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Every year during the Northern summer holidays, approximately 1,000 members of the Wikimedia community – the worldwide group of volunteers and professionals behind projects including Wikipedia and Wikidata – gather for their annual event: Wikimania. This year’s event, hosted in Stockholm, had as its theme the relationship of open-access information to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. The event's program was chaired for the second year running by Europeana’s own Wikimedia liaison Liam Wyatt, in a voluntary capacity. Today he fills us in on this year’s gathering.
Earlier this week we announced that the 2019 Europeana conference will take place at the National Library of Portugal, Lisbon on 26-29 November 2019. You can win a free ticket by helping us decide a new name for this world-class event experience.
Breaking news! The 2019 Europeana conference/Europeana Network Association Annual General Meeting will take place at the National Library of Portugal, Lisbon on 26-29 November 2019.
This will be a unique interdisciplinary event bringing together communities from tech, communications, impact, research, education and copyright.
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ISWC Minute Madness session, Marieke van Erp, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
EuropeanaTech community member Marieke van Erp presents a brief trip report capturing a small part of the wide variety of fundamental, applied and industrial research presented at ISWC 2018, with her observations on the conference with respect to cultural heritage (research).
A June conference in Barcelona saw intense debate on some of the major issues that researchers face when applying Open Science principles to the Humanities.
Europeana Executive Director Harry Verwayen was invited to speak at the European Parliament's 'Cultural heritage in Europe: linking past and future' conference on 26 June 2018. The speech he gave highlights the importance of digital cultural heritage within the current digital transformation.
