IST Programme

1. IST Programme Cultural Content and Digital Heritage Funded by the European Commission

2. Cultural Content & Digital Heritage 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 Funded by the European Commission

3. 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 culturalmultimedia activities driven by the research problem not the content Funded by the European Commission

4. 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-digital Implemented through annual workprogrammes defined in Action Lines Funded by the European Commission

5. Calls • 1March 1999 -III.2.3: Access to scientific & cultural heritage • 2Oct. 1999 - III.2.4: Preservation of cultural heritage • 3Feb. 2000 -III.1.4:Access to digital collections of cultural & scientific content • 4July 2000 - III.1.6: Virtual representations of cultural & scientific objects III.1.5: Trials on new access modes to cultural & scientific content • 6Jan. 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.] Funded by the European Commission

6. Basic Facts Funded by the European Commission

7. 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 Funded by the European Commission 7

8. 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 Funded by the European Commission

9. 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 Funded by the European Commission

10. 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 Funded by the European Commission

11. 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) Funded by the European Commission

12. 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) Funded by the European Commission

13. 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 Funded by the European Commission

14. 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] Funded by the European Commission

15. 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 Funded by the European Commission

16. AL III.1 2 - Heritage for All Aims 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 Funded by the European Commission

17. 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 Funded by the European Commission

18. 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 Funded by the European Commission

19. AL III.1.3: Next generation digital collections • 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 Timeline:3-7 years Funded by the European Commission

20. 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 Funded by the European Commission

21. 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 Funded by the European Commission

22. 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 Funded by the European Commission

23. 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 Funded by the European Commission

24. Practical information: project models • 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 Funded by the European Commission

25. 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 Funded by the European Commission

26. Practical information dos and don’ts - from experience Warning signs - why proposals are rejected by evaluators • technology proposal è relevance to culture not proven or too general • access proposal: “business as usual” è portals or Web sites • cultural proposal: focus on unique or valuable physicalobjects but having no understanding of the technology aspects - not transferable Funded by the European Commission

27. Practical information dos and don’ts - from experience More reasons why proposals are rejected by evaluators • claim è access BUT…… realityè 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, ... Funded by the European Commission

28. 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 Funded by the European Commission

29. . Web:www.cordis.lu/ist/ www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult www.cordis.lu/libraries/en/ libraries.html Funded by the European Commission