1. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 ERANET DC-NET Digital Cultural Heritage Network Project Coordinator: Rossella CAFFO Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane rosa.caffo@beniculturali.it www.dc-net.org Presented by Jean Moulin (BELSPO/STIS)

2. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 The European scenario Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) on Cultural Heritage Chaired by Italy Approach: to involve Member States, on a variable- geometry basis, in defining, developing and implementing strategic research agendas (tangible + digital) "Cultural Heritage and Global Change: a new challenge for Europe“ - EC Recommendation 26-04-2010 JPI endorsement of DC-NET and NET HERITAGE + Digital Agenda of the Commission (2010-) + Report of the Comité des Sages (10 January 2011) + Member States Experts Group (2007-) + FP7: e-Infrastructures - ICT

3. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 ERANET - Coordination action contributing to the ERA Supported by: FP7/Capacities/Research Infrastructures Research field: e-Infrastructure for the digital cultural heritage Duration: 24 months (start 01-12-2009) Coordinated by MiBAC-ICCU (Italian Ministry of Culture) Partners DC-NET in a glance Belgium:Federal Science Policy Office (represented by STIS) Estonia:Ministry of Culture France:Ministry of Culture Greece:Ministry of Culture Hungary:Ministry of Culture Slovenia:Ministry of Culture Sweden:Riksarchivet (appointed by the Ministry)

4. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 A long story of joint efforts among EU Countries: Brussels Quality Framework 2001 Lund Action Plan 2001 National Representatives Group 2002-2007 Charter of Parma 2003 Minerva, 2002-2008 still a reality for EU cultural institutions Michael, 2004-2008 the largest investment of MS in DCH (inventory of collections) Member States Experts Group and the support to Europeana (end-user oriented, digital library), 2007 Where does DC-NET come from

5. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 DATA MODEL, ORGANISATION, GOVERNANCE DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE e-INFRASTRUCTURE 2002 2005 2009 20112014 NATIONAL & REGIONAL INITIATIVES EUROPEANA Athena Linked Heritage RECOMMENDATIONS & GUIDELINES INDICATE

6. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 To implement a data and service infrastructure for research in the digital cultural heritage To further develop the national/regional frameworks of cooperation with content providers (legacy of MICHAEL) To secure the committment of the stakeholders to sustain the infrastructure on a medium-long term Vision

7. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 To foster cooperation between cultural sector research bodies and technology and infrastructure providers (e-infrastructures operators) To harmonise initiatives of the EU Ministries of Culture (and Research) into a common strategy for the digital cultural heritage To develop and to endorse a research agenda for the digital cultural heritage, shared among the MS and the EC To translate the strategic roadmap into coordinated programmes and action plans Scope and objectives

8. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 1. Developing a range of guidelines & recommendations for the exploitation of the e-Infrastructures in the digital cultural heritage, based on the successful approach of MINERVA 2. Implementing of a data and services infrastructure for the digital cultural heritage (this e-infrastructure is an evolution of MICHAEL and other initiatives) 3. Creating a multidisciplinary virtual research commu- nity that will work in DCH Joint Activities Plan

9. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 Digital items and collections Digital image archives Audiovisual Sounds, music, recordings Digital born material 3D Databases, digital catalogues & other services Data from scientific research on cultural heritage Digital heritage Digital libraries Two possible approaches: Databases of digital contents representing cultural items (images, sounds, audiovisuals,...) Digital catalogues of metadata and other services connected with digital contents in a single platform Target: general users or professionals or researchers Portals and aggregators Both do not include digital resources (in a systematic way) They provide information and services, and forward to external digital libraries and databases for accessing contents Target: mostly general users - Researchers are not the main target

10. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 DCH vs e-Infrastructures (1) DCH (Libraries, Archives, Museums, Art Galleries, Film Archives, etc) are facing important R&D challenges (for itself and for its users): massive repositories long-term access and preservation semantic approaches to interoperability 3-D digitisation automatic description of items user generated content Multilingualism etc

11. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 DCH vs e-Infrastructures (2) e-Infrastructure networks, projects, opportunities NRENs, GEANT2, EGI, Grid-based digital repositories project, cloud computing : science-driven (e.g. CERN) ESFRI Roadmap (PPPs with FP7/RI support), e.g.: - CLARIN: RI to make language resources and technology available and useful to scholars of all disciplines -PRACE: high-performance computing network -DARIAH: distributed digital RI for the Arts and Humanities (long-term access and preservation), in preparation phase ESFRI TWG SSH: analysis of the landscape, including DCH e-Infrastructures are also faced with challenging issues for their own development: interoperation, standardisation, ease-of-use, sustainability

12. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 DCH vs e-Infrastructures (3) e-IRG Blue Paper 2010 (ESFRI–e-IRG collaboration on the e-Infra aspects of the Roadmap)  Many data services requirements are universal, such as the need for storage coupled with computation, archiving and replication, reliable data referencing  Common requirements of the Social Sciences and Humanities: -Data archiving and curation -Flexible repository system with support for Persistent Identifiers -Fine-grained Authorization and Authentication systems to cope with data sensitivity (i.e. digital rights management) -Access to grid and cloud computing facilities -Ease of access to all e-Infrastructure resources via Single Sign-On -Education and training for e-Infrastructure usage  Co-evolution of Research Infrastructures, e-Infrastructure and user requirements  Move towards e-Infrastructure as a service

13. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 1. Networking 2. ICT Research 3. Innovative services and pilots 4. Excellence networks, competence centres, labs for innovation in cultural heritage Research priorities

14. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 Analysis of the needs Who-is-Who: inventory Policies and programmes profiling Best practices Consensus building Shared recommendations and guidelines Advocacy Dissemination and awareness Commitment of stakeholders 1. Networking

15. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 Digitisation and digital documentation of cultural heritage Quality of digital object and uses Digital repositories and digital preservation Innovative services for access Knowledge infrastructures ecosystems 2. ICT Research

16. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 Services requirements analysis Evolution of MICHAEL service (integration with national portals) Authentication and authorization infrastructure Pilots in audiovisual digital heritage Pilots integrating scientific data from scientific labs working on tangible heritage (chemistry, physics, geology etc.) Virtual reality, 3D, GIS, Mobile Technologies E-Learning, e-collaboration 3. Innovative services and pilots

17. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 On the e-Infrastructures: –The adoption of the e-Infrastructures by the digital cultural heritage community will open new scenarios of use and exploitation (see: e-IRG Blue Paper published in 2010) On the cultural heritage –Cultural managers will become more aware about the potential that the e-Infrastructures can offer to their work On European research: –A better integration of the cultural sector with the e- Infrastructures will enable the research of new advanced services and applications On the general public: –Digital cultural content will become more usable and re-usable for education, cultural tourism, long-life learning, non- professional cultural interests, etc Impacts

18. ESFRI TWG SSH – Brussels, 18 January 2011 National programmes in the areas of: -Research -Cultural heritage -Innovation & e-Government European programmes: -Infrastructures -ICT -CIP (ICT PSP) Regional programmes Sustainability