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Unit 'Learning and Cultural Heritage'

Access to and preservation of cultural & scientific resources Strategic Objective 2.5.10 IST Work Programme 2005-2006. Unit 'Learning and Cultural Heritage' Directorate-General 'Information Society and Media' Directorate 'Content'. Cultural heritage applications – our evolving work.

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Unit 'Learning and Cultural Heritage'

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  1. Access to and preservation ofcultural & scientific resourcesStrategic Objective 2.5.10IST Work Programme 2005-2006 Unit 'Learning and Cultural Heritage' Directorate-General 'Information Society and Media' Directorate 'Content'

  2. Cultural heritage applications – our evolving work • FP5 clusters on: • semi-automated digitisation and pre-servation for audio-visual content and film • prototypes of different types of digital libraries & services, e.g. for text, for audio-visual • intelligent heritage for museums and archaeological sites • community memory and services for the citizen • networking institutions and technical coordinating

  3. Results of FP6 Call 1 • 8 projects for ca. € 36 million • Integrated Project (IP) on next generation digital library services – components for content management (in distributed architectures) and access (BRICKS) • IP on historic film and video restoration, digitisation and preservation – factory toolkit for widespread use by all types of audio visuall and film archives (PRESTOSPACE) • Network of Excellence on digital library research (links to NSF) (DELOS)

  4. Results of FP6 Call 1 • Network of Excellence on reconstruction and visualisation (EPOCH) • Coordination Action targeting local/regional cultural institutions, 'operationalisation' of research results and input to future research (CALIMERA) • Coordination Action for consolidation of policy initiatives with programmes and practice in the digitisation area (MINERVA) • 2 Specific Targeted Research Projects on 3-D modelling and 3G site guides (TNT and AGAMEMNON)

  5. Results of FP6 Call 3 • Objective of Call – to build awareness ofopportunities in the enlarged Europe • For Learning and Cultural Heritage, building on the TEL (The European Library) project, this resulted in one Specific Support Action centred on the role of the national libraries in all 10 new Member States in networking support for proposals (TEL-ME-MOR) • http://telmemor.net

  6. Cultural heritage applications research The IST programme supports research aiming at • improving the meaning and experiences people get from cultural and scientific resources in electronic form; • safeguarding digital resources so that they are available in the future. Focus is on the inter-related opportunities and challenges – of the technologies and of cultural/scientific digital content

  7. Cultural content outside research Addressed by new eContentplus programme which specifies content in areas of public interest, education, culture, geographical information, scholarly publishing, PSI. Targets: • (re)usability & exploitation of content; addressing multilingual and multicultural inhibitors to (re)use and sharing • Interoperability cross-Europe & of associated services, good practice in innovation, thematic networks and clustering • Infoday in Luxembourg on 15 June RTD programmes have a clear focus on research

  8. Cultural content – IST research challenges • Complexity of cultural information objects • temporal, spatial, physical and virtual; partial or missing data; heterogeneity of typologies, multiple formats / structures • Complexity of media • Assets based on mixed digital media • Complexity of delivery channels • Multiplying and becoming ubiquitous – broadband, interactive TV, mobile

  9. Cultural content – research challenges • Complexity in potential contexts of use • Different communities of use – collaborative experiences and creating cultural information • Cultural experiences revolving round storytelling - bringing together different cultural objects • Structuring explanations about the past

  10. Strategic Objective 2.5.10 – Access to and preservation of cultural & scientific resources Defines two core objectives • Reinforcing emphasis on access • Longevity of digital resources – i.e. digital preservation • Access - support the emerging complexity of digital cultural and scientific objects and repositories, through enriched conceptual representations, and advanced access methods • Digital preservation - explore how to preserve the availability of digital resources over time, through novel concepts, techniques and tools

  11. Strategic Objective 2.5.10 – Access to and preservation of cultural & scientific resources Objective 1: access • conceptualisation and representation of digital cultural and scientific objects, of multiple forms and origins • exploiting the potential of these resources for developing new forms of interactive or creative experiences • methods, systems, tools and enabling technologies to support primarily non-textual and complex objects • integration into sustainable digital library services, e.g. by linking work on the semantic web with expertise in domain specific ontologies.

  12. Strategic Objective 2.5.10 – Access to and preservation of cultural & scientific resources Objective 1: access (cont.) • Work focuses on applying leading edge technologies (knowledge technologies, visualisation, virtual reality) • Automated methods for capture, indexing & semantic representation – non-textual and cross-media objects • Knowledge representation & access technologies for complex, unstructured, dynamic cultural heritage objects • Domain ontologies • Collaborative content authoring – online communities • Models for ubiquitous access to cultural information • Tested in real but innovative scenarios • Towards more participative/creative use of cultural heritage by citizens and by cultural institutions, through innovative online communities.

  13. Strategic Objective 2.5.10 – Access to and preservation of cultural & scientific resources Objective 2: digital preservation • Explore how to preserve the availability of digital resources over time, through novel concepts, techniques and tools. • Short to mid term experiments - empirical research on solutions. Focus on emerging state of the art and “stable” documents, but in multiple formats and multi-sourced, distributed.

  14. Strategic Objective 2.5.10 – Access to and preservation of cultural & scientific resources Objective 2: digital preservation (cont): • Longer term research focusing on: • complex, dynamic and very high volume digital objects, including those with high levels of interactivity. • projecting concepts for solutions over longer timescales • mobilising and bringing together potential research actors at European level Positioning for future research

  15. Strategic Objective 2.5.10 – Access to and preservation of cultural & scientific resources • Instruments for implementation • Specific targeted research projects (STREPs) – main mechanism for research on access and use of cultural content • Integrated Projects: main instrument for test-beds of multi-sourced resources • Coordination Actions: long-term preservation issues • Stakeholders: Cultural Heritage research community, technology researchers and developers (incl. high tech SMEs), and cultural institutions • Indicative budget: 36 million Euro • Balance – 60% old instruments (i.e. STREPs)

  16. Further References European Commission Directorate-General Information Society and Media Unit Learning and Cultural Heritage L-2920 Luxembourg • Our Website: • http://www.cordis.lu/digicult/ • Mailbox: digicult@cec.eu.int • eCulture Newsletter & alerts – subscribe to mailing list

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