Gregory Markus

EuropeanaTech Community Manager Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision Netherlands Other

Member of EuropeanaTech Community

Blogposts

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EuropeanaTech 2023 collage. This collage is composed of three images. Check our event's page for detailed attribution

Creator:

Ana Moreno

Date:

2023

Institution:

Europeana Foundation

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 25 April 2023

Submit your proposal for EuropeanaTech 2023 - Explore, Engage, Experience: cultural heritage in the data space and beyond

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The fourth EuropeanaTech Conference will be held in The Hague, The Netherlands, 10-12 October 2023. We are delighted to launch the call for proposals for the conference - read on to discover the themes for this year and how to apply.

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Title:

Stereobild med motiv av katedralen Notre Dame, Paris.

Creator:

Édit, Hélaine

Date:

1860-01-01

Institution:

Tekniska museet

Country:

Sweden

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 8 December 2022

Exploring the importance of heritage acoustics with EuropeanaTech

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‘Heritage acoustics’ and the preservation and presentation of historic acoustic spaces is a growing field of research within cultural heritage. EuropeanaTech Community Manager Greg Markus introduces us to the topic.

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Title:

Healthy adult human brain viewed from the side, deep dream

Creator:

Henrietta Howells, NatBrainLab

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 4 March 2021

Exploring AI in the cultural heritage sector

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With lowered barriers to access and the development of new practices for Artificial Intelligence (AI), it’s no surprise that AI-related activities in the cultural heritage sector are increasing. EuropeanaTech Community Manager Gregory Markus introduces a Europeana Pro news theme on the topic!

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Title:

Mandarin orange, axial view, MRI

Creator:

Alexandr Khrapichev, University of Oxford

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 24 February 2021

Impact Assessment Report: EuropeanaTech and IIIF

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This report explores the impact that the EuropeanaTech community and Europeana Initiative have on the implementation and development of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF).

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Paper making machine: a schematic side elevation (top), and a bird's-eye view (below), both lettered for a key. Engraving.

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Publication Created: 29 January 2021

EuropeanaTech Community work plan 2021

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The EuropeanaTech Community is one of the Europeana Network Association's six specialist communities. Explore their work plan for 2021.

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f. 136, displayed as an open bifolium with f. 137v: sketches, diagrams and musical notation from BL Arundel 263

Creator:

Leonardo da Vinci

Date:

1478 - 1518

Institution:

The British Library

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 8 January 2021

Announcing the EuropeanaTech Challenge for Europeana Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning datasets

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EuropeanaTech is excited to invite proposals for the assembly of Artificial Intelligence/ Machine Learning (AI/ML) datasets drawn from the extensive collections on the Europeana website. Two proposals will be selected to receive a financial stipend of €2,500 each, to support the production, documentation and publication of the datasets.

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Title:

Surveyors from "Travels in Africa during the years 1875-1878 (1879-1883-1882-1886) ... Translated from the German by A. H. Keane ... Illustrated"

Creator:

Chapman & Hall

Date:

1890-1892

Institution:

The British Library

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 18 September 2020

Task Force publishes artificial intelligence in GLAMs survey results

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As part of our ‘Strategy in motion’ series, Gregory Markus updates us on the EuropeanaTech AI in relation to GLAMs Task Force, which has just published the results of a survey of artificial intelligence (AI) in the digital cultural heritage domain.

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Title:

Instrument

Creator:

General Radio Co

Institution:

Tekniska museet

Country:

Sweden

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 3 August 2020

Interoperable access for audiovisual collections - exploring Avalon Media System

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The Europeana Media player brings Europeana into a new era of IIIF compatible, interoperable and unified playout of audiovisual heritage material online. It builds on the work undertaken over the past ten years by the Avalon Media System and IIIF, and this post with EuropeanaTech takes a look at the history and growth of Avalon Media System.

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Title:

Scores

Creator:

Sander Molenaar

Date:

2019

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 28 August 2019

Resampling archival recordings as electronic music. Listen in with RE:VIVE

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Rounding out our series on digital storytelling, Gregory Markus, Project Leader at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, lets us listen in on their latest projects. Via the RE:VIVE initiative, they’re reusing cultural heritage material to make electronic music that brings sounds and memories of the past to current audiences.

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Title:

Maranta leuconeura E.Morren

Date:

2019-03-11

Institution:

Meise Botanic Garden

Country:

Belgium

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 14 May 2019

ABCD Schema update to improve natural history data

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This February, the Access to Biological Collections Data (ABCD) Schema released ABCD 3.0. Mareike Petersen from the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin explains more about the motivations for the expansion, what’s changed, how it’s been received by the community and what’s next for this two-decade old Schema describing our natural heritage.

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Laura Agnusdei and Lauge Dideriksen

Creator:

Pieter Kiers

News Created: 18 April 2019

Tech and music - forever and always the perfect couple

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At Rewire Festival in The Hague on March 29th, the Instrumental Shifts Symposium, organised by The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision’s RE:VIVE initiative explored the intersections of AI R&D related to music and its impact on the creative sector. EuropeanaTech community manager and RE:VIVE founder, Gregory Markus, wears both of his hats and explains why these meetings are so valuable for both ends of the spectrum.

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Illustration by L. da Vinci on theories of vision. | Leonardo da Vinci, Wellcome Collection, CC BY

News Created: 29 August 2018

The next steps for EuropeanaTech

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The EuropeanaTech community has been growing over the last nine years. With Europeana Network Communities in focus this month, we get insights from one of the more established communities, learn how they continue to gain momentum and find out what's coming up next.

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News Created: 11 April 2017

MuPoP introduces Pop-up museums as an outcome of Europeana Space

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labs Low-cost, high flexibility and transportable exhibitions are an up-and-coming tool for heritage institutions who wish to present their …

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Blog Created: 8 February 2017

From heritage collections to the dance floor: sampling archival material with RE:VIVE

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pro The action of remixing was born out of music. Scholastically explored by French musique concrete artists Pierre Schaeffer and Pierre Henry in …

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Title:

Chat "regardant" à travers une longue-vue et autre chat perché dessus

Institution:

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Country:

France

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 7 February 2017

IIIF adoption by Europeana: future perspectives for the Network

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pro Sharing of high quality images on the Web, something many take for granted, has in recent years become a focal point for cultural heritage …

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Blog Created: 2 December 2016

Who's Using What: Rashmi Singhal Harvard University

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For this edition of Who's Using What we reached out to Rashmi Singhal of Harvard University. Rashmi, along with being a developer at Harvard also serves as technical lead for the IIIF platform, Mirador.

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News Created: 22 March 2016

Who's Using What: PREFORMA Project

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For this edition of Who's Using What we look towards the digital preservation challenges that GLAMs face. We present two developers from the PREFORMA Project.

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News Created: 11 January 2016

Who's Using What: EEXCESS Project

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EEXCESS develops open source software for enriching web channels like websites or social networks with cultural heritage and scholarly content. It consists of several sub-projects that together offer a privacy-preserving, personalised recommendation service for cultural heritage and scholarly content.

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DPLA logo

Institution:

DPLA

Country:

United States

News Created: 18 September 2015

Who's Using What: DPLA

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During the month of September we are presenting special "Who's Using What?" interviews with the development teams from three of the world's leading aggregators, protectors, and advocates for digital cultural heritage, DigitalNZ, DPLA, and our very own Europeana.

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News Created: 7 August 2015

Who's Using What - Chris McDowall and DigitalNZ Developer Profile

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During the month of September we will present special "Who's Using What?" interviews with the development teams from three of the world's leading aggregators, protectors, and advocates for digital cultural heritage, DigitalNZ, DPLA, and our very own Europeana.

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Pages

Title:

Still Life with Fish and Fruit

Date:

1652

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

Page Created: 13 January 2021

Issue 17: Multilinguality

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In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight, the EuropeanaTech publication, we present three articles related to multilingual access of digital cultural heritage material.

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Title:

A man reading a newspaper on a cafe terrace

Date:

1930

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

UK

Copyright:

CC BY

Page Created: 16 October 2020

Issue 16: Newspapers

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In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight we spotlight work being done around the world with regards to the digitization and presentation of historical newspapers online.

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Title:

Boston Public Library

Date:

1900-1920

Institution:

National Library of Finland

Country:

Finland

Copyright:

CC BY

Page Created: 7 May 2020

Issue 15: SWIB 2019

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In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight we share highlights from the EuropeanaTech community presented at the 2019 SWIB Conference

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Snippet from the OCR-D Ground Truth showing region outlines and reading order

Creator:

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

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CC BY-SA

Page Created: 31 July 2019

Issue 13: OCR

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In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight we highlight several projects and use-cases related to Optical Character Recognition (OCR).

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Pelagios logo

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Pelagios

Page Created: 12 March 2019

Issue 12: Pelagios

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In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight we highlight numerous projects from the Pelagios community.

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Title:

Faces of Sweden screen capture

Creator:

Riksantikvarieämbetet

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Page Created: 11 March 2019

Issue 11: Generous Interfaces

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In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight we explore the concept of Generous Interfaces and collection visualization.

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Illustration by L. da Vinci on theories of vision.

Creator:

Leonardo da Vinci

Copyright:

CC BY

Page Created: 15 November 2018

Issue 10: Innovation Agenda

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In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight we share highlights from EuropeanaTech 2018 that perfectly illusrate core missions layed out in the new Europeana Innovation Agenda

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TPDL 2019 Logo

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TPDL

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CC BY-SA

Page Created: 13 November 2017

Issue 8: TPDL

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In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight we share highlights from the EuropeanaTech community presented at the 21st TPDL Conference

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LOD Cloud 2014

Creator:

Max Schmachtenberg, Christian Bizer, Anja Jentzsch and Richard Cyganiak

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CC BY-SA

Page Created: 20 September 2017

Issue 7: LODLAM

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In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight several authors examine how Linked Open Data is changing the way cultural heritage institutes share and present information on the web.

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Title:

portrett

Creator:

Delphin, Rigmor Dahl

Date:

1962

Institution:

Oslo Museum

Country:

Norway

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Page Created: 1 September 2017

Issue 6: International Image Interoperability Framework

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In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight Europeana Network members reflect on the benefits of the implementation of the International Image Interoperability Framework

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Full model web annotations

Creator:

W3C Web Annotation Working Group

Page Created: 7 July 2016

Issue 5: Annotations

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In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight we look at ways that different institutions are implenting and improving the status of web annotations.

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Title:

Johan Kindborg, 1861-1907, konstnär, gift med trägravören Emy Edman

Creator:

Richard Bergh

Institution:

Nationalmuseum, Sweden

Country:

Sweden

Copyright:

Public Domain

Page Created: 1 July 2015

Issue 4: Discovery

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In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight we look at ways that institutions are changing and improving the way users explore and discover digital heritage collections available online.

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Europeana

Page Created: 5 June 2015

Issue 3: Open Data and Data Re-use

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Issue 3: In this issue of EuropeanaTech Insight We look at ways that institutions are re-using data and content in ways to make heritage material more accessible, interoperable, and richer.

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Title:

Peasants and Cattle by the River Merwede

Creator:

Aelbert Cuyp

Date:

1658 - 1660

Institution:

Mauritshuis

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

Page Created: 16 April 2015

Issue 2: Data modeling and data quality

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Issue 2: Data quality is Europeana’s top priority. The articles in this issue focuses on a variety of aspects of data quality.

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Title:

Still Life with Flowers and Fruit

Creator:

Van Huysum

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

Page Created: 23 March 2015

Issue 1: EuropeanaTech and Multilinguality

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Issue 1: The articles in this issue explore the various facets related to multilinguality, identifying the most urgent topics to solve and promising ways for the community to help address them.

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Title:

Krajina s kvetmi

Creator:

Palugyay, Zolo

Date:

1930

Institution:

Slovak national gallery

Country:

Slovakia

Copyright:

Public Domain

Page Created: 12 December 2014

FLOSS inventory

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The FLOSS inventory lists all the Free Libre Open Source Software relevant to Europeana and the cultural heritage world.

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Projects

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9 artworks depicting the brain

Creator:

Sarah Grice

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Task Force 1 December 2019 - 31 August 2021

AI in relation to GLAMs

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This Task Force investigated the role and impact of artifical intelligence in the digital cultural heritage domain, especially with regards to collections analysis and improvement.

The final recommendation

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Title:

Hacking Culture Bootcamp

Creator:

Sebastiaan ter Burg

Date:

2016

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY

Task Force 22 May 2018 - 31 December 2018

Creation and Governance of EDM mappings, profiles and extensions

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The Task Force aimed to set principles of a future governance model for Europeana Data Model mappings, profiles and extensions.

The final recommendation

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Title:

De vier regenten, de secretaris en de binnenvader van het Leprozenhuis te Amsterdam

Date:

1773

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

Task Force 1 June 2015 - 31 August 2015

EuropeanaTech FLOSS

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The EuropeanaTech task force on the FLOSS Inventory enriched, improved and structured the Inventory which contains over 300 free, open source tools relevant for the EuropeanaTech community.

The final recommendations

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