Sofie Taes

Vice-Chair - Management Board

MC Term: January 2022 - December 2024

Research Assistant / Curator / Comms officer Catholic University of Leuven Belgium Academic Research

Member of Research Community | Member of Education Community | Member of Communicators Community

Sofie Taes graduated from KU Leuven (Belgium) in musicology and Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Currently she works at the Institute for Cultural Studies (CS Digital) at KU Leuven and Photoconsortium - Europeana’s thematic aggregator for photography - as a digital curator. She has curated a wide range of editorials and virtual exhibitions for Europeana as well as physical exhibitions. Currently she is active in several projects involving curation and user engagement, among which Europeana XX: Century of Change, PAGODE – Europeana China, WEAVE and inDICEs. Sofie is also a freelance journalist for a leading Belgian newspaper, publishing weekly on classical music.

Blogposts

Title:

Collecting stories and images from Cypriotic communities for WeAre#EuropeForCulture, Limassol

Date:

2019

Institution:

Cyprus University of Technology

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 21 March 2022

Professionals in Focus: Sofie Taes

Network

In our ‘Professionals in Focus’ series, we speak to Europeana Network Association Members Councillors about their roles, working lives and plans for their time on the Members Council. This month, Sofie Taes tells us about her musical background, the joys and challenges of juggling projects and her aim to ‘curate and care’ with Europeana’s collections.

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Title:

[Retrat en automòbil]

Creator:

Desconegut

Date:

1920/1930

Institution:

Girona City Council

Country:

Spain

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 15 February 2022

Going the 'eXXtra' mile: novel outreach routes to European audiences

Projects generic-services

The Europeana XX - Century of Change project has significantly expanded the high quality curated collections on Europeana focused on 20th-century content. The project also encouraged engagement with cultural heritage through novel editorial formats and outreach activities - read on to find out what it achieved.

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Title:

Journey through China

Creator:

United Archives / Carl Simon

Date:

1910-01-01

Institution:

United Archives / Carl Simon

Country:

Germany

Copyright:

CC BY-SA

News Created: 30 September 2021

PAGODE - Europeana China: landmarks and legacy

Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions generic-services

The PAGODE project aimed to increase engagement with the Chinese heritage collections preserved in Europe, and established a dedicated section in the Europeana website to share this rich content. We look back over the last 18 months of the completed project.

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Title:

Luca Missoni filmed by Giorgio Bosisio during the EFHA-interview in the Missoni archive. In Copyright.

Date:

March 2021

Institution:

EFHA

News Created: 12 July 2021

Creating podcasts and vlogs with audiovisual cultural heritage

Collections Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions fashion

With vlogs and podcasts created in the scope of Europeana XX - Century of Change, new and innovative editorial formats enter the Europeana stage. Sofie Taes shares the team’s learnings and experiences creating these formats and how they communicate around about digital cultural heritage.

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Title:

Event banner for 'In Conversation with Mariya Gabriel.' New Astor Hotel and 20 story Times Building, New York, U.S.A.

Date:

1906

Institution:

Rijksmuseum

Country:

Netherlands

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 2 November 2020

In conversation with Commissioner Mariya Gabriel - Europeana XX Ambassador of Change

Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions projects digital-transformation education generic-services

The team behind the Europeana XX project shares insights from their recent interview with European Commissioner Mariya Gabriel, one of the project’s Ambassadors of Change, who shared her thoughts on the opportunities and challenges facing the cultural heritage sector in the time of COVID-19.

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Title:

Reunió fejocistes

Creator:

Desconegut

Date:

1936

Institution:

Ajuntament de Girona

Country:

Spain

Copyright:

Public Domain

News Created: 25 March 2020

Introducing Europeana XX - Century of Change

Collections Projects Cultural Heritage Institutions aggregation projects generic-services

In this post, we explore Europeana XX, a new Generic Services project focused on the 20th century and its social, political and economical changes as documented in photographs, videos, and works of art.

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Copyright:

CC BY-NC-SA

News Created: 26 August 2019

Storytelling, co-creation and participation: putting the theory to the test

Academic Research Cultural Heritage Institutions Creative industries digital-storytelling europeana-communicators

As part of our series this month on digital storytelling, Sofie Taes and Valentina Bachi join us from Photoconsortium – part of the collaborative team behind ‘WeAre#EuropeForCulture’ – to share how they’re blending crowdsourced heritage with institutional heritage to bring stories across Europe to life.

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