Joris Pekel

Former Community Coordinator Cultural Heritage Europeana Foundation Netherlands, NL Archive

Built and maintained relations with Europeana data providers and worked to deliver tangible value back to them. Open data advocate and OpenGLAM working group coordinator. Can also be found on stage acting in Improv Theatre.

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News Created: 21 April 2015 Joris Pekel

The Europeana Statistics Dashboard: Let us know what you need!

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News Created: 17 April 2015 Joris Pekel

Images for the Future: Lessons learned from 7 years of digitisation

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News Created: 13 April 2015 Joris Pekel

Making a big impact on a small budget - How the LSH Museums shared their collection with the world

Advocacy Data publication Cultural Heritage Institutions

The Rijksmuseum was largely closed for ten years, which gave them a lot of room to work on their online presence. It is also one of the most visited museums in the world and has a considerable amount of resources for digitisation, marketing and copyright clearance. These are all things that are lacking for most institutions around Europe.

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News Created: 12 March 2015 Joris Pekel

Discovery without search: an interview with George Oates

From 11-13 February, the EuropeanaTech conference was held at the National Library of France in Paris. During these two days, Joris Pekel, Europeana’s Community Coordinator for Cultural Heritage, interviewed a number of speakers attending the conference to learn more about their work and their vision for the future of digital cultural heritage.

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News Created: 4 March 2015 Joris Pekel

Looking to the future with the DPLA: an interview with Dan Cohen

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Seb Chan at EuropeanaTech 2015

News Created: 2 March 2015 Joris Pekel

Making a museum part of the internet: an interview with Seb Chan

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From 11-13 February, the EuropeanaTech conference was held at the National Library of France in Paris. During the two days, Joris Pekel, Community Coordinator for Cultural Heritage, interviewed a number of speakers attending the conference to learn more about their work and their vision for the future of digital cultural heritage.

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News Created: 21 January 2015 Joris Pekel

Opening up Swedish culture - an interview with Swedish Open Cultural Heritage

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News Created: 13 January 2015 Joris Pekel

Creative Commons licenses are great - but how to use them?

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Publication Created: 27 August 2014 Joris Pekel

Democratising the Rijksmuseum

Advocacy Data publication Cultural Heritage Institutions Case-studies

In 2011, the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands started releasing images of public domain works online. In 2013, these were all made available in the highest resolution possible, without any copyright restrictions.

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News Created: 29 July 2014 Joris Pekel

How the Rijksmuseum opened up its collection - a case study

Advocacy Data publication Cultural Heritage Institutions

If you regularly read the Europeana Pro blog, you have probably already heard of the open access policy of the Rijksmuseum in the Netherlands. Europeana has, alongside other organisations and initiatives, worked with the museum since 2011 to make their public domain collection available online without restrictions. This has resulted in over 150,000 high resolution images for anyone to view, download, copy, remix, print and use for any purpose they can think of.

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Public Domain Month, 2014

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CC BY-SA

News Created: 18 July 2014 Joris Pekel

Maintaining a healthy and thriving Public Domain

Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions

Continuing our theme of #PublicDomainMonth, at this week´s Open Knowledge Festival, Europeana together with the OpenGLAM initiative and Dutch think tank Kennisland ran a workshop to discuss how to maintain a healthy and thriving public domain of cultural heritage.

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News Created: 22 May 2014 Joris Pekel

Rights Labelling Campaign reaches its final phase

Data publication Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions rightscampaign

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News Created: 26 February 2014 Joris Pekel

Europeana digital objects to have valid rights statement by July 2014

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News Created: 19 September 2013 Joris Pekel

Introducing Europeana's Aggregation Team

Read an introduction to one of the Europeana Foundation's teams - the Aggregation team.

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Blog Created: 2 September 2013 Joris Pekel

A history of Europe's relationship with culture

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The Mapping the Republic of Letters project is a great example of what is possible with humanities data.

News Created: 14 February 2013 Joris Pekel

Open Humanities Awards - enter now

Strategy Cultural Heritage Institutions

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