“ Mapping the Future “ : prospects for Community Memory

2. “Mapping the Future“: prospects for Community Memory The need for bridging activitiesand support for take-up Luxembourg, January 28, 2003

3. The need for bridging activitiesand support for take-up Flavio Tariffi, TRIS Support Measure • TRIS and the Trials • A changing scenario • Thinking locally • The need • Community Memory • Building bridges • A preparatory action • Work areas • The Trials at work

4. TRIS AND THE TRIALS • TRIS coordinates and supports a network of 25 take-up actions • Real-world experiments in innovative cultural heritage applications • Revealing a different dimension of user needs and expectations in the cultural community • Translating technologies and opportunities into real cultural services for the citizen

5. A changing scenario • The societal role of cultural institutions is evolving • local communities and networks of small institutions play a growing role • Provide access to the heritage of local communities and build on the growing importance of cultural identity • Focus on education, interactivity, rich media and knowledge accessibility

6. Thinking locally - 1 • a “new economy” is emerging as local content and local identity speak to a global audience • Local cultural identity, and the value of traditions and of place, combines with the potential of technology to support cultural use and delivery • Catalysing the take-up of the Info Society at the citizens’ level

7. Thinking locally - 2 • e-inclusion: overcoming the digital divide • a core ingredient of e-Europe 2005 • Libraries, museums and archives can play a key role because of their closeness to user requirements • Supporting the educational process and access to information • Addressing the needs of young and old, groups with special needs and remote communities

8. The need • Heritage for All: paving the way • Need: a better framework for citizens and their local institutions to participate actively in building the digital heritage of their communities • Strong end-user involvement through: • Professional technical guidance • Specific educational services • Innovative local services with easy-to-use features to bring the potential of IT systems and services to citizens

9. Community memory • Catalysing the take-up of the Information Society at the citizens’ level • A stronger involvement of ordinary citizens in the creation of business opportunities drawing on local content for culture, leisure, sports, travel, etc. • accessing repositories of the heritage of their regions, towns and villages • Mobilising Public libraries, smaller museums and archives to build bridges between advanced IT systems and the needs of users and localinstitutions

10. Building bridges • The topics and instruments in the 1st Call may not directly foster services and solutions for local communities • Need to build bridges between: • existing and new research achievements and needs at the local level • hw and sw manufacturers and local capabilities to absorb IT systems • innovation and local scalability • Cultural fragmentation and the eEurope, e-inclusion, and identity-based economy

11. A preparatory action - 1 • A preparatory action between the 1st and the 4th Call could: • Prepare answers to local and ordinary people needs • Help federate local constituencies for a new social, inclusion role • Monitor valid RTD projects in the area, transferring the results of research into innovative services for citizens • Support the creation of integrated local communities and the mapping of local resources

12. A preparatory action - 2 • And: • Support the spread of good practice • Help overcome linguistic, usability and cultural divides • Overcome fragmentation by promoting strategies of excellence, especially in the areas of Cultural Heritage and Education and Training • Investigate on differences in national policies and seek strategies to harmonise them

13. Work areas - 1 • Understanding and modelling Local Communities • Monitoring opportunities from research: watch, selection, technology transfer • Best practice in networking and synergy: exploiting the experience of PULMAN and CULTIVATE • Analysing national policies and looking at solutions to harmonise the different policy agendas • Usability for everybody • Users with special needs

14. Work areas - 2 • Integration of enlargement Countries • Local and global: promoting the spread of good practice by de-coupling local content from solutions and models • The business of local heritage: models and approaches to the sustainability and exploitation of the new services in cultural tourism, e-learning, e-services • Information dissemination • Application trials: testing models in exemplary contexts, creating showcases that may encourage emulation between LCs

15. The Trials at work • The best practices from the TRIS group can form an advisory board • Each Trial can: • Analyse and define the LC model fitting the local context • Select and test IT innovations according to local opportunities and needs • Network local institutions to shape effective LCs • Validate local and EU policy agendas • Transfer and exploit the results both locally and in other LCs • Disseminate experiences locally and internationally

16. Contacting TRIS www.trisweb.org Flavio Tariffi Monika Segbert Barbara Morganti flavio.tariffi@spacespa.it info@monikasegbert.com barbara@trisweb.org