1. IST programme Cultural Heritage in Tomorrow ’s Knowledge Society RESULTS FROM FP5 Cultural Heritage in Tomorrow ’s Knowledge Society RESULTS FROM FP5 Rr Head of Unit Cultural Heritage Applications DG - INFORMATION SOCIETY Head of Unit Cultural Heritage Applications DG - INFORMATION SOCIETY

2. IST programme Policies, Strategies and Programmes Policies, Strategies and Programmes

3. IST programme European Employment Strategy … the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion Lisbon European Council March 2000

4. IST programme … ICT skills gap... … the knowledge economy means changing skills... Most pressing issues … unemployment in Europe is a story of unfilled potential...

5. IST programme The answer The political answer Europe e e & & The technological answer

6. IST programme Conclusions of the Lund expert meeting Conclusions of the Lund expert meeting Digitisation programmes Europe's cultural and scientific knowledge resources are a unique public asset forming the collective and evolving memory of our diverse societies and providing a solid basis for the development of our digital content industries in a sustainable knowledge society

7. IST programme  establish common policy profiles  qualitative benchmarking framework  disseminate good practice  set up national inventories  technical standards e.g. interoperability  improve quality/usability of content Key actions:  long-term preservation issues coordination forum

8. IST programme Results and Future Plans Results and Future Plans

9. IST programme Cultural Heritage IST Programme  Main results  Advanced Digital Libraries: resource discovery, meta-data, interoperability,...

10. IST programme IST Programme  Main results  Advanced Digital Libraries: new tools, new services and new business models for cross-domain content navigation... Cultural Heritage

11. IST programme IST Programme  Main results  Intelligent Heritage: visual representations, 3D and VR, user interaction and content understanding,... Cultural Heritage

12. IST programme IST Programme  Main results  Intelligent Heritage: innovative Web-based services, enhanced learning and game playing Cultural Heritage

13. IST programme IST Programme  Main results  Preservation: new techniques for film restoration, digitisation techniques, new business models for exploitation digitised assets Cultural Heritage

14. IST programme IST Programme  Main results  Community Memory: experimental delivery systems, universal access to memory, citizen-driven creation of future memory... Cultural Heritage

15. IST programme IST Programme  Main results  Consensus Building: networks of excellence, training, standards platforms, awareness building, benchmarking, evaluation fora,... Cultural Heritage

16. IST programme Consensus Building DELOS - Digital Libraries  Networks: TEL - The European Library PULMAN - Public Libraries EMII - European Museums BIOnet - Bio-mechanics

17. IST programme Consensus Building Cultivate - EU - CEE - Russia  Awareness building: HEREIN - Heritage network EVAN - Imaging & visual arts TRIS - Trials support HeritageNet - Central Asia

18. IST programme Consensus Building CELIP - Licensing platform  Technical coordination: CLEF - Language evaluation CHIOS - Ontology standardisation OAF - Open Archive support SCHEMA - Schemas forum

19. IST programme For more information http://europa.eu.int/comm/information_ society/eeurope/index_en.htm  eEUROPE http://www.cordis.lu/  Framework Programmes

20. IST programme For more information http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult  IST: Cultural Heritage http://www.cultivate-int.org  Cultivate Network newsletter