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NUMERIC statistics on European efforts and progress in digitisation of culture context. Patricia MANSON European Commission Cultural Heritage and Technological Enhanced Learning DG Information Society and Media Directorate Digital Content and Cognitive Systems. i2010 and Digital Libraries.
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NUMERIC statistics on European efforts and progress in digitisation of culturecontext Patricia MANSON European Commission Cultural Heritage and Technological Enhanced Learning DG Information Society and Media Directorate Digital Content and Cognitive Systems Workshop 2 April 2008 Luxembourg
i2010 and Digital Libraries • i2010: Commission strategy for the Information Society • Flagship: digital Libraries initiative: • Everyone should be able to access individual and shared heritage • Not only today but into the future • Shaped by common effort not disparate local solutions • Creative and economic potential of cultural and scientific content • Supporting education and research • New cultural and creative industries • Cultural expression and tourism • Media rich services
Digital Libraries initiative • Commission Communication (2005) • identified issues that were political, strategic and operational ― applied to digitisation, accessibility and preservation • Challenges: financial, organisational, technical, legal • Commission Recommendation to Member States (2006) • Set out actions to tackle the challenges • Council Conclusions (Nov 2006) • endorsed common goals and actions, set out timeframe for all actors, confirmation of work towards the European Digital Library
Council Conclusions ―more specifically • Council invites Member States: • To reinforce national strategies and targets and co-ordination within and between Member States • To contribute to the European digital library • To contribute to an overview of progress at European level • To improve framework conditions • Council invites Commission: • To stimulate & coordinate work towards European Digital Library • To improve policy coordination • To address framework conditions • To set up and chair a Member States Experts group and steer process of implementing the actions • To report on implementation progress, first time in 2008
other actions • Strategic level: work with stakeholders, notably museums, archives, libraries involved in building the European Digital Library • Technical level: co-funding of relevant projects with a European scope or impact
NUMERIC statistics on European efforts and progress in digitisation of cultureWhere do we stand? Marius SNYDERS European Commission Cultural Heritage and Technological Enhanced Learning DG Information Society and Media Directorate Digital Content and Cognitive Systems Workshop 2 April 2008 Luxembourg
desk research actual data collection • Identifying existing data, sources, statistics, indicators, concepts • Drafting basic definitions and classifications, sample frame for each country • Implementation of the methodology framework through full data collections, including historical data • On the basis of which a full statistical analysis will be produced May - Nov 2007 until Jan 2009 What are the steps? testing • Testing out of the basic framework Apr 2008 - Feb 2008 Apr 2009 framework Flexibility