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Creating Cultural Content UK, European and International Initiatives
December 2002
APEC02
Taipei, Taiwan
David Dawson, Senior ICT Adviser
Agenda
• UK
• Europe
• International
UK
Resource
• Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries• Strategy & Planning• Library & Information Society• Learning & Access• Standards
Resource ICT Strategy
• ICT will be used to promote, protect, exploit and popularise the rich resources contained within museums, archives and libraries placing them at the heart of the Information Society. Provide maximum access to collections and services for
all existing and potential users regardless of their physical or educational abilities.
Work across sectors to create new integrated products delivering maximum benefit to communities and individuals.
Create links beyond the libraries, museums and archives sector, tying the resources into other programmes building the networked learning space
Why bother with ICT?
• Government Policy 2000• 100% of Government business to be delivered
electronically by 2005• universal access to internet by 2005
How we got here
National Grid for Learning
• portal to link to learning resources
• launched in 1999
• influential in policy terms
• first major recognition of value of museums
Higher Education
• JISC• Joint Information Systems Committee• top-sliced funding
• SuperJanet 4• high-speed networks
• Information Environment• electronic libraries - £15m• content for learning and
teaching - 5/99 Call• included museum projects
for the first time
Netful of Jewels
• New Museums in the Learning Age• the contribution that
museums can make to the learning networks
• creating content• interpretation• interactive services
• £55m costNational Museum Director’s Conference in association with MGC and mda
What we have been doing ...
www.cornucopia.org.uk
Designation Challenge Fund• £6m of funding on ICT projects• lessons
• need to be user-centred• not enough consultation & evaluation
• need for standards & advice• need for partnership and information-sharing
• under-valued by museums until too late• re-invention of wheels• risk management
• procurement timescales• local authority IT departments
The Plans …
• 1999 DCF applicants• people
• 20 project managers• over 100 staff - skilled in creating data, capturing
images and / or website design
• collections management software suppliers• 18 museums purchasing systems• 4 major suppliers• customised, installed and staff trained within 6
months
The Reality ...
• 2002 – DCF projects• people
• 20 project managers • over 100 staff - skilled in creating data, capturing
images and / or website design
• collections management software suppliers• 18 museums purchasing systems • 4 major suppliers • customised, installed and staff trained by within 6
months
What has been achieved?• small selection …
• also look at• www.bowesmuseum.org.uk• www.ruralhistory.org• www.horniman.ac.uk• www.stoke.gov.uk/museums• www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk• www.bmag.org.uk• and the others . . .
www.ironbridge.org.uk
www.molli.org.uk
The Impact• on-line catalogues – from 2 to 24• resources for schools – from 1 to 14• resources for life-long learners – from 2 to 11• accessible websites – from 0 to 18
• 18 museums report increased use of website• 9 report longer visit duration• 12 report increase in enquires
IT Challenge Fund
• CHAIN• Romans in Sussex• East, West, Central• Virtually the Ice Age• Netting the Bay• North Devon on Disk
• Three-cornered Gallery
• Victorians website• Cradle of Science and
Technology• Jewels of Milton
Keynes
www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/itcf
• £100 m to connect all libraries
• £50m to create digital content
• £20 to train all public librarians
People’s Network Infrastructure• £100m to create ICT learning centres in 4,300
public libraries across the UK• a rolling programme of openings until end of 2002 …• over half UKonline Centres are in libraries …
• on time!• on budget!
• Celebrated by our Prime Minister!
NOF-digitise programme
• £50m to create on-line material to support and encourage lifelong learning for all• 400 learning packages • over 1million digital objects
• support government strategy for social inclusion• enable those not part of formal education benefit
from information age• cultural enrichment• citizenship• re-skilling the nation
Technical standards
• minimise (?) confusion amongst projects
• need to ensure interoperability and re-use
• emerging e-Government standards• e-GIF• Website Design Guidelines
http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/content/technical.asp
NOF-digitise - creating a Portal
• web-based cataloguing tool•projects•learning resources•databases
• projects enter and maintain their own data
Cross-searching
• Considering OAI metadata harvesting
• access to arts and culture through digital media• museums, libraries, archives, film,
broadcasters, heritage, visual arts, performing arts, digital arts, new media ...
• curriculum enhancement and life-long learning• interactive programmes to engage learners
• webcasts, online workshops, themed delivery
• user driven - story-led
• just starting . . .
Forum for Network Co-ordination
• Joint activity with JISC• Supported by DfES and DCMS• exploring ideas
• strategic co-ordination of policy and funding initiatives
• technical standards• emerging issues
• broadband, e-Science, Grid computing, Information Environment ...regional broadbands, BECTa, Cabinet Office, DfEE, NHS, Post Office,
Countryside Agency, Digital Scotland, Welsh Assembly, DETR, BBC, DTI etc
Europe
eEurope Action Plan
• By 2002• Bring every citizen, home and school, every
business and administration, online and into the digital age.
• Create a digitally literate Europe, supported by an entrepreneurial culture ready to finance and develop new ideas.
• Ensure that the whole process is socially inclusive, builds consumer trust and strengthens social cohesion.
eEurope Action Plan 2002• Objective 3D. eContent – “European digital
content for global networks”• 56. Launch a programme to stimulate the
development and use of European digital content on the global networks and to promote the linguistic diversity in the information society, including action to support exploitation of public sector information
• 57. Create a co-ordination mechanism for digitisation programmes across Member States
Lund Principles
• Identified the importance of Cultural and scientific heritage• platform for the development of the European
digital content industry• supports cultural
identity and diversity• supports education
and tourism
Lund Principles
• Issues to be addressed ...• fragmented approach• digital preservation• IPR• lack of synergy between cultural and new
technology programmes• institutional commitment
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/en/eeurope.html
Lund Action Plan
• create a forum
• develop a European view of policies and programmes• benchmarking
• promoting good practice
• accelerating skills development
• set up national inventories
National Representatives Group
• representation from each Member State
• meet every six months under the Presidency• Belgian Presidency - Quality Framework• Spanish Presidency
- Preservationof Digital Memory
• closing remarks by Minister of Culture
Policies and Programmes• National policy profiles
• completed for most Member States
• Benchmarking• first version now completed
• trialled in early 2002• in UK
• IT Challenge Fund, NOF, Culture Online, JISC DNER, HLF
• progress reported to NRG meeting under Spanish Presidency in May
• now being analysed and methodology revised
Technical and content standards or guidelines to ensure interoperability and accessibility have been adopted
BASIC
Working on adoption of international standards
No standards are identified at the beginning of the initiative, but there is an awareness of the importance of standards. Research and information-sharing encourages the development of shared approaches during the life of the initiative.
GOOD
Standards recommended
Standards are recommended, and the implementation of these standards is decided by those taking part in the initiative.
BEST
Standards mandatory / process ensures interoperability
The initiative decides on the standards that will be implemented, and ensures that the implementation for these standards is mandatory.
Benchmarking
MINERVA project
• MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation
MINERVA Project
• To take forward this work• Benchmarking• Inventories of projects• Interoperability• Quality Frameworks• Identification of good practice• Strategic impact and enlargement
• IT, BE, ES, FR, FI, SW, UK• other Member States joining ...
Europe and Culture Portal
• launched 18th March• cultural cooperation, regulations, funding for
culture and international relationswww.europa.ei.int/comm/culture
6th Framework
• Next generation of EU funding• large-scale Networks of Excellence
• Expression of Interest submitted 7 June• co-ordinated by MINERVA• support of all Culture Ministries
• creation of an information environment
• issues still to be addressed - IPR, digital preservation etc
• wide range of organisations involved at national and international level
• the beginning of a process of building on national initiatives
• willing to work with others ...
eEurope 2005 Action Plan• adopted in May 2002• modern online public services• dynamic e-business environment
• eGovernment• eLearning• eHealth• eBusiness
• services, applications and content• broadband infrastructure and security
eEurope 2005 Action Plan
• Culture and tourism• eServices to promote Europe• user-friendly public information• interoperable interfaces• use broadband• multi-platform
• eLearning• broadband connections for museums, libraries
and archives
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope
International
Cultural Content Forum
• International Seminar on National Digital Cultural Content Creation Strategies• commitment to begin working together
• co-ordinated by UKOLN, CIMI & Resource• involved UK, EU, Canada, New Zealand, US
• follow-up meeting in Washington• AU, BE, CA, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IT, TW, UK, US
• Article:• Standing on the Shoulders of Giants• http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/giants/
CCF - Washington
• Position papers• digital content creation• preservation of digital cultural materials
• Issue papers• creating and sustaining the market• technical research• content creation programmes• identifying best practice• IPR
IPR IPR Clearance Patent Office IPR portal
http://www.intellectual-property.gov.uk
Rights management Earl Issue Paper http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/public/earl/issuepapers/copyright.html Library Association
Copyright http://www.la-hq.org.uk/directory/prof_issues/pospaper.html
paper Cedars Guide to IPR http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/guideto/ipr/ MCG Copyright in
Museums and http://www.mda.org.uk/mcopyg/index.htm
Galleries
Preservation strategy
Digital Preservation Digital Preservation Workbook
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/dner/preservation/workbook/
AHDS Good Practice Guides incl.
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/guides.htm
- Historical Documents - GIS - VR (forthcoming) - Visual arts - Electronic texts
Budget Benchmarking costs HEDS Matrix http://heds.herts.ac.uk/resources/matrix2.html
Technical standards
Programme guidelines NOF-digi technical standards
http://www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/nof/technicalstandards.html
DNER technical standards
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/distributed-systems/dner/arch/
Best practice
Washington outcomes
• Lots of common issues• OAI• broadband• e-learning
• Focus on user-research
• new article • http://www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/washington
Next Meeting
• March 2003 – Florence, Italy• 30 participants• focus on users and user needs
