1. EU policy for digitisation of cultural rersources
Khalil Rouhana
Director,
European Commission
Directorate-General for Information Society and Media
IMPACT final conference
24-25 October 2011
The British Library - London

2. Cultural heritage and the DAE
Digitisation of cultural heritage
A sustainable financing model for Europeana
Orphan and out-of-commerce works
Legal framework
Update Recommendation on digitisation
In preparation
Public Sector Information and Open Data
Cultural resources as a PSI

3. The work of the Comité des Sages “Bringing Europe’s Cultural Heritage Online”
Stresses the economic aspects next to the cultural aspects
‘Access’ is the central concept
Digitisation as a moral obligation
Europeana central in the strategy
Private funds (PPP) for digitisation are necessary, under openness and transparency condition

4. Bringing Culture Online: the bottlenecks
Funding challenge: more digitisation is necessary at Member State level
Legal challenge: adaptation of the legal framework to bring in-copyright material online

5. Forthcoming: update of the Commission Recommendation to Member States
2006: Commission Recommendation on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation
2011: Update of the Recommendation:
Support to Europeana
Role of PPPs
Principles on openness
Importance of Public Domain
- Bringing also in-copyright works into Europeana

6. Cultural material as part of an Open Data strategy
Aim: widest possible access to and re-use of cultural material for creativity
Both for non-commercial and commercial purposes
Review of the Directive on the re-use of public sector information
Importance of open metadata

7. Our ambitions for Europeana
Access for all
Enriching and diversifying collections & users experience
Target of more than 30 Million objects
(already 19 million in 2011)
A hub for the creative industries
Inspire creation of content and new online services
Facilitate economic activity based on digitised cultural resources.
A platform also for in-copyright material
Full respect of the underlying intellectual property rights

8. Cultural resources and digitisation in ICT in FP7
Call 9 (DL is 17 April, 2012):
Digital preservation and cultural heritage
Addressing digitisation challenges
Total budget 70 M€
Including R&D projects and CSAs
WP 2013 Orientation in preparation
Could include ICT for creativity, Preservation,

9. Cultural resources and digitisation in - CIP ICT PSP, 2012-2013
Orientations on digital content, open data & creativity
Content in Europeana / experiment new technological solutions
Extend operations on re-use / links to creative industries
Open Data (GI, OA, PSI, CH) - continue the competition experiments

10. Funding opportunities 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework
Horizon a significant increase to Research and Innovation funding
Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) –
cross-border infrastructures in energy, transport and ICT to strengthen the internal market

11. Horizon 2020 proposal Multiannual Financial Framework (2014-2020)
Commission proposal adopted on 29 June 2011
Proposed amount for Horizon 2020:
€80 billion bringing R&I togther
46% increase compared to current period ( )
R&I increases to 8.5% of overall EU budget
Detailed proposal in November

12. Draft Horizon 2020 – proposed objectives and structure
Europe 2020 priorities
European Research Area
International cooperation
Shared objectives and principles
Tackling Societal Challenges
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Food security and the bio-based economy
Secure, clean and efficient energy
Smart, green and integrated transport
Supply of raw materials
Resource efficiency and climate action
Inclusive, innovative and secure societies
Creating Industrial Leadership and Competitive Frameworks
Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies
ICT
Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. and Processing
Biotechnology
Space
Access to risk finance
Innovation in SMEs
Excellence in the Science Base
Frontier research (ERC)
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Skills and career development (Marie Curie)
Research infrastructures
Simplified access
Dissemination & knowledge tranfer
Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes

13. Connecting Europe Facility CEF 2014-2020
Commission proposal to promote the completion of :
Energy priority corridors €9.1 billion
Transport core network €21.7 billion
Broadband and key digital services €9.2 billion
High speend Internet
9 European Digital Infrastructures,

14. Connecting Europe Facility CEF: Key digital services
Access to digital resources of European heritage:
make available large collections of European cultural resources in digital form
Foster their re-use by third parties
Core platform: Europeana
Generic services
Includes competence centres on digitisation and preservation of digital cultural heritage

15. Competence centres: - Our vision for coordinated effort in digitisation in Europe
Support for the ‘best of breed’
Generate equal access to excellence from anywhere
While avoiding redundancy
Improve digitisation capacity
quality, coherence, efficiency, widespread accessibility
Provide services of guaranteed quality
directly or brokerage access
Leveraging effect
link EU added value and national initiatives
Facilitate training and spreading knowledge,
 Lasting structuring effect!

16. Organisation of digitisation
Competence centres addressing the challenges for digitisation in Member States
Organisation of digitisation
Clear overviews and targets, avoid overlaps
Optimisation of capacity
Pooling of digitisation efforts
equipment and expertise, cross-border collaboration
Support in access to funding
PPPs, Structural Funds…
CEF, aggregation in Europeana and digitisation?

17. Challenges for Competence centres
Sustainability
transition from the project innovation to brokerage of services and expertise
Types of services, clients, funding, business plans
EU provides both guidance (recommendation) and financial support (eg FP7, CIP and CEF)

18. DAE: “Every European digital!”
In summary:
Continued support to digitisation
Platform, competence, innovation and creativity
Openness for access and re-use
Creative industries
Improving framework conditions for digitisation
online access & digital preservation of cultural material

19. “The culture industry will tomorrow be one of the biggest industries, a creator of wealth and jobs. We have to build a powerful European culture industry that will enable us to be in control of both the medium and its content, maintaining our standards of civilization, and encouraging the creative people amongst us.”
Jacques Delors
Inaugural speech at the European Parliament 1985