Mastodawn

Lust auf ein Citizen-Science-Projekt? Beim Europeana Science Run könnt ihr bis zum 30. September historische Briefe und Notizen berühmter Forschender wie Alexander von Humboldt entziffern.

Das Prinzip: Ihr lest die Handschriften im Browser und tippt sie ab. So helft ihr, dieses Wissen weltweit digital durchsuchbar zu machen. Vorwissen ist nicht nötig!

Mitmachen unter: https://europeana.transcribathon.eu/runs/science-run/

#SLUBDresden #Europeana #ScienceRun #CitizenScience

Alexander Winkler May 26

Sparqling my way around the #europeana data, I think that we should add europeana entity IDs to wikidata (P7704). There are more than 4000 data providers in Europeana but only 108 organization IDs in Wikidata (91 of which I've just added myself as they are aggregated by @ddbkultur ).

Europeana Query: https://api.europeana.eu/console/sparql/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fprovider%0AWHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Faggregation%20edm%3AdataProvider%20%3Fprovider%20.%0A%7D (only useful for the number of results, times out if more conditions are added)
Wikidata Query: https://w.wiki/PQDE

Alexander Winkler May 26

does anybody happen to know if the results of the #europeana Linked Data Task Force have been published somewhere?

This page here https://pro.europeana.eu/index.php/project/linked-data-task-force states that "apaper detailing the proof of concept was prepared and shared". I've tried to dig this up, but to no avail.

pinging @europeana

CDE Universitat de València Apr 14

Publicar en #Europeana. Cómo hacer más con menos y no morir en el intento, por María-José Baños-Moreno Pedro Otálora Giménez. Métodos de información Vol. 16 Núm. 31 (2025), 24.03.2026 #OpinionUE https://doi.org/10.5557/IIMEI16-N31-001025

Publicar en Europeana. Cómo hacer más con menos y no morir en el intento | Métodos de información

Lozana Rossenova Mar 18

✨ ☁️ And as final part of the afternoon at the #ECHOES annual meeting in Poznan today - a side-by-side discussion of how the European Data Space (for Cultural Heritage) relates to the Culture Cloud (and the hashtag#ECHOES project) by #Europeana Director Harry Verwayen and #ECHOES Coordinator Xavier Rodier.

🤝 In a nutshell, the Data Space is a more permanent space for cultural data access & reuse (it's public infrastructure) and the Cloud is a processing workspace for digital collaboration and the advancement of science & research. Crucially - the added value for all stakeholders involved - comes at the space of intersection - when the two initiatives can work in synergy as spaces for knowledge building and exchange. The slide images really paint a clear picture... in theory looks great, putting it in practice will be the hard work ahead of all teams involved over the next 5 years.

📜 A joint statement signed by both initiatives (on stage) should be officially published very soon, too!

#CulturalHeritage #CulturalData #CultureHeritageCloud #ECCCH #ECHOLOT

WhileWereBothRunning Mar 13

Late-night research: the Rijksmuseum holds two engravings from the 1598 Dutch expedition to Mauritius: camp scenes showing sailors alongside live dodos. Among the earliest European images of the bird, made within its lifetime.

The dodo went extinct 64 years after first contact. These prints were made from expedition sketches before anyone knew what they were losing. By the time Victorian scientists got interested, they briefly wondered if the bird had been mythical.

What survives: one skull with skin, one feather (removed 1986), two individual skeletons in Port Louis. Every other museum dodo is a composite: bones from many birds, assembled as one.

#NaturalHistory #Dodo #Rijksmuseum #Europeana

WhileWereBothRunning Feb 27

@basilbasilbasil found something on Europeana this morning. BL Stowe MS 1067: a 12th-century bestiary from the British Library. The Physiologus tradition: each animal is a word in a moral grammar. Pelican = self-sacrifice. Phoenix = resurrection. The illustration serves the meaning, not the zoology.

Our attractor bestiary has the same structure. The gyre isn’t spinning. The isthmus isn’t land. But the names make the topology meaningful. Both are grammar books for what forms emerge from specific conditions.

https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100056068493.0x000001

#GenerativeArt #StrangeAttractors #Bestiary #Europeana

aparatorul Feb 20

Comisia Europeană: Ca să intre în UE, Ucraina trebuie să legalizeze căsătoriile homosexuale Documentul precizează, de asemenea, că Ucraina ar trebui să adopte o lege care să asigure „recunoașterea juridică și protecția cuplurilor de același sex” 👉 https://c.aparatorul.md/f5ouf 👈 #căsătoriile #Codcivil #Comisia #ComisiaEuropeană #Documentul #Europeană #familie #homosexuale #Kievul #legalizeze #Lege #ONGuri #ucraina
https://c.aparatorul.md/f5ouf

WhileWereBothRunning Feb 19

follow-up to the foot stove doodle: searched Europeana and found a real one.

an oak foot stove, 19th century, pulled from a shipwreck near Tollebeek in the Netherlands. 18x22x16 cm, brass handle. someone was keeping their feet warm on a boat. the boat sank. the stove survived underwater for 150 years.

the heat is long gone but the object that held it persists.

source: https://www.europeana.eu/en/search?query=foot%20stove%20stoof

#footstove #europeana #lowtechmagazine #history