Digitisation of Cultural Artefacts and the 6th Framework Programme Lisboa May 11 2004

1. Digitisation of Cultural Artefacts and the 6th Framework Programme Lisboa May 11 2004 Poliart Claude Principal Administrator DG Information Society Technology-enhanced Learning; Cultural Heritage

2. New eCulture Landscapes • Council Resolution on film heritage • Council Resolution on the “Role of Culture in the European Union” • Council Resolution on “Culture and Knowledge Society” • Council Resolution on “Digital Preservation: preserving tomorrow’s memory” • eEurope 2002 and the Lund Principles for digitisation (MINERVA) • eEurope 2005 and culture and tourism Policy basis:

3. Digitisation programmes Europe's cultural and scientific knowledge resources are aunique public assetforming 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 Conclusions of the Lund expert meeting

4. Area 1: Improving policies and programmes through cooperation and benchmarking Area 2: Discovery of digitised resources Area 3 Promotion of good practices Area 4: Content framework Coordination of digitisation mechanisms: The Action Plan • Actions: supported by MINERVA

5. Digitisation • Progress to date: Policies now exist is many Member States, and internal coordination networks have been established Some best practice projects have been identified, but more are needed that are useful for small/local institutions A EU-wide status report has be produced on digitisation policies and programmes A EU-wide Quality Framework is needed for cultural content

6. Long-term Digital Preservation • Issues: What is the cost and scale of the problem? How to ensure that governments and institutions are fully aware about the problem? What guidence is needed? Focus on data creators Recognise the skills deficit, and decide what new skills will be needed Build a large-scale multidisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration Take collective responsibility for long-term access

7. New eCulture Landscapes • Focus ~1500 man-years of research effort on digital culture • Fund 110 projects since 1999 • 688 participants • 506 different organisations from museums, libraries, archives, industry, government and research (40% cultural actors, 30% industry, 30% research) • Partners from 35 countries • >90 M€ funding in cost-shared projects • Av. funding 1.6 M€ for RTD (75% of budget) • Av. funding 0.55 M€ for AM (12%) • Av. funding 0.75 M€ for TN (8%) • Av. funding 0.172 M€ for take-up (5%) What we do:

8. Centre for Research and Restoration of the Museums in France

10. The 3D laser scanner (NCRC)

11. FP 6 and Access to Cultural Heritage Objective:To develop advanced systems and services that help improve access to Europe‘s knowledge and educational resources (including cultural and scientific collections) and generate new forms of cultural and learning experiences. Improving accessibility, visibility and recognition of the commercial value of Europe's cultural and scientific resources, by developing:

12. Digital library services • Advanceddigital libraries services,providing high-bandwidth access to distributed and highly interactive repositories of European culture, history and science • Focus on shared test-beds and increased cultural-research cooperation • Building on existing portfolio of projects • Including digital memory management • Remember broadband objectives of eEurope 2005

13. Intelligent heritage and tourism • Environments for intelligent heritage and tourism,re-creating and visualising cultural and scientific objects and sites for enhancing user experience in cultural tourism • Focus on enhancing user experience • Addressing the common needs of Europe’s museums, monuments, sites, etc., and not a specific museum, monument, site, .... • eLearning, tourism, eCommerce can support the core focus on culture • An effective network should include take-up in networks and/or “demo” projects under STRP

14. Preservation and digitisation • Advanced tools, platforms and services in support of highly automateddigitisationprocessesand workflows, digitalrestoration and preservationof film and video material, and digital memory management and exploitation • Focus on structuring new research communities around preservation • Substantially reduce the cost of digitisation • Lower barriers for institutional investment in long-term digital preservation • Provide an industrial platform for film and video restoration and preservation

15. Schedule of the 1st Call • Publication: 17th Dec. 2002 • Closing deadline: 24th April 2003 • Evaluation: 12-24 May 2003 • Hearings: 9-14 June 2003 • Negotiations: starting July until Sept. 2003 • Commission decision: from Oct. 2003 • Projects start: between Dec. 2003 and Feb. 2004

16. Results of the 1st Call • 71 proposals received • 8 projects selected and running • 2 Noe’s DELOS and EPOCH • 2 IP’s BRICKS and PRESTOSPACE • 2 Streps TNT and AGAMEMNON • 2 Ssa’s MINERVA+ and CALIMERA • Total funding 31 M €

17. PrestoSpace Preservation towards storage and access. Standardised Practices for Audiovisual Contents in Europe A project to federate Research on Audiovisual Preservation and Digitisation in Europe

18. Shocking images ! Nitrate film

19. Shellac record

20. Inventory • A survey of the holdings of ten major European broadcast archives found the following contents: • 1 million hours of film • 1.6 million hours of video • 2 million hours of audio recordings • Total European holdings of broadcast material are probably 10 times larger, about 46 million hours • Total European audiovisual holdings are at least double, about 100 million hours ! • Most of this material is : • 1) Analog 2) Original 3) In Danger • (Source Richard Wright, Presto Survey)

21. Objectives • To offer to televisions, radios, private companies, institutions, small archives, general public; the possibility of developing a patrimonial initiative centred on preservation and exploitation of their audiovisual archives. • This will be achieved through technological and industrial innovations, and will be implemented by ensuring the set-up of facilities and services that will provide to these actors an integrated, efficient, scalable and affordable preservation service.

22. Storage and Archive management A small archive !

23. Storage and Archive management A digital archive

24. PrestoSpace Tasks- Conceive a solution for all audiovisual collections- Identify each user needs- Improve the technology for video, film and audio extraction- Conceive an efficient work-flow- Propose an adapted service for each need- Preserve better, faster and cheaper

25. A concept : the Preservation Factory • Preservation units proposing services for : • High quality, fast and affordable preservation • Automation of repetitive tasks • Centralised factories, mobile units ? • PrestoSpace ’s commitment : • Help the starting-up of these services • Developing key technologies, publicity, labelling, inciting investors, following the process...

26. Project Partners Coordinateur : Ina Executive Board : BBC, Rai, Ina Steering Board: BBC, Rai, Ina, ORF, Joanneum Research (Austria), B&G (NL), University of Sheffield (GB) Other Partners : CTM Debrie, ACS, Media-Matters, CRCDG-CNRS, Centrimage, Vectracom, SWR, Hi-STor, CubeTec, LIMSI-CNRS, Snell&Wilcox, TI Partners, Universities… 34 partners, 8 European countries + USA

27. DELOS NoEon Digital Libraries Coordinators Administrative ERCIM Scientific ISTI-CNR

28. DELOS Mission • DELOS mission is to significantly contribute to the delivery of the Grand Vision: “Digital Libraries should enable any citizen to access all human knowledge any time and anywhere, in a friendly multimodal, efficient and effective way, by overcoming barriers of distance, language and culture, and by using multiple Internet-connected devices.” • First phase: research and cross fertilization between research and development • Second phase: buiding of large scale testbeds and prototypes • Third phase: building of industrial-strength generic DL technologies • DELOS aims at bringing together the major European teams (research, users, industry) interested in DL-related areas, with the goal of developing the next generation DL technologies

29. Focus of the NoE • To network and structure European research teams working on DL technologies in order to consolidate an emerging community • To disseminate knowledge and awareness of DL technologies into many diverse application domains • To develop generic DL technologies to be incorporated into industrial strength Digital Library Management Systems offering advanced functionality through reliable and and extensible services • To become the reference point in Europe for DL-related activities

30. European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISTI-CNR) Swiss Federal Institut of Technology Zurich University of Bath University of Athens Technical University of Crete Università degli Studi di Firenze Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. University of Glasgow Universität Duisburg-Essen Stichting Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica Risoe National Library Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" Brunel University National Technical University of Athens Università degli Studi di Padova Università degli Studi di Milano University for Health Informatics and Technology Tyrol Max-Planck-Ges.z.F.d.W.vertr. d. MPI fuer Informatik Kuratorium OFFIS e.V. Queen Mary & Westfield College University of Strathclyde Ionian University, Archive and Library Science Department Université Paris-Sud XI University of Southampton University of Edinburgh Institute for Information Processing and Computer Supported New Media Vienna University of Technology Università di Urbino Norwegian University of Science and Technology Lund University Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique Aristotelio Panepistimio Thessalinikis National Archief Universität Bremen Phonogrammarchiv der Osterreichischen Akademie der Wissenchaften University of Leeds Universität zu Köln Consorzio Forma Consortium

31. European Collective Memory • The IP IST Project BRICKS

32. Digital European Memory is an open source architecture where share knowledge and content Digital European Memory is reuse of other project results by modern SW technologies Digital European Memory is interoperability, not just for Content, but also for the services (with Web Services approach) Integration of services to develop a sizeable integrated platform for DIGITAL EUROPEAN MEMORY

33. “Greek Temple” metaphor • In order to illustrate these three areas and account for their interrelationships, throughout this proposal the well-known metaphor of the Greek temple will be used: • the infrastructure area will be equated to the foundations of the temple; • the application services area will be equated to the pillars of the temple; • the sustainability area will be equated to the roof of the temple.

34. the sustainability area the application services the infrastructure area “Greek Temple”

35. Test beds • Four main application scenarios have been defined together within the Bricks Constituency and user groups • Access to Culture, reconstruction of Knowledge • Management of Culture: Small and Medium Museums • Creation of Culture: living memory • Digital Texts: scriptorium

36. Integrated Project • BRICKS aims at integrating many European Cultural Objects and Content from different countries, in the same timeit willintegrate different typologies of competencies and background (research, business, technology, art and culture). • BRICKS is integration of concrete objectives (four main user applications) with a ambitious vision of the future use of technologies in the Digital Cultural Heritage. • BRICKS aims to design and develop an advanced infrastructure to integrate resources and services for cultural heritage users. • BRICKS is the integration between national funded projects and results already achieved in the EC IST projects.

37. Open Project • BRICKS will use of open standards and the open source software development approach • BRICKS is based on an open community to enlarge and enforce its resources and input from researchers, scientists, art professionals and users • BRICKS is open to expansion, by inserting new application scenarios and other project results in a "plug and play" manner.

38. Innovative Project • BRICKS employ a service-oriented approach, focusing on the right added value for the user, in contrast to the traditionalcontent-oriented approach • BRICKS relies on a distributedopen infrastructure, in order to reduce the cost of development and deployment of new services by maximising the re-use of existing results, and to reduce maintenance costs by eliminating the need for a centralised organisational and/or technical infrastructure. • BRICKS sees global semantics as an evolutionary process, emerging from local interactions and agreements in order to overcome linguistic and ontological barriers and realise a shared knowledge space.

39. For more information • claude.poliart@cec.eu.int • See the DigiCult Study and the eCulture newsletter • eEurope • http://europa.eu.int/information-society/eeurope/index_en.htm • IST in the Framework Programme • http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fp6/fp6.htm • Cultural Heritage in IST • http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult • Culture in the EU • http://europa.eu.int/culture/index_en.htm