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Blog Created: 4 July 2017 Nicole McNeilly
Maps for makers
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Over the past months, we’ve been showcasing the best of our openly licensed digital cultural heritage content to inspire makers and new creativity, …
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Blog Created: 3 July 2017 Milena Popova
What happens when #HeritageMeetsMakers: Stories from Mallorca
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In partnership with Platoniq and the Artik Center FabLab Palma , Europeana invited a small group of makers to a co-creation workshop on 22 and 23 …
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Blog Created: 30 June 2017 Pierre-Edouard Barrault
Improving data quality in Europeana: The Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg case study
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Since the foundation of various libraries close to the university in the 14th and 15th centuries, the Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg has housed many important collections. The datasets that have been delivered to Europeana hold over 25,000 records including treasures such as manuscripts, manuscript fragments, charters, and early modern and modern printed books and magazines.
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Blog Created: 29 June 2017
Our newsletter for communications professionals is moving - are you coming too?
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If your job involves communications, PR, marketing or social media, then sign up for our revamped communications newsletter.
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Blog Created: 29 June 2017 Milena Popova
Celebrate the two successful projects in Europeana’s first match funding call
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For the past two months, educational projects selected in Europeana’s first match funding call (a joint initiative with Goteo ) ran two crowdfund…
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Blog Created: 26 June 2017
Meet the Members Council: Georgia Angelaki
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The National Library of Greece (NLG) is undergoing a major transformation. After having been in a dormant state for two decades for various reasons, …
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Blog Created: 20 June 2017
The British Library hosts launch of The Copyright Cortex
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By Ronan Deazley, the British Library. Today, the British Library hosts the launch of The Copyright Cortex , a new online, open access, …
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Blog Created: 19 June 2017
New report shows nine European museums in world’s top 20
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A report out last week lists the world’s 20 most visited museums in 2016, with nine of them based in Europe. The Louvre is Europe’s highest …
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Blog Created: 15 June 2017
Copyright reform: the IMCO committee accepts changes advocated by Europeana
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Last week marked a very positive milestone for cultural heritage institutions digitizing their collections. As we recently reported , four Committee…
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Blog Created: 13 June 2017 Camille Tenneson
Free the eBook: making digital books available for free around the world
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Thanks to the digitisation efforts of our partners, there are many classic books (such as Don Quixote, Madame Bovary, Anna Karenina...) you can find …
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Blog Created: 12 June 2017
An impact playbook for cultural heritage? This ain’t gonna be easy
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Earlier this year, Europeana and friends launched Impkt.tools (currently in beta), a community for cultural heritage professionals to learn how to …
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Blog Created: 9 June 2017
Archives Portal Europe invites new members on International Archives Day
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The Digital Revolution is often placed in an historical sequence after the Agricultural Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. While its overall impact on economies and human lives is arguably not as radical as the other two main human revolutions, there is one field in which the Digital Revolution has dramatically transformed things forever: archival institutions.
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