Transcript Diapositiva 1 - DC-NET

DC-NET: a European Network for
Digital Cultural Heritage Research
Kick-off meeting
Rome, 17-18 December 2009
Rossella CAFFO
Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali
Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane
DC-NET in a glance
• DC-NET is an ERA-NET - Coordination action
contributing to the European Research Area
Network
• Research field: e-infrastructure for the digital
cultural heritage
• Duration: 24 months
• Starting 1st December 2009
• Total funding: 649.999 €
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The starting point
• The cultural sector has a strong interest and
capacity to engage with ICT:
– Digitisation and preservation
– Access services
– Research
• However:
– The technology which is in use is often limited and
limiting
– There is little or no use of e-Infrastructures
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The project approach
Four main lines:
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Integration of the research
Refocus the research priorities
Co-ordination of national and EU programmes
Development of a plan of joint activities and
commitment of the partners to carry it out
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Integration of the research
– To create (and continue where already existing)
conditions and instruments for a stable
cooperation:
• among the cultural institutes and institutions in Europe,
• between the cultural sector and the world of the eInfrastructure and the research
– To valorise existing resources and projects
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MICHAEL and MINERVA
eInfrastructure projects
ICT research projects
eContent projects
National initiatives and portals
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Research priorities
We assisted in the last 2 years to a shift of priorities, from
digitisation to the European portal (Europeana).
Refocus the research priorities of the digital
cultural heritage in Europe on the production and
management of digital content:
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Cost reduction
Sustainability
Multilingualism
Search engines
Preservation,
etc.
 Cooperation between the cultural and the research
sector
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Coordination of programmes
• To build a common strategic vision for the eInfrastructure development in the field of the
digital cultural heritage
• To re-launch a think-tank of the actual
programme owners, where Ministries can
discuss the harmonisation of their
programmes and the coordination of their
initiatives
• To develop and to endorse a research agenda
for a European e-Infrastructure for the digital
cultural heritage, shared among the Member
States and the
European
Commission
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Joint Activities Plan
The core of the joint activities will be based on 3
main components:
1. The development of a range of guidelines and
recommendations for the exploitation of the eInfrastructures 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 that will start to work in DC-NET.
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A medium-long term vision
• DC-NET is a first step to open a full line of
research and development for the coming years
• The Joint Activities Plan should represent the
structure for the work to be done and to be
committed by the Programme Owners
• Communication and Training activities will be
initiated already during the DC-NET project
Final aim: to deploy a wide, comprehensive and
federated European e-Infrastructure for digital
cultural heritage
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Impacts
• Impact on the e-Infrastructures:
– The adoption of the e-Infrastructures by the digital cultural
heritage community will open new scenarios of use and
exploitation
• Impact on the cultural heritage
– Cultural managers will become more awareness about the
potential that the e-infrastructures can offer to their work
• Impact on European research:
– A better integration of the cultural sector with the eInfrastructures will enable the research of new advanced
services and applications
• Impact on the general public:
– Digital cultural content will become more usable and re-usable
for education, cultural tourism, long-life learning, nonprofessional cultural interests, …
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Next appointments
Public launch event
• High-level public event to inform the cultural
sector and to gather the attention of the political
level
• Tentative date: 1st half of February 2010
• Proposed venue: Rome, Santa Marta
Call for ideas
• Project logo
• Website graphics
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Thank you for your attention
Rossella Caffo
DC-NET Project Manager
[email protected]
www.dc-net.org
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