1. Tom Bösser Slide 1 Digital Heritage Support Actions Concertation Event Vienna 21 June 2001 Introduction Proposals for discussion topics Tom Bösser ACit GmbH

2. Tom Bösser Slide 2 Digital Heritage Support Actions Concertation Event Vienna 21 June 2001 Topics Role of support actions in the Digital Heritage Area –General –Specifics in the Digital Heritage area Stocktaking Perspectives for FW6 –Organisation of projects will be radically different –Who will take on responsibility for tasks beyond goals of individual projects? Success measures –Which evidence and impact measures can be elaborated for support actions ? –Specifics in the Digital Heritage area

3. Tom Bösser Slide 3 Digital Heritage Support Actions Concertation Event Vienna 21 June 2001 Support Actions in Digital Heritage Support actions provide services to projects Where the consortia do not have the competence required (-> competence building and best practice actions) Where desirable or essential activities fall outside the mission of the partners in a consortium (concertation events, dissemination to the wider public) Where issues of general interest exist which demand that individual organisations carry out tasks of relevance for all players (e.g. standardisation)

4. Tom Bösser Slide 4 Digital Heritage Support Actions Concertation Event Vienna 21 June 2001 Specifics of the Digital Heritage Area Many players are non-profit organisations Exploitability of results is only quite indirectly possible for many organisation It is rather difficult to demonstrate impact in many cases Are there sector-specific needs which will persist in the future?

5. Tom Bösser Slide 5 Digital Heritage Support Actions Concertation Event Vienna 21 June 2001 New project organisation in FW6 Large projects are expected These larger projects will assume more responsibilities and are expected to cover their domain of work comprehensively Decentralisation of responsibilities Success measures and benchmarking will become a means to manage projects New tasks and orientations: Involve candidate countries fully, more emphasis on international cooperation, provide close links with national programmes

6. Tom Bösser Slide 6 Digital Heritage Support Actions Concertation Event Vienna 21 June 2001 Cultural Heritage in FW6 The preservation of Cultural Heritage is highlighted as a task (... Intelligent systems for dynamic access to and preservation of tangible and intangible cultural and scientific resources...) Cultural diversity and a rich cultural heritage is still seen as an EU strengh Cultural heritage may also play a role in the way in which regional and national identities may be preserved, strengthened and presented

7. Tom Bösser Slide 7 Digital Heritage Support Actions Concertation Event Vienna 21 June 2001 Proposals for discussion topics Achievements, strengths and weaknesses of support activities Is there evidence and possibly measures which demonstrate success? Where are clear signs from project consortia for future needs which they are unlikely be able to meet themselves? Impact in the cultural domain is notoriously hard to measure, and budget discussions always become difficult at this point: Can the impact and the value of typical support action activities (competence building, dissemination, standardisation etc) be measured and demonstarted?