Do you work with digital cultural heritage collections or use them via Europeana.eu? Do you want to learn what happens once data has been published on Europeana.eu and how you can support its reuse? Join the fifth Europeana Aggregators’ Forum outreach event!

The common European data space for cultural heritage will support Europe’s cultural sector in its digital transformation and promote the creation, use, and reuse of content in related areas. These could include cultural and creative sectors and tourism, as well as education and scientific research, but also other sectors and their data spaces. Aggregators play a key role in providing entry points into the data space, and their active involvement is crucial for a smooth transition from digital service infrastructure to data space.

In this context, the Europeana Aggregators’ Forum is organising its fifth outreach event taking place online on 20 June from 9:45 to 16:00 CEST in English. This event is open to all, and we particularly welcome users and re-users, as well as stakeholders from the European Commission and cultural heritage institutions, to join!

This event will focus on everything that happens once data has been published on Europeana.eu and will showcase how users and reusers can engage with the data and how aggregators support different re-use scenarios during data preparation and processing.

If you work with digital cultural heritage collections or use them via Europeana.eu, it will be an opportunity to learn from aggregators about the process of publishing aggregated data for reuse. You will also hear how cultural heritage professionals, researchers and others who use content from Europeana.eu in a professional context work with digital collections they find online. This will be a chance to grasp the operational aspects when it comes to presenting data from hundreds of cultural heritage institutions in one platform and facilitating and improving its discoverability and usability.

In addition to presentations and panel discussions in the morning, this outreach event will include an afternoon workshop organised by the DE-BIAS data space supporting project. DE-BIAS promotes a more inclusive and respectful approach to describing cultural heritage and is developing an AI-powered tool to automatically detect and contextualise harmful and offensive language. Participants to this workshop will be introduced to the tool and the vocabulary that it runs on.

Join us in June and make the most of this opportunity to hear from the experts who make it happen!