International activities
Apart from her national activities DEN is involved in various international activities and seeks co-operation with institutions with a similar mission.
Digital Strategies for Heritage (DISH)
Digital Strategies for Heritage (DISH) is the bi-annual international conference on digital heritage and the opportunities it offers to cultural organisations. Triggered by changes in society, heritage organisations face many challenges and need to make strategic decisions about their services. DISH builds on a series of successful national conferences in the Netherlands, held since 2004. The main organisers of the conference are the Netherlands Institute for Heritage and DEN.
www.dish2012.nl
ENUMERATE
ENUMERATE is a EU-funded project, led by UK-based Collections Trust. The primary objective of ENUMERATE is to create a reliable baseline of statistical data about digitization, digital preservation and online access to cultural heritage in Europe. Currently, statistical data on Europe’s digital heritage is tentative and scattered at best. For the European Commission and many of the agencies and actors in the field of culture there is no consistent evidence base for making strategic decisions on investments in digitisation. ENUMERATE will bring about major improvements in the quality and availability of intelligence about digital heritage.
http://enumerateproject.wordpress.com/
The Digital Facts / Numeric
DEN coordinates the research project The Digital Facts. This project has developed a methodology for the structural gathering of information about production output and costs of digitisation. Special attention has been paid to methodologies for measuring born digital collections and the use of digital services. Based on these methodologies, DEN collects statistical data on the production of digital heritage and the costs involved. The results of this project were published in 2009. The data gathered are the Dutch contribution to the European project Numeric (www.numeric.ws).
Europeana
DEN is a member of EuropeanaNET and is a member of the core group for the technical development of Europeana 1.0. DEN promotes the standards chosen for Europeana in the Netherlands.
EUROPEANA 1.0
Europeana version 1.0 is an EU project that develops a fully operational Europeana website: Europeana.eu. Europeana.eu is an internet portal that acts as an interface to over 10 million items (books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records) that have been digitised throughout Europe. Around 1500 institutions across Europe contribute to Europeana. Europeana version 1.0 will enable automatic streaming of large amounts of digitised content from the contributors into the portal. Europeana is also looking at copyright and intellectual property rights (IPR), to make it possible for people to re-use and re-purpose out-of-copyright or rights-cleared content in Europeana and will work with rights holders to achieve this. Europeana was launched in 2008, is funded by the European Commission and is based in the National Library of the Netherlands. Europeana version 1.0 is coordinated by the EDL Foundation.
www.version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-project/about-us
Europeana Council of Content Providers and Aggregators (CCPA)
Europeana is run by the Europeana Foundation. The Council of Content Providers and Aggregators contributes to the decision-making of the Foundation and advises its members on strategy and policy from the content providers' point of view. The Council of Content Providers and Aggregators is a pan-European forum where the views of content holders can be reflected, from big aggregators to individual institutions. It represents museums, libraries, archives and the audio-visual sector across a wide range of Member States.
http://group.europeana.eu/web/guest/council/
OpenCulture conferences
The Europeana Open Culture conference is a free annual event which highlights current challenges for the heritage sector and looks for practical solutions for the future. It connects the main actors in cultural and scientific heritage in order to build networks and establish future collaborations.
The Open Culture conferences are open to all cultural institutions, information professionals, application developers and technology researchers to explore the risks and rewards of openness - of code, data and content - and showcase sites and activities that are the best European examples of Open Culture.
http://version1.europeana.eu/web/europeana-plenary-2010
Europeana Inside
Planned project partner.
FARO. Flemish interface centre for cultural heritage
FARO is the interface centre for the sector of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in Flanders and is subsidized by the Flemish government. The functions of FARO are defined in the Cultural Heritage Decree (2008) and the interface centre is supervised by the Flemish Ministry of Culture, Youth, Sports and Media, Agency of Arts and Heritage. FARO’s aim is to strengthen and support the cultural heritage field in Flanders, within the framework of the Cultural Heritage Decree and with the intention to realise the main objectives of the decree. FARO and DEN exchange information and knowledge and work together in different projects.
www.faronet.be/en/faro-flemish-interface-centre-cultural-heritage
EPICS
The EPICS (E-learning Platform In the Cultural heritage Sector) project aims at developing an e-learning platform for digital cultural heritage in Flanders. The combination of recent digitisations in the cultural heritage sector and the growing impact of digital content and content distribution in the educational domain can offer promising opportunities for a new approach in cultural heritage education. In the EPICS-project research groups, companies, cultural heritage institutions, public libraries and educational organisations join forces to rethink cultural heritage education.
www.ibbt.be/en/projects/overview-projects/p/detail/epics-2
CEST
The CEST (cultural heritage standards - toolbox) project aims to help heritage institutions in Flanders the use of standards when creating, managing and making accessible digital collections. CEST project is delivered by Packed and eDavid and is sponsored by the Flemish Government Agency for Arts & Heritage. The project partners will work in close relationship with DEN. The project aim is to clarify "what standards are applicable for archiving, accessing and sharing digital archival, documentary, audio-visual and museum objects and object representations." A shortlist of standards will be published. This list defines the minimum requirements under which a digital heritage project must meet. The composition is done in close cooperation with experts and users in the heritage field in Flanders and the Netherlands.
www.projectcest.be/index.php/AboutCEST
UNESCO Dutch Memory of the World Committee
UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme is an international initiative that calls for the preservation of valuable archival holdings, library collections and private individual compendia all over the world. The success of the Programme relies heavily on the drive, initiative and enthusiasm of regional and national committees. As appropriate, they are encouraged to implement the five key strategies (Identification of documentary heritage, Raising awareness, Preservation, Access, and Structures, status and relationships). Since 2011 The Netherlands has a Dutch Memory of the World committee. This national committee is an autonomous entity with its own terms of reference and rules of membership and succession. Partners are National Library of the Netherlands, DEN, The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and The Dutch National Archives
www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/flagship-project-activities/memory-of-the-world/about-the-programme/national-memory-of-the-world-committees/
Council for Dutch Language and Literature
The Dutch Language Union (Nederlandse Taalunie), a joint effort of the Netherlands, Belgium and Surinam, promotes the Dutch language, Dutch language teaching and the literature in the language. Policy is set by the Committee of Ministers (comité van ministers), a commission comprising the Dutch and Flemish ministers for education and culture and a representative from Surinam. The Interparliamentary Commission (interparlementaire commissie), comprising Dutch and Flemish representatives, oversees the policy. The Council for Dutch Language and Literature (raad voor de nederlandse taal en letteren), comprising experts and prominent language users, advises the policymakers. DEN is member of the Council.
http://taalunieversum.org/taalunie/how_can_we_help_you_/index.php
Cultural Treaty Flanders-Netherlands
The Cultural Treaty Flanders-Netherlands exists since 1995. A commission monitors the implementation of the treaty. Each member represents one of the different areas covered by the treaty. The role of the commission is to advise the Dutch and the Flemish government. DEN advises the Cultural Treaty on the subject of digitisation of cultural heritage.
www.cvn.be/over-cvn/het-verdrag
Summary and Text of the Treaty (pdf)
Nordbib international conference & workshop (June 11th-13th 2012)
The Nordbib programme comprises joint Nordic initiatives in the areas of production of digital scientific contents and publication of Nordic scientific journals as well as developing co-operation with publishing companies and scientific societies regarding migration to e-publishing. The subject of the Nordbib conference is the overall political, organisational and technical framework for open, digital research both presently and with a view to the 8th Framework Programme (FP8).
DEN takes part in the programme review board.
www.nordbib.net
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