Strategic, Methodological and Technical Solutions for the Creation of Seamless Cultural Heritage Content and Access: Lithuanian Approach Dr. Regina Varnienė-Janssen Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania and Jonas Juškys Sintagma Ltd Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

My acknowledgements are to: Tomas Auškalnis and Liubovė Buckienė for their assistance in the preparation of this report Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

Content of the report New paradigm in Lithuanian legislation on cultural heritage Organizational / Functional structure of the Virtual Electronic Heritage System (VEPS) VEPS as the basis for seamless cultural heritage content Web portal “epaveldas.lt” - a single gate for access to electronic cultural heritage Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

New paradigm in the legislation on cultural heritage A Digital Agenda for Europe - 7 priority areas for development of the information society and increasing social openness The Concept for Digitization of Lithuanian Cultural Heritage (2005) Implementation measure “Lithuanian culture in the information society” of the 3rd priority of Lithuania’s Action Programme for Economic Growth in 2007-2013 Strategy for Digitization of Lithuanian Cultural Heritage, Digital Content Preservation and Access (2009) Progress Strategy for Lithuania “Lithuania 2030” Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

National progress programme Structure of national strategic documents Progress Strategy for Lithuania “Lithuania 2030” National programme for reforms Transitional objectives of the Progress Strategy for Lithuania by 2020 Strategy Europe 2020 General strategic document National progress programme Agreement of development and investment partnership Projects financed by financial instruments of the other EU policies Operational programmes of the Convergence Objective Operational programmes of the Regional Cooperation Objective Operational programmes of the Agricultural Development Operational programmes of the Ficheries Guidance Fund TEN projects General funds EU funds EU funds Private funds Other budget funds General funds EU funds EU funds Private funds National budget funds Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

Methodology for the creation of seamless heritage content Defined in the following strategic documents: The Concept for Digitization of Lithuanian Cultural Heritage (2005) The Strategy for Digitization of Lithuanian Cultural Heritage, Digital Content Preservation and Access (2009) Implementation Framework 2009-2013 for the Strategy Implemented within the Virtual Electronic Heritage System Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

The Concept for Digitization of Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Defines the goal, objectives and principles for digitization of cultural heritage Sets common selection criteria for objects to be digitized Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

Strategy for Digitization of Lithuanian Cultural Heritage pursues the following objectives: Creation of a seamless system for digitization of cultural heritage and ensuring its reliable funcionality Development and expansion of the virtual cultural heritage system combining search, preservation and access features Standardization of digitization, preservation and access workflows Digitization of heritage objects and delivery of them to the web portal Encouraging initiatives on cultural heritage access Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

Financed projects Development of the Virtual Electronic Heritage System (VEPS) (Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania) EUR 3 800 000 Lithuanian Documentary Cinema Online („e-kinas“) (Lithuanian State Archives) EUR 3 000 000 Historical Heritage of the Lithuanian Statehood Online (Office of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania) EUR 900 000 Virtual Historical Lithuania: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania (Vilnius University) EUR 1 880 000 Virtual Library for the Blind (Lithuanian Library for the Blind) EUR 1 000 000 Creation of the Virtual Audio Library of the Lithuanian Radio (Lithuanian Radio and Television) EUR 1 800 000 Implementation of the Integrated Museum Information System (LIMIS) in Lithuanian Museums (Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania) EUR 2 415 000 Presenting Works of Lithuanian Classical Literature Online (“e-klasika”) (Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania) EUR 580 000 Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

Virtual Electronic Heritage System as the basis for seamless cultural heritage content Project “Development of the Virtual Electronic Heritage System (VEPS)”: ES Structural Funds - EUR 3 250 000 State budget - EUR 570 000 Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

Development of the Virtual Electronic Heritage System (VEPS) Goal of the project: Ensuring sustainable creation of Lithuanian cultural heritage content and access Project objectives: Expansion of the network for the creation of digital content by establishing new digitization centres and units Development and expansion of the virtual system for the digital cultural heritage Ensuring digitization of cultural heritage objects and access to them Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

Metadata within VEPS CONTROLED VOCABULARIES DATA CONTENT STANDARDS CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES EUROVOC - archives LCSH (Lithuanian version) - libraries UDC - libraries ULAN - museums ISAAR(CPF), ISAD(G) - archives ISBDs - libraries CCO - museums DATA STRUCTURE STANDARDS DATA PRESERVATION STANDARDS EAD - archives UNIMARC, MARC21 - libraries CDWA Lite, ESE - museums METS: libraries archives museums ACCESS STANDARDS CIDOC CRM (shared ontology) RDF, OAI-PMH Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

Functional / Organizational structure of VEPS Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

Integrated thesaurus (BAVIC) (authors Dr. R. Laužikas and Dr. V Integrated thesaurus (BAVIC) (authors Dr. R. Laužikas and Dr. V. Vaitkevičius) serving for: Establishment of a universal model for presentation of personal names, geographical names and historical chronology Creation of an integrated database of personal names, geographical names and historical chronology Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

BAVIC Evolution of geographical names: example Marijampolė 1667-1736 - Pašešupis 1736-1758 - Starapolė 1758-1955 - Marijampolė 1955-1990 - Kapsukas Since 1990 - Marijampolė Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

BAVIC Recording of geographical names in different languages and scripts: example Tauragnai 13th c. (Latin) - Tovraks, Therake, Theuraxe, Thowraggen, Towragen 13th c. (German) - Taurage 14th c. (Latin) - Thurogno 17th c. (Polish) - Tauroginy 18th c. (Latin) - Taurogi 19th c. (Russian - Таурогины 19th c. (Polish) - Tawroginy 19th c. (Lithuanian) - Tauroginiai 20th c. (German) - Taurogone 20th c. (Russian) - Таурагнай 20th c. (Lithuanian) - Tauragnai Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

CIDOC CRM and CIDOC CRMdig for VEPS Applying CIDOC CRM and CIDOC CRMdig for the VEPS software to a degree that is necessary for presentation of collections from memory institutions in the virtual space Setting up a database aggregating personal, corporate body and geographical names, and subject headings imported from authority files of multiple memory and research institutions Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

CIDOC CRM / DC / UNIMARC/B - Additional information about Steponas Batoras MUSEUMS LIBRARIES, ARCHIVES Painting by Vincentas Smakauskas (19th c.) Painting by an unknown artist (19th c.) Seal which belonged to Steponas Batoras (16th c.) Newspaper article 1935 Manuscript 1586 Transcript of the 1581 manuscript Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

CIDOC CRM and CIDOC CRMdig for VEPS Applying CIDOC CRM and CIDOC CRMdig for the VEPS software to a degree that is necessary for presenting collections preserved at memory institutions in the virtual space Setting up a database integrating digital objects from partners Supplementing the VEPS database with data imported from multiple sources, e.g. the National Library authority file Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

METS - digital objects and metadata: Archiving within VEPS METS - digital objects and metadata: <fileGrp ID="FILEGROUP01" USE="IMAGES"> <file ID="FILE1" SEQ="1" SIZE="191243" CHECKSUM="7ab0d308b31ba0e416abc27d54e76bb7" CHECKSUMTYPE="MD5" DMDID="DMD01" GROUPID="01"> <FLocat LOCTYPE="URN" xlink:href="f\fn.jpg" /> </file> Structure ... or <dc:title>Verbos</dc:title> <dc:creator>Lidija Meškaitytė</dc:creator> METS <dc:subject>miniatiūra</dc:subject> Description <dc:description>Popierius, akvarelė, h/pl. - 13,7x10,5 cm </dc:description> <dc:date>1960</dc:date> … <agent ID="CREATOR01" ROLE="CREATOR"> <name>Jonas Petraitis</name> Administration … </agent> Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

Text (4.5 million) Images (85 thousand) Audio (85 thousand) books paintings first shellac records manuscripts photographs vocal music periodicals negatives church vocal music printed music textile works instrumental music church documents maps music for theatre Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

Integrated portal - www.epaveldas.lt Integration of bibliographic, archival and museum information within VEPS Integration of digital content within VEPS Conclusion: supports end-user navigation from concept to particular items, artefacts and archival documents Zadar, 26-30 September 2011

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