From the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog: Europeana has recently released a new version of its Linked Data Pilot, data.europeana.eu. We now publish data for 2.4 million objects under an open metadata licence: CC0, the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication.[Clip] After several months we have thus released a second version of data.europeana.eu. Though still a pilot, [...]
Announcing DM2E (Digitised Manuscripts to Europena): Exploring the Possibilities of Linked Open Data in Cultural heritage
Filed by on March 19, 2012
From the Open Knowledge Foundation Blog: The Open Knowledge Foundation is delighted to announce that it will be leading the community work for a three-year EU funded project entitled Digitised Manuscripts to Europena (DM2E). The project consortium, which includes academic institutions, NGOs and commercial partners, will be led by Professor Stefan Gradmann at the Humboldt [...]
Europeana Formally Announces Option to Preview Search Results on a Map
Filed by on February 17, 2012
From the Europeana Blog: The development department at Europeana have been working hard on a new interactive search and display feature that enables you to locate and preview search results on a map. The map is automatically populated with the first 1,000 results from a search query and distributes them on a multi-layered map (OpenStreetMap, [...]
Europe: More Than 10 Million Digitized Newspaper Pages Coming to Europeana
Filed by on February 16, 2012
From LIBER: A group of 17 European partner institutions have joined forces in the “European Newspapers” project and will, over the next 3 years, provide more than 10 million newspaper pages to the EUROPEANA service. The European Newspapers project (funded under EC’s CIP 2007 – 2013) aims at the aggregation and refinement of newspapers for The [...]
New Video: European Library Handbook (Workflow Between European Library and Europeana)
Filed by on February 3, 2012
Direct to Video Slideshow (via YouTube) The European Library is the library domain aggregator for Europeana and, in this role, supports data providers from the library domain across Europe. The Europeana Library gathers bibliographic records and metadata to digital objects: this video features the workflow between libraries, The European Library and Europeana. The video runs [...]
Just Released: "Culture on the Go: CIBER Report Says Mobile Browsing Will Transform the Web"
Filed by on December 20, 2011
Via Europeana: A new report, Culture on the Go, from UK web-watchers CIBER Research, shows how access to information is changing as people search for, read and use information on the move. A growing proportion of web browsing happens on smartphones like the new Mac iPhone 4S and tablets like the iPad, and no longer [...]
Europeana Launches Its First Virtual Exhibit Based on User Generated Content
Filed by on December 15, 2011
From the Europeana Web Site: We are excited to announce the launch of our first ever virtual exhibition based on user-generated content. “Wiki Loves Art Nouveau” is an online exhibition made up of 50 images taken by WikiCommons members, representing some of Europe’s best examples of Art Nouveau architecture. With over 165,000 entries in the Wiki [...]
Milestones: Europeana Adds 20 Millionth Item & Collection of 7000 Photographs From Belgium Added to Database
Filed by on December 13, 2011
Congrats and kudos to the Europeana team! From the Europeana eNewsletter: This October, Europeana’s content reached 20 million items, increasing the content ten-fold since its initial launch in 2008. The 20 millionth item is a painting of the Biblical story of David and Goliath painted by the celebrated Caravaggio in 1600-1601. Caravaggio worked predominantly on [...]
