Transcript Diapositiva 1 - DC-NET

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DC-NET, Digital Cultural Heritage
Network
Giuliana DE FRANCESCO
Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali
Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane
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Content
• The project, aims and objectives
• Organisation
• Joining the network
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DC-NET Project
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The Project
• ERA-NET - Coordination action contributing to
the European Research Area Network
• Research field: e-Infrastructure for the digital
cultural heritage
• Duration: 24 months
• Start: December 2009
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Main aims
• Developing and strengthening the co-ordination of
public research programmes in the sector of digital
cultural heritage across Europe and beyond
• Foster the involvement and use of e-Infrastructures
• Integrating the research capacities of the participant
countries
• Preparing a plan of joint activities to deploy a
federated European e-Infrastructure for digital
cultural heritage
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Current situation 1/2
• The cultural sector demonstrates interest and capacity to
engage with ICT in order to pursue the own mission:
– Communicating cultural information and content
– Making accessible, promoting and enhancing heritage
collections
– Making research on cultural heritage
– Generating innovative educational products
• This results in projects, platforms, services for the
digitisation, preservation, access, contextualisation,
semantic interconnection, etc., of cultural and scientific
resources.
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Current situation 2/2
• However:
– The technology in use is often limited and limiting
– There is little or no use of e-Infrastructures
– The solution adopted are frequently driven by the
market offer rather than by the forefront results of the
research activities
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DC-NET Objectives 1/2
– Dialogue: To create a ongoing forum for the
dialogue between the community of the digital cultural
heritage and the e-Infrastructures
– Coordination: To generate a common awareness of
the reciprocal research focuses, identify communalities,
valorise existing projects, harmonise national
prorammes
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DC-NET Objectives 2/2
– Involvement: To involve all the relevant stakeholders,
bringing together
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Cultural Ministries
Research organisations
e-Infrastructures
Cultural institutions
– To enlarge the network to all the countries willing to join
– Commitment: To create a joint commitment among the
participating countries to initiate the implementation of
the joint activities plan
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Project Partners
• Italy: Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali - Istituto
Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (coordinator)
• Belgium: Politique scientifique fédéral/Federaal
Wetenschapsbeleid - STIS
• Estonia: Eesti Vabariigi Kultuuriministeerium
• France: Ministère de la Culture e la Communication –
Mission de la Recherce
• Greece: Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού [Hellenic Ministry of
Culture]
• Hungary: Oktatási Kulturális Minisztérium
• Slovenia: Ministrstvo za Kulturo Slovenia
• Sweden: Riksarchivet
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Project Activities 1/2
WP1 Network of common interest:
– Establish the network, define procedures and planning of the
working groups, identify the initial set of research priorities
WP2 e-Infrastructure awareness:
– Explore the e-Infrastructures available in each Member State, the
policies, programmes and regulations which govern the access
to the e-Infrastructures and the mechanisms and technical
standards that need to be complied with
– Establish operative liaisons with National Research and
Educational Networks (NREN) and GRID providers
(Memorandum of Understanding)
WP3 New service priorities:
– Review the research priorities of the cultural ministries in terms of
the new services which they wish to deliver using the eInfrastructures
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Project Activities 2/2
WP4 Technical Validation
– Evaluate technical feasibility, cost and sustainability for the
implementation of the digital cultural heritage e-Infrastructure
WP5 Dissemination:
– Technical and policy workshops
– Presidential conferences in Belgium and Hungary
– Publications, website
WP6 Joint Activities Plan:
– To draw up a Joint Research Agenda for digital cultural
heritage using e-Infrastructures
– To commit on the implementation of a Plan of Joint Activities,
to be carried out after the EC project funding.
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Antonella Fresa, MiBAC
EVA Moscow
30 November 2009
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Joint Activities Plan
The core of the Joint Activities Plan will be based on 3
main components:
1. The development of a range of guidelines and
recommendations for the exploitation of the e-Infrastructures
in the digital cultural heritage, based on the successful
approach of MINERVA
2. The deployment of a data and services infrastructure. This
e-infrastructure is an evolution of MICHAEL
3. The creation of a Multidisciplinary Virtual Research
Community
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Organisation
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Mechanism
• The DC-NET aims to combine networking at international
and at national level, and to complement a bottom-up with
a top-down approach.
• International WPs and National Working Groups are the
engine of the network and the key asset to ensure the
fulfilment of the project tasks
• The mutual interaction of the two levels will ensure the
engagement of the relevant stakeholders and the
achievement of the coordination across the three main fields
DC-NET is concerned with, while at the same time gathering
a wide range of inputs, issues, requirements, competences,
demands, knowledge, etc
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National Working Groups
• The National Working Groups are the mesh of the network and the
forum where the project activities take shape
• National Working Groups are composed of representatives of
institutions active in the field of digital technologies applied to CH:
– Ministry or other national Agency responsible for the cultural
policy, or institution mandated by them;
– Local authorities dealing with cultural policies at local level;
– Main cultural institutions engaged with digital services;
– Research organisations (University Departments; Research
Centres);
– e-Infrastructures of interest for the cultural sector for their
provision of technologies and networking and computing
services;
– Other outstanding cultural, scientific or technology organisations.
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National Working Groups
• Projects represented to date by DC-NET NWG members:
– ATHENA, CHAIN, D4Science, DL.org, DRIVER, EFG,
EUMedGrid, EUAsiaGrid, EuropeanaConnect, Europeana
V.1.0,, HOPE, OpenAIRE, TELplus, TrebleClef.
– MINERVA, MICHAEL, Caspar, Diligent, Delos, Bricks, Digital
Preservation Europe, Imagination, Multimatch
– National Research programmes and main initiatives such as
CulturalItalia, CultureFrance, etc.
– Regional programmes
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National Working Groups
• The interaction between National Working Groups and
International Work Packages will provide the ongoing
forum for coordination of European research in the field
of digital technologies applied to cultural heritage
• NWGs will offer the basis for the Virtual Research
Community
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National Referees
• The National Referees are the junction between the
national and the international level of the network
• Each participating country appoints a National Referee with
the task of carrying on the coordination of the network at
national level, reporting to the international network on
the outcome of the National Working Group activity
• The National Referee establishes the National Working
Group, takes care that all relevant stakeholders are
represented, makes sure that the NWG provides feedback to
the project WPs
• The DC-NET WP leaders address to the National Referees for
all the information and feedback required to fulfil the WP tasks
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Joining the network
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An open network
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The Network of Common Interest is intended to be open to
the participation of new countries in addition to the partners of
DC-NET
DC-NET is currently gathering expressions of interest. Any
country can participate (EU-27, Associated, Candidate, FP7
ICPC, and beyond)
A Cooperation Agreement is under preparation. It will cover:
– Participation to international technical activities
– Access and use of DC-NET produced materials
– Participation to dissemination activities
– Report on dissemination initiatives
– Participation to the Advisory Body
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Thank you for your kind attention!
Any questions?
Giuliana De Francesco
<[email protected]>
http://www.dc-net.org
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