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The European action, a support for digitisation
strategies in The Netherlands
Eelco Bruinsma
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The European action, a support for digitisation
strategies in The Netherlands
SHORT HISTORY
98/99
Ministry of Education Culture and Science
State Secretary for Culture EVERYTHING OUT
OF THE CUPBOARD ! (which, of course, means
DIGITISE!)

• Visibility of collections
• Collection Mobility
• Attention to Cultural Diversity
• Richness of Holdings, National Cultural Heritage

Heritage Community Fine, lets put the
collections online.
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The European action, a support for digitisation
strategies in The Netherlands
SHORT HISTORY
98/99
Ministry of Education Culture and Science
State Secretary for Culture DIGITISE!
Heritage Community Online publishing of
collection management systems.
RESULTS MEAGRE and DISAPPOINTING
Policy - creation of a public oriented
digitisation programme - Netherlands Digital
Heritage Association (DEN) (co-ordination
standards national portal)
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The European action, a support for digitisation
strategies in The Netherlands
SHORT HISTORY
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Ministry of Education Culture and Science
State Secretary for Culture eCulture Policy
expression and identity in the digital domain,
domain specific activity, digitised cultural
heritage
Subtle tractics
Letter to Parliament on the digitisation of
Cultural Heritage
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(Critical Mass, Infrastructure, Funding)
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The European action, a support for digitisation
strategies in The Netherlands
SHORT HISTORY
02/03
Ministery of Economic Affairs Investment
Programme knowledge infrastructure Heritage
community Digital Production Line
Telematics Institute Report Inventory of the
digitisation activities - lack of vision -
lack of knowledge and skills - fragmented
approach - focus on ephemeral information,
rather than knowledge - lack of
information about emerging technologies
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The European action, a support for digitisation
strategies in The Netherlands
CURRENT SITUATION
A shift from collection information to knowledge
National Museum of Natural History,
Naturalis National Museum for The
Antiquities National Museum of Archaeology

National Organisation for Public Libraries
Northern Region
Nature
Experiments with repositories
Memory of the Netherlands
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Funding more focussed
Mondrian Foundation public oriented
digitisation Programme collections, immaterial
cultural Heritage, oral history
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The European action, a support for digitisation
strategies in The Netherlands
VISION(S) FOR THE FUTURE
Netherlands investing in the knowledge economy
National Organisation for Scientific Research
NWO Successor to the Digital Production Line
National Action Plan Electronic Highways
Technological Co-operation Programmes
A Continuum for Digitised Cultural Heritage
National Infrastructure for Networked Cultural
Heritage (Re)sources new tools, new ontology
based, authoring and retrieval and navigation
embedded semantics
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Close co-operation between ministries of OCenW
and EZ
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The European action, a support for digitisation
strategies in The Netherlands
EXPERIMENTS RESEARCH
New Organisation Models learning from the
Virtual Information Centers
Semantic Web Technologies
Ontologies for Cultural Heritage Information
Tools for knowledge workers
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Knowledge Enrichment and Knowledge Retrieval
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The European action, a support for digitisation
strategies in The Netherlands
THE EUROPEAN ACTION
Co-ordination Mechanisms
External justification and reference points Good
Practice, Quality
Most important Benchmarking
Monitoring Effects of Policy (Investments) Creatin
g Awareness of Good Practices Enforcing Good
Practices (Funding) Evaluating Initiatives and
Programmes Political Tool
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EU a recognised external point of reference
EU Vision to guide developments in the NL
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The European action, a support for digitisation
strategies in The Netherlands
POLICY
Culture eCulture Digitisation

• Expression and Reflection still important, but
• more attention to
• - infrastructures (regional, national,
  international)
• - mechanisms for quality assurance
• creation of critical mass
• New budget until 2009, earmarked for digitisation
  
• Policy, independent from Culture Budget
• (independent from Council for Culture)

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2005 2M 2006 4M 2007 9M
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The European action, a support for digitisation
strategies in The Netherlands
THE DUTCH PRESIDENCY
European Area for Digital Cultural (Re)sources
Conference 13 15 september 2004
Aspects of Quality Aspects of Organisation
How to create reality from the vision
Position Paper
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CONCLUSION
Strategic use of EU Action to influence the
National Agenda
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The European action, a support for digitisation
strategies in The Netherlands
THANK YOU
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