National approaches to digitisation 

Flemish Ministry of Culture, Youth, Sports and Media

Hans van der Linden - DISH 9/12/2009

 

Cultural heritage

Belgium: regions and communities

• ‘Cultureel’ & ‘onroerend’

• ‘Cultureel’ = ‘roerend’ en ‘immaterieel’

• national library, national archive are managed by the Federal Government

Europe: ‘Cultural Heritage’

= culture + media + science + tangible heritage

Culture and innovation

• IBBT (Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology ): independent research institute founded by the Flemish Government to stimulate ICT innovation by multi-disciplinary demand-driven research: eg. Erfgoed 2.0

• Innovative procurement: The Flemish Government invites companies to map the challenges. Afterwards it’s up to the entreprises to find technological, organisational and/or social solutions.

• CIP ICT PSP: National Contact Points for setting up projectpartnerships

How to catch up with the arrears regarding digital content?

Standardization

All initiatives related to digitising, will apply commonly accepted

international standards that might be imposed by the Flemish

Government

(Cultural Heritage Decree (2008))

• Multiple finalities: archiving, opening up and exchanging • Different subsectors: archives, museums, libraries, audiovisual

collection• Publication based on consensus of all relevant organisations

dealing with ‘cultural heritage’

How to catch up with the arrears regarding digital content? (2)

Feasibility study on a cross-sectoral metadata aggregator

• Organisational and technical solutions

• Widely supported: added value for Europeana, education, tourism, …

Finding resources within and outside the decretal framework

Digital sustainability

Concept

• a repository for all digital cultural heritage generated by all relevant subsectors.

• Based on migration and emulation

Current research

• IBBT: ‘BOM VL’ ‘Archipel’ and ‘Vlaanderen in Beeld’

E-inclusion

Changing role of public libraries in providing access to the digital world /

digital content

Focus of a conference within the Belgian EU-presidency

• Technology and Beyond in Public Libraries (Sept. 22nd-23rd 2009)

• Follow-up conference during second half of 2010