Henning Scholz

Data Publishing Services

Partner & Operations Manager Europeana Foundation Netherlands Cultural Heritage

Member of EuropeanaTech Community | Member of Copyright Community

Henning is responsible for the relationships with cultural heritage professionals. As a paleontology curator and BHL-Europe coordinator, Henning contributed digital objects to the portal even before joining Europeana in 2012. He loves race cycling (the longer the better) and triathlon, and coordinates the Europeana Running Team.

Blogposts

Title:

Detail from Still Life with Books, Sheet Music, Violin, Celestial Globe and an Owl

Date:

1645 - 1650

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

Publication Created: 9 March 2023

Europeana Aggregators’ Forum Activity Report 2022

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Explore highlights from the Europeana Aggregators' Forum's activities in 2022.

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Title:

Mezei kocsiút

Creator:

Vaszary János

Institution:

Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár

Country:

Hungary

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 25 January 2023

How the Sandbox is evolving to meet the needs of the data space for cultural heritage

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Increasing the amount of high-quality data available through the Europeana website is a continuing priority as the Europeana Initiative starts to deploy the common European data space for cultural heritage. Learn how the Metis Sandbox is being prepared to take on a more prominent role in setting the standards for data quality in the data space.

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Title:

Virágok (színvázlat)

Creator:

Vaszary János

Institution:

Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár

Country:

Hungary

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 18 January 2023

How cultural heritage institutions work with the Metis Sandbox to deliver high-quality data

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Increasing the amount of high-quality data available through the Europeana website is a continuing priority as the Europeana Initiative starts to deploy the common European data space for cultural heritage. Explore how cultural heritage institutions are using the Metis Sandbox to deliver high-quality data.

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Title:

Kertben

Creator:

Vaszary János

Institution:

Rippl-Rónai Megyei Hatókörű Városi Múzeum - Kaposvár

Country:

Hungary

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 12 January 2023

How aggregators work with the Metis Sandbox to deliver high- quality data

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Increasing the amount of high-quality data available through the Europeana website is a continuing priority as the Europeana Initiative starts to deploy the common European data space for cultural heritage. Explore how aggregators are using the Metis Sandbox to deliver high-quality data.

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Title:

French Riviera

Creator:

Vaszary, János

Date:

1920

Institution:

Slovak national gallery

Country:

Slovakia

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 5 January 2023

How the Metis Sandbox supports cultural heritage institutions to deliver high-quality data

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Explore the products and services the Europeana Initiative has developed to help aggregators and cultural heritage institutions to submit high-quality data to Europeana, including the Metis Sandbox.

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Title:

Servizio fotografico Villa Lagarina, 1978

Creator:

Monti, Paolo

Date:

1978

Institution:

Fondazione Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura (BEIC)

Country:

Italy

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 20 June 2022

Join the Europeana Aggregators’ Forum outreach event

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Do you work in cultural heritage institution and are you interested in finding out more about aggregation? The Europeana Aggregators’ Forum outreach event will discuss every step of the data sharing process - register now!

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Title:

Mädchen im Mohn

Creator:

Theodor von Hörmann

Date:

1892

Institution:

Austrian Gallery Belvedere

Country:

Austria

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Publication Created: 28 February 2022

Europeana Aggregators’ Forum Activity Plan 2022

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Explore what the Europeana Aggregators' Forum has planned for 2022.

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Title:

Esparsettenfeld bei Znaim II

Creator:

Theodor von Hörmann

Date:

1893

Institution:

Austrian Gallery Belvedere

Country:

Austria

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Publication Created: 28 February 2022

Europeana Aggregators’ Forum Activity Report 2021

aggregators-forum

Explore highlights from the Europeana Aggregators' Forum's activities in 2021.

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Title:

Perspectiefkastje van zwartgelakt hout met drie beschilderde glasplaten: afbeelding van vuurwerk Vrede van Aken 1749

Date:

1830 - 1850

Institution:

Museum Rotterdam

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 8 December 2021

Discover cultural heritage by institution with our new organisation pages

Data publication

Europeana wouldn’t exist without the data contributed by around 4,000 cultural heritage institutions across Europe. Our recently released Organisation pages acknowledge this contribution by allowing people to search and browse content by the cultural heritage institution which provided it. Find out more!

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Title:

Širvintų Jaunalietuvių draugijos šokėjai dešimtmečio sąskydyje Kaune.

Date:

1937-07-29

Institution:

Ukmergės kraštotyros muziejus

Country:

Lithuania

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 9 March 2021

Europeana Aggregators' Forum: looking forward to 2021

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The Europeana Aggregators’ Forum enables cultural heritage institutions to share their content with Europeana and open it up to new audiences. We explore their activity highlights and achievements in 2020, and outline some of their priorities for 2021.

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Title:

Seascape

Institution:

Royal Museums Greenwich

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY-NC-SA

News Created: 6 January 2021

Addressing broken links to digital objects - our approach

Data publication Cultural Heritage Institutions aggregation datasets

The Europeana website provides access to digital representations of millions of cultural heritage objects from all over Europe, and we want to give our audiences the best possible experience when exploring them. In this post, we tell you how we are working with our aggregators to address the issue of broken links.

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Title:

kansanpuvuissaan kylmästä hytiseviä tyttöjä; tytöt ovat 6. ja 7. luokan opiskelijoita

Creator:

Lehtinen Ildikó

Date:

2008-05-09

Institution:

Finnish Heritage Agency

Country:

Finland

Copyright:

CC BY

News Created: 1 November 2019

37 aggregators for Europeana complete new accreditation scheme in its first year

Data publication Data standards Cultural Heritage Institutions Aggregators-forum

An accreditation scheme launched in 2019 by the Europeana Aggregators' Forum empowers aggregators to support their contributing institutions and to give those institutions greater assurances in the skills and knowledge of their aggregators, with the goal of working towards improving the quality of data in Europeana Collections.

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Title:

Triptych with Virgin and Child with Saints (center), male Donor with Saint Martin (left, inner wing), female Donor with Saint Cunera (right, inner wing), and the Annunciation (outer wings)

Date:

1500-1510

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 28 October 2019

Developing a metadata standard for digital culture: the story of the Europeana Publishing Framework

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Today, thanks to the development of the Europeana Publishing Framework, it’s possible to measure the quality of any record in Europeana Collections. Here’s an insight into just some of the activities that have helped us to reach this point.

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Title:

Stele des Priesters Ha-hat

Date:

26. Dynastie, um 640 v. Chr.

Institution:

Kunsthistorisches Museum

Country:

Austria

Copyright:

CC BY-NC-SA

News Created: 9 October 2019

Introducing the quality standard for cultural heritage metadata

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Supporting cultural heritage institutions to improve the quality, openness and usefulness of their digital collections is vital. To this end, quality guidelines related to metadata have been added to the Europeana Publishing Framework. In this Pro News series, we look at what this standard for metadata means in practice, why it’s important and how we have worked with our partners to reach this milestone.

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Title:

The Sampling Officials of the Amsterdam Drapers’ Guild, known as ‘The Syndics’

Creator:

Rembrandt van Rijn

Date:

1663

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 5 June 2018

Breathing new life into the Europeana Aggregator Forum

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A Steering Group has been formed to lead the Europeana Aggregator Forum and develop an accreditation scheme for aggregators.

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Publication Created: 20 August 2017

Europeana Content Strategy

Data publication Cultural Heritage Institutions data-partner-documentation

Our new Content Strategy will help our organisation and partners to identify what kind of content we need to expand, what content we need to restrain, and who takes ownership of the decision making process.

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Title:

Turner-Pyramide

Creator:

Heinrich Hamann

Date:

1902-1903

Institution:

Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

Country:

Germany

Copyright:

CC0

News Created: 14 March 2017

Europeana Content Strategy: getting the right content to the right user at the right time

Data publication Cultural Heritage Institutions digital metadata

pro Europeana’s platform can only be as good as the content it provides access to. For that reason, our new Content Strategy published today will …

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Title:

Self-portrait with beret, wide-eyed

Creator:

Rijn, Rembrandt van

Date:

1630

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

Publication Created: 1 September 2015

Publishing Framework

Data publication Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions data-partner-documentation

The Europeana Publishing Framework makes it easy for you, our data partners, to see how the quality of the metadata and content you provide affects how we can surface, showcase and promote it on the Europeana website and beyond. It also reflects how others can view, share and work with it.

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News Created: 1 December 2014

Everything you need to know about publishing data on Europeana

pro By Henning Scholz, Partner and Operations Manager Europeana has brought together over 36 million digital objects from the online …

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Pages

Title:

Zeepfabriek Dobbelman: Snijmachine voor toiletzeep

Creator:

Foto Grijpink Nijmegen

Institution:

Regionaal Archief Nijmegen

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Page

Aggregators' Forum

Data publication Cultural Heritage Institutions aggregators-forum aggregators aggregation aggregator

The network of national, domain and thematic aggregators who support cultural institutions providing data and content to Europeana.

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Title:

The Annunciation: Gabriel announces Christ's birth to Mary

Date:

1500 - 1550

Institution:

National Library of the Netherlands

Country:

The Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

Page Created: 16 March 2018

Standardised training playbook

Data publication Cultural Heritage Institutions aggregation workshop

Aggregators are the key link between Europeana and cultural heritage institutions across Europe. We have brought together our extensive experience of holding training events to develop a Playbook that will support best practice in workshop delivery. This will contribute towards our ultimate goal of encouraging more CHIs across Europe to provide relevant, high quality and open data to Europeana.

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Title:

The Riva Sisters Jugglers

Institution:

Circus Museum

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

Page Created: 30 August 2017

Section 3 - Transforming MARC21 to EDM

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This section is highlighting how the library domain professionals look at developing and applying transformation to their specific library format, MARC 21, how that translates into EDM and further beyond how it is presented in the Europeana Collections site.

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Title:

A Russian peasant ploughing his field with two horses

Institution:

Wellcome Collection

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

CC BY

Page Created: 29 August 2017

Section 1 - The Basics of EDM

Data publication Data standards Cultural Heritage Institutions edm-mooc

In this first section of the our EDM course you'll learn about the history of EDM, it's development and the theory behind the main classes.

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