Creating Content Together practicalities and partnerships

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Creating Content Together practicalities and
partnerships

• JISC / CNI Conference
• 26 June 2002
• David Dawson, Senior ICT AdviserPeoples Network
  Development Team

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Agenda

• Resource
• in the UK
• Europe
• International

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Resource

• Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries
• strategic leadership, advocacy and advice
• enable museums, archives and libraries to touch
  peoples lives
• inspire imagination, learning and creativity
• funded by Department for Culture, Media and Sport

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Challenge Funds

• IT Challenge Fund
• 11 projects
• Designation Challenge Fund
• continuing funding for long-term projects -
  emphasis on wider access to collections
• evaluation reports
• http//www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/content/itcf.asp

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Future development...

• Complete all remaining museums
• Building on links with the 24 Hour Museum
• already links dynamically to the 24HM record
• Z39.50 enabling 24 Hour Museum and 3 museum
  databases as a pilot
• displaying Cornucopia collections descriptions as
  part of 24 Hour Museum records
• Interoperable data
• XML, OAI and / or Z39.50
• Archaeology Data Service, National Biodiversity
  Network

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The UK
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NOF-digitise programme

• 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

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Creating a Portal

• web-based cataloguing tool
• projects
• learning resources
• databases
• projects enter and maintain their own data
• considering OAI harvesting

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• what will it be like?
• 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
• 13m funding now announced

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Broadband

• Government objective - UK to be top of G7 for
  broadband connectivity by 2005
• e-Envoys Office tasked to make it happen
• market developments
• public sector procurement
• content
• focus moving from wires to content ...

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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
• initiative and resource mapping
• regional broadbands, BECTa, Cabinet Office, DfEE,
  NHS, Post Office, Countryside Agency, Digital
  Scotland, Welsh Assembly, DETR, BBC, DTI etc
• e-Europe and International collaboration

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Europe
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eEurope Action Plan

• Feira Summit, June 2000
• 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

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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.h
  tml

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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

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eEurope

• National Representatives Group
• representation from each Member State
• BE Isabelle Dujacquier An Knaeps
• DE Monika Hagedorn-Saupe
• FI Minna Karvoren
• FR Philippe Avenier
• IT Rosella Caffo
• UK David Dawson
• and the other Member States too ...

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Benchmarking
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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

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MINERVA Project WP 4

• Interoperability
• framework for an information environment
• mandatory standards
• conformance testing
• metadata
• authentication
• IPR issues

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Europe and Culture Portal

• launched 18th March
• cultural cooperation, regulations, funding for
  culture and international relations
• www.europa.ei.int/comm/culture

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6th Framework

• Next generation of EU funding
• large-scale Networks of Excellence
• Expression of Interest submitted 7 June
• support of all Culture Ministries
• creation of an information environment
• IPR
• digital preservation
• etc etc etc
• funding calls begin end 2002

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eEurope Action Plan 2005

• Adopted 28 May 2002
• interesting targets and actions
• culture and tourism
• e-learning
• multi-platform content
• broadband
• for museums, libraries and archives
• http//europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope

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Level 7

• 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/

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Best practice
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Washington outcomes

• Lots of common issues
• OAI
• broadband
• e-learning
• Focus on user-research
• forthcoming article
• http//www.cultivate-int.org/issue7

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contact details

• ? david.dawson_at_resource.gov.uk
• www.resource.gov.uk