img. Soldat dans la tranché (detail), 1914-1918, Marcel Roux, Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon, Public Domain.

In 2018 Europeana will run a campaign to commemorate the centenary of the end of the First World War. It will encourage public participation with and foster a connection to cultural heritage content through a centenary tour of on and offline events and activities. This campaign will build on and highlight the work of Europeana 1914-1918 since its start in 2011. This campaign will also be closely linked to the European Year of Cultural Heritage.

After seven years of successful and intense crowdsourcing, content gathering and community building throughout the continent, Europeana 1914-1918 has built up a unique position in the World War One commemoration landscape and one of the most successful community-centric services of Europeana to date. With contributions from events in Lisbon to Riga and in Nicosia to Dublin, Europeana 1914-1918 is the only source where to find material and stories from different countries and perspectives. And most of the material is explicitly made available for re-use.

The Europeana 1914-1918 Centenary Tour will start with the launch of a new online exhibition Visions of War, which brings together archive material from Europeana 1914-1918 and artworks held in museum collections. Every month it will highlight a different part of the Europeana 1914-1918 collection. The campaign will kick off in March with a focus on Denmark and related content. And in May the National History Museum in Athens will be hosting a Transcribathon.

More info: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/europeana-14-18-centenary-tour