Cultural Heritage in REGional NETworks REGNET Workplan Adherence

27 March 2003REGNET Final Project Review 2 Project Summary The REGNET Project which ran for 2 years delivered a system which provides a service infrastructure (technical & legal framework) to service centres supporting cultural institutions and industries. The project was divided into two phases: development and demonstration and brought together two groups of partners, content providers (representatives of libraries, museums and archives) and developers (research organisations, industries and SMEs) altogether 23 partners and 2 subcontractors from 12 countries.

27 March 2003REGNET Final Project Review 3

27 March 2003REGNET Final Project Review 4 SUMMING UP Work Progress Work progress was in line with the overall project planning according to the contract. REGNET has set-up a service infrastructure in 5 European regions with a potential of an extension into 2 additional regions. The project is by now well known in the cultural heritage field, especially in those regions where the first national test beds have been carried out, and new partnerships and cooperations are under discussion

27 March 2003REGNET Final Project Review 5 Workplan adherence With slight deviations ressources usage staid within the overall workplan

27 March 2003REGNET Final Project Review 6 SUMMING UP Results The REGNET-Development activities have been executed within work packages 1 and 2 and delivered useable results for setting up a the Service-Layer within the overall concept.

27 March 2003REGNET Final Project Review 7 The content engineering activities delivered not only valuable content held at the REGNET-content providers sites ( museums, libraries, archives) but also a workable concept for relevant data structures based on XML-technologies. SUMMING UP Results

27 March 2003REGNET Final Project Review 8 SUMMING UP Results The platform engineering delivered a state of the art concept and implementation how to set up a technical infrastructure to interconnect different platforms and WEB- based services (SOAP, WEB-Services, etc); test samples of some REGNET-data bases can be accesses via the OAI- Harvesting Protocol

27 March 2003REGNET Final Project Review 9 The business (cross enterprise) engineering delivered a workable framework for cooperation on the global market and a European Economic Interest Group (Cultural Service Centres – Europe EEIG) and extensive definition of relevant business processes in the cultural domain SUMMING UP Results

27 March 2003REGNET Final Project Review 10 SUMMING UP Results The Integration of external components and partnerships has been investigated by a potential future cooperation possibility in the publishing area: data from the REGNET- data stores have been rearranged by an US-located publisher producing a WEB-Catalogue of images which also can be published in PDF-Format. All REGNET activities delivered such promising and valuable results that it was already during the project life time possible to act on the global market place; for example the CULTIVATE-Services offered during the demonstration phase brought in several external partners and feedback from real business operations.

27 March 2003REGNET Final Project Review 11 SUMMING UP Results The REGNET system offers now a common service-portal to different services like data entry, search and retrieval, and e-business and different regional service portals which are targeted to the clientel of the Cultural Service Centres (CSCs). Networked Regional Cultural Service Centres