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Europeana Creative Culture Jam

On 9-10 July 2015, in Vienna, at the Austrian National Library is being held the conference Europeana Creative Culture Jam, final showcase event of Europeana Creative, a groundbreaking project that explores ways for creative industries to connect with cultural heritage. Culture Jam will be a celebration of all that Europeana Creative has achieved and a presentation of the future success to achieve with the fellow creative projects Europeana Food & Drink and Europeana Space. Continue reading


E-Space liases with sister project Europeana Creative for the Culture Jam final conference

Europeana Space will actively participate in this great happening, and several of its members have joined the event’s Advisory Board; the project will be showcased with a presentation and an exhibition of the Europeana TV pilot. Continue reading


Photography pilot of E-Space: getting ready for the Hackathon!

There is a huge amount of digitized photographic and cultural heritage available on Europeana – and similar open repositories such as Wikimedia Commons and Flickr Commons – that are just waiting to be reused in innovative new applications. This shared cultural content can be an opportunity, with current technologies, to bring people together, to form a glue of new relations between content owners, educators, cultural heritage institutions, developers, students, stakeholder communities, creative industries. Continue reading


Riga Summit 2015 on the Multilingual Digital Single Market

The Riga Summit, being held in Riga from 27 to 29 April, will gather government officials, business leaders, technology developers and language researchers, who will forge a unified vision for the multilingual digital single market. At the event, stakeholders will work together to develop a combined strategy, identify goals, establish partnerships and initiate concrete actions to bring about the vision of a digital single market without language barriers. Continue reading


Meet the Team pre-event for the EuropeanaTV hackathon was a success

Hacking Culture Bootcamp, the first hackathon of Europeana Space project, took flight on 9 April 2015 with the pre-event, where the hackathonees met the team and learnt practical information about technology, the toolkit and available content for experimenting with Europeana TV pilot. Continue reading


Europeana Space and CRe-AM

CRe-AM and Europeana Space are two projects which both aim to enhance the creative industry by leveraging on ICT and digital cultural content. Europeana Space intends to do this by originating concrete scenarios, best practice and tools, and further by offering … Continue reading


Project Mosul: Protecting Iraq’s Cultural Heritage

The historically important city of Mosul holds artefacts of huge cultural and historical importance and the Mosul Museum is the second largest museum in Iraq after the National Museum of Iraq in Baghdad. Photo of Ishtar temple lion from Project Mosul website. Photo in public domain. Special thanks go to the volunteers who have submitted the images: Suzanne E. Bott, Col. Mary Prophit, and Diane Siebrandt
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Photomediations: An Open Book

A collaboration between academics from Goldsmiths, University of London, and Coventry University, Photomediations: An Open Book is the outcome of the Open and Hybrid Publishing pilot – which is one of six Europeana Space pilots. Through a comprehensive introduction and four specially commissioned chapters on light, movement, hybridity and networks that include over 200 images, it tells a unique story about the relationship between photography and other media. Continue reading


TV Pilot meets Museums Pilot: cooperation and link between two E-Space pilots

On Monday the 16th March 2015, the German partners of the E-Space TV Pilot and the E-Space Museums Pilot had a meeting concerning their cooperation, at the Institute for Museums Research in Berlin. Photo by Beatrix Lehmann (Museumsmedien) Continue reading


E-Space technical workshop

Europeana Space is establishing a Technical Space as a framework for storing, accessing and processing cultural heritage content and metadata. Based upon IPR licensing, curators, scholars, professional users and developers will be able to search for and manage resources within … Continue reading