DC-NET Digital Cultural Heritage Network Antonella FRESA Technical Coordinator Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali, Italy Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane ESFRI SSH Working Group Brussels, 18 January 2011

Table of content The DC-NET workplan What has been done so far Working together The INDICATE initiative Future plans Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

The DC-NET Workplan 7 work-packages: WP1 – Network of common interest WP2 – e-Infrastructure awareness WP3 – New Service Priorities WP4 – Technical Validation WP5 – Dissemination WP6 – Joint Activities Plan WP7 – Management and Governance Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

The DC-NET Network of Common Interest –Network of cultural heritage ministries, agencies, cultural institutions, e- Infrastructure providers and research centres –Working groups which focus on specific project areas –Open to the participation of new countries WP Leader: Italian Ministry of Culture Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

e-Infrastructure awareness in the digital heritage –To explore the e-Infrastructures available in each member state: NREN, NGI, institutional e-Infrastructures –To describe policies, programmes and regulations which govern access to the e- Infrastructures –To document mechanisms and technical standards that need to be complied with WP Leaders: BELSPO-STIS, Belgium & Estonian Ministry Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

New services priorities –To review the priorities of the Cultural Ministries, in terms of the new services which they wish to deliver –To combine the priorities of the cultural heritage sector with their new knowledge about e-Infrastructures –Best practices analysis WP Leaders: French Ministry of Culture & Swedish National Archives Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

Technical Validation –To investigate in technical details how e-Infrastructures can be used to achieve the ambitions defined in WP3 –Each ambition will be matched to available resources, services and e-Infrastructures in each member state; –Each ambition will be validated in terms of feasibility, cost, perceived value to the cultural heritage sector, impact on e-Infrastructures and other users, international replication and collaboration potential. WP Leaders: Ministries of Culture of Greece & Slovenia with the support of National Technical University of Athens Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

Dissemination –To raise awareness of e-Infrastructures, their priorities and constraints, in the cultural heritage community and vice versa –2 Ministerial-level Conferences under the aegis of the EU Presidencies of Belgium and Hungary –Project website: –Dissemination material, presentations in third parties events, publications, … WP Leaders: BELSPO-STIS, Belgium & Ministry of Culture of Hungary Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

Joint Activities Plan To draw up a joint activities plan for cultural heritage research using e-Infrastructures To prepare for the implementation of the joint activities with training and awareness national initiatives To analyse regional and national programmes to identify resources, commonalities and synergies To agree on future concrete cooperation actions to be carried out beyond the end of the DC-NET funding period. WP Leaders: French and Italian Ministries of Culture Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

GANTT Months WP1 M1.1 M1.2 D1.1 M1.3 D1.2 WP2 M2.1D2.1 D2.2 D2.3 D2.4 M2.2 WP3 D3.1 M3.1 WP4 M4.1 D4.1 WP5 D5.1 D5.2 M5.1 D5.3 M5.2M5.3D5.4 WP6 M6.1 D6.1 M6.2 D6.2 WP7 D7.1.1, etc. R Int. D7.2 R Fin. D7.3 Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

What has been done so far Network of common interest - preparing the DC- NET Virtual Research Community Creating the DC-NET working groups in each participating country, with representatives of: –Cultural institutions –Research centres –Universities –e-Infrastructure providers A dedicated space on the website Working groups Terms of reference Endorsement by the JPI-Cultural Heritage 11 CONTINUE  Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

What has been done so far Enlargement Instruments for the enlargement: –The Cooperation Agreement for research and cultural institutions –The Membership Agreement for programme owners who want to joint the ERA-NET Several new countries expressed their interest to participate to DC-NET: –cultural institutions from Bulgaria, Poland, UK, Cyprus, Spain have already signed the Cooperation Agreement; –ongoing discussions with Latvia, Austria, Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands, Finland, Israel, … 12 CONTINUE  Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

What has been done so far Dissemination Participation to the widest range of third parties events (e-IRG workshops, ESFRI AHSS working group, Research Infrastructure initiatives, SEEDI, other projects meetings, etc.) Project website Dissemination material The first DC-NET Conference in Brussels on 29/10/2010 Planning for the second DC_NET Conference in Budapest on 23-24/6/ CONTINUE  Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

What has been done so far Study on the Research priorities – an internal report –Networking –ICT Research –Innovative eServices and pilots –Network of competence centres, laboratories, innovation areas and new professional profiles Technical validation –How the deployment of the research priorities of the internal report can be enabled by the e-Infrastructures 14 Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

What has been done so far E-Infrastructure awareness – a bidirectional effort Establishing the dialogue between cultural sector and e-Infrastructure providers –Meetings in each country –Questionnaire and e-Infrastructure Handbook –Memorandum of Understanding –E-Infrastructure concertation meeting in Tallinn on January 2011, with representatives of NRENs, GRID infrastructures, EGI, e-IRG and the DC-NET partners 15 Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

What has been done so far Best practices and New Services Overview of the current situation - a home work Methodology for best practices Questionnaire and experts interviews The New Service workshop in Paris on 9-10/2/ Antonella Fresa Brussels, 28 January 2011

Working together Liaison with the international e-infrastructure organisations : EGI.eu GEANT TERENA Policy bodies: eIRG ESFRI MSEG JPI-CH Cooperation with other projects DC-NET working groups Antonella Fresa Brussels, 28 January 2011

Examples of cooperation with other projects –DL.ORG – coordination action in ICT-cultural heritage technologies, coordinated by ISTI-CNR Pisa; joint networking event on interoperability at ICT2010, Brussels 29/9/2010; –DRIVER technical meeting with ISTI-CNR Pisa, 1/4/2010; –PreparingDARIAH, CHARISMA – research infrastructures; under preparation MoU/Cooperation Agreement to define common actions and synergies. –EPIKH – a Marie Curie project; signed MoU; grid school on digital heritage ; joint workshop in Beijing in May 2011; –INDICATE – e-infrastructure international coordination actions Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

INDICATE A sister project started in September 2010 to enlarge to the Mediterranean region the discussion about the implementation of a common digital cultural heritage e-infrastructure Thematic working groups Case studies Two research pilots: –Semantic search –e-collaborative cultural repositories A rich program of events Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

INDICATE events Public presentation at The European contribution to online digital culture conference, in cooperation with the ATHENA project, Rome, 21/2/2011 Three thematic workshops : –Digital preservation (Ankara, 7/7/2011) –Virtual exhibitions (Jordan, October 2011) –Geo-coded cultural data (Slovenia, March 2012) One international workshop in China in May 2011, in cooperation with the EPIKH project One international conference in Egypt in April 2012 Final workshop in Paris about strategies and future plans Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

The plans for the future Short term: to define and to initiate the DC-NET Joint Activities Plan Medium-long term: –To implement the Digital Cultural Heritage Data Infrastructure –To establish and to integrate the operations of the Digital Cultural Heritage Virtual Research Community –To create a permanent coordination among the European Programme Owners for planning the sustainability of a shared vision, on a long-term basis Antonella Fresa Brussels, 18 January 2011

Thank you for your attention Antonella Fresa DC-NET Technical Coordinator