Interoperable, collaborative, digital: about the data space
The common European data space for cultural heritage is a flagship initiative of the European Commission. It enables the open and trustworthy sharing of cultural heritage data across Europe through innovative technical infrastructure, a rich suite of tools, standards and frameworks and a vibrant and collaborative community.
Led by the Europeana Initiative, the data space empowers cultural heritage institutions and European Union Member States to embrace and drive digital transformation. As one of the 14 interoperable common European data spaces funded through the DIGITAL Europe Programme, it is central to Europe’s ambition of building a thriving, data-driven society.
A new home for the data space
If you work in, with or around cultural heritage, the data space’s new website is for you!
Building on its previous online presence, the website offers a gateway to explore the rich data offer, products, frameworks, tools, activities, events and projects, as well as the vibrant community and committed network of partners that bring the data space for cultural heritage to life. It also provides access to a suite of data space products – ranging from the Europeana Academy and training platform to the Statistics Dashboard and Europeana.eu.
The homepage gives you an overview of what the data space is, what it offers and how you can get involved. It also offers you quick access to products like Europeana.eu and the Europeana APIs, so you start using data in the data space immediately, and to the Europeana Network Association, so that you can join its community of professionals today.
The about the data space page offers a deeper dive into the work of the data space, and tells you more about its partners, key facts and figures and impact.
The explore the data space page spotlights the projects, training, tools and events the data space offers, as well as the latest news from across the ecosystem.
The explore the collections page provides direct links to the data in the data space, made available through Europeana.eu or the aggregators who support cultural heritage institutions across Europe to share their data.
A multilingual experience
We are delighted that, using the automated translation service of the European Commission, the website is now available in the 24 official languages of the European Union. We hope that this will mean that even more people across Europe – and the world – can discover and make use of all the data space has to offer.
Follow the developments
As the data space grows, we will continue to develop and enrich the website, so stay tuned for important updates through news posts and the Europeana LinkedIn and Bluesky accounts. We also encourage you to share this news with your networks and colleagues so that they can discover and benefit from the data space.