cultural content and digital heritage bernard smith european commission infso/d2
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Cultural Content and Digital Heritage
Bernard SmithEuropean Commission
INFSO/D2
30-31 fully participating countries: -the 15 EU Member States-Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Israel,
-Switzerland (by 2001)-the 11 accession countries
All programmes are open for international co-operation on a project-by-project basis
Science & Technology Agreements with USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia, etc.
International Cooperation
Multimedia Content & Tools
Publishing & MediaEducation, Culture &
Knowledge
Multimedia Content
Language & Content Technologies
Strategic RTD objectives through to 2005: improve the accessibility of Europe’s scientific
and cultural collections (cultural landscape)
focus on high-quality representations of artefacts
and collections
generate new digital art forms, including
performing arts
develop sustainable cultural environments
provide a test platform for technology trials
Cultural Heritage
Cultural Heritage
Building on what? nature, quality and value of the content
communities of providers (museums, archives, libraries, performing arts, ...), professionals and users
ownership of key research problems
strategies that create competitive edge in a cultural economy
a lasting “info-structure” of technologies, test-beds, guidelines, standards, new alliances, human and institutional networks, ...
“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
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)
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
preservation of and access to valuable multimedia content from multiple sources, covering electronic materials and electronic surrogates of fragile physical objects
take-up: a key aspect will be validations and demonstrations”
RTD objectives extract from the IST Programme
Digital Heritage & Cultural Content
Support Measures
Delos: A Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries reference point for Digital Library projects by ERCIM in France
Cultivate-EU: Cultural Heritage Applications Network pan-European network of memory organisations by the Deutsches
Bibliotheksinstitut in Germany
Cultivate-CEE: extension of Cultivate-EU to Central and Eastern Europe bis
CELIP: Central and Eastern European Licensing Information Platform
library training project by EBLIDA in The Netherlands
Support Measures
Electronic Imaging and The Virtual Art
Networking addition of an Israeli node to Cultivate A European Virtual Library A European Network of Public Libraries bis
A Platform for Interchange Ontology Standardisation bis
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:
raise awareness on the IST programme within European memory organisations
provide information services, information days, and individual advice for memory organisations considering participating in the IST programme
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.
