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Title:: Eliane Waiwai, telling through the objects the myth of production manioc, CC-BY-NC-ND
Creator:: Beatrice Törnros
Date:: May 2022
Institution:: Museum of World Culture
Country:: Sweden

News Created: 25 August 2022 Adriana Muñoz Georgia Evans

New project at the the National Museums of World Culture, Sweden explores crowdsourcing to decolonise data

In 2021, the Europeana Research Grants Programme awarded funding for innovative projects exploring crowdsourcing and research. Today, we hear from Dr Adriana Muñoz, from the National Museums of World Culture, Sweden, about a pilot project which explored decolonialsing a Swedish database for museum collections.

Title:: Detail from Ruum
Creator:: Vardi, Aleksander
Institution:: Muzeum umění Tartu
Country:: Estonia
Copyright:: CC0

News Created: 18 August 2022 Georgia Evans

New project explores crowdsourcing in Estonian cultural heritage institutions

Academic Research crowdsourcing research-grants-interviews

In 2021, the Europeana Research Grants Programme awarded funding for innovative projects exploring crowdsourcing and research. What did the winners achieve? We hear from Dr Mari-Leen Tammela, from the Estonian War Museum – General Laidoner Museum, about how they were able to support cultural heritage institutions to produce crowdsourcing plans.

Title:: world from "Modern and Authentic System of Universal Geography ... being a complete and universal history and description of the whole world ... To illustrate the work are introduced ... maps, charts ... and ... numerous engravings, etc".
Date:: 1810
Institution:: British Library
Country:: United Kingdom
Copyright:: Public Domain

News Created: 11 August 2022 Francis Harvey Georgia Evans

New project at the University of Warsaw explores cultural heritage geodata and crowdsourcing

Academic Research crowdsourcing research-grants-interviews

In 2021, Europeana Research Grants Programme awarded funding for innovative projects exploring crowdsourcing and research. Over the summer, we interview the winners to find out what they have achieved. Today, we hear from Francis Harvey, visiting professor at the University of Warsaw.

Title:: Detail from Een haan met hennen en kuikens
Institution:: Rijksmuseum
Country:: Netherlands
Copyright:: Public Domain

News Created: 5 August 2022 Ulrike Sturm Georgia Evans

New project at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin explores crowdsourcing for the Anthropocene

Academic Research crowdsourcing research-grants-interviews

In 2021, Europeana Research Grants Programme awarded funding for innovative projects exploring crowdsourcing and research. What did the winners achieve? We hear from Ulrike Sturm, Scientific Officer Innovation for Nature and Society at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, who spoke on behalf of the project team.