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News Created: 26 September 2017 Nicole McNeilly

Introducing the Rise of Literacy Generic Services project: digitizing Europe’s textual heritage

Read about our kick off meeting to create text based collections

Title: Jean de Meun writing in his study

Creator: Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun

Date: c. 1380

Institution: The British Library

Country: United Kingdom

Public Domain

Project 1 September 2017 - 28 February 2019

Rise of Literacy

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Rise of Literacy project explored the history of the written text in Europe and aimed to showcase related cultural treasures on the Europeana collections website.

Title: Butterfly from BL Royal 1 E V, f. 5

Date: 1509 - 1519

Institution: British Library

Country: United Kingdom

Public Domain

Blog Created: 31 August 2017 Marjolein de Vos

IIIF datasets in Europeana: A scholar’s delight

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Since its conception in 2011, the international community of the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) has taken important steps in improving the way cultural heritage institutions (CHIs) present images on their digital collections platforms.

Pressrelease Created: 21 April 2017 Eleanor Kenny

Europeana launches a social media tribute to World Book Day

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For World Book Day, Europeana wants people to engage with famous European texts using social media, taking them on a month long literary tour of Europe.