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Enhancing local heritage to
implement a global Information Society
25 small-scale trial projects with a great potential
Concertation Meeting - Heritage for AllLuxembourg, 2-3 June 2003
The context
2000 Call for Proposals within the Cultural Heritage Sector of the European Commission:
ACTION LINE III.1.5:
• ☞ Trials on new access Trials on new access models to cultural and models to cultural and scientific contentscientific content
The objectives
• Encourage take-up of results of research
• Improve access by a wider public to cultural and scientific assets in museums, libraries and archives through the use of innovative technologies
The actors
25 take-up trial projects
andand
TRIS
Something in common with the Heritage for All projects…
• Focus on local cultural heritage• Attention to the user and single
citizen• Constituencies:
cultural/educational institutions + technology providers
• Addressing a broad range of user communities
Distinguishing characteristics of the take-up trial projects
• ‘Lightweight’ projects with a short duration and a relatively small budget
• Do not involve research but experimentation with existing technologies to enhance access to cultural resources
• Driven by small- sized local cultural institutions
CTIC - Common Threads: Collections & Connections in Cyberspace
CTIC
A prototype web-based interface networking local costume & textile museum’s collections
CTIC - Objectives
Developing a prototype web-based interface networking local costume & textile museum’s collections:
• Photo-realistic 2D and 3D objects, which can be rotated under the control of the user
• Panoramic vistas (360°) giving the user the impression of being physically present in the museum
• Interpretative text held in a database
CTIC
CTIC - Results
• Over 3,594 images captured with resource management metadata
• 3D image objects produced for all museums and added to the site
• New web site: www.commonthreads.org.uk/
POUCE - Portails Culturels Collectifs
POUCE
Museolog, a museum inventory tool for local museums offering:
• A joint Web portal providing access to their collections over the web
• A collection management system
POUCE - Results
• Currently used in the six museums of the POUCE consortium as a cataloguing tool
• Future integration of a virtual exhition function
• Conducting market research in some EC countries to make it a commercial product
ACTIVATE New Access & Services for Cultural Content
Activate - Objectives
• Developing thematic networks,
That is to say:
web-based networks of related content sites that link to and can be accessed from a single central and searchable portal
Activate
Participating Libraries building a thematic network Participating Libraries building a thematic network of local historyof local history
Goldsmith - Longford
Scattery Island - Clare
Shandon -Cork
Tallaght - Dublin
Pierce’s foundry - Wexford
Art Collection - Donegal
John Roberts – Waterford
Activate - Results
• Freely available and easy to use instructions and software (templates) for creating thematic networks
• An online cultural heritage network (Irish Local Studies Portal)
• A VRML tour of a cultural landscape as a “shop window” product
BEASTS Boosting the Economy by Assisting SMEs in the Tourism Sector
BEASTS - Objectives
• Helping SMEs in rural areas to exploit the potential of electronic commerce and national cultural resources by:
• Training managers from selected SMEs in rural areas of Wales to make use of technology and national archival materials to market their products and services via the WWW
BEASTS - Results
• Developed specialised templates with links to digitalised materials
• Developed easy to use interfaces to allow selected trial companies to create and enhance their own web sites
• Performed a quality criteria mechanism, to ensure the integrity and quality of the information and services offered by the SMEs
SEAX-DAMAS - Essex Archives on-line
SEAX-DAMAS - Objectives
Improving access to content of local archives:
• To refine and test the Archives Management System of the Essex Record Office (SEAX), UK
• To install the system in the Northamptonshire Record Office, UK
SEAX-DAMAS - Results & prospects
• Converted all the Essex Record Office catalogues
• Converted catalogues currently comprise about 80,000 A4 pages and continue to grow
• Digital images of documents, maps and photographs are being added to the database
• Currently evaluating market potential of the system in Europe
Towards a ‘Community Memory’
Safeguarding the Memory of local communities in a global world:
• Preserving their cultural identity• Documenting their local history• Promoting tourism & local products• Exploring their shared heritage
Towards a ‘Community Memory’
The Take-up trials and HforA projects have paved the way for:
• Promoting and supporting the creation, documentation and safeguarding of digital cultural resources of local communities
• Encouraging citizens to benefit from the combination of technology and culture
• Fostering take-up projects to develop technology-enhanced services for the end user
Towards a ‘Community Memory’
A need to continue in this direction in order to:
• Preserve local cultural heritage resources ☞Safeguarding CULTURAL DIVERSITY
• Provide new services tailored to the real needs of citizens, thus offering new business opportunities ☞ Boosting ECONOMY
• Promote social inclusion through e-learning and enhanced access to information and resources ☞ Enhancing SOCIETY
‘Memory culture is the way a society ensures cultural Memory culture is the way a society ensures cultural continuity by preserving, with the help of cultural continuity by preserving, with the help of cultural
mnemonics, its collective knowledge from one mnemonics, its collective knowledge from one generation to the next, rendering it possible for later generation to the next, rendering it possible for later
generations to reconstruct their cultural identity’generations to reconstruct their cultural identity’
BARBARA MORGANTIBARBARA MORGANTITRISTRIS
[email protected]@trisweb.org
