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Ready, Steady, Transform! – Key takeaways from the forum
We’re happy to look back at our first forum, Ready, Steady, Transform!, which took place on 20–21 November in Paris, both online and in person. We have created a document summarising useful insights, sources, and links that our speakers and […]

Ready, Steady, Transform! – Key takeaways from the forum

MCA publication – Inclusive Futures

Digital maturity of GLAMs

Survey on the Impact of Digital Cultural Content on Democracy and Civic Engagement in Higher Education contexts

Culture Compass – position statement

DSI Webinar 3: Museums going digital: why invest on quality digital content?

Participate to the shaping of the EU Budget – Position Statement by MCA

CHARTER ALLIANCE 12 recommendations for the heritage sector

Considerations regarding the implementation of the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act

Action Group on Digital & AI – the Mission Statement

Unlocking Cultural Accessibility: MuseIT’s First Policy Brief

Action Group on Digital & AI – Mission Statement

Introduction to metadata and mapping to the Europeana Data Model (EDM)

The Civil Society State of Union 2024 – Report

Anchise Policy Brief 1 – April 2024

Podcast EUCropolis x Frequencies – Tales from Culturopolis: Diversity

Educational materials

Anchise Talks: What can AI do to combat the illicit trafficking of cultural heritage?

DE-BIAS knowledge hub

Nilde Jotti

An imaginary interview with Maria Montessori. The woman who developed a new way of teaching children

Recommendations for policy makers

Teachers and cultural mediators’ guide

Research and guidelines

Podcast EUcropolis x Frequencies – Elefsinian Mystery | Handle with Care

From Innovation to Education: Sharing European Experiences | VOL. 1

CRAFTED – La Borne: the Contemporary Ceramics Centre

CRAFTED – La Borne: preserving treasures from the past

CRAFTED – La Borne: mastering and transmitting traditional know-how

CRAFTED – Blog Article ” The ceramists’ village of La Borne”

DSI Webinar – The ontology of Wikidata: how to interact with it for a better quality

The Elefsina Manifesto

CRAFTED – Canevas Fatal

DSI Webinar – Methodologies for metadata semantic enrichment

CRAFTED education manual

CRAFTED – Online exhibition “Human of crafts”

MCA Write-up | Cultural heritage in the digital decade

Podcast EUCropolis x Frequencies – Tales from Culturopolis: Digital Environments

Podcast EUCropolis x Frequencies – Tales from Culturopolis: Cultural Work and Sustainability

MCA Write-up | The EU plan for Culture

Podcast EuCropolis x Frequencies – Tales from Culturopolis: Participation and Communities

CRAFTED – Discovering the Mobilier National: the dyeing workshop

CRAFTED – Discovering the Mobilier National: The Manufacture des Gobelins

CRAFTED – Discovering the Mobilier National: the Research and Creation workshop

CRAFTED – Blog Article “A journey to Le Mobilier National”

Podcast EUCropolis EP. 3 – European Year of Youth: a retrospective

Map social change: Youth engagement for GLAM recovery

CRAFTED – A visit to Brankica Zilovic’s studio

Penelope’s web: gods, heroes and women’s work in ancient Greece

How to Use the CrowdHeritage Platform

Policy Brief for Decision Makers in Education and Culture

Lessons Learnt, Guidelines and Suggestions for Teachers

Implement and assess: Cultural events by GLAMs involving youth

Podcast EUCropolis EP.2 – A chat with Marie-Véronique Leroi, from French Ministry of Culture

CRAFTED – Blog Article “Playing with glass”

CRAFTED – Blog Article “Meet the artisan creating a zoo of animals out of paper”

Podcast EUcropolis EP. 4: Data space for cultural heritage – A new frontier

MCA Write-up | Cultural heritage in the digital decade

MEMEX Policy Brief 3

CRAFTED – Céline Tuloup: when textile becomes a committed artistic language

Podcast EUCropolis EP.1 – New European Bauhaus: a new way?

The Etrusca Collection

European Heritage Hub Call to Action “Championing a responsible digital transition for and with cultural heritage”

CRAFTED – Blog Article ” Craft and education”

DSI Webinar – How to map your data model to EDM using an Excel file

DSI Webinar – Basic training on Wikidata as a complementary tool to enrich metadata

DSI Webinar – Digital Sobriety and GLAMs: a new challenge

CRAFTED – Blog Article “Master basketweaver Nico Solimano”

CRAFTED – Blog Article “Brankica Zilovic”

Bank of Memories

The We-Hope Cantastoria

Learning resource “Are Refugees Welcome?”

Selection of educational themes and preparation of the multilingual terminologies

Pilot Crowdsourcing campaigns – Peer Learning campaigns

Educational materials

Guidelines and recommendations

Training opportunities for GLAMs to leverage their digital transformation through youth participation

MEMEX Policy Brief 2

Practices of digitally mediated youth engagement in GLAMs during the pandemic

DSI Webinar 1: DIY Digitization: Tips for ambitious GLAMs

DSI Webinar 4: MUSEU: A bridge for museums who want to join Europeana

MEMEX Policy brief 1

DSI Webinar 4: MUSEU: A bridge for museums who want to join Europeana

DSI Webinar 2: Benefits of sharing content with Europeana

Europeana Sport – Copyright in the user contribution of sports content

Europeana Sport – Copyright in the aggregation of sports content

The Porto Santo Charter

NETCHER Recommendations

Methods to include a Creative and Critical Thinking approach in Education

VIMM+/NEMO/MCA statement

ATHENA PLUS – Metadata for the description of digital exhibitions: the DEMES Element Set

ATHENA PLUS – Digital Storytelling

ATHENA PLUS – eCultureMap: how cultural institutions can benefit from geolocalised content

ATHENA PLUS – Implementing LIDO

INDICATE – Best practice for applying research pilots and use case studies to digital cultural heritage

INDICATE – Handbook on virtual exhibitions and virtual performances

Your terminology as a part of the semantic Web recommendations for geocoded digital cultural content

Lightweight Information Describing Object: LIDO

ATHENA – Persistent identifiers: Persistent identifiers: recommendations

ATHENA – Guidelines for geographic information

ATHENA – Digitisation: Standards landscape for European museums, archives, libraries

MINERVA – Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes: Version 2.0, 2008

MINERVA – Handbook on cultural web user interaction

MINERVA – Intellectual Property Guidelines, v. 1.0

Coordinating digitisation in Europe: progress report of the National Representatives Group 2007

MINERVA – Cost Reduction in Digitisation

MINERVA Plus – Final Plan for using and disseminating knowledge and raise public participation and awareness Report on inventories and multilingualism issues: Multilingualism and Thesaurus

Coordinating digitisation in Europe: progress report of the National Representatives Group 2006

Dynamic Action Plan for the EU co-ordination of digitisation of cultural and scientific content

Coordinating digitisation in Europe: progress report of the National Representatives Group 2005

Quality Principles for cultural Web sites: a handbook 2005

Coordinating digitisation in Europe: progress report of the National Representatives Group 2004

MINERVA – Good practices handbook

MINERVA – Cultural Website Quality Principles 2003

Charter of Parma

MINERVA – Handbook for quality in cultural Web sites: improving quality for citizens

Coordinating digitisation in Europe: progress report of the National Representatives Group 2003

MINERVA – Booklet – Digitising content together: Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in Digitisation – Activities 2003 – 2004

Coordinating digitisation in Europe: progress report of the National Representatives Group 2002