Odeuropa Smell Culture Fair – Data Explorations
Channel: ODEUROPA
Date: 2024-01-19

During the data exploration sessions, participants at the Odeuropa Smell Culture Fair received demonstrations of the newly released Odeuropa Smell Explorer and the Encyclopaedia of Smell Heritage and Heritage .

The Odeuropa Smell Explorer (https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/) is an innovative online research tool that collates historical data from 23,000 images and 62,000 texts in six languages, leveraging machine learning to recognise and categorise olfactory elements. Users can explore significant smells of Europe, tracing how these were depicted, described, and experienced historically. 

The Encyclopaedia of Smell History and Heritage (https://encyclopedia.odeuropa.eu/) is an online reference tool that brings together academic and creative expertise on smell as a cultural phenomenon. The Encyclopedia seeks to identify, consolidate, and promote knowledge of the wide-ranging role scents and smelling have in our cultural heritage and history. It is composed of Wikipedia-like curated entries with descriptions of particular scents, smellscapes, noses, and feelings related to smells.