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Cooperative National Project of Digitisation of Archival, Library and Museum Holdings

“Croatian Cultural Heritage”

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Jozo IvanovićCroatian State Archivjivanov@arhiv.hr

Goran ZlodiDepartment of Information SciencesFaculty of Humanities and Social Sciencegzlodi@ffzg.hr

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Cooperative National Project of Digitisation of ALM Holdings

Initiative of the Ministry of Culture, National and University Library and Croatian Library Council (2005)

Holders of the programme: Ministry of Culture National and University Library Croatian State Archives Museum Documentation Centre

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Why cooperative ALM approach?

fragmented resources and activities various level of quality of existing

digital collections common procedures of digital

content management uniqe opportunity to enable

integrated access to cultural heritage

common users !

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What is Cooperative national project of digitisation ?

not an all-inclusive and closed digitisation project the primary goal of which is to produce specific digital contents

framework for encouraging and developing a greater number of individual and adapted projects and activities on the digitisation of cultural heritage

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Selection criteria Methodology, standards,

interoperability overcome of fragmentation of

resources and activities Product shaping and management Long-term preservation, sustainability

and usability of products and service Expenses

Key issues

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Digitisation = “Digitisation” + Metadata + Providing on-line access + Rights management + Long-term preservation

Digitisation ≠ “digitisation”

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Accordance with European initiatives in the field of information society:

eEurope 2005 Action Plan (2002-2005)

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/2005/index_en.htm

eEurope+http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/plus/index_en.htm

i2010 A European Information Society for growth and employment (2005-2010)http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/i2010/index_en.htm

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Accordance with fundamental documents in the field of digitisation of heritage:

Lund Principles, 2001ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/ist/docs/digicult/lund_principles-en.pdf

Lund Action Plan, 2001http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/i2010/index_en.htm

Charter of Parma 2003http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure/nrg/documents/charterparma031119final-hr.htm

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Objectives (1) The complete digitisation of material in the

long term leads to the creation of recognizable and relevant contents and “cultural space” in the electronic environment.

Services based on these contents are readily accessible to all interested parties while selected contents could be accessed in accordance with usability rules through networking.

Produced digital contents are adapted, adequately formed and processed according to adopted norms and good practices which enable their inclusion in European, regional and other cultural contents and services networks.

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Objectives (2) Digital collections are comprehensive and

usable in the forming and supply of educational, tourist and other similar service contents.

Digital collections are part of the organised management system which offers sufficient guarantees for their permanent preservation and availability.

Institutions whose resources are not sufficiently developed shall not be deprived of the possibility to digitise their materials.

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Activities

Elaboration of standards and guidelines for the digitisation of material

Establishment of support and monitoring systems for the digitisation projects.

Establishment of cooperative digital archives

Portal “Croatian cultural heritage” quick access to the digital collections support for digitisation activities

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Initiative of the Ministry of Culture, National and University Library and Croatian Library Council (2005)

Working group of 13 representatives from archive, library and museum communities developed “The national programme of digitisation of archival, library and museum holdings” (2005-2006)

Agreement on co-operation on the implementation of National Project “Croatian Cultural Heritage” (Ministry of Culture, National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatian State Archives and Museum Documentation Centre): 03-2006

Chronology (1):

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Council and Office of the National Project of Digitisation: 03-2007

Working groups for drawing up of standards and guidelines for: - WG1 Selection criteria and preparation for digitisation- WG2 Digitisation procedures- WG3 File formats (for preservation and access)- WG4 Digital collections development- WG5 Quality control of digitisation procedures

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Questionnaire on existing digital collections and on-going projects : 07 - 2007

Call for open tender for the digitisation projects : 15.07.-15.09.2007. (58 projects applied)

Department for digitisation of library, archival and museum holdings (within the Ministry of Culture)

Start of “Croatian Cultural Heritage” portal development. 09-2007

Development of Data model (adopted and adapted Michael-EU data model) 10-2007.

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from November 20th 2007 visit new portal “Croatian Cultural Heritage” on

www.kultura.hr