Cultural Heritage in Tomorrow s Knowledge Society RESULTS

Cultural Heritage in Tomorrow ’s Knowledge Society RESULTS FROM FP 5 Rr Head of Unit Cultural Heritage Applications DG - INFORMATION SOCIETY IST programme

Policies, Strategies and Programmes IST programme

European Employment Strategy Lisbon European Council March 2000 … the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion IST programme

Most pressing issues … unemployment in Europe is a story of unfilled potential. . . … the knowledge economy means changing skills. . . … ICT skills gap. . . IST programme

The answer The technological answer e. Europe The political answer IST programme &

Digitisation programmes Conclusions of the Lund expert meeting Europe's cultural and scientific knowledge resources are a unique public asset forming the collective and evolving memory of our diverse societies and providing a solid basis for the development of our digital content industries in a sustainable knowledge society IST programme

Key actions: coordination forum è establish common policy profiles è qualitative benchmarking framework è disseminate good practice è set up national inventories è technical standards e. g. interoperability è improve quality/usability of content è long-term preservation issues IST programme

Results and Future Plans IST programme

IST Programme Cultural Heritage è Main results Ü Advanced Digital Libraries: resource discovery, meta-data, interoperability, . . . IST programme

IST Programme Cultural Heritage è Main results Ü Advanced Digital Libraries: new tools, new services and new business models for cross-domain content navigation. . . IST programme

IST Programme Cultural Heritage è Main results Ü Intelligent Heritage: visual representations, 3 D and VR, user interaction and content understanding, . . . IST programme

IST Programme Cultural Heritage è Main results Ü Intelligent Heritage: innovative Web-based services, enhanced learning and game playing IST programme

IST Programme Cultural Heritage è Main results Ü Preservation: new techniques for film restoration, digitisation techniques, new business models for exploitation digitised assets IST programme

IST Programme Cultural Heritage è Main results Ü Community Memory: experimental delivery systems, universal access to memory, citizen-driven creation of future memory. . . IST programme

IST Programme Cultural Heritage è Main results Ü Consensus Building: networks of excellence, training, standards platforms, awareness building, benchmarking, evaluation fora, . . . IST programme

Consensus Building è Networks: DELOS - Digital Libraries TEL - The European Library PULMAN - Public Libraries EMII - European Museums BIOnet - Bio-mechanics IST programme

Consensus Building è Awareness building: Cultivate - EU - CEE - Russia HEREIN - Heritage network EVAN - Imaging & visual arts TRIS - Trials support Heritage. Net - Central Asia IST programme

Consensus Building è Technical coordination: CELIP - Licensing platform CLEF - Language evaluation CHIOS - Ontology standardisation OAF - Open Archive support SCHEMA - Schemas forum IST programme

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For more information è IST: Cultural Heritage http: //www. cordis. lu/ist/ka 3/digicult è Cultivate Network http: //www. cultivate-int. org IST programme newsletter