Cultural Heritage and the 6th Framework ProgrammeCultural Heritage and the

6th Framework Programme

Bernard SmithBernard Smith

Head of Division Preservation and Enhancement of

Cultural Heritage

Head of Division Preservation and Enhancement of

Cultural Heritage

5th Framework Programme (1998-2002)

Moving from:“access to scientific and cultural

content through the networking of libraries, archives and museums”

To:“intelligent systems for dynamic access to

and preservation of tangible and intangible cultural and scientific

resources"

Cultural Heritage in ISTCultural Heritage in IST

6th Framework Programme (2002-2006)

Why culture in IST?Why culture in IST?

The Treaty provides for research (Art. 163) and culture (Art. 151)• Bring common cultural heritage to the fore• Encourage cooperation ... safeguarding of cultural

heritage of European significance• Take cultural aspects into account in other policies

Cultural institutions are guardians of some fundamental societal values

Cultural assets are one of the key riches of European society

Culture is an excellent "reality check" for technology developers

Cultural is an integral part of the knowledge economy and a major owner of digital assets

Initiatives on eEurope (e.g. Lund), employment, social inclusion, ....European Council Resolutions, ....Existing national and EU-funded projectsRecent reports, e.g. DigiCultISTAG vision on “ambient intelligence”Institutional and industry roadmaps, e.g.

•DELOS EU-US working groups•AIIM industry white papers•...

Topic workshops, conferences, e.g.•PRESTO•TEL•EVA conferences (Florence, Berlin, Moscow, ...)

Initiatives on eEurope (e.g. Lund), employment, social inclusion, ....European Council Resolutions, ....Existing national and EU-funded projectsRecent reports, e.g. DigiCultISTAG vision on “ambient intelligence”Institutional and industry roadmaps, e.g.

•DELOS EU-US working groups•AIIM industry white papers•...

Topic workshops, conferences, e.g.•PRESTO•TEL•EVA conferences (Florence, Berlin, Moscow, ...)

Building on ….. Building on …..

•Council Resolution on film heritage•Council Resolution on the “Role of Culture in the European Union”•Council Resolution on “Culture and Knowledge Society”•Council Resolution on “Digital Preservation: preserving tomorrow’s memory”•eEurope 2002 and the Lund Principles for digitisation•eEurope 2005 and culture and tourism

•Council Resolution on film heritage•Council Resolution on the “Role of Culture in the European Union”•Council Resolution on “Culture and Knowledge Society”•Council Resolution on “Digital Preservation: preserving tomorrow’s memory”•eEurope 2002 and the Lund Principles for digitisation•eEurope 2005 and culture and tourism

Policy basis: Policy basis:

New eCulture Landscapes New eCulture Landscapes

eEuropeeEurope

eEurope initiative• Helsinki summit December 1999• Lisbon special summit March 2000 (dot.com summit)

eEurope initiative• Helsinki summit December 1999• Lisbon special summit March 2000 (dot.com summit)

eEurope action plan• Feira summit June 2000

eEurope action plan• Feira summit June 2000

eEurope progress report• Stockholm summit March 2001

eEurope progress report• Stockholm summit March 2001

eEurope+ (accession countries)• Göteborg summit June 2001

eEurope+ (accession countries)• Göteborg summit June 2001

eEurope 2005• Barcelona Council May 2002

eEurope 2005• Barcelona Council May 2002

Conclusions of the Lund expert meeting

Conclusions of the Lund expert meeting

Digitisation programmesDigitisation 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

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

Coordination of digitisation mechanisms: The Action PlanCoordination of digitisation

mechanisms: The Action Plan

Actions: Actions:

Area 1: Improving policies and programmes through cooperation and benchmarking

Area 1: Improving policies and programmes through cooperation and benchmarking

Area 2: Discovery of digitised resourcesArea 2: Discovery of digitised resources

Area 3: Promotion of good practiceArea 3: Promotion of good practice

Area 4: Content frameworkArea 4: Content framework

Access to quality European contentAccess to quality

European content

An approach for a European eCulture infrastructureAn approach for a European eCulture infrastructure

Create a shared vision of quality European content and an

implimentation framework

Create a shared vision of quality European content and an

implimentation framework

Objective: Objective:

Identify added-value and quality criteriaIdentify added-value and quality criteria

Establish the Brussels Quality FrameworkEstablish the Brussels Quality Framework

Identify an implimentation route, e.g. Charter, MoU, etc.Identify an implimentation route, e.g. Charter, MoU, etc.

Area 4: Content frameworkArea 4: Content framework

Sustainable accessto content

Sustainable accessto content

Scope and identify core problem areasScope and identify core problem areas

Ensure that digitised cultural and scientific content is available over time

Ensure that digitised cultural and scientific content is available over time

Objective: Objective:

Need to apply good practices and standardsNeed to apply good practices and standards

Establish a research agenda on long-term presevationEstablish a research agenda on long-term presevation

Involve industry and archival communityInvolve industry and archival community

Area 4: Content frameworkArea 4: Content framework

DigitisationDigitisation

Progress to date: Progress to date:

Policies now exist is many Member States, and internal coordination networks have been established

Policies now exist is many Member States, and internal coordination networks have been established

Some best practice projects have been identified, but more are needed that are useful for small/local institutions

Some best practice projects have been identified, but more are needed that are useful for small/local institutions

A EU-wide status report will be produced (early 2003) on digitisation policies and programmesA EU-wide status report will be produced (early 2003) on digitisation policies and programmes

A EU-wide Quality Framework is needed for cultural contentA EU-wide Quality Framework is needed for cultural content

Long-term Digital PreservationLong-term Digital Preservation

Issues: Issues:

What is the cost and scale of the problem?

How to ensure that governments and institutions are fully aware about the problem?

What guidence is needed? Focus on data creators

Recognise the skills deficit, and decide what new skills will be needed

Build a large-scale multidisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration

Take collective responsibility for long-term access

What is the cost and scale of the problem?

How to ensure that governments and institutions are fully aware about the problem?

What guidence is needed? Focus on data creators

Recognise the skills deficit, and decide what new skills will be needed

Build a large-scale multidisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration

Take collective responsibility for long-term access

•Focus ~1500 man-years of research effort on digital culture•Fund 110 projects since 1999•688 participants•506 different organisations from museums, libraries, archives, industry, government and research (40% cultural actors, 30% industry, 30% research)•Partners from 35 countries•>90 M€ funding in cost-shared projects

•Av. funding 1.6 M€ for RTD (75% of budget)•Av. funding 0.55 M€ for AM (12%)•Av. funding 0.75 M€ for TN (8%)•Av. funding 0.172 M€ for take-up (5%)

•Focus ~1500 man-years of research effort on digital culture•Fund 110 projects since 1999•688 participants•506 different organisations from museums, libraries, archives, industry, government and research (40% cultural actors, 30% industry, 30% research)•Partners from 35 countries•>90 M€ funding in cost-shared projects

•Av. funding 1.6 M€ for RTD (75% of budget)•Av. funding 0.55 M€ for AM (12%)•Av. funding 0.75 M€ for TN (8%)•Av. funding 0.172 M€ for take-up (5%)

What we do: What we do:

New eCulture Landscapes New eCulture Landscapes

……. and Access to Cultural Heritage ……. and Access to Cultural Heritage

Objective: To develop advanced systems and services that help improve access to Europe‘s knowledge and educational resources (including cultural and scientific collections) and generate new forms of cultural and learning experiences.

Improving accessibility, visibility and recognition of the commercial value of Europe's cultural and scientific resources, by developing:

Advanced digital libraries services, providing high-bandwidth access to distributed and highly interactive repositories of European culture, history and science

•Focus on shared test-beds and increased cultural-research cooperation•Building on existing portfolio of projects•Including digital memory management•Remember broadband objectives of eEurope 2005

Advanced digital libraries services, providing high-bandwidth access to distributed and highly interactive repositories of European culture, history and science

•Focus on shared test-beds and increased cultural-research cooperation•Building on existing portfolio of projects•Including digital memory management•Remember broadband objectives of eEurope 2005

Digital library services Digital library services

IP NoE STRP

Highly recommended Highly recommended Not recommended

Environments for intelligent heritage and tourism, re-creating and visualising cultural and scientific objects and sites for enhancing user experience in cultural tourism

•Focus on enhancing user experience•Addressing the common needs of Europe’s museums, monuments, sites, etc., and not a specific museum, monument, site, ....•eLearning, tourism, eCommerce can support the core focus on culture•An effective network should include take-up in networks and/or “demo” projects under STRP

Environments for intelligent heritage and tourism, re-creating and visualising cultural and scientific objects and sites for enhancing user experience in cultural tourism

•Focus on enhancing user experience•Addressing the common needs of Europe’s museums, monuments, sites, etc., and not a specific museum, monument, site, ....•eLearning, tourism, eCommerce can support the core focus on culture•An effective network should include take-up in networks and/or “demo” projects under STRP

Intelligent heritage and tourism Intelligent heritage and tourism

IP NoE STRP

Not recommended Highly recommended Possible

Advanced tools, platforms and services in support of highly automated digitisation processes and workflows, digital restoration and preservation of film and video material, and digital memory management and exploitation

•Focus on structuring new research communities around preservation•Substantially reduce the cost of digitisation•Lower barriers for institutional investment in long-term digital preservation•Provide an industrial platform for film and video restoration and preservation

Advanced tools, platforms and services in support of highly automated digitisation processes and workflows, digital restoration and preservation of film and video material, and digital memory management and exploitation

•Focus on structuring new research communities around preservation•Substantially reduce the cost of digitisation•Lower barriers for institutional investment in long-term digital preservation•Provide an industrial platform for film and video restoration and preservation

Preservation and digitisation Preservation and digitisation

IP NoE STRP

Highly recommended Highly recommended Not recommended

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Where is the research focus? Where is the research focus?

Publication: 17th Dec. 2002

Closing deadline: 24th April 2003

Evaluation: 12-24 May 2003

Hearings: 9-14 June 2003

Negotiations: starting July until Sept. 2003

Commission decision: from Oct. 2003

Projects start: Dec. 2003 or Jan. 2004

Highly competitive & demanding process …

Schedule of the 1st Call Schedule of the 1st Call

Physical protection and conservation of objects, monuments, sites, etc., except where they direct link to digitally enhanced user experiences Generic technology development without any context or relevance to the problems of Europe’s cultural actorsProjects addressing a particular object, monument, site, or dealing with specific thematic collectionsProjects trying to cover everything – eLearning, tourism, eCommerce, etc. Projects lacking strategy/policy impact

Physical protection and conservation of objects, monuments, sites, etc., except where they direct link to digitally enhanced user experiences Generic technology development without any context or relevance to the problems of Europe’s cultural actorsProjects addressing a particular object, monument, site, or dealing with specific thematic collectionsProjects trying to cover everything – eLearning, tourism, eCommerce, etc. Projects lacking strategy/policy impact

Out of Scope Out of Scope

Work programme 2005-2006

NoE’s and STRP’s are incubators for new ideas

Issues not fully included in present work programme:

• New forms of community memory

• Culture and tourism, learning, etc.

• Long-term preservation of very-large collections of highly dynamic objects and collections

• and …..

Possible topics for future calls Possible topics for future calls

Access to Cultural Heritage Access to Cultural Heritage

Measurable impact: •Establish a stable pan-European infrastructure for distributed repositories of digital content and community memory within 5 to 10 years, through a Europe-wide approach to depositing new digital content and to Web archiving

•Reduce by 50% the cost of digitisation and modelling of cultural objects, monuments, sites, etc. within 5 years

•Develop technologies and systems to provide assured protection from loss within 10 years, thus providing long-term accessibility and preservation of significant cultural digital resources

Measurable impact: •Establish a stable pan-European infrastructure for distributed repositories of digital content and community memory within 5 to 10 years, through a Europe-wide approach to depositing new digital content and to Web archiving

•Reduce by 50% the cost of digitisation and modelling of cultural objects, monuments, sites, etc. within 5 years

•Develop technologies and systems to provide assured protection from loss within 10 years, thus providing long-term accessibility and preservation of significant cultural digital resources

Integrated projects Integrated projects

Generate knowledge and critical maGenerate knowledge and critical mass ss needed to achieve ambitious clearly defined needed to achieve ambitious clearly defined scientific and technological objectivesscientific and technological objectives

Generate knowledge and critical maGenerate knowledge and critical mass ss needed to achieve ambitious clearly defined needed to achieve ambitious clearly defined scientific and technological objectivesscientific and technological objectives

Increase competitiveness and/or addrIncrease competitiveness and/or address a ess a societal challengesocietal challenge

Increase competitiveness and/or addrIncrease competitiveness and/or address a ess a societal challengesocietal challenge

Support object-driven research, where Support object-driven research, where the the primary deliverable is new knowledge primary deliverable is new knowledge

Support object-driven research, where Support object-driven research, where the the primary deliverable is new knowledge primary deliverable is new knowledge

Expected to also have a structuring effectExpected to also have a structuring effect Expected to also have a structuring effectExpected to also have a structuring effect

Judged on impact, scientific excellence and quality of consortium

Key messages:

• No lower threshold on size, just ambition

• Ambition: tangible significant impact on a wide spectrum of core stakeholders

• Generate knowledge, and new collaborations

• Integration for DL: value-chain, existing “national” collections, public-private funding, training, end-user involvement

• Integration for preservation: public institution-private company, multidisciplinary, demonstration, international cooperation, institutional buy-in, building a research community

Should be THE project in the field

Integrated projectsIntegrated projects

Networks of excellenceNetworks of excellence

Multidisciplinary and oriented to long-term Multidisciplinary and oriented to long-term objectives objectives which are not which are not prepredefined in defined in terms of products, processes or servicesterms of products, processes or services

Multidisciplinary and oriented to long-term Multidisciplinary and oriented to long-term objectives objectives which are not which are not prepredefined in defined in terms of products, processes or servicesterms of products, processes or services

Strengthen scientific and technological Strengthen scientific and technological excellenceexcellence

Strengthen scientific and technological Strengthen scientific and technological excellenceexcellence

ProgressiveProgressive, , lasting integrationlasting integration, addresses , addresses fragmentation of fragmentation of European researchEuropean research

ProgressiveProgressive, , lasting integrationlasting integration, addresses , addresses fragmentation of fragmentation of European researchEuropean research

Must iMust includes spreading of excellencencludes spreading of excellence Must iMust includes spreading of excellencencludes spreading of excellence

Judged on impact, quality of participants and degree of integration

Key messages:

• Clear, well-defined topic, and performance indicators for durable integration

• Funding is an incentive to help overcome barriers to durable integration

• Integrates existing national activities and programmes, and be seen to modify the organisation of research

• Joint programme of activities – MUST include integration, re-orientation of existing activities, joint executed research, spreading of excellence, unified management structure

• Joint programme of activities – exclusively of additional activities, that would not have been undertaken in the absence of the network

World leadership is THE objective

Networks of excellence Networks of excellence

No. of

projects

Funding levels (M€)

No. of partners

Timescale (years)

Time window (years)

I P 3-4 5-12 >9 up to 4 5-10

NoE 3-4 3-6 10 “core” up to 5 5-15

STRP 3-5 1-2

“demo” 3-4 up to 2 2-5

SSA 1 1-2 up to 3 0-3

2/3 of budget earmarked for new instruments some 8-10 proposals likely to be retained for funding … highly

selective process!

Using the instruments Using the instruments

Finding a way to extend an existing project

Window dressing with “sleeping” partners

Covering the map of Europe with nodes, etc.

A loose group of like minded individuals

Re-submitting a rejected proposal from past/other programmes and asking for 3-times as much funding

Trying to “federate” different groups without any coherence, just because the “Commission wants it”

Making a good small research project look like an IP by tripling everything

Ambition is not ….Ambition is not ….

118 received, 97 analysed • 64% IPs, 36% NoEs (IST average)

Focusing on: • Digitisation and digital preservation (19 IP’s

and 11 NoE’s)• Advanced digital libraries and content

infrastructures (16 IP’s and 15 NoE’s)• Intelligent heritage and artistic expression (11

IP’s and 13 NoE’s)• Building community memories (3 IP’s and 9

NoE’s)

Strong academic focus (41% for IST)

Expressions of Interest Expressions of Interest

Only 15-30% of ideas really took seriously the new instruments, even if they did not understand them fully

Lack of ambition with very few big “visionary” ideas

Some very big (unrealistic) project budgets Lack of integration, with just inflated

“traditional” project ideas proposed European Research Area still misunderstood No EU added-value and impact indicators Many sub-critical ideas could be integrated

to achieve critical mass Lots of overlap in Networks, and joint

programme of activities missing

On the negative side ... On the negative side ...

Focus on describing the problem and breakthroughs expected and ensure that the key innovations are clearly described

Make explicit the state-of-the-art and the institutional buy-in

Keep ideas modular in scope, content and timeGive realistic cost/resource estimatesUse the full range of activities allowable in the

new instruments Remember to factor in post-project sustainability

Focus on return on investment

Do ... Do ...

Artificially inflate IP’s or artificially adapt your ideas to inappropriate objectives

Try to everything with everyone

Mirror the work programme text

Underestimate the project management expertise needed

Participate in a multitude of competing proposals (remember a researcher can only be in one network)

Forget to contextualise your objectives and put yourself in the place of the evaluator

Forget the rational for EU intervention

Don’t ... Don’t ...

An “Expression of Interest” workshop, Luxembourg, 18th Nov. 2002

Open day on Technology-enhanced Learning, Luxembourg, 5th Dec. 2002

An open Information event, Luxembourg, 27th Jan. 2003

A “Mapping the Future” project workshop, Luxembourg 28th Jan. 2003

Information briefings in Belgium, UK, Greece, Germany, …

Other events … Other events …

Check relevance of your ideas with us, as quickly as possible

Use the national contact points and partner finding services (intelligently)

Constantly check CORDIS for progress and updates on instruments and schedules

Build publically accessible agendas:

• Clarify your ideas, share your problems and ideas with others and subject them to public inspection

• Mobilise your constituencies, involve the stakeholders and listen to them

Become an expert evaluator

What to do next?What to do next?

This is a game of quality not numbers (ambition)

Preserve your credibility - select one proposal and make it work (focus)

Remember your credibility also depends on the quality and credibility of your partnerships (excellence)

Today our constituencies are present but are still dispersed (integrate)

Remember the new programme involves a change in mind-set:

• An Integrated Project should be THE project in the field

• A Network of Excellence should integrate ongoing research in Member States and become WORLD LEADERS

ConclusionsConclusions

For more informationFor more information

bernard.smith@cec.eu.intbernard.smith@cec.eu.int

eEurope

• http://europa.eu.int/information-society/eeurope/index_en.htm

IST in the Framework Programme

• http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fp6/fp6.htm

Cultural Heritage in IST

• http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult

• Culture in the EU

• http://europa.eu.int/culture/index_en.htm

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