Access to Culture Bernard Smith Head of Division Cultural Heritage Applications Head of Division Cultural Heritage Applications

 Cultural heritage in … European Research Area FP6 and the IST Vision  What research? Focus of first calls in FP6 New instruments New partnerships Impact  Where are we today? Ongoing activities Results of EoI analysis Do …. and Don’t …. Outline

 Focus on the future generation of technologies in which computers, interfaces and networks will be more integrated into the everyday environment and will render accessible through easy and "natural" interactions, a multitude of services and applications  Actions include: Integrating research into technological areas of priority interest for citizens and businesses, and IST in the 6 th FP "ambient intelligence" systems offering access to the information society for all...., interactive and intelligent systems for.... access to and preservation of cultural heritage....

 Extend the scope and efficiency of IST- based solutions,and make them accessible in the most trusted and natural way, anywhere and anytime to citizens, businesses and organisations  Societal challenges: the focus is on "ambient intelligence" for the preservation of cultural heritage....  "For cultural heritage the effort will focus on intelligent systems for dynamic access to and preservation of tangible and intangible cultural and scientific resources." Societal and Economic Challenges Specific programme

Culture in the 6 th FP  Citizens and governance in the knowledge-based society Cultural diversity and identity  Policy support and anticipating scientific and technolgical needs Initial research priorities: the protection of cultural heritage and associated conservation strategies other than IST

Why culture in IST?  The Treaty provides for research (Art. 163) and culture (Art. 151) Bring common cultural hertiage to the fore Encourage cooperation... Safeguarding of cultural heritage of European significance Take cultural aspects into account in other policies  Cultural institutions are guardians of some fundamental societal values  Cultural assets are one of the key riches of European society  Culture is an excellent "reality check" for technology developers  Cultural is an integral part of the knowledge economy and a major owner of digital assets

 Instruments: A limited number of Intergrated Projects and Networks of Excellence (on average 2 or 3) per strategic objective Integrated projects can vary from several €10‘s million Networks can go up to several €million per year Expect that 2/3 of the budget will go to Integrated Projects and Networks of Excellence Size is not a criterion for exclusion (quote from specific programme) Work Programme Focus, Excellence, Impact and Return on Investment

Technology-enhanced Learning and Access to Cultural Heritage Technology-enhanced Learning and Access to Cultural Heritage Objective: To develop advanced systems and services that help improve access to Europe‘s knowledge and educational resources (including cultural and scientific collections) and generate new forms of cultural and learning experiences Culture and learning share core values …..

Improving accessibility, visibility and recognition of the commercial value of Europe's cultural and scientific resources, by developing: advanced digital libraries services, providing high- bandwidth access to distributed and highly interactive repositories of European culture, history and science environments for intelligent heritage and tourism, re-creating and visualising cultural and scientific objects and sites for enhancing user experience in cultural tourism advanced tools, platforms and services in support of highly automated digitisation processes and workflows, digital restoration and preservation of film and video material, and digital memory management and exploitation Improving accessibility, visibility and recognition of the commercial value of Europe's cultural and scientific resources, by developing: advanced digital libraries services, providing high- bandwidth access to distributed and highly interactive repositories of European culture, history and science environments for intelligent heritage and tourism, re-creating and visualising cultural and scientific objects and sites for enhancing user experience in cultural tourism advanced tools, platforms and services in support of highly automated digitisation processes and workflows, digital restoration and preservation of film and video material, and digital memory management and exploitation Access to Cultural Heritage

 Policy initiatives on eEurope (e.g. Lund), employment, social inclusion,....  European Council Resolutions,....  Existing national and EU-funded projects  Recent reports, e.g. DigiCult  ISTAG vision on “ambient intelligence”  Institutional and industry roadmaps, e.g. DELOS EU-US working groups AIIM industry white papers...  Topic workshops, conferences, e.g. PRESTO TEL EVA conferences (Florence, Berlin, Moscow,...)  Policy initiatives on eEurope (e.g. Lund), employment, social inclusion,....  European Council Resolutions,....  Existing national and EU-funded projects  Recent reports, e.g. DigiCult  ISTAG vision on “ambient intelligence”  Institutional and industry roadmaps, e.g. DELOS EU-US working groups AIIM industry white papers...  Topic workshops, conferences, e.g. PRESTO TEL EVA conferences (Florence, Berlin, Moscow,...) Building on …..

 Council Resolution on film heritage  Council Resolution on the “Role of Culture in the European Union”  Council Resolution on “Culture and Knowledge Society”  Council Resolution on “Digital Preservation: preserving tomorrow’s memory”  eEurope 2002 and the Lund Principles for digitisation  eEurope 2005 and culture and tourism  Council Resolution on film heritage  Council Resolution on the “Role of Culture in the European Union”  Council Resolution on “Culture and Knowledge Society”  Council Resolution on “Digital Preservation: preserving tomorrow’s memory”  eEurope 2002 and the Lund Principles for digitisation  eEurope 2005 and culture and tourism Policy basis: New eCulture Landscapes

eEurope  eEurope initiative Helsinki summit December 1999 Lisbon special summit March 2000 (dot.com summit)  eEurope initiative Helsinki summit December 1999 Lisbon special summit March 2000 (dot.com summit)  eEurope action plan Feira summit June 2000  eEurope action plan Feira summit June 2000  eEurope progress report Stockholm summit March 2001  eEurope progress report Stockholm summit March 2001  eEurope+ (accession countries) Göteborg summit June 2001  eEurope+ (accession countries) Göteborg summit June 2001  eEurope 2005 Barcelona Council May 2002  eEurope 2005 Barcelona Council May 2002

Focus 1500 man-years of research effort on digital culture Fund 110 projects since participants 506 different organisations from museums, libraries, archives, industry, government and research (40% cultural actors, 30% industry, 30% research) Partners from 35 countries >90 M€ funding in cost-shared projects Av. funding 1.6 M€ for RTD (75% of budget) Av. funding 0.55 M€ for AM (12%) Av. funding 0.75 M€ for TN (8%) Av. funding M€ for take-up (5%) Focus 1500 man-years of research effort on digital culture Fund 110 projects since participants 506 different organisations from museums, libraries, archives, industry, government and research (40% cultural actors, 30% industry, 30% research) Partners from 35 countries >90 M€ funding in cost-shared projects Av. funding 1.6 M€ for RTD (75% of budget) Av. funding 0.55 M€ for AM (12%) Av. funding 0.75 M€ for TN (8%) Av. funding M€ for take-up (5%) What we do: New eCulture Landscapes

Improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of learning, through the development of open systems and services in support of ubiquitous, experiential and contextualised learning and virtual collaborative learning communities. Work combines advanced cognitive and knowledge-based approaches with new media, including virtual and augmented reality, virtual presence and simulation, and aims at demonstrating next-generation learning solutions in sizable field experiments. Improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of learning, through the development of open systems and services in support of ubiquitous, experiential and contextualised learning and virtual collaborative learning communities. Work combines advanced cognitive and knowledge-based approaches with new media, including virtual and augmented reality, virtual presence and simulation, and aims at demonstrating next-generation learning solutions in sizable field experiments. Technology-enhanced Learning  With a focus on:

Interaction between and among humans and the virtual and physical environment, through intuitive multimodal interfaces that are autonomous and capable of learning and adapting to the user environment in dynamically changing contexts Multilingual systems facilitating translation for unrestricted domains, especially for spontaneous or ill-formed (speech) inputs, in task-oriented settings Interaction between and among humans and the virtual and physical environment, through intuitive multimodal interfaces that are autonomous and capable of learning and adapting to the user environment in dynamically changing contexts Multilingual systems facilitating translation for unrestricted domains, especially for spontaneous or ill-formed (speech) inputs, in task-oriented settings Multimodal Interfaces  With a focus on:

Semantic-enabled systems and services facilitating multimedia content mining on the Web and across distributed computing platforms Knowledge-based adaptive systems, combining semantically enriched content with "anytime- anywhere inferencing" in support of knowledge-intensive, time-critical tasks, especially for modelling and optimisation, automated diagnosis and decision-support Semantic-enabled systems and services facilitating multimedia content mining on the Web and across distributed computing platforms Knowledge-based adaptive systems, combining semantically enriched content with "anytime- anywhere inferencing" in support of knowledge-intensive, time-critical tasks, especially for modelling and optimisation, automated diagnosis and decision-support Semantic-based Knowledge Systems  With a focus on:

Towards a global dependability and security framework will focus on the development, testing and verification of technolgies for protecting, securing and trustable distribution of digital assets Networked businesses and governments will look at eGovernment platforms, applications and multi-modal services and one- stop eGovernment services for all Towards a global dependability and security framework will focus on the development, testing and verification of technolgies for protecting, securing and trustable distribution of digital assets Networked businesses and governments will look at eGovernment platforms, applications and multi-modal services and one- stop eGovernment services for all and remember also....

 Advanced digital libraries services, providing high-bandwidth access to distributed and highly interactive repositories of European culture, history and science Focus on shared test-beds and incresed cultural-research cooperation Building on existing portfolio of projects Including digital memory management Remember broadband objectives of eEurope 2005  Advanced digital libraries services, providing high-bandwidth access to distributed and highly interactive repositories of European culture, history and science Focus on shared test-beds and incresed cultural-research cooperation Building on existing portfolio of projects Including digital memory management Remember broadband objectives of eEurope 2005 Digital library services IPNoESTRP Highly recommended Not recommended

 Environments for intelligent heritage and tourism, re-creating and visualising cultural and scientific objects and sites for enhancing user experience in cultural tourism Focus on enhancing user experience Addressing the common needs of Europe’s museums, monuments, sites, etc., and not a specific museum, monument, site,.... eLearning, tourism, eCommerce can support the core focus on culture An effective network should include take-up in networks and/or “demo” projects under STRP  Environments for intelligent heritage and tourism, re-creating and visualising cultural and scientific objects and sites for enhancing user experience in cultural tourism Focus on enhancing user experience Addressing the common needs of Europe’s museums, monuments, sites, etc., and not a specific museum, monument, site,.... eLearning, tourism, eCommerce can support the core focus on culture An effective network should include take-up in networks and/or “demo” projects under STRP Intelligent heritage and tourism IPNoESTRP Not recommendedHighly recommendedPossible

 Advanced tools, platforms and services in support of highly automated digitisation processes and workflows, digital restoration and preservation of film and video material, and digital memory management and exploitation Focus on structuring new research communities around preservation Substantially reduce the cost of digitisation Lower barriers for institutional investment in long-term digital preservation Provide an industrial platform for film and video restoration and preservation  Advanced tools, platforms and services in support of highly automated digitisation processes and workflows, digital restoration and preservation of film and video material, and digital memory management and exploitation Focus on structuring new research communities around preservation Substantially reduce the cost of digitisation Lower barriers for institutional investment in long-term digital preservation Provide an industrial platform for film and video restoration and preservation Preservation and digitisation IPNoESTRP Highly recommended Not recommended

What kind of Project?

 Working on topics such as: Middleware and distributed systems Knowledge management and information handling Content authoring Trust and security Internet-based technologies Mobile technologies Multimodal interfaces Language technologies Visualisation and virtual/augmented/mixed reality  Always focusing on integration into systems that can be tested in the real-world and can solve real-world problems  Working on topics such as: Middleware and distributed systems Knowledge management and information handling Content authoring Trust and security Internet-based technologies Mobile technologies Multimodal interfaces Language technologies Visualisation and virtual/augmented/mixed reality  Always focusing on integration into systems that can be tested in the real-world and can solve real-world problems Applied research implies …

Where is the research focus?

 Publication: 17 th Dec  Closing deadline: 24 th April 2003  Evaluation: May 2003  Hearings: 9-14 June 2003  Negotiations: starting July until Sept  Commission decision: from Oct  Projects start: Dec or Jan Highly competitive & demanding process … Schedule of the 1 st Call

 Protection and conservation of physical objects, monuments, sites, etc., except where they direct link to digitally enhanced user experiences  Generic technology development without any context or relevance to the problems of Europe’s cultural institutions  Projects addressing a particular object, monument, site, or dealing with dealing with specific thematic collections  Projects trying to cover everything – eLearning, tourism, eCommerce, etc.  Projects lacking strategy/policy impact  Protection and conservation of physical objects, monuments, sites, etc., except where they direct link to digitally enhanced user experiences  Generic technology development without any context or relevance to the problems of Europe’s cultural institutions  Projects addressing a particular object, monument, site, or dealing with dealing with specific thematic collections  Projects trying to cover everything – eLearning, tourism, eCommerce, etc.  Projects lacking strategy/policy impact Out of Scope

 Work programme  NoE’s and STRP’s are incubators for new ideas  Issues not fully included in present work programme: New forms of community memory Culture and tourism, learning, etc. Long-term preservation of collections of highly dynamic objects and collections and ….. Possible topics for future calls

A Core Application in Europe’s Knowledge Society and Economy: ACCESS TO CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC RESOURCES A Core Application in Europe’s Knowledge Society and Economy: ACCESS TO CULTURAL AND SCIENTIFIC RESOURCES Future Research ensure leadership in the generic and applied technologies and the development of a knowledge society for all ensure leadership in the generic and applied technologies and the development of a knowledge society for all

Emergence of large-scale, inclusive cutural landscapes where Europe’s digital heritage is globally visible, interacts intelligently with users, and persists over time Prevent loss and restore access to Europe’s essential cultural and scientific resources that are in obsolete formats or are too rare or fragile for regular physical access eCulture: Objectives for 2010

Access to Cultural Heritage  Measurable impact: For digital collections the aim is a Europe-wide approach to depositing new digital content and to Web archiving, resulting in a stable distributed repository of Europe’s digital content and community memory within 5 to 10 years Reduce by 50% the cost of digitsation and modelling of cultural objects, monuments, sites, etc. within 5 years Improve the accessibility and preservation of significant cultural digital resources, leading to assured protection from loss in the timeframe years  Measurable impact: For digital collections the aim is a Europe-wide approach to depositing new digital content and to Web archiving, resulting in a stable distributed repository of Europe’s digital content and community memory within 5 to 10 years Reduce by 50% the cost of digitsation and modelling of cultural objects, monuments, sites, etc. within 5 years Improve the accessibility and preservation of significant cultural digital resources, leading to assured protection from loss in the timeframe years

Instruments – not business as usual Instruments – not business as usual  From “project”-thinking to “initiative”-thinking new instruments: “Integrated Projects” & “Networks of Excellence” more strategic thinking  Develop Europe-wide approaches making sure that Community funding helps aggregate EU, Member State & private funded effort(s)  it is not just supporting a particular RTD project…  Different way of describing content and calls a lighter work programme, different sequencing of calls,...

Integrated projects  Generate knowledge and critical mass needed to achieve ambitious clearly defined scientific and technological objectives  Increase competitiveness and/or address a societal challenge  Support object-driven research, where the primary deliverable is new knowledge  Expected to also have a structuring effect Judged on impact, scientific excellence and quality of consortium

Critical mass for integrated projects  Up to several M€/year  Ambitious objectives, research effort, scale and expected impact  Coherent set of components, often in the form of sub-projects  3-5 years, or longer  No less than 3 independent entities from 3 different States No minimum More than 9 No maximum  SME’s are important Take-up

Integrated projects  Integrate technology developers, stakeholders, and users  Multidisciplinary  Integrate different funding agencies  Integrate research, take-up, dissemination, and training Building a community into a coherent whole

 Key messages: No lower threshold on size, just ambition Ambition: tangible significant impact on a wide spectrum of core stakeholders Generate knowledge, and new collaborations Integration for DL: value-chain, existing “national” collections, public-private funding, training, end- user involvement Integration for preservation: public institution- private company, multidisciplinary, demonstration, international cooperation, institutional buy-in, building a research community Should be THE project in the field Integrated projects

Networks of excellence  Multidisciplinary and oriented to long-term objectives which are not predefined in terms of products, processes or services  Strengthen scientific and technological excellence  Progressive, lasting integration, addresses fragmentation of European research  Must includes spreading of excellence Judged on impact, quality of participants and degree of integration

 Ambitious goals for the whole network  May involve 100’s of researchers e.g. 2 M€/year for 100 researchers  No less than 3 independent entities from 3 different States  Joint programme of activities “Virtual” centres of excellence At least 6  Integrated management of IP Take-up  Durable integration of research max. 25%

 Key messages: Clear, well-defined topic, and performance indicators for durable integration Funding is an incentive to help overcome barriers to durable integration Integrates existing national activities and programmes, and be seen to modify the organisation of research Joint programme of activities – MUST include integration, re-orientation of activities, joint executed research, spreading of excellence, unified management structure Joint programme of activities – exclusively of additional activities, that would not have been undertaken in the absence of the network World leadership is THE objective Networks of excellence

 Key messages: Integration for DL: joint training, interactive working, shared use of infrastructure, national programme commitment, includes national funders, create pan- European platform, common approaches, interoperability, open standards, exchange of expertise Integration for intelligent heritage: create pan-European platform, common approaches, interoperability, open standards, demo’s and take-up, develop technology roadmaps, institutional buy-in Integration for preservation: joint management of knowledge portfolio, staff exchange, common legal structures, long-term objectives, new research opportunities, concentration of resources, common approaches, develop policy roadmaps Integration for digitisation: joint training, includes national funders, Ministerial commitment, create pan- European platform, common approaches, interoperability, open standards, “good” and “best” practice guidelines Networks of excellence

 It’s all about overcoming fragmentation  Playing to strengths and avoid duplication  Technical, policy and professional activities  Institutional and academic research  National, regional and local efforts  Different research disciplines  Industrial development, academic research and market evolution  Public-private funding  Research, policy preparation and decision making What is integration?

Using the instruments

 Finding a way to extend an existing project  Having lots of “sleeping” partners  Covering the map of Europe with nodes, etc.  A loose group of like minded individuals  Re-submitting a rejected proposal from past/other programmes and asking for 3- times as much funding  Trying to “federate” different groups without any coherence, just because the “Commission wants it”  Making a good small research project look like an IP by tripling everything Ambition is not ….

 118 received, 97 analysed 64% IPs, 36% NoEs (IST average)  Focusing on: Digitisation and digital preservation (19 IP’s and 11 NoE’s) Advanced digital libraries and content infrastructures (16 IP’s and 15 NoE’s) Intelligent heritage and artistic expression (11 IP’s and 13 NoE’s) Building community memories (3 IP’s and 9 NoE’s)  Strong academic focus (41% for IST) Expressions of Interest

 Lots of interesting ideas  Shift to longer-term research  Partnership building in key constituencies stimulated  Indication of constituency readiness  Good mix of “traditional” and new actors  Large industry interested (again) in some areas  SME’s still present  Interesting new topics such as Web archival, automated preservation, collective memory On the positive side...

 Only 15-30% of ideas really took seriously the new instruments, even if they did not understand them fully  Lack of ambition with very few big “visionary” ideas  Some very big (unrealistic) project budgets  Lack of integration, with just inflated “traditional” project ideas proposed  European Research Area still misunderstood  No EU added-value and impact indicators  Many sub-critical ideas could be integrated to achieve critical mass  Lots of overlap in Networks, and joint programme of activities missing On the other hand...

 Focus on describing the problem and breakthroughs expected and ensure that the key innovations are clearly described  Make explicit the state-of-the-art and the institutional buy-in  Keep ideas modular in scope, content and time  Give realistic cost/resource estimates  Use the full range of activities allowable in the new instruments  Remember to factor in post-project sustainability Focus on return on investment Do...

 Artificially inflate IP’s or artificially adapt your ideas to inappropriate objectives  Try to everything with everyone  Mirror the work programme text  Underestimate the project management expertise needed  Participate in a multitude of competing proposals (remember a researcher can only be in one network)  Forget to contextualise your objectives and put yourself in the place of the evaluator  Forget the rational for EU intervention Don’t...

 An open Information event in Luxembourg, 27 th Jan  Information briefings planned for Belgium, the Netherlands, UK, Greece, …  Open day on Technology-enhanced Learning in Luxembourg, 5 th Dec Other events …

 Check relevance of your ideas with us, as quickly as possible  Use the national contact points and partner finding services (intelligently)  Constantly check CORDIS for progress and updates on instruments and schedules  Build publically accessible agendas: Clarify your ideas, share your problems and ideas with others and subject them to public inspection Mobilise your constituencies, involve the stakeholders and listen to them  Become an expert evaluator What to do next?

 This is a game of quality not numbers (ambition)  Preserve your credibility - select one proposal and make it work (focus)  Remember your credibility also depends on the quality and credibility of your partnerships (excellence)  Today our constituencies are present but are still dispersed (integrate)  Remember the new programme involves a change in mind-set: An Integrated Project should be THE project in the field A Network of Excellence should integrate ongoing research in Member States Conclusions

For more information  eEurope  IST in the Framework Programme  Cultural Heritage in IST Culture in the EU