SEEDI country report Croatia

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SEEDIcountry reportCroatia

• Boris Badurina
• LIS department
• Faculty of Philosophy Osijek

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Overview

• ALM digitization efforts
• Libraries
• A few small projects
• Digitized heritage National library project
• Participation in ECDL
• Museums
• Croatian museums on the Internet
• Museum software capable of storing digitized
  materials
• Archives
• Integrated System of Archives

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ALM community

• 1 yearly ALM conference (since 1997)
• Digitization topics each year
• Results, so far -gt none visible

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Problems

• Lack of interest (conservative institutions)
• Lack of Know How
• Lack of funds or knowing how to get funds
• Lack of communication

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Possible solutions

• Providing simple tools
• Education

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Legislation

• Ministry of culture
• No official documents on digitization yet
• National program for digitization of archival,
  museum and library materials

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SWOT

• Museums and archives are capable of building
  digital repositories
• Ministry is often supportive
• EU funds
• but
• Lack of understanding of EU funds
• ALM institutions are conservative and lack
  technical knowledge