Euopeana Group
Call for proposals DISH 2011

On 6-9 December 2011, the international conference Digital Strategies for Heritage (DISH) 2011 will take place in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Digital Strategies for Heritage is the bi-annual international conference on digital heritage and the stra…

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Posted on 5th April 2011Comments Off
Invitation to Tender: Online User Survey

Europeana calls for proposals to carry out an online user survey to test users’ reactions and usability of Europeana.eu. This will formulate user requirements to be included in the upcoming portal upgrades. You can find more information here.

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Posted on 24th March 2011Comments Off
“The First World War in everyday documents” project launches

The project will create a digital European archive based on private memorabilia from the First World War. People in Germany are invited to share their photographs, letters, diaries, short films, audio recordings, objects and their stories of the World …

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Posted on 24th March 2011Comments Off
Launch of Archives Portal Europe

The Archives Portal Europe is now online. This is the first beta version of the portal, which gives users access to 7.797.809 descriptive units and 726.136 digital archival objects. Read more…

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Posted on 18th March 2011Comments Off
International Remix Competition

Dock’s Docs Gdansk Remix competition is inviting people to remix archive films and audio recordings to tell their story about the Polish shipyard in Gdansk, which is internationally recognised as a symbol of freedom. The competition started this F…

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Posted on 18th March 2011Comments Off
Europeana API services launched

After a successful pilot phase, Europeana is launching its new services a Search API and a Search Widget. They enable integration of European cultural and scientific heritage in partners’ online environments in a format that is convenient for the…

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Posted on 28th February 2011Comments Off
Does Europeana make you think culture? Invitation for a Focus Group

Researchers at the Centre for Digital Humanities at University College London (UCL), in collaboration with product developers at the Europeana Foundation, are undertaking research into the use of cultural heritage search portals with par…

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Posted on 4th February 2011Comments Off
5 Million Manuscripts, Films and Texts for Europeana

Work begins this week to add over 5 million digital objects to Europeana from 19 of Europe’s leading research and university libraries. The project is called Europeana Libraries and it will put many of these treasures online for the first time. I…

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Posted on 3rd February 2011Comments Off