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Session

BELGICAWEB SYMPOSIUM

Time:

Monday, 20/Apr/2026:

10:00am - 11:00am

Location: PANORAMA [+6]

Floor: +6

Presentations

Digital Heritage for the Future - the BelgicaWeb Story

Julie M. Birkholz¹, Christina Vandendyck¹, Peter Mechant², George Caique Gouveia Barbosa², Dieter De Witte², Élodie Lecroart³

¹KBR, Royal Library of Belgium; ²Ghent University; ³University of Namur

This presentation will showcase the concluding results of BelgicaWeb (2024-2026), an innovative research project led by the Royal Library of Belgium (KBR) and funded by BELSPO. The project aimed to preserve and provide access to Belgium’s born-digital heritage through a multilingual, user-friendly platform and an API, ensuring FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). Key achievements include sustainable access strategies, robust data infrastructure, metadata enrichment, and legal framework analysis. The session will highlight how BelgicaWeb promotes Belgium’s digital heritage. The project brought together a consortium of partners with diverse expertise: CRIDS at UNamur for legal issues and IDLab, GhentCDH, and MICT at Ghent University for data enrichment, user engagement, and outreach. KBR coordinates the project, focusing on platform and API development and data enrichment.