Cultural Content and Digital Heritage Bernard Smith European Commission INFSO/D 2
International Cooperation y 30 -31 fully participating countries: -the 15 EU Member States -Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Israel, -Switzerland (by 2001) -the 11 accession countries y. All programmes are open for international cooperation on a project-by-project basis y. Science & Technology Agreements with USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia, etc.
Multimedia Content & Tools Publishing & Media Education, Culture & Knowledge Multimedia Content Language & Content Technologies
Cultural Heritage y. Strategic RTD objectives through to 2005: 4 improve the accessibility of Europe’s scientific and cultural collections (cultural landscape) 4 focus on high-quality representations of artefacts and collections 4 generate new digital art forms, including performing arts 4 develop sustainable cultural environments 4 provide a test platform for technology trials
Cultural Heritage y. Building on what? 4 nature, quality and value of the content 4 communities of providers (museums, archives, libraries, performing arts, . . . ), professionals and users 4 ownership of key research problems 4 strategies that create competitive edge in a cultural economy 4 a lasting “info-structure” of technologies, test-beds, guidelines, standards, new alliances, human and institutional networks, . . .
Digital Heritage & Cultural Content “The work on digital heritage and cultural content will aim to improve access to cultural patrimony, facilitate its valorisation and stimulate cultural development by expanding the key contribution of libraries, museums and archives to the emerging 'culture economy', including economic, scientific and technological development. Actions will particularly address new digital processes and cover business and economic models, especially those which stimulate new partnerships through networking and new services for the citizen” extract from the IST Programme
Digital Heritage & Cultural Content y integrate and improve access to heterogeneous distributed and networked collections and repositories and the information they hold, in digital and traditional form (e. g. library holdings, museum exhibition material, public archive contents, multimedia art or sound archives, digital film collections and digital cinematic distribution networks) y improving the functionalities of large-scale repositories of content by providing rich and powerful interactive features and advanced management and copyright techniques RTD objectives extract from the IST Programme
Digital Heritage & Cultural Content y preservation of and access to valuable multimedia content from multiple sources, covering electronic materials and electronic surrogates of fragile physical objects y take-up: a key aspect will be validations and demonstrations” RTD objectives extract from the IST Programme
Support Measures 4 Delos: A Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries reference point for Digital Library projects by ERCIM in France 4 Cultivate-EU: Cultural Heritage Applications Network pan-European network of memory organisations by the Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut in Germany 4 Cultivate-CEE: extension of Cultivate-EU to Central and Eastern Europe bis 4 CELIP: Central and Eastern European Licensing Information Platform library training project by EBLIDA in The Netherlands
Support Measures 4 Electronic Imaging and The Virtual Art Networking 4 addition of an Israeli node to Cultivate 4 A European Virtual Library 4 A European Network of Public Libraries bis 4 A Platform for Interchange Ontology Standardisation bis 4 Monitoring European Library Economics for International Benchmarking bis
Cultivate-EU Objectives: A European Cultural Heritage Network will be established. It will provide a platform for memory institutions to exchange experience, and to dialogue with national authorities and professional associations. The network will also provide proactive information and awareness services targeting Europe’s memory institutions. Issues such as cataloguing, conservation, imaging, e-commerce, IPR management, meta-data, etc. will be discussed.
Cultivate-EU Potential Benefits: 4 raise awareness on the IST programme within European memory organisations 4 provide information services, information days, and individual advice for memory organisations considering participating in the IST programme 4 link European memory institutions to national administrations and professional bodies to reinforce the relationship between institutions and the citizen
Work Programme 2001 Competence building Access to competence in multimedia Provide access to advanced emerging technologies and services, knowledge and competence relevant to multimedia systems and services, via world-class competence centres already existing or emerging in Europe. A common objective is to benchmark developments and the adoption of new technologies in the domains targeted. Such centres should be able to demonstrate leadership qualities in their respective domains of competence. The sustainability of such services must be established based upon well-articulated requirements and convincing business models.
e-mail: bernard. smith@cec. eu. int www. europa. eu. int www. cordis. lu Thank you
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