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Promoting free and open access to digital cultural heritage held by Galleries, Libraries, Archives and MuseumsOpenGLAM helps cultural institutions to open up their content and data through hands-on workshops, documentation and guidance and it supports a network of open culture evangelists through its Working Group. Much of the work of OpenGLAM, and the Open Knowledge Foundation more generally, takes off from an understanding of the importance of knowledge sharing for research, innovation and creativity. Continue reading →
Chasen Sino-Sin's complete 3D digitisation services of cultural heritage relics and museums.As digital technology evolves, 3D data is increasingly preferred as a method of preserving cultural heritage artifacts. It provides an easy way to get in touch with them and significantly reduces the need for physical storage space, offering to museums a portable and accessible platform to exchange information and to researchers the possibility to easily browse and review the materials. Continue reading →
Tag: historical images
The agencies forming the EURO-Photo consortium have digitised about one million historical images to be available both on Europeana and the project’s commercial portal, the world’s first historical photo journalism site. The EURO-Photo platform contains historic moments of European history such as the Carnation Revolution in Portugal, the Chernobyl disaster, King Leopold abdication in Belgium, Allied Forces in post-war Germany, and even going back to cultural events such as the first performance of Henrik Ibsen’s plays in 1880s in Copenhagen. Continue reading
February 2012: Parisienne de Photography, Roger-Viollet’s parent company, joins the EuropeanaPhotography project: 30.000 images from the agency’s own collections will be digitised and contributed to Europeana within the next 3 years. Continue reading
EuropeanaPhotography is a digitisation project playing a key role in ensuring that digital content related to early photography is accessible in Europeana. At present, Europeana has an impressive number of images mostly representing cultural objects while photographic images, the early… Continue reading


































