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News Created: 9 March 2016 Lorna Hughes

Europeana Research at the EAGLE Conference, Rome, 27-29 January 2016

Academic Research Conference

I was very pleased to recently receive an invitation to present a keynote on behalf of Europeana Research at the EAGLE Conference at Sapienza, University of Rome. EAGLE is the Europeana network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy, and the conference brought together many members of the Network who are working with digital content and developing tools and services for the wider community.

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News Created: 2 March 2016 Stephen Bull

Europeana 1914-1918: Showcasing Crowdsourcing and User Generated Content as The 'New' History

Academic Research Crowdsourcing

There is a genuine case to be made that, in the digital age, 'User Generated Content' (UGC) is 'new history'. Its beauty is twofold: much of it has never been shared outside of a family or personal context, and now, being seen publicly for the first time, it can be marshalled into categories and mined for research.

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News Created: 18 January 2016

Children’s Literature in Europeana Research

Academic Research

As part of the work conducted in Work Package 1 of the project Europeana Cloud, we have realized that focusing on sub disciplines within the Humanities and Social Sciences can be significantly more efficient for understanding and documenting user needs and practices in specifically set contexts.

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News Created: 27 January 2016 Marnix van Berchum

Digital Musicology #3: Building networks of music sources

Academic Research

The notion of ‘distant reading’ – introduced by Franco Moretti – gained wide popularity in the emerging field of Digital Humanities. It is interesting to see whether the ideas of Moretti can also be applied to the field of musicology. Stephen Rose and Sandra Tuppen mention Moretti as inspiration for the British library project ‘A Big Data History of Music’.

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News Created: 30 November 2015

Text Mining #3: Europeana for Quantitative Literary History

Academic Research

Over the last several years, there has been an increasing interest in large-scale, computational, quantitative investigations into European literary history. Scholars working on texts from many different European literary traditions are using tools and services from computational linguistics, adapting methods from computer science and statistics, and developing new tools and methods for their research.

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News Created: 18 September 2015

Europeana Research Invites: Using European Infrastructures for Humanities research: Scoping Content, Tools and Users

Academic Research

On Monday, October 12th and Tuesday, October 13th 2015, Europeana Research invites key stakeholders (researchers / e-content experts / digital humanists) who have worked on the issues specifically related to use of digital content for research to discuss the following topics

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News Created: 16 September 2015

Europeana Research Workshop on Tools, Services and Content Priorities in Audio and Vision

Academic Research

On Friday, September 18th 2015, Europeana Research organizes a Workshop on Tools, Services and Content Priorities in Audio and Vision at the Royal Library, Søren Kirkegaards Plads 1, Copenhagen. The Black Diamond.

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News Created: 5 August 2015

Working on Parliamentary Papers

Collections Academic Research

An ongoing collection of information on the availability of Parliamentary Papers online. In this post I’d like to expand a bit on our first results especially focusing on Central Europe.

If we have a look at the first results, one feature is particular striking: diversity. Diversity in terms of the various parliament’s historical development, in terms of their structure but also in terms of the online availability of European parliamentary papers.

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News Created: 27 May 2015

Europeana Research Workshop on Tools, Services and Content Priorities in Archaeology and the Classics

Academic Research Workshop

Europeana Research aims to support humanities research on the digitised content of Europe’s galleries, museums, libraries and archives by addressing issues such as licensing, interoperability and access.

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News Created: 15 April 2015

Why are projects like Digital Manuscripts to Europeana important for Europeana’s future?

Academic Research Edm Europeanatech Linked-open-data Lodlam Multilinguality Data-quality Enrichment

Moving from a portal to a platform: this is one of Europeana’ s major objectives for 2015-2020 in order to allow “people to re-use and play with the material, to interact with others and participate in creating something new”.

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