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Cultural Content
and Digital
Heritage
Bernard Smith
European Commission
INFSO/D2
International Cooperation
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 cooperation on a project-by-project basis
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
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
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, ...
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
 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
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.
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Thank you