Creating a Digital Cultural Heritage Community

In this course, participants are taught how to create a community for digital cultural heritage through innovative practices for user engagement. KU Leuven University teaches the course through edX, an online education platform.

This course provides in-depth information about digital curation and annotation to professionals and volunteers in cultural heritage institutions, as well as teachers, students and amateurs. It discusses the use of online repositories, cutting-edge tools and digital strategies to stimulate true interaction and dialogue. Among many other examples, tit takes a look at the use case of Europeana, the digital portal for European cultural heritage content.

Some of the topics covered in the course are:

• Introduction to Kaleidoscope and CultureMoves projects
• Creating and reflecting on user engagement with online collections
• Strategies used to educate audiences
• Access and use of digital repositories and platforms
• Creative engagement with photography and dance content