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Europe’s local cultural Europe’s local cultural institutions- institutions- co-operating in a digital co-operating in a digital environmentenvironment
Rob Davies
MDR, UK
e-Europe 2005: an Information Society e-Europe 2005: an Information Society for All: Action Planfor All: Action Plan
• Dynamic business environment, investment, jobs, productivity
• Modern public services– e-government, e-learning, e-health
• e-inclusion– digital skills, lifelong learning, public access points, special needs,
access in remote areas
• Applications and content
• Broadband infrastructure– widely available, competitively priced
• Secure information infrastructure
e-Europe: how to get there?e-Europe: how to get there?
• Exchange of experience
• Good practices, demonstration projects, share lessons from failures
• Accelerate roll-out of leading edge applications and infrastructure
• Connect public administrations to broadband
• Interactive public services
• Accessible for all, multiple platforms
• Benchmarking and co-ordination
Libraries, museums and archives: Libraries, museums and archives:
starting points and trends starting points and trends • Total registered public library members - 190 million
• Different traditions: variations in public library and archive usage– 2000 European average public libraries 24%; CEE 15%
– 13% Slovakia - 62% Denmark
• what performance level will attract funding?
• Competition - multi-channel tv, Internet
• In wealthier countries - purchasing replacing lending (books, CD-ROMS, DVDs , games)
• Remote usage increase - loans and visits decrease
• Museums universally popular ?
• Archives ‘statutory’ role?
Service expansion in local institutionsService expansion in local institutions
Virtual (Web-based) and ‘physical’• Digital divide - IT skills• Learning access and support• Employment skills• Socially excluded groups• Citizens information services• Family and local history• Reading promotion
DigitisationDigitisation
• Convergence of content in cyberspace
• Lund Principles
• Preservation and access
• Minerva– policies, standards and tools
• Smaller local institutions
Cooperation and partnershipCooperation and partnership
• Between cultural institutions (libraries, museums and archives)– national co-ordination [UK, Norway]
Cooperation and partnershipCooperation and partnership
• Between cultural institutions (libraries, museums and archives)– national co-ordination [UK, Norway]
• Within local authorities– Integration with other local authority services
– Virtual Service Environments?
Cooperation and partnershipCooperation and partnership
• Between cultural institutions (libraries, museums and archives)– national co-ordination [UK, Norway]
• Within local authorities– Integration with other local authority services
– Virtual Service Environments?
• Between public libraries and other libraries
Cooperation and partnershipCooperation and partnership
• Between cultural institutions (libraries, museums and archives)– national co-ordination [UK, Norway]
• Within local authorities– Integration with other local authority services
– Virtual Service Environments?
• Between public libraries and other libraries
• With NGOs
• With learning organisations
• With industry
Types of partnership Types of partnership
• Strategic/development partnerships – national, regional or local levels.
• Regional or location-based
• Domain-based (eg learning)
• Activity-based (eg for service delivery, preservation, training, IT development and purchasing)
Europe’s research and development Europe’s research and development agenda for local servicesagenda for local services
IST research programme
• 5th Framework Programme [cultural heritage applications]
– Minerva
– PULMAN (and PULMAN-XT)
• 6th Framework Programme
– Large IPs and NoEs
– CALIMERA • Co-ordination Action
– MinervaPLUS [candidate countries]
– Community Memory programme
PULMAN - ObjectivesPULMAN - Objectives
• Strengthen performance, help achieve potential of public libraries: new cultural, educational and social roles in eEurope
• Exchange knowledge, experience, good practice:encourage Centres of Excellence for digital services
• Spread strategic initiatives across Europe: sensitise national authorities and practitioners
• Develop cross-sectoral agendas for local services: starting from a public libraries standpoint
PULMANPULMAN
• Public libraries driven..but also linkages with museums and archives
• State of the Union– Benchmarking/country reports [38 countries]– Trends and forecasts
– Final Project Report
• Influence policy makers and professionals– Oeiras Conference - Manifesto, March 2003 – National and training workshops– NAPLE/Eblida– European Cross-domain meetings
• Monitoring the Oeiras Manifesto– 10 Point Action Plan
The PULMAN GuidelinesThe PULMAN Guidelines
• Identify best practice– guidelines [2 editions, 22 languages]
– new, digital services
– social policy, management , technical
– 20 topics
– 100,000 words
– 650 links to good practice across Europe
One Website www.pulmanweb.org
CALIMERA: main goalsCALIMERA: main goals
• Prepare Community Memory Research agenda for local services [call 2004]– Turn IST research outcomes into helpful digital services for ordinary people
– Digitally-based services which support policy agendas
• Mobilise public libraries, local museums and archives to make best use of existing technologies – Extend best practice/guidelines
– Sensitise decision makers
• Work with industry to improve delivery of solutions
• Policy work
• Focus on the needs of the end user– Usability roadmap for new technologies
– Impact
CALIMERA: basic factsCALIMERA: basic facts
• 18 months
– expected start December 2003
• 46 partners - local organisations, national authorities, research centres – financial coordinator Lisbon; scientific co-ordinator MDR – Oton Zupancic library, Ljubljana
• Three ‘reference networks’ from each country:– local authority-based professionals [builds on PULMAN country co-ordinators +
archives , museums] – national authorities – industrial partners - the suppliers of local institutions
CALIMERA in each countryCALIMERA in each country
• Country Co-ordination Groups – Active, innovative people
– Public Libraries, Museums and Archives
• Spread the news
• Supply information
• Interact with policymakers and industry
• Breda Karun
Community Memory: what’s in it for the Community Memory: what’s in it for the ordinary user?ordinary user?• Local identity in Europe + increased exploration of remote
resources
• Promotion of social and cultural inclusion – e.g. through access to local, ethnic and linguistic cultural heritage and
family history
• Comprehensive living archive of local activities, occupations, interests and cultural attractions
• Enhanced ability to link up present needs and interests with an awareness of their historical context
Community Memory: what’s in it for the Community Memory: what’s in it for the end user (2)?end user (2)?
• Concentrating on the contributions of ordinary people to development of the Information Society
• Addressing the digital divide by improving the delivery of services
• Tackling educational disadvantage and helping deal with demographic changes
• Ultimately, access from any home and any vehicle in Europe to local cultural content
Community Memory: what should it be Community Memory: what should it be support?support?
• Interactivity - information in both drections
• Motivation - fun for the user
• Creativity - the user can contribute in the form of stories, pictures, video - photos or art work, music or voice,
Types of cultural contentTypes of cultural content
• Existing resources of Cultural Memory Organisations– eg oral testimonies, memorabilia and cultural objects in the care of
individuals and communities
• Generation of new digital content by virtual communities and individuals– meet specific local information and learning needs:
• Culture is 'everything we do’– interfaces between culture and knowledge, learning, information for
everyday life
• Music
• Newer content forms e.g. Multimedia, VR/3D
Technologies? What for?Technologies? What for?
• Lower-cost and efficient digitisation
• Preservation and access to digital cultural objects
• Easy content authoring – quality management
• Creation of packaged resources eg for learning, tourism promotion
• Seamless, one-stop searching and discovery of distributed resources and services
• Promoting interactive communication and transactions with government
What technologies?What technologies?
• Personalisation of content creation and access
• Multimedia access and delivery
• Virtual and augmented reality/ simulation– 'virtual visits' to local cultural institutions
• Devices (digitv, mobiles, cameras) and infrastructure– (standalone, GSM, 3G, Wi-Fi, broadband)
• Location-based technologies eg GPS
• Terminologies (semantic web)– ontologies, controlled vocabularies, classification systems, etc to help local
professionals and ordinary end-users
• Developing ‘web services’ models – reduce the cost of service integration and delivery
• IPR and digital cultural asset management
Some questionsSome questions
• Standards – what can be done to make them easier to adopt for local institutions?
• What priority given to ensuring a critical mass of digitisation for local institutions - how to afford?
• Simplicity of use • Metadata or Google?• Technology can move on too fast for people
– sensibility, training for the end-user is needed.
• 'Downward scalability’• Business models -
– should you charge for digital services eg membership
Getting real money for innovationGetting real money for innovation
• Pilot services and roll-out
• National programmes needed– challenge funding/bidding culture
• ESF/ERDF – candidate states preparing
• EQUAL programme – Learning, social inclusion, employment skills
– 3 libraries projects out of 1300
– LearnEast
Conference outcome?Conference outcome?
What is the way forward for local services in Slovenia?