Digital Agenda for Europe Value of newspapers as a source of cultural heritage

Final Europeana Newspapers Project's Workshop London, 29 September 2014

Krzysztof NichczynskiEuropean Commission

DG CONNECTUnit G.2 – Creativity

krzysztof.nichczynski@ec.europa.eu1

Digital Agenda for EuropeOne of the 7 flagship initiatives of the Europe 2020 strategy

- 101 specific actions, including 31 legal proposals

A vibrant digital single market

Fast and ultra fast Internet access

Using ICT to help society

Promotion of our shared European cultural heritage through new technologies

Interoperability

and standards

Trust and security

Research and development

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Objectives

reply to Europe’s main societal changes and offer Europeans a better quality of life, e.g. through easier access to cultural content,

create a legal framework to facilitate the digitisation and dissemination of cultural works in Europe,

Europeana - the EU public digital library - should be strengthened,

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Cultural heritage - digitised, preserved and on line

digitisation as a moral obligation, easier democratic access to culture, promotion of richness and diversity of EU culture, helps cultural institutions to carry out their mission of

giving access and preserving our heritage, digitised material can be re-used for developing new

content (creative industries, education, tourism),

Newspapers are of enormous historical and cultural value and should

contribute accordingly4

Responsibilities Member States:• provide most of the funding for digitisation ,• Take part in the policy debate and implement

decisions taken jointly at European level,• contribute to the development of Europeana, Cultural institutions• drive the creation of Europeana and provide digitised

content, Commission (DG CONNECT):• support through legislative, coordination as well as

funding actions,5

Legislative actions Recommendation on digitisation and online accessibility of

cultural material and digital preservation (2011/711/EU)

• Set of measures and framework for action for cultural institutions with ideas as to how to tackle a number of problems in the area. MS report on implementation every 24 months,

Revised directive on the reuse of public sector information (2003/98/EC)

• extension of the scope of the directive to include certain cultural institutions such as libraries (including university libraries), museums and archives,

Orphan works Directive (2012/28/EU)

• legal framework governing the lawful, cross-border online access to orphan works contained in libraries and archives

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Coordination actions and policy collaboration

Member States Expert Group on Digitisation and Digital Preservation (MSEG):

• monitors progress on the implementation of the Commission recommendation on digitisation,

• forum for exchange of information and good practices,

• monitoring of developments concerning innovative reuse of digital cultural material,

Cinema Expert Group/Subgroup film heritage:

• exchange information and discuss best practices related to film heritage,

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Funding actions

Various funding actions under CIP ICT PSP, FP7, H2020 and CEF,

•CIP – main achievements are enhancement of the Europeana platform,

•FP7 – e.g. research to innovatively interact with cultural heritage objects; technologies and tools in the area of 3D,

•H2020 (Societal challenge 6) – covering areas such as advanced 3D modeling and development of new technologies to enhance the analysis of cultural resources,

•CEF – Europeana identified for funding as one of DSIs,

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Europeana – Europe's digital library, archive & museum

www.europeana.eu

Access point to the cultural heritage,

Hub for the creative industries, which already account for ca. 4% of EU GDP and jobs,

Over 30m objects,

All public domain masterpieces accessible by 2015,

Contributed strongly to the development and implementation of standards and interoperability,

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Europeana – Europe's digital library, archive & museum

• More openess• open government licences

• More transparency• Open data portals

• More reusability• Open, machine-readable formats• Downwards trend on charging

Wider scope• cultural institutions (libraries, archives, museums)

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Where are we in digitisation?ENUMERATE core survey (replies from almost 1.400 institutions)

• ~87% of cultural heritage institutions have a digital collection,

• ~36 % of the institutions have a written digitisation strategy,

• ~17% of the collection is on average currently digitised*,

• ~52% still needs to be digitised.

*The actual percentage of the digitisation level of all cultural heritage in Europe will be smaller. The exact European heritage digitisation percentage cannot be calculated based on the current information.

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Thank you for your attention!

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