Nicole is a runner, reader, cyclist, traveller, foodie, Russian language learner, and a keen but lapsed trombonist. She feels most at home near water, the countryside or mountains.
The Estonian National Museum shares tips from their recent ‘Numbers Fascination’ exhibition, organised by the Me-Mind project, about how cultural heritage institutions can embed impact thinking and data collection into their exhibitions.
To what extent does the Jewish History Tours project strengthen the ecosystem around digital storytelling in cultural route creation? With project partners, we mapped out 16 sustainability indicators to guide the project’s next steps. Find out more about the indicators and see how they can help you evaluate and plan for your own project’s sustainability and impact.
In 2020, Europeana piloted the use of Outcome Harvesting in our impact work, an evaluation method increasingly applied in the development sector. Here we share what we learned about the methodology, how we used it and how it could be useful to cultural heritage impact practitioners.
For a decade, Europeana has been working to standardise an approach that we - and others - could adopt to better understand the impact of digital cultural heritage. We look at the progress we have made towards this goal over the last year.
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Digitiser Robyn Crowther scanning drawers of Carabidae beetles 4
In this interview with the Natural History Museum in London, we hear about the findings of a recent impact study which gave them new insights into the economic value of digitising their collections.
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Monastère fortifié de l'Ile Saint-Honorat, Abbaye de Lérins, Cannes (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)
We interview Ana Aziza, Project Manager, Fondation du patrimoine (France), who shares how an economic impact assessment completed by the Fondation provided insights into the value of the work they do and cultural heritage in France.
This report sets out the findings from the second investigation into members’ satisfaction and the outcomes of their participation in the Europeana Network Association.
Embedding impact at the heart of Europeana’s work on capacity building for digital transformation has been a major focus of our activities over the past year. We share highlights from our work and tools to support your own impact practice!
We are delighted to have published our Europeana 2019 and Europeana 2020 impact assessments! We share learnings from the reports, explore how virtual and in-person events create different outcomes for participants and look at what this means for our future plans.
Today, we publish Europeana’s standardised question bank, a tool to support cultural heritage organisations to investigate the impact they create for their stakeholders. The tool is one of a number of resources being developed to accompany Phase 2 of the Europeana Impact Playbook - explore how to use it.
On 11 and 12 May 2021, Europeana will bring together cultural heritage professionals, policy makers, academics and researchers to discuss impact horizons of research when nurtured by digital cultural heritage. The organisers explain where the idea of a symposium came from and how its programme took shape.
We are delighted to share the first in a series of impact assessments we have conducted using and testing the Europeana Impact Playbook. The reports, carried out between 2019 - 2020, are the result of an intensive year of looking into the impact of Europeana’s work to support the digital transformation of the heritage sector. Explore the findings.
This report explores the impact of the cultural heritage policy oriented presidency conferences which Europeana organises every year together with the Member States holding the presidency.
This report focuses on the impact of Transcribathon, an online crowdsourcing platform for the enrichment of European digital cultural heritage, from the Enrich Europeana project.
This report explores the impact of national workshops, one or two day learning events led by the Europeana Foundation and an accredited aggregator with the support of local representatives.
This report explores the impact of Europe at Work, Europeana’s fourth participatory campaign that focussed on the collection of user-generated content.
This report looks at the impact of the Europeana Network Association (ENA), a democratic community of experts working in the field of digital cultural heritage.
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).
At Europeana, the ambition of ‘digital transformation’ has been at the heart of what we do for many years. Now, we have a shared working definition of digital transformation for the cultural heritage sector.
We are excited to launch an upcoming series of webinars to support professionals in using the Europeana Impact playbook, supporting you to better plan, measure and understand the impact that digital cultural heritage creates.
Today, we start a Pro News series focusing on Europeana's 10th anniversary, which we are marking throughout November. Here, we present 10 reasons to open up cultural heritage data for free reuse.
A treasure trove of manuscripts in Europeana Collections has lain unloved for too long. Through Europeana Manuscripts, we’ll start bringing out the best of this content and celebrating the work of the experts and institutions who are working to preserve and digitise the textual heritage that reflects our history.
Europeana releases its report of the makers market and sets out recommendations for our future approach to reaching this segment of the creative industries.
The project organisers have released a new training module entitled “Manage, Improve and Open Up Your Research Data”. The module addresses concepts such as the FAIR Principles, Open Science, and Data Management Plans, and is geared towards researchers in the digital humanities.
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Joe Petrosino Museum pitching during interactive impact assessment session
The 2017 Europeana Network Association AGM was dedicated to exploring the impact of digital cultural heritage - we’d like to share the learning and inspiration we took home with us.