Create + StoryTell + Share = Let’s celebrate the 10th Anniversary together!

From May 12th to May 21st, 2023 the Digital Invasions are back!

Over 5,000 places invaded in Italy and around the world, many people involved in #invasionidigitali, a project born in 2013, now on its tenth anniversary, a real movement for culture. This year’s leitmotiv will be Create + StoryTell + Share = Nostalgia <3

The term Y2K refers to the period between 1990 and 2000, in which we were preparing for the arrival of the so-called “millennium bug” which could have caused computer systems to malfunction due to their programming based on two digits for the year instead of four. The fear of the digital apocalypse turned into a sort of fascination for the future and the arrival of the new millennium, which led to an important social and cultural change.

Similarly, the Digital Invasions were a form of grassroots protest that took place in Italy and then all over the world starting from 2013. The Invasions saw groups of people passionate about culture, creators, bloggers, engage in sharing actions of our cultural heritage, with the aim of promoting knowledge and the beauty of the territories.

Either way, these moments remain important as they marked a period of great change in the history of digital and non-digital technology and culture. Nostalgia for these experiences stems mainly from the fact that they represent a moment of transition between the past and the future, a time when the world seemed to be constantly evolving and changing.

The approach to technologies has changed radically in recent years thanks above all to ease of use and affordable costs. A new approach that took place above all thanks to mobile devices and the diffusion of the use of the network on the move. Today people are almost completely familiar with these devices and with social media which have made it possible to share a thought, an activity, an emotion, an experience hic et nunc, such as a visit to a museum, the observation of a work of art, even a selfie, is not only immortalized but shared in the moment. And that sharing is not just sharing in an experience, an emotion but becomes a means – visual – of digital word of mouth for the museum. The goal therefore remains to spread the culture of using the internet and social media for the promotion and dissemination of cultural heritage.

For 2023, the invitation is to have fun, organize an invasion where and how you prefer, and celebrate together! <3

The hashtag to use is still #invasionidigitali which will be accompanied by the official tag of each individual invasion.

The dates of the Invasioni Digitali Anniversary will be from May 12th to May 21st, 2023

To organize an invasion, please send us a requeset at: eventi@invasionidigitali.it

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This 24-month project specifically aims at boosting the digital education readiness of the private owners of historic houses, helping them to face the dramatic impact of the COVID-19 crisis on cultural tourism.  The central element of HERIT is the creation of a massive open online course (MOOC) tailored for private owners of historic houses. The course will aim at developing and enhancing the expertise of the owners themselves in business development and in the use of digital tools, as well as their knowledge of the regulatory and legal framework in the cultural heritage sector at the national and European level. EHH as an association represents the primary target group of the expected outputs of the project. This is why EHH will play a leading role in relation to different aspects of the implementation of the project itself and in particular: the collection of information and statistical data regarding the private historic houses sector; the maintenance of contact and exchange of information with the national historic houses associations and private owners to ensure that the content of the MOOC is truly responsive to the real needs of its target groups; and the promotion and dissemination of the online course.

Read full article on European Historic Houses website

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Culture these days has moved to the web, but museums, theatres, libraries, galleries, archives and places of culture would prefer to share their beauty more directly, as do culture lovers around the world. So that we can bring culture directly to you, Europeana Communicators invites everybody to a Digital Aperitivo where we can come together to celebrate culture in all its forms.

November 11th, From 4.30PM to 5.30PM (CET), resonating with Europeana’s theme “Recover, Rebuild, Grow” – we will reflect together on the role of culture in this tough period and will ask people to invade the web with culture. In this way we can revitalise our connection to our rich multicultural European Community; to be inspired, creative, while at the same time, have some fun. If you are signed up to Europeana 2021, you can join us for a Zoom call first…at 4.30 PM (CET) to provide instructions on how to participate.

Advert for Hall’s Coca Wine: The Elixir of Life, an early product that used cocaine as an ingredient, showing a lady wearing an evening dress – Wellcome Collection, United Kingdom – CC BY.
https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/9200579/ybpzvdea

Not signed to Europeana yet? Go HERE and join the event! 

You don’t have to be signed to the conference to participate to the Aperitivo but you’d miss an opportunity if you don’t! 

We invite conference participants, their respective networks and citizens worldwide to meet online; over social media, and via two dedicated hashtags (#Europeana2021 #DigitalAperitivo) to share the culture they love on Twitter and Instagram – please keep in mind that your post should be public to allow others to share, respond and comment, and if you’re sharing art from online collections, make sure you can legally share the content online and credit the source as much as possible!

Need an idea? Try searching for images on Europeana. You can choose between Collections, Type of media, Country, etc and you can also use the “can I use this” filter and select “yes” for openly licensed content and follow our guidelines to appropriately credit the source’.

During the Digital Aperitivo Europeana Communicators will be there to support, inspire, and interact with you.

What we celebrate:

• literature – poetry, prose, pieces from books, words and quotes, proverbs, reading. Post your favourite pieces, quotes that you love, videos of you reading a passage, a video of an author reading his piece, etc.
• music – every genre of music, songs, videos, jazz, pop, rock, folk, etc. even your own song if you are an artist (or believe you are). Here you can feast on music of all kinds, and if you’re a musician why not sing/play/whistle your own song for the occasion? Let us listen to the music of your land; something that comes from far away yet makes us want to take the first train to reach you and listen to you in person.
• art – paintings, statues, museums, art galleries, archeological sites and libraries and archives and so on. Let us feel the art in all its forms, a museum that has touched your heart, a framework that tells us its story or maybe yours. If you are a GLAM invite us into your gallery, albeit virtually, and inspire us with your art and your story.
• food – recipes, tips, wine pairings and everything that tickles the palate. Organise a virtual tasting at home and…bon appetit! Let us visit your land through its gastronomy and the wines that it produces so that we can join you live to test them ‘for ourselves’!
• travel – lets travel virtually around your cities, villages, towns, our country. Let us discover that hidden corner in pictures or videos that you really cannot forget.

Wine Wagon, goederenwagon met twee wijnvaten by Meccano (Engeland) – Deventer Museums, Netherlands – CC BY-SA. https://www.europeana.eu/en/item/2021659/1974_0130

Join us in our Digital Aperitivo, wherever you are and wherever you may want to be!

Europeana’s Communicators Steering Group and other Europeana Network members are looking forward to interact with you, in English and in other languages too:

On Twitter

@cristinaroiu & @rdeacasa – Romanian, German, Russian and French
@EuropeanAd – Dutch, Spanish
@KillDowning – Irish (eeek)
@mariannmarcucci – Italian and French
@PSoemers – Dutch and German, some french
@susanhazan – Hebrew
@VayaPapadopoul – Greek
@MSanderhoff – Danish
@TamyBu – Serbian
@majadrabczyk – Polish
@LoaSteinunn – Icelandic
@peinadormarta – Spanish
@JJKoopmans – Frisian
@lcborges – Portugese
@NLsmartroots – Lithuanian
@OleinikTatyana – Ukrainian
@renies – Indonesian
@dafydd_tudur – Welsh
@daghensten – Norwegian
@Sadike25 – Dagbani
@LanaPajdas – Croatian

On Instagram

@europeanad – @mariannamarcucci – @psoemers -@MSanderhoff – @loakristjansdottir – @lanavonpajdas

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Culture these days has moved to the web, but museums, theatres, libraries, galleries, archives and places of culture would prefer to share their beauty more directly, as do culture lovers around the world. So that we can bring culture directly to you, Europeana Communicators invites everybody to a Digital Aperitivo where we can come together to celebrate culture in all its forms.

November 12th, From 4PM to 5.30PM (CET), resonating with Europeana’s theme “Crisis, change and culture” – we will reflect together on the role of culture in this tough period and will ask people to invade the web with culture. In this way we can revitalise our connection to our rich multicultural European Community; to be inspired, creative, while at the same time, have some fun. We will catch up on Zoom right before the start at 4.00 PM (CET) to provide instructions on how to participate.

Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España

You don’t have to be signed to the conference to participate to the Aperitivo but you’d miss an opportunity if you don’t! 

We invite conference participants, their respective networks and citizens worldwide to meet online; over social media, and via two dedicated hashtags (#Europeana2020 #DigitalAperitivo) to share the culture they love on Twitter and Instagram – please keep in mind that your post should be public to allow others to share, respond and comment, and if you’re sharing art from online collections, make sure you can legally share the content online and credit the source as much as possible!

Need an idea? Try searching for images on Europeana. You can choose between Collections, Type of media, Country, etc and you can also use the “can I use this” filter and select “yes” for openly licensed content and follow our guidelines to appropriately credit the source’.

During the Digital Aperitivo Europeana Communicators will be there to support, inspire, and interact with you.

What we celebrate:

• literature – poetry, prose, pieces from books, words and quotes, proverbs, reading. Post your favourite pieces, quotes that you love, videos of you reading a passage, a video of an author reading his piece, etc.
• music – every genre of music, songs, videos, jazz, pop, rock, folk, etc. even your own song if you are an artist (or believe you are). Here you can feast on music of all kinds, and if you’re a musician why not sing/play/whistle your own song for the occasion? Let us listen to the music of your land; something that comes from far away yet makes us want to take the first train to reach you and listen to you in person.
• art – paintings, statues, museums, art galleries, archeological sites and libraries and archives and so on. Let us feel the art in all its forms, a museum that has touched your heart, a framework that tells us its story or maybe yours. If you are a GLAM invite us into your gallery, albeit virtually, and inspire us with your art and your story.
• food – recipes, tips, wine pairings and everything that tickles the palate. Organise a virtual tasting at home and…bon appetit! Let us visit your land through its gastronomy and the wines that it produces so that we can join you live to test them ‘for ourselves’!
• travel – lets travel virtually around your cities, villages, towns, our country. Let us discover that hidden corner in pictures or videos that you really cannot forget.

Exijan el legitimo Pineral aperitivo : [affiche] / [Leonetto Cappiello]

Europeana’s Communicators Steering Group and other Europeana Network members are looking forward to interact with you, in English and in other languages too:

On Twitter:

@cristinaroiu & @rdeacasa – Romanian, German, Russian and French
@EuropeanAd – Dutch, Spanish
@KillDowning – Irish (eeek)
@mariannmarcucci – Italian and French
@PSoemers – Dutch and German, some french
@susanhazan – Hebrew
@VayaPapadopoul – Greek
@MSanderhoff – Danish
@Larissa_Borck – Swedish and German
@TamyBu – Serbian
@majadrabczyk – Polish
@LoaSteinunn – Icelandic
@Milena_Dobreva – Bulgarian
@peinadormarta – Spanish
@LanaPajdas – Croatian
@webumeniaSK – Slovak
@susannaanas – Finnish
@JJKoopmans – Frisian
@linditalohja – Albanian
@lcborges – Portugese
@NLsmartroots – Lithuanian
@OleinikTatyana – Ukrainian
@renies – Indonesian

On Instagram: @europeanad – @mariannamarcucci – @psoemers -@MSanderhoff – @kindofamuseumsnerd – @loakristjansdottir – @lanavonpajdas – @web_umenia – @susannaanas – @smartroots_eu

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From 24 March to 30 April 2020, close to 1000 museums in 48 countries contributed to the NEMO survey, a majority of them from Europe. As museums in Europe re-open, we need to listen to the community and learn from this crisis in order to effectively respond, mitigate and adapt. Closed museum doors have resulted in weekly income loss and new working methods and operations. The situation has also encouraged museums to explore more online alternatives to the traditional museum experience, which have been invaluable in these months of home confinement.

Directed at stakeholders at all levels, NEMO’s report includes recommendations urging for immediate action, for mid-term considerations and for long-term strategy with regard to:

1. Economic support for museum operations;
2. Investment in digital cultural heritage; and
3. Making museums fit for crises

Read the FULL REPORT HERE

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Up to holidays? Or at least to nice long summer days? We invite you to share on social media (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram) historical photographs of your favorite summer destination, your preferred airlines, railway stations, landscapes, cities, sports events – whatever you want! Being on holidays I always have moments questioning myself: “How did it look like over here 100 or 200 years ago? How was life at that time?”.

Ponte Goldoni, Venice 1914, Harald Bager (1856-1932), Collection Malmö Museer CC BY. Via Europeana. What would your Summer Picture show us?

A great source for that kind of pictures is Europeana Collections. This portal assembles items from archives, libraries and museums from all over Europe. Europeana was founded 10 years ago by the European Commission and the website now provides access to more than 50 million digitised items – photographs, artworks, books, music and more. Private people contributed as well and uploaded their beloved souvenirs and stories for special collections like 1914-1918 and Migration.

This Summer we want to start an easy ‘game’ by inviting you to download such items from Europeana and share them on your social media accounts. Post them with “#holidaywith @Europeanaeu” (Twitter) or “#holidaywith @europeana_eu” (Instagram) if you like!

Combinations of old phtographs, maps or artworks and new pictures (yours) or even self-made remixes could build bridges between past and present and enrich the lives of creators and followers! If you add the handles of Europeana to your posts, guys over there (as “Europeana” on Facebook and Pinterest as well) will follow your posts and maybe respond to them.

How do I find what I want in Europeana Collections? Supposing you are mostly using smartphones on holidays, I add over here some screenshots how it works best on them; there is no app available.

1. Open your browser and type www.europeana.eu (yes, a lot of vowels, the first time you can’t remember that so easily).

2. If the website isn’t speaking your language right from the beginning, tick MENU in the right upper corner and select your language. I’m based in the Netherlands, so the screenshot shows the site speaking Dutch to me.

3. Scroll down in order to see ‘tiles’ for the newest online exhibition and for the many collections available, e.g. Art, Fashion, Maps, Photography, Sport. Of course you could browse some Collections or Exhibitions before searching something specific you want to download and use or just want to share by linking. But we start diving deep over here, doing some searches. Whenever you want to go back to the beginning, just press “europeana collections” in the left upper corner.

4.a. To make it more comfortable for yourself, tick on tile “Free to use images”. Here you will find only images (no text or audio files) AND you don’t need to check if the material is copyright-protected! You are allowed to download, remix and share everything you find over here, without any hesitation!
You can select a specific collection afterwards, if you want, by ticking on the little arrow after the word “Filter”.

4.b. If you take the other way around (by selecting a specific collection at first) , you will be able – after doing a search – to select “Image” and “Free Re-use” as a Filter.

5. Let’s do a search for “Lucca” right now, after ticking tile “Free to use images”. Type the word and tick the magnifier symbol. That should bring up (after some seconds):

6. Scroll down to browse the results – there are 271 in total. If you want to get only photographs, tick the arrow after “Filter (2)”, scroll down and you get several collections to choose. Only after opening “More” you will be able to select “Photography”. This will reduce the results to only photographs:

Also this time you have to scroll down to see the results: 15 left.

In principle it is possible to add more search terms to narrow down the results. But many times this eliminates too many results because the delivering institutions come from so many countries and are speaking so many languages … They not always used the search terms you choose …
Better more scrolling and less narrowing down by adding search terms …

7. Let’s take the fist item: just tick on it. It’s the “Fassade der Kirche S. Michele, Lucca”. The picture comes from “Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe” in Hamburg/Germany, but the creator is “Fratelli Alinari”. Scrolling down shows more information. Here you will discover also an area for sharing and downloading, escorted by license information “CAN I USE IT”:

From here you can copy/share the link to the image or download it. You can even visit the page where the providing institution offers the image.

If you download the image and don’t share the link in your post, it would be very polite to mention the providing institution. License “CC BY” asks explicitely to do so. But that isn’t the case in here.

I just used the image in a tweet: Tweet by @PeterSoemers

And you can follow the conversation with the image of today’s Church of San Michele

Have fun, share and download, combine with your pictures, remix, enjoy!

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