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A teacher from Czech Republic during a feedback session of the project, CC-BY 4.0
The Opening Up Historiana project was a Europeana Generic Services Project which created new ways for history educators to create, share and use eLearning Activities with content from the Europeana website. We explore the features the project developed.
Saint George on a Bike is a Generic Services project which aims to improve the quality and quantity of open metadata associated with imagery from European cultural heritage. In this post, the project team take a look at what it aims to achieve.
Europeana increasingly relies on content generated by users or machines that adds value to the cultural heritage data we share, and makes it more accessible and reusable. These projects raise many new questions, including ones related to copyright: what can we enrich and transcribe, and how do we label, or license, the results?
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A visitor in the 'Discovering & Inventing' gallery of the EPIC museum
In July, Europeana held its first ‘Lunch Café’ on the theme of ‘Opening Doors’, encouraging discussion around the re-opening of cultural heritage institutions. In this post, Nathan Mannion and Susan Hazan, who led the Café, reflect on re-opening at their own institutions.
Statistiska Centralbyrån 26 oktober 1969 Tre kvinnor och en man under arbete på Statistiska Centralbyrån. Det hänger Sverigekartor på väggarna. Rakt fram sitter en stadskarta på en uppställd mellanvägg.
inDICEs aims to empower cultural and creative industries, policy-makers and decision-makers to fully understand the social and economic impact of digitisation of cultural heritage.
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Alexander Archipenko, Two women, 1920 (paper mask)
As part of our Discovering Europe season, last week we explored how cultural heritage institutions across Europe are starting to open their doors. In this post, Tamara Butigan takes a look at a special reopening initiative from two Serbian museums who are using digitised art from their collections on face masks, offering people a new and timely way to engage with their content.