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This European conference on digital cultural heritage takes place in the context of two important strategic actions: the i2010 strategy as the primary policy framework and the Dynamic Action Plan as a concrete agenda for the cultural heritage and related sectors in the digital age. With its i2010 strategy to promote a European Information Society for Growth and Employment, the European Commission proposes the enticing vision of a common European Information Space to guide and push development within the cultural and scientific heritage sector. In such a common European Information Space, European citizens will be able toaccess and share rich media content and services without any impediment of time and space, language and culture. In addition, Dynamic Action Plan (DAP) as successor to the Lund initiative to coordinate the digitisation of our cultural heritage treasures on a European level, provides the strategic agenda for concrete actions to bring us closer to the vision of an integrated European Cultural Heritage Information Space. Focusing onfour action areas , i.e. Users and Content, Economic Sustainability, Technological Developments and Tools, and Digital Memory Preservation, the new action plan specifically supports the values already put forward in the Lund Principles in 2001: to provide an accessible and sustainable digital cultural heritage space , to promote e-inclusion, cultural diversity, education and training, and to promote digitised resources of great variety and richness as fuel for the European content industries. The Austrian EU-Presidency is first to take active steps towards the implementation of this Dynamic Action Plan. From an Austrian perspective, among the four thematic areas of the Dynamic Action Plan, the issue of how to ensure long-term access to digital cultural and scientific resources dominates the agenda and will therefore constitute the focal point of this 2006 International Conference on digital cultural heritage. Yet, actively preserving our cultural memory is intrinsically intertwined with all other steps in collecting, converting, connecting and communicating digital heritage resources. This conference therefore broadens its view to also take into account current and emergent practices and technologies to collect, connect, communicate and conserve our digital cultural memory. Target groups
Conference languagesEnglish - German - French (simultaneous translation provided) Participation (to the conference) is free of charge. |