funded by the european commission 1 ist programme cultural content and digital heritage

Funded by the European Commission

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IST Programme

Cultural Content and Digital Heritage


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• Context - strategic objectives

• Results to date

• Workprogramme 2001

–ALIII.1.2 - background, objectives & scope

–ALIII.1.3 - background, objectives & scope

–Support actions

• Practical information on good practice

Cultural Content & Digital Heritage


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Key issues

Strategic RTD objectives through to 2005:

• improve the accessibility of Europe’s scientific and cultural collections (cultural landscape)

• develop sustainable cultural environments• focus on high-quality representations of artefacts and collections• provide a test platform for technology trials• expanding the vision towards other areas of cultural multimedia

activities

driven by the research problem not the content


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Core research agenda

• unified access - easy, integrated access for the user to multiple collections, and formats

– access, navigation, interoperability & networking• improved functions and services from digital collections

– systems and tools for managing resources, digital objects, high volume resources

• digital preservation - sustainability over time

– digitisation & surrogates; born-digitalImplemented through annual workprogrammes defined in Action Lines


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Calls– 1 March 1999 - III.2.3: Access to scientific & cultural heritage

– 2 Oct. 1999 - III.2.4: Preservation of cultural heritage

– 3 Feb. 2000 - III.1.4: Access to digital collections of cultural & scientific content

– 4 July 2000 - III.1.6: Virtual representations of cultural & scientific objects

III.1.5: Trials on new access modes to cultural & scientific content

– 6 Jan. 2001 - Heritage for all

- Next generation digital collections

- 7 July 2001 - Building e-Business, Cross-programme opportunities, General information, Multimedia Content and Tools, New Methods of Work and e-Commerce, Services for Citizens, Technologies Research [closes 17 Oct.]


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Basic Facts

No. ofProposals

No. of SelectedProjects

TotalFundingMeuro

1 73 13 19.8

2 68 8 12.7

3 54 10 14.0

4 83 32(incl.trials)

14.6

6Totals 278 63 61.1


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Projects and emerging clusters

• Cluster 1: DL applications– distributed resources, DL models and

tools– multiple formats - text to broadcast

archives– cultural (eg fine arts) and scientific

(data & software) resources– metadata and interoperability– new services and business models

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Digital libraries clusters

• Film and video heritage

– access - ECHO distributed library of film archives; COLLATE - collaboratory on archive film data

– restoration - BRAVA - impaired film

– preservation & access - PRESTO, AMICITIA

• Access to cross-domain resources

– COVAX - integrating access to ALMs via XML DTDs

– LEAF - distributed name authority system for accessing archival and library materials


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Digital libraries clusters• EU-wide infrastructures for quality content

– RENARDUS, TEL, ETB: resources for research and for schools

• New digital libraries models

– ARTISTE - high quality image banks of paintingsARION - scientific data and software

– CYCLADES - developing services on OAi data

– MIND - resource selection and data fusion for multimedia international digital libraries


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Projects and emerging clusters• Cluster 2: Virtual Heritage

– visual representations using streaming video, animation, 3-D, VR

– enhancing learning and game playing

– improving user interactions and understanding of content.

– innovative Web-based services


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Virtual Heritage clusters

– Improving learning: ASH (virtual classroom for space heritage & astronomy), RENAISSANCE (new genre of game on a virtual court), and VAKHUM (kinematic model for joint articulation)

– Virtual guides & tours of archaeological sites (ARCHEOGUIDE, PAST)

– Virtual museums - robotic guides & personalised navigation/tours (TOURBOT, MESMUSES)

– Tools for preservation/conservation - art images (CRISATEL) and reconstructing archaelogical artefacts (3D MURALE)


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Projects and emerging clusters

• Cluster 3: Culture economy: new business models

– creating an open framework for a European cultural economy (OPEN HERITAGE)

– building regional networks supporting a cultural economy (REGNET)


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Support Measures• NETWORKS - aimed at partnerships, dissemination and awareness,

consensus building

– Digital libraries: DELOS– Cultural institutions (archives, libraries, museums): CULTIVATE -

European, Central European, Israeli and Russian nodes– Visual arts and electronic imaging - EVAN– European wide framework for cooperation between national

libraries - TEL– European network for public libraries: PULMAN


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Support measures• FOCUSED ACTIONS - aimed at specific topics & issues

– licensing awareness and training in CEE - CELIP

– museum ontology standards - support for input to ISO work

– monitoring European library economics for international benchmarking [LIBECON]


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Workprogramme 2001

• Established in conjunction with workshops held in 2000

• Participants - key actors from technology providers, research community, cultural/memory organisations and public sector bodies

• 2 Action Lines:

– III.1.2 Heritage for All– III.1.3 Next generation digital collections


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AL III.1 2 - Heritage for AllAims to:

• Improve synergies and cooperation between cultural institutions

• Increase visibility and improve content building by local/regional institutions

• Encourage a bottom-up, grass roots approach - mobilise, examples of good practice

• Overcome social and cultural exclusion

Establishing an infrastructure for a dynamic citizen-driven record of the cultural scene across Europe


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AL III.1 2 - Heritage for All• Objective

– Support online communities in creating &documenting the digital record of their societies

– Safeguard this record for the future

• Focus– Local resources in the global context - replicable experiments in

creating, discovering & aggregating local resources

– Active participation of end users through online communities

– Digital archiving and community memory

Timeline:3-7 years


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Next generation digital collections

• Aims to:– Build on previous access and DL work - develop

leadership & excellence in research– Address new distinct communities of users

– Improve resource interoperability & comparability

– Address issues surrounding diversity of content and its accessibility over time

Developing content infrastructures for inclusive cultural ecologies


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• Objective:

– Improve access: quality, quantity for citizens & professionals

• Focus:– Advanced DL applications - visualisation & VR in DLs large

scale networking archive/lib/museum resources

– Thematic ‘contextualised’ collections - interoperability, ontologies, schemas

– User-driven - collaboratories, personalisation

– Dynamic content - preservation & archiving reference environments

AL III.1.3: Next generation digital collectionsTimeline:3-7 years


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III.5.1 x-Content futures

• Experimental AL, open throughout WP2001• New concepts and paradigms • Breakthrough research / high risk• Topics between / beyond current AL‘s in KA3• Time to market: 0-10 years (breakthrough RTD is not

necessarily long-term !)

• Initial phases of RTD projects as well as full blown RTD


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III.5.2 Competence building• Multimedia skills acquisition

– Addressing the IT/multimedia skills gap in Europe

– Experimenting with innovative multimedia systems and tools. “Train the trainers” rather than endusers

• Access to competence in multimedia

– Reinforcing European leadership for the future, via:

– World-class competence centres existing or emerging

– Benchmarking: developments, technology adoption...

– Sustainable business models / clear exit strategies

– Contract type: Access


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III.5.3 KA3 specific support measures

• Turnaround in 2001: increased emphasis on demonstrating, assessing & disseminating results, as programme reaches completion

• Impact analysis: benchmarking of RTD results, comparative analysis against international developments and future markets

• Spread of know-how: active dissemination of lessons learnt outside the programme

• … to be communicated widely in print and electronic form, at relevant events, etc


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Practical information: partnerships• Players (consortia of European dimension)

– Cultural institutions - archives, libraries, museums– Local and regional authorities (Heritage for All)– Public/private sector partnerships for technologies– Research institutes and universities (esp. DLs)

• Cooperation

– National and regional programmes for heritage & digitisation (Heritage for All)

– Other national and international DL programmes - specifically EU/NSF agreement


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• Vertical (technological) RTD project: technology challenges, mid to long-term, technology & research

teams lead, content owners - needs, validation, content, demo of service applications

• Horizontal (integrative) RTD project:

consensus driven, EU-wide infrastructures, scalability of integration, alliances multiple institutional players, organisational/service innovation, unique ownership of content or uniquely competent to deliver the service

Practical information: project models


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Practical information: Support Actions

Network of excellence:– consensus building network - open to new members and to

international cooperation

– creates a large and sustainable EU-wide intellectual and technical infrastructure

– complex collection of interrelated tasks, and including an on-going EU research agenda

Working groups:– simple platform for co-operation with short-term, well focused

objectives

– the first steps in confidence building, creating consensus and co-operative working


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dos and don’ts - from experienceWarning signs - why proposals are rejected by evaluators

– technology proposal relevance to culture not proven or too general

– access proposal: “business as usual” portals or Web sites

– cultural proposal: focus on unique or valuable physical objects but having no understanding of the technology aspects - not transferable

Practical information


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Practical information

dos and don’ts - from experienceMore reasons why proposals are rejected by evaluators

– claim access BUT……

reality simple digitisation proposal

– “ignore everyone else” proposal: no state-of-the-art and no references to other work

– “echo” proposals: echo the call text, the guidelines, ...


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Cultural content & digital heritage

Remember: real needs - solutions that people want

research with a purpose -meeting a challenge

realistic objectives - practical results

replicability of results - solutions others can use

right team - develop new alliances

reinforce - value and visibility of our cultural institutions


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