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Republic of Croatia

National programme of National programme of digitization of archival, library digitization of archival, library and museum holdingsand museum holdings

Dunja Seiter-ŠverkoLana Križaj

The 3rd SEEDI international conference digitization of cultural and scientific heritageSeptember 13-15, 2007, Cetinje, Montenegro

Contents European initiatives National initiatives Digitization – why is it important? Key issuses regarding digitization policies and

programmes Principles of digitization National programme of digitization of ALM

holdings Chronology Aims Structure Activities


Basic European initaitives in the field of information society:

eEurope 2005 Action Plan (2002-2005)

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/2005/index_en.htm

eEurope+http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/plus/index_en.htm

i2010 (2005-2010)

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/i2010/index_en.htm


ICT could contribute to the European cultural richness in the way of:- protection - accesibility of works of art aiming at education, entertainment, tourism and economic development

Culture in the digital age


In accordance with those initiatives

Member States have established trans-european mechanisms for digitisation policies and programmes in the field of cultural content and applications


Fundamental documents in the field of culture:

Lund Principles, 2001ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/ist/docs/digicult/lund_principles-en.pdf

Lund Action Plan, 2001

http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/i2010/index_en.htm


Charter of Parma 2003

Agreed on the fundamental principles of Lund documents

Implemented within the framework provided by the Lund Action Plan, operationally supported by MINERVA European network


MINERVA(Ministerial Network for Valorising Activities in Digitisation)

Objectives:

Networking of Memebr States ministeries aiming at harmonising activities carried out for the digitization of cultural and scientific content

Establishment of the common European tecnological and content platform

Creation of recommendations and guidelines about digitization and metadata as well as the long-time accessibility and preservation

http://www.minervaeurope.org/home.htm


NRG(The National Representative Group on digitisation policies in the EU Member States)

NRG members – officially nominated experts from each Member State and acts as a steering group for the activities related to the coordination of digitisation policies and programmes, with special emphasis on cultural and scientific resources and the contribution of public cultural institutions

Aim – to monitor progress regarding the objectives encapsulated in the Lund Principles

NRG meetings take place every six months – Croatia has participated twice on those meetings – Salzburg, June 2006 and Helsinki, October 2006


Programme e-Croatia 2007

National Council for Information Society (June 2006): recommendation – to digitize the cultural heritage

Strategy for the Development of Broadband Internet Access in the Republic of Croatia / Action Plan for the implementation of Strategy for 2007 – on October 13 2006 adopted by the Croatian Government

National initiatives


Digital environment as a space of expression, communication, experience, attitudes and value exchange

Accessibility of resources Networking capability Creation of new services Protection

Importance of digitization- why?


Selection criteria Expenses Methodology, standards,

interoperability Fragmentation of resources and

activities Product shaping and management Long-term protection, sustainability

and usability of products and services

Key issues


1: The institution which intends to digitize its resources or build their own digital collections in some other way should consider and adopt the digitization policy.

2: Digitization activity should be planned through the projects with clearly specified objectives and results, activity plan, responsibilities, resources, and evaluation procedure.

The principles of digitization (1)


3: Materials which are to be digitized should be carefully selected and thoroughly prepared, starting from the objective and digitization procedure. Preparation for digitization always includes the preparation of metadata as well.

4: Wherever possible, the standardized procedures should be established.

5: Project of digitization should consider and offer the solution for the long-term preservation and digital collection management issues.



6: Good digitization programme envisages the systematic development of organizational capabilities and resources, high involvement of personnel and co-operation with other institutions.

7: Digitization programme should comprise standards and procedures for monitoring and quality control.

8: Digitization programme should take care of intellectual property and copyright issues in the accordance with the relevant national legislation.



Digitization = Processing + “Digitization” + On-line access + Rights management + Long-term preservation.



The development of comprehensive widely accessible content in digital form is one of the key assumptions for the protection and evaluation of cultural heritage, for networking and presentation of Croatian cultural heritage in European, regional and other cultural networks, for the preservation of cultural diversity and use of cultural contents in education, tourism and other service industries.

National programme – basic propositions


1. Digital collections produced by digitization of archival, library and museum holdings are of high quality and usable as the way of protection as well for easier access to resources.

2. Digitization is carried out in the framework of appropriately planned and conducted projects, in accordance with generally adopted principles, standards and priorities.

3. Digital collections could be accessed in accordance with usability rules through networking.

Objectives (1)


4. The complete digitisation of material in the long term leads to the creation of recognizable and relevant contents and “cultural space” in the electronic environment.

5. Digital collections are part of the organised management system which offers sufficient guarantees for their permanent preservation and availability.

6. Institutions whose resources are not sufficiently developed shall not be deprived of the possibility to digitise their materials.

Objectives (2)


Cooperative national project of digitisation of archival, library and museum holdings “Croatian cultural heritage”

Elaboration of standards and guidelines for the digitisation of material

Establishment of support and monitoring systems for the digitisation projects

Portal “Croatian cultural heritage” Establishment of cooperative digital archives Education Infrastructure development

Activities


The overall planned costs of the programme amount to 5,800.000,00 HRK. In the period 2007 to 2009 it is necessary to provide 1,933,000,00 HRK annually for the implementation of the programme.

No. Name Amount (HRK)

1. Functioning of the Project Office 500.000,00

2. Professional training and support for institutions 300.000,00

3. Drawing up of standards and technical specifications 500.000,00

4. Procurement of equipment for the cooperative digital archives

2.600.000,00

5. Telecommunication costs 700.000,00

6 Support to digitisation projects in institutions 600.000,00

7. Computer services 600.000,00

Total 5.800.000,00

Specification of programme costs


Initiative of the Ministry of Culture, National and University Library and Croatian Library Council

Working group nominated by the Minister of Culture: 6-2005 National Digitization Programme Proposal drafted by working

group: 2-2006 National Programme adoption: 9-2006 Strategy for the Development of Broadband Internet Access:

10-2006 Operational plan for the implementation of Programme e-

Croatia 2007: 10-2006 For the first time the resources for digitization of cultural

heritage have been provided from the National Budget for 2007 Agreement on co-operation on the implementation of National

Project “Croatian Cultural Heritage” (Ministry of Culture, National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatian State Archives and Museum Documentation Centre): 03-2007

Chronology (1):


Council and Office of the National Project : 03-2007 Organization and establishment of the Project : 05-

2007 Working groups for drawing up of standards and

guidelines for:- Selection criteria and preparation for digitization- Digitization procedures- File storage formats (for preservation and access)- Digital collections development- Quality control of digitization procedures(to be completed in November 2007)

Chronology (2):


Address-book of the cultural institutions in Croatia followed by the questionnaire on existing digital collections and on-going projects : 07 - 2007

Call for open tender for the digitization projects : 15.07.-15.09.2007.

Department for digitization of library, archival and museum holdings (within the Ministry of Culture)

Portal “Croatian Cultural Heritage” – tender : 06.09.2007.

Chronology (3):


MODULE 1 : target group: management level (five workshops in county centres in Croatia)

MODULE 2: CSSU (Centre for permanent professional training for librarians) : stuff in cultural institutions

Education:


1. Croatian National Theatre Split: database for archival materials and partial digitization

2. Dubrovnik Summer Festival: digitization of archival materials3. Library “Fran Galović” Koprivnica and City Museum Koprivnica:

digitization of local news-paper “Glas Podravine”4. City Museum Zagreb: Digitization of documentation collections5. Museum Documentation Centre Zagreb: digitization of

collection of museum posters and old and rare objects from Bauer collection

6. National and University Library Zagreb: digitization of Croatian manuscripts held in foreign institution

Projects supported by Ministry in 2007:


Cooperative national project of digitization of archival, library and museum holdings “Croatian cultural heritage”

Elaboration of standards and guidelines for the digitisation of material

Establishment of support and monitoring systems for the digitisation projects

Portal “Croatian cultural heritage” Establishment of cooperative digital archives Education Infrastructure development

Activities


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