its Centenary Tour Finale to the House of European History 27-28 November 2018.

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Pressrelease Created: 20 November 2018 Emily D’Alterio

Europeana 10 years on: It is time to be bold again

Europeana, Europe’s platform for digital cultural heritage, celebrates 10 years of digitising culture and challenges Europe to shape the next 10 with bold digital innovation.

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Raynaud's Phenomenon Thermal Vision Research

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Wellcome Collection

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United Kingdom

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CC BY

News Created: 19 November 2018 Emily D’Alterio

10 moments in 10 years of culture and technology

Cultural Heritage Institutions Culture lover Europeana10 Digital-transformation

In today’s article on the topic of 10, we look back at the last ten years of social, cultural and tech innovation, and draw parallels between the cultural zeitgeist and Europeana activities.

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FRAD071-162 Un couple franco-italien dans la Grande Guerre. | Marie BENEDICTI

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Europeana 1914-1918

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Netherlands

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CC0

News Created: 2 October 2018 Emily D’Alterio Sara Di Giorgio

Bringing culture back to the people: Transcribathon Italia

Cultural Heritage Institutions Culture lover Transcribathon Italy

We talk to Sara Di Giorgio about the importance of digitising cultural heritage as she organised Italy’s first transcribathon as a means of connecting people with their own heritage.

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