Italian EU Presidency and Digital Cultural Heritage Rossella Caffo Director Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries (ICCU) Ministry of cultural heritage, activities and tourism (MiBACT), Italy 3-4 June 2014 MSEG meeting 13th Italian EU Presidency Policy on DCH: The digitisation and online access to cultural heritage represents a strong opportunity to foster the creative industries and the job creation throughout the reuse of the digital resources. The Presidency encourages the opening of cultural data to support their reuse. The Presidency supports the development of Europeana as unique access point to the European cultural heritage, and the national aggregators that play a fundamental role in ensuring core quality content to the European portal. The Presidency wishes that the Europeana portal be improved in terms of searchability, discovery and quality The Presidency encourages the reuse of DCH for research, education and tourism Italian EU Presidency Policy on DCH: The Presidency aims at pursuing the harmonization of national research programmes at the European level in the field cultural heritage through the involvement of all stakeholders: researchers, cultural heritage experts and e-infrastructure providers. The goal is to develop a European integrated data and service platform in the cultural heritage field that allows the interoperability between the various national systems for the management, access, and preservation of digital cultural heritage. Europeana expert meeting Rome, 30 September/1 October 2014 One day and half day meeting organised by Europeana and ICCU in the framework of Europeana v3. The reunion is split into a plenary session of presentations (first day) and parallel workshops on Education and Tourism to produce policy recommendations (second day). It will bring together 60-70 policy makers and thought leaders in cultural heritage, education and tourism to identify best practices and make recommendations for the reuse of cultural heritage material, collated under Europeana, in education and tourism applications. This event follows the strategy meeting “Europeana for Research & Tourism” that will be held on June 23 and 24 in Athens under the aegis of the Greek presidency. Istituto nazionale per la grafica Palazzo Poli Fontana di Trevi Museo nazionale etrusco Villa Giulia Biblioteca Angelica Museo nazionale romano Palazzo Altemps International conference “The reuse of digital cultural content in education, tourism and leisure” Rome, National Library, 2 October 2014 Organized by ICCU in collaboration with the European Commission, the Europeana Foundation and the European project AthenaPlus, the European network of good practices coordinated by ICCU. The Conference will provide a space for debate and exchange of ideas in order to plot strategies for the development of digital cultural heritage as a driver of the education and tourism sectors. • Opening: policy remarks • Session 1: Reuse and discoverability • Session 2: Good practices in digitisation for education and tourism • Round table on creativity and users The outcome of the conference Policy recommendations for cultural institutions about the use of digital cultural heritage for tourism (under preparation). To be shared at the European level with: • the Greek presidency during the Europeana expert meeting in Athens (23-24 June 2014) • the European experts (from MSEG, education and tourism sectors) during the Europeana meeting in Rome (30 September-1 October 2014) • with the European projects communities (e.g. AthenaPlus) International conference “Research infrastructure and e-infrastructures for digital cultural heritage” Rome, National Library,13-14 November 2014 International conference on e-infrastructures and research infrastructures for DCH in the framework of e-IRG Conference and in cooperation with the ARIADNE project. The International conference will focus on how e-infrastructures and research Infrastructures, operating in the Cultural Heritage domain, are collaborating together to integrate the existing different research data infrastructures. It will provide an overview of the strategic, scientific and organizational issues related to the development of virtual communities of interdisciplinary researchers and experts from cultural institutions. The challenges for the development of an e-Infrastructure for Cultural Heritage is based on the re-use of tools and services from existing infrastructures and projects at national and/or European level. International conference “Research infrastructure and e-infrastructures for digital cultural heritage” Rome, 13-14 November 2014 The conference will host three sessions: • • • Opening session: policy remarks Session 1: E-infrastructures for cultural heritage research: the present and the future Session 2: Research communities for arts, humanities and digital cultural heritage Outcome of the conference: vision document on the e-infrastructure for DCH Thanks! Rossella Caffo Director Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries (ICCU) Ministry of cultural heritage, activities and tourism (MiBACT), Italy [email protected]