Facts & fiction: Hungary in black-and-white photographs

An online event organized in collaboration with the National Széchényi Library in Budapest engaging students of the Media and Communication department of Pázmány University

Posted on: 4 October 2021

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Standfotó a Nyugati övezet című filmből – Film still of Nyugati övezet feature film by Csépány Sándor – National Széchényi Library (OSZK) Budapest, Europe – CC BY-NC-ND.

15th October 2021 h. 9-12 CEST

online event via Zoom

Enriching photographic heritage through citizen science.

This second workshop from the Citizen Heritage project is focused on engaging university students with digital cultural heritage and the importance of good metadata associated to online collections.

In this event, students of Master and Bachelor courses in digital humanities and film history at Media and Communication department of Pázmány Péter Catholic University worked on metadata improvement, by annotating and enriching the beautiful digitized collection of early photography and film stills published by OSZK the National Széchényi Library in Europeana.

The new Europeana Gallery Builder tool was also be presented as an engaging and easy to use feature that enables to explore and reuse Europeana collections in curation activities, by creating short visual stories on specific themes, in the form of galleries to be published on Europeana portal.

DISCOVER THE EVENT:
https://www.citizenheritage.eu/citizen-science-workshops/budapest/

 

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