Two days hacking on a spaceship
At the beginning of April we held the first in the series of hackathons to showcase what cool projects can be done with Europeana collections. Hackathons are informal workshops bringing together...
View ArticleHack4Europe!
What are the benefits of making cultural heritage data open and reusable? How can it support the development of new content markets, generate new jobs and enrich people’s life? Europeana and its...
View ArticleReport from a workshop on UGC
Earlier this week, our Product Developer David Haskiya spent two days at a workshop in Vienna. Here are some of his impressions: The purpose of the workshop was for projects and persons associated with...
View ArticleHack4Europe: passion, coding and great ideas
Europeana hack days marked one of our important June highlights. Together with our local partners Collections Trust, Museu Picasso, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center and Swedish National...
View ArticleNew Feature: Map Search and Display
“Where are the items from your search results located?” and “How many of them are near you?” – just a couple of the questions we can now answer thanks to one of the latest enhancements to the Europeana...
View ArticleNew Feature: Cite on Wikipedia
Hot on the heels of last week’s launch of the map search and display, we have added another new feature to the Europeana portal – ‘Cite on Wikipedia’. Thanks to this update, it is now easier for...
View ArticleNew Feature: Image Lightbox Display
We have made an improvement to the Europeana portal with the addition of a lightbox display for images. This new feature significantly improves the experience for users when browsing images. Thanks to...
View ArticleVideo: Europeana Portal Features
As you may have noticed, over the last couple of weeks we have been busy with the release of new features on the Europeana portal; Map Search and Display, Cite on Wikipedia, and Image Lightbox...
View ArticleHack4Europe 2012: Preview of Prototypes
During 2012, and as part of the “Connecting Society to Culture Programme”, Europeana invited developers and designers to demonstrate the possibilities of using the Europeana API to develop marketable...
View ArticleComing soon: Europeana Open Culture 2.0 for iPad and Android
Blog by Milena Popova, Europeana Senior Marketing Specialist. The next major release of the Europeana Open Culture app will be available in early October. The updated version – available for both iPad...
View ArticleWant to be a Mona Lisa? Morph your face into famous works of art
Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is probably the world’s most recognisable work of art. It’s also one of the most copied and parodied paintings in history, often the subject of many of today’s internet’s...
View ArticleHelping cultural heritage institutions get their content on Wikipedia
You’re probably quite familiar with Wikipedia, the most popular encyclopaedia in the world, with more than 500 million unique visitors per month and millions of articles in 287 languages. Many articles...
View ArticleEuropeana Collections brings you closer to culture
If this isn’t your first visit to Europeana, you’ll notice that things look a little different around here. We’ve made some changes to the site so you can get up, close and personal with the vast and...
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