Creating Cultural Content UK, European and International Initiatives

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Creating Cultural Content UK, European and
International Initiatives

• December 2002
• APEC02
• Taipei, Taiwan
• David Dawson, Senior ICT Adviser

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Agenda

• UK
• Europe
• International

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UK
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Resource

• Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries
• Strategy Planning
• Library Information Society
• Learning Access
• Standards

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Resource ICT Strategy

• ICT will be used to promote, protect, exploit and
  popularise the rich resources contained within
  museums, archives and libraries placing them at
  the heart of the Information Society.
• Provide maximum access to collections and
  services for all existing and potential users
  regardless of their physical or educational
  abilities.
• Work across sectors to create new integrated
  products delivering maximum benefit to
  communities and individuals.
• Create links beyond the libraries, museums and
  archives sector, tying the resources into other
  programmes building the networked learning space

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Why bother with ICT?

• Government Policy 2000
• 100 of Government business to be delivered
  electronically by 2005
• universal access to internet by 2005

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How we got here
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National Grid for Learning

• portal to link to learning resources
• launched in 1999
• influential in policy terms
• first major recognition of value of museums

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Higher Education

• JISC
• Joint Information Systems Committee
• top-sliced funding
• SuperJanet 4
• high-speed networks
• Information Environment
• electronic libraries - 15m
• content for learning and teaching - 5/99 Call
• included museum projectsfor the first time

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Netful of Jewels

• New Museums in the Learning Age
• the contribution that museums can make to the
  learning networks
• creating content
• interpretation
• interactive services
• 55m cost
• National Museum Directors Conference in
  association with MGC and mda

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What we have been doing ...
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www.cornucopia.org.uk
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Designation Challenge Fund

• 6m of funding on ICT projects
• lessons
• need to be user-centred
• not enough consultation evaluation
• need for standards advice
• need for partnership and information-sharing
• under-valued by museums until too late
• re-invention of wheels
• risk management
• procurement timescales
• local authority IT departments

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The Plans

• 1999 DCF applicants
• people
• 20 project managers
• over 100 staff - skilled in creating data,
  capturing images and / or website design
• collections management software suppliers
• 18 museums purchasing systems
• 4 major suppliers
• customised, installed and staff trained within 6
  months

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The Reality ...

• 2002 DCF projects
• people
• 20 project managers ?
• over 100 staff - skilled in creating data,
  capturing images and / or website design ?
• collections management software suppliers
• 18 museums purchasing systems ?
• 4 major suppliers ?
• customised, installed and staff trained by within
  6 months ?

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What has been achieved?

• small selection
• also look at
• www.bowesmuseum.org.uk
• www.ruralhistory.org
• www.horniman.ac.uk
• www.stoke.gov.uk/museums
• www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk
• www.bmag.org.uk
• and the others . . .

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www.ironbridge.org.uk
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www.molli.org.uk
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The Impact

• on-line catalogues from 2 to 24
• resources for schools from 1 to 14
• resources for life-long learners from 2 to 11
• accessible websites from 0 to 18
• 18 museums report increased use of website
• 9 report longer visit duration
• 12 report increase in enquires

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IT Challenge Fund

• CHAIN
• Romans in Sussex
• East, West, Central
• Virtually the Ice Age
• Netting the Bay
• North Devon on Disk

• Three-cornered Gallery
• Victorians website
• Cradle of Science and Technology
• Jewels of Milton Keynes

www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/itcf
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• 100 m to connect all libraries
• 50m to create digital content
• 20 to train all public librarians

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Peoples Network Infrastructure

• 100m to create ICT learning centres in 4,300
  public libraries across the UK
• a rolling programme of openings until end of 2002
  
• over half UKonline Centres are in libraries
• on time!
• on budget!
• Celebrated by our Prime Minister!

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NOF-digitise programme

• 50m to create on-line material to support and
  encourage lifelong learning for all
• 400 learning packages
• over 1million digital objects
• support government strategy for social inclusion
• enable those not part of formal education benefit
  from information age
• cultural enrichment
• citizenship
• re-skilling the nation

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Technical standards

• minimise (?) confusion amongst projects
• need to ensure interoperability and re-use
• emerging e-Government standards
• e-GIF
• Website Design Guidelines
• http//www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk/content/technical
  .asp

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NOF-digitise - creating a Portal

• web-based cataloguing tool
• projects
• learning resources
• databases
• projects enter and maintain their own data

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Cross-searching

• Considering OAI metadata harvesting

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• access to arts and culture through digital media
• museums, libraries, archives, film, broadcasters,
  heritage, visual arts, performing arts, digital
  arts, new media ...
• curriculum enhancement and life-long learning
• interactive programmes to engage learners
• webcasts, online workshops, themed delivery
• user driven - story-led
• just starting . . .

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Forum for Network Co-ordination

• Joint activity with JISC
• Supported by DfES and DCMS
• exploring ideas
• strategic co-ordination of policy and funding
  initiatives
• technical standards
• emerging issues
• broadband, e-Science, Grid computing, Information
  Environment ...
• regional broadbands, BECTa, Cabinet Office, DfEE,
  NHS, Post Office, Countryside Agency, Digital
  Scotland, Welsh Assembly, DETR, BBC, DTI etc

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Europe
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eEurope Action Plan

• By 2002
• Bring every citizen, home and school, every
  business and administration, online and into the
  digital age.
• Create a digitally literate Europe, supported by
  an entrepreneurial culture ready to finance and
  develop new ideas.
• Ensure that the whole process is socially
  inclusive, builds consumer trust and strengthens
  social cohesion.

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eEurope Action Plan 2002

• Objective 3D. eContent European digital
  content for global networks
• 56. Launch a programme to stimulate the
  development and use of European digital content
  on the global networks and to promote the
  linguistic diversity in the information society,
  including action to support exploitation of
  public sector information
• 57. Create a co-ordination mechanism for
  digitisation programmes across Member States

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Lund Principles

• Identified the importance of Cultural and
  scientific heritage
• platform for the development of the European
  digital content industry
• supports cultural identity and diversity
• supports education and tourism

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Lund Principles

• Issues to be addressed ...
• fragmented approach
• digital preservation
• IPR
• lack of synergy between cultural and new
  technology programmes
• institutional commitment
• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/en/eeurope.h
  tml

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Lund Action Plan

• create a forum
• develop a European view of policies and
  programmes
• benchmarking
• promoting good practice
• accelerating skills development
• set up national inventories

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National Representatives Group

• representation from each Member State
• meet every six months under the Presidency
• Belgian Presidency - Quality Framework
• Spanish Presidency- Preservationof Digital
  Memory
• closing remarks by Minister of Culture

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Policies and Programmes

• National policy profiles
• completed for most Member States
• Benchmarking
• first version now completed
• trialled in early 2002
• in UK
• IT Challenge Fund, NOF, Culture Online, JISC
  DNER, HLF
• progress reported to NRG meeting under Spanish
  Presidency in May
• now being analysed and methodology revised

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Benchmarking
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MINERVA project

• MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in
  digitisation

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MINERVA Project

• To take forward this work
• Benchmarking
• Inventories of projects
• Interoperability
• Quality Frameworks
• Identification of good practice
• Strategic impact and enlargement
• IT, BE, ES, FR, FI, SW, UK
• other Member States joining ...

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Europe and Culture Portal

• launched 18th March
• cultural cooperation, regulations, funding for
  culture and international relations
• www.europa.ei.int/comm/culture

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6th Framework

• Next generation of EU funding
• large-scale Networks of Excellence
• Expression of Interest submitted 7 June
• co-ordinated by MINERVA
• support of all Culture Ministries
• creation of an information environment
• issues still to be addressed - IPR, digital
  preservation etc
• wide range of organisations involved at national
  and international level
• the beginning of a process of building on
  national initiatives
• willing to work with others ...

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eEurope 2005 Action Plan

• adopted in May 2002
• modern online public services
• dynamic e-business environment
• eGovernment
• eLearning
• eHealth
• eBusiness
• services, applications and content
• broadband infrastructure and security

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eEurope 2005 Action Plan

• Culture and tourism
• eServices to promote Europe
• user-friendly public information
• interoperable interfaces
• use broadband
• multi-platform
• eLearning
• broadband connections for museums, libraries and
  archives
• http//europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope

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International
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Cultural Content Forum

• International Seminar on National Digital
  Cultural Content Creation Strategies
• commitment to begin working together
• co-ordinated by UKOLN, CIMI Resource
• involved UK, EU, Canada, New Zealand, US
• follow-up meeting in Washington
• AU, BE, CA, DE, DK, ES, FI, FR, IT, TW, UK, US
• Article
• Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
• http//www.cultivate-int.org/issue5/giants/

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CCF - Washington

• Position papers
• digital content creation
• preservation of digital cultural materials
• Issue papers
• creating and sustaining the market
• technical research
• content creation programmes
• identifying best practice
• IPR

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Best practice
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Washington outcomes

• Lots of common issues
• OAI
• broadband
• e-learning
• Focus on user-research
• new article
• http//www.cultivate-int.org/issue7/washington

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Next Meeting

• March 2003 Florence, Italy
• 30 participants
• focus on users and user needs

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contact details

• ? david.dawson_at_resource.gov.uk
• www.resource.gov.uk www.peoplesnetwork.gov.uk