Joris Pekel

Former Community Coordinator Cultural Heritage Europeana Foundation Netherlands 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.

Blogposts

News Created: 24 March 2016

What I will do as Europeana's Impact Analyst

pro It is probably the question cultural institutions thinking about sharing their collections online ask most: What do I get out of it? What is in …

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News Created: 8 December 2015

The State of the Commons in Europeana: a 2015 review

pro Europeana aims to give everyone the best possible access to Europe’s digitised cultural heritage, no matter where they live. Copyright is an …

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Title:

printing house from "La Veille de la Révolution"

Date:

1886

Institution:

British Library

Country:

United Kingdom

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 1 December 2015

Presenting the Europeana Publishing Framework

Sharing your digital collection via Europeana? Or thinking about doing so? Then the Europeana Publishing Framework is here to guide you.

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News Created: 24 July 2015

Exploring big visual cultural data: an interview with Lev Manovich

pro On 9-10 July, Europeana Creative's Culture Jam was held at the Austrian National Library. During the two days, Joris Pekel, Community …

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News Created: 21 April 2015

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

pro Over the last couple of years, we noticed a rising demand by cultural institutions for useful analytics and statistics. At the end of last year, …

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News Created: 17 April 2015

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

pro At the end of 2014, the biggest digitisation project ever seen in the Netherlands came to a close. Images for the Future was a 7 year project …

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News Created: 13 April 2015

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

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

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

pro From 11-13 February, the EuropeanaTech conference was held at the National Library of France in Paris. During these two days, Joris Pekel, …

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Title:

Seb Chan at EuropeanaTech 2015

News Created: 2 March 2015

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

Collections Creative industries europeanatech2015

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

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

pro On the Europeana Pro blog, we want to highlight the good work being done by the Europeana Network. This time, Matilda Karlsson, business …

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News Created: 13 January 2015

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

pro Creative Commons recently released a report which shows the spectacular uptake of their licenses. At the moment almost 900 million works are …

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Publication Created: 27 August 2014

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

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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Title:

Public Domain Month, 2014

Creator:

Europeana

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 18 July 2014

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

Rights Labelling Campaign reaches its final phase

Data publication Legal standards Cultural Heritage Institutions rightscampaign

pro At Europeana we are constantly working with the data providers, aggregators and institutions to improve the database in order to provide the …

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News Created: 26 February 2014

Europeana digital objects to have valid rights statement by July 2014

pro Throughout 2013, we spent a fair amount of time looking at how to improve the quality and presence of rights statements. While this process has …

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News Created: 19 September 2013

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

A history of Europe's relationship with culture

pro About two years ago, I spent my days in the University of Amsterdam library working on my Masters thesis. I researched the European Union …

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Title:

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

News Created: 14 February 2013

Open Humanities Awards - enter now

Strategy Cultural Heritage Institutions

pro The Open Knowledge Foundation's Open Humanities Awards are open! Joris Pekel tells us more... This week the Open Knowledge …

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