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Challenges in and chances for

digitisation of cultural heritage in

Europe

Monika Hagedorn-Saupe, IfM

Introduction

Focus:

• Activities and funding possibilities of digitisation and

for making accessible Cultural Heritage in Europe

• Strategy in Germany

Not Focussing:

Other challenges: necessary standards, terminologies,

etc.


Europe

• Never before has cultural heritage been dealt

with so prominently in an EU-treaty as in the

Lisbon Treaty .

• For the European Union the preservation of

cultural heritage is of high importance.

Therefore, the European Commission actively

promotes these principles within the framework

for cooperation on culture policy and

implementation of different concrete actions.


Funding of CH

European Union

• European libraries, archives and museums contain a wealth of information, representing the richness of Europe’s history, its cultural diversity and its scientific achievements.

• The need to digitize Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage was already recognized by the European Commission in the e-Europe action plan.


Mapping of Cultural Heritage in EU-Policies, Programmes and Actions

• Creative Europe Programme (2014 to 2020)

• ERASMUS+ (2014-2020) (DG EAC)

• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (2014-2020) (DG RTD)

� Cohesion Policy (2014 to 2020)

� Connect

� Horizon 2020

� Enterprise and Industry

� Internal Market

� Common Agricultural Policy (2014-2020): Rural Development Gateway 2014-2020

� Maritime Policy

� Environment Policy (Environment Action Plan to 2020)

� Cultural Heritage in External Relations and Development Policies and Programmes



http://www.welcomeurope.com/european-subsidies-sector-Culture+Media.html

Relevant documents for the digitization of cultural heritage in EU (1/2)

� 2005 – Letter of six Heads of State and Government advocated the creation of a virtual European library

� 2005: European Parlament and the Council decision on establishing a multiannual Community programme to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable

� 2005: Commissions communication ‘i2010-Strategy for Information Society and the media working towards growth and jobs

� 2005: Commissions communication : ‘i2010: digital libraries’

� 2006: Commissions communication on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation

� 2008: Council conclusions: European Digital Library

� 2008: Commissions communication: Europe’s cultural heritage with a click


Relevant documents for the digitization of cultural heritage in EU (2/2)

� 2009: Commissions communication: Europeana – next steps

� 2010: Decision of the European Parlament on Digitisation

� 2010 : Council conclusions on

� 2010: Commissions communication: Digital Agenda for Europe

� 2011: Report of the Comité des Sages: „The new Renaissance“

� 2012: Commissions recommendations on digitization

� 2012: Council conclusion on digitization

� 2013: Directive on orphan works

� 2013: Directive on reuse of public sector information (PSI)

• 2014: Digitisation, online accessibility and digital preservation. REPORT on the Implementation of CommissionRecommendation 2011/711/EU 2011-2013


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Vision

“A digital library that is a single, direct and multilingual access point to the European

cultural heritage.”

European Parliament, 27 September 2007

“A unique resource for Europe's distributed cultural heritage… ensuring a common

access to Europe's libraries, archives and museums.”

Horst Forster, Former Director, Digital Content & Cognitive Systems

Information Society Directorate, European Commission

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Europeana

Europeana

� www.europeana.eu under development since 2008

� Interface available in 23 languages of the EU

� Content from all EU Member States

� To allow access to Cultural Heritage from everywhere at any time

� to attract attention to existing cultural objects

� as a resource that connects interested persons from the general

and the scientific public

� To support the educational tasks of public institutions

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Link„Collection Days“

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Europeana Strategie-Plan 2015-2020

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Europeana API

� Europeana: initiative with high political support on European level

� Several EU-Member States have started to create a national

equivalent:

� Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek (Germany)

� CulturaItalia

� CultureFrance

� Museum Public Portal (Estonia)

� Expo @ Acrosslimits (Malta)

� …

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Europeana: National Aggregators

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Currently:

31,08,999 objects can be accessedthrough Europeana

Of which:

18,826,810 images11,927,632 texts

505,257 audio234,248 film/video15,052 3D objects

- Europeana until today mainly poject funded

- (so far: 7th Framework Pogramme (Funding of Europeana andEuropeana-related projects

- from 2015: in Horizon 2020 : Creative Industry

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- CEF – Connecting Europe Facility (Digital Service Infrastructure –TELECOM)

(special status: 100 %)

8,9 Millionen Euro für 2015/16(core and aggregators)

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Expectation: to generate income

- Digital Economy and Society (Digitale Plattform – Portal)

- Long term: Ko-funding from EU – Member States???20

• Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) - Access to digital resources of European heritage

• The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) is one of the key initiatives proposed by the Commission in the context of its package for delivering sustainable growth and jobs, directly related to the Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth.

• Funding for digital services aims to help building infrastructure needed to roll out e-ID, eProcurement, electronic health care records, Europeana, eJustice and customs-related services. It also wants to ensure interoperability and meet the costs of running the infrastructure at European level, linking up Member States' infrastructures.

• CEF will fund the continuous coordination, operation, maintenance, enhancement and promotion of the central services of the Europeana portal and infrastructure and related networks including.

• CEF will fund also generic services, like the aggregation of content held by cultural institutions and private content holders in the Member States; crowd-sourcing facilities encouraging interactivity; user-friendly services for the portal as well as cross-language access.


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Europeana 2015

• Germany– E-Government-law

– German Nation Library law

– Archive law

– Due to the political system in Germany there is no overall master plan to the digitisation of Germany’s cultural heritage so far

– Culture is in the responsibility of the Länders

– However, several initiatives to coordinate digitisationprojects on the federal state level, on the level of the Länder and/or federal level do exist:


• Best practise:

• Servicestelle Digitalisierung Berlin (http://www.servicestelledigitalisierung.de )

• Koordinierungsstelle brandenburg-digital (http://www.servicestelledigitalisierung.de )

• German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft : www.dfg.de ).

• Digital Library (DDB), http://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de


www.museum-digital.de

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thematic

German Digital Library (DDB)


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aims: - easier access to digital content from scientific and cultural heritage

institutions

- national aggregator for Europeana

- support for institutions contributing content

- communication und information plattform (relating to digitisation)

- provide cooperative workspace

participants:

archives, libraries, museums, monument protection, scientific institutions

media:

books, 3-dimeonsional objecte, manuscripts, images, audio, video

target groups:

education and research, schools, media, general public

DDB

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network of

competence

DigiCult museums

Schleswig-Holstein

State, Regional, and University Library

of Saxony Dresden

State and University

Library of Lower

Saxony Göttingen

Bavarian State Library Munich

German National Library

Frankfurt/Leipzig

State Archives Baden-

Württemberg Stuttgart

German Film Institute Frankfurt

State Office of Bran-

denburg for Preser-

vation of Monuments

Max Planck Institute

for the History of

Science Berlin

Federal Archive of Germany

Koblenz/Berlin

Library Service Centre

Baden-Würt-temberg

Konstanz

Digital archive of art

and culture Düsseldorf

Prussian Cultural

Heritage Foundation

www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de

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• Funding from „Konjunkturprogramm II“ (Economics growth

programme) - Ministry of Economics Affaires

until end of 2011: 7,8 M€

Funding from BKM

in 2013 to go from beta to release 1.0: 1,0 M€

• Joint funding by the BKM and the 16 Länders

from 2011: 2,6 M€/p.a.

(according to the agreement signed by ministers,

run time: five years, first evaluation took place

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