DC-NET overview Rossella Caffo, Sara Di Giorgio ICCU – Central Institute for the Union Catalogue Italian Ministry of Culture.

DC-NET overviewRossella Caffo, Sara Di Giorgio

ICCU – Central Institute for the Union CatalogueItalian Ministry of Culture

DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE e-Infrastructure

EUROPEANA The European Portal

DATA MODEL, ORGANISATION,GOVERNANCE

NATIONAL & REGIONAL INITIATIVES

RECOMMENDATIONS & GUIDELINES

2002 2005 2008 2009 2011 2014

Lund Action PlanBrussels Quality FrameworkNational Digitisation Programmes

ATHENA

DC-NET ERA-NETA Network for the European Research Area

Focus: Digital Cultural Heritage and e-Infrastructures

Targets: national-regional digitisation initiatives and Europeana

Actions:• To establish a dialogue between cultural heritage and e-

Infrastructures communities in Europe, • To identify a list of priority services which can benefit of e-

infrastructures facilities• To enlarge the network to the rest of EU Member States• To agree a plan of joint activities among digital cultural

programmes owners and e-InfrastructuresStarted in December 2009, it will last on 8th March 2012 (last conference in Rome)A project funded by EC FP7 e-Infrastructures

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Current partners• Italy: Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo

Unico (coordinator)

• Belgium: Politique scientifique fédérale/Federaal Wetenschapsbeleid (BELSPO/STIS)*

• Estonia: Eesti Vabariigi Kultuuriministeerium

• France: Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication – Département de la Recherche de l’enseignement supérieur et de la technologie

• Greece: Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού [Hellenic Ministry of Culture]

• Hungary: Oktatási Kulturális Minisztérium (Ministry of National Resources)

• Latvia: Valst Agentura Kulturas Informacijas Sistemas*

• Slovenia: Ministrstvo za Kulturo Slovenia

• Sweden: Riksarkivet*(*) Partners delegated by Ministries of Culture

ENLARGEMENT IS ON-GOINGLatvia, Ireland and Catalunya, UK under finalization

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Priority servicesA prioritised list of the most immediately important services.1.Long-term preservation2.Persistent identifiers3.Interoperability and Aggregation4.Advanced search5.Data resource set-up6.User authentication and access control7.IPR and digital rights management

The e-Infrastructures, as the enabling factor for the implementation phaseKeywords: interoperability, coordination, aggregation

The European scenario: JPI

Joint programming initiative on Cultural Heritage chaired by Italy: "Cultural Heritage and Global Change: a new challenge for Europe“ - EC Recommendation 26/4/2010The approach: to involve Member States, engaging on a variable-geometry basis, in:– defining, – developing and – implementing strategic research agendas

JPI endorsed DC-NET

Our vision

– To investigate the possibility of an infrastructure for the research in the digital cultural heritage

– To further develop the national/regional frameworks of cooperation with content providers

– To establish a Memorandum of Understanding between the Ministries of Culture and the e-Infrastructure providers (National Research and Educational Networks-NREN, National Grid Initiatives-NGI)

The project approach

• Development of a plan of joint activities

• Dissemination, training and awareness initiatives

• Advocacy towards policy makers• Cooperation with Europeana

Europeana

• Europeana could benefit of such digital cultural heritage e-infrastructure

• It will be possible to define together added value services

• The training and awareness initiatives planned by DC-NET will be useful to understand better what the e-infrastructures can offer to the cultural institutions and to Europeana

Join the DC-NET CommunityFor Ministries, and national-regional Agencies (programme owners)

The instrument: Membership Agreement Scope: to enforse common strategies and to influence national policies

For cultural institutions and research centresThe instrument: Cooperation Agreement Scope: to participate to the working groups, to agree on common recommendations, to contribute to future implementations

For projects and e-infrastructure providersThe instrument: Memorandum of UnderstandingScope: to define cooperation and joint projects

Web site:www.dc-net.org

Thank youRossella CAFFO

DC-NET, INDICATE, LINKED HERITAGE Project Manager

Sara DI GIORGIOTechnical staff

info@dc-net.org