The Greek edition of Euronews, the pan-European television news network, recently featured the story of the Lambousa boat. https://gr.euronews.com/2024/07/02/cyprus-unesco-fishing-boat The Lambousa is fishing trawler built in Piraeus in 1955 and for half a century it plowed the Cypriot seas. After years of … Continue reading
Co-organized by EUreka3D-XR project partner’s meemoo, this year’s annual Public Domain Day drew attention to the barriers that often still stand in the way of opening up these materials through a two session one-day event offering insights, plenaries and specialised … Continue reading
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Enriching photographic heritage through citizen science. If it is true that an image is worth a thousand words, the key issue with the mass of digitized photographic heritage that is published in online repositories is allowing users to find the … Continue reading
The opening event for the prestigious DIGITAL PAST 2021 conference, organized by the Royal Commission of the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, was a 1-hour capacity building workshop by PHOTOCONSORTIUM to share experiences and lessons learnt for visual collections’ … Continue reading
PAGODE is a project about Chinese heritage in Europeana. The Europeana portal gives access to about 60 million digital cultural heritage items of all sort, from thousands of cultural heritage institutions throughout Europe. Rich and descriptive information to be associated … Continue reading
img.: the Europeana XX Thematic Collection in Europeana. EU funded Europeana XX: Century of Change project celebrates today the launch of a new Europeana Thematic Collection: a dedicated area in the Europeana portal to showcase special cultural heritage collections and … Continue reading
CitizenHeritage – Citizen Science Practices in Cultural Heritage: towards a Sustainable Model in Higher Education A new project co-financed by the European Union under the Erasmus+ programme, to empower Citizen Science and participation in cultural heritage as a booster for … Continue reading
This unique webinar organized by Photoconsortium in collaboration with Europeana and the Cyprus University of Technology was proposed in the contex of the EUROMED 2020 webconference. A capacity building workshop dedicated to Cultural Heritage Institutions looking at new opportunities offered … Continue reading
Throughout October, GIF-makers, history nuts, culture enthusiasts, and Internet fans are invited to take part in GIF IT UP 2020, the latest edition of the annual contest hosted by Europeana that challenges people to create animated cultural heritage images and … Continue reading
Originally planned as a project meeting in Athens focused on dataset enrichment, due to the covid-crisis this event was expanded and transformed in an online gathering, to discuss and share knowledge on metadata curation, vocabularies and thesauri, semantic enrichment, aggregation … Continue reading
2020 is not the year we thought it was going to be. A global pandemic has changed our day-to-day lives. The Covid crisis has brought home how connected our lives are across the globe, while the injustices and societal inequalities … Continue reading
PAGODE – Europeana China is proud to host an expert blog written by dr. Martina Bofulin, Slovenian Migration Institute, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The blog explains how legacies from Chinese emigration are now taken … Continue reading
