Frederik Truyen

Network Association Member

Professor Catholic University of Leuven Belgium, BE Academic Research

Prof. Dr. Frederik Truyen is professor at the Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven. He publishes on Digitization, Photography, and E-Learning. He is in charge of the mediaLab CS Digital. His research interests are mostly related to Digitization and Publishing of Cultural Heritage. He is involved in projects on Open Educational Resources and Open Learning (currently E-SLP), and on digitization of Cultural Heritage: IDEM, RICH, 3PI (Hercules funding), EuropeanaPhotography and Europeana Space (EC CIP), Europeana DSI (aggregator for photography) and Migration in the Arts and Sciences (EC CEF Generic services). He has experience in data modelling for Image databases in the cultural-historical field. President of PHOTOCONSORTIUM, the aggregator of Photography for Europeana, and member of DARIAH-VL.

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News Created: 27 September 2021 Frederik Truyen Georgia Evans

Professionals in Focus: Frederik Truyen

For ‘Professionals in Focus’, we speak to Europeana Network Association Members Councillors about their roles, working lives and plans for their time on the Council. This month, Frederik Truyen tells us about his career and work at KU Leuven and the recent work of the Europeana Education Community.