EU policy for digitisation of cultural
rersources
Khalil Rouhana
Director,
European Commission
Directorate-General for Information Society and Media
IMPACT final conference
24-25 October 2011
The British Library - London
Cultural heritage and the DAE
• Digitisation of cultural heritage
– A sustainable financing model for Europeana
• Orphan and out-of-commerce works
– Legal framework
• Update Recommendation on digitisation
– In preparation
• Public Sector Information and Open Data
– Cultural resources as a PSI
The work of the Comité des Sages
“Bringing Europe’s Cultural Heritage Online”
• Stresses the economic aspects next to the cultural
aspects
• ‘Access’ is the central concept
• Digitisation as a moral obligation
• Europeana central in the strategy
• Private funds (PPP) for digitisation are necessary,
under openness and transparency condition
Bringing Culture Online:
the bottlenecks
• Funding challenge: more digitisation is
necessary at Member State level
• Legal challenge: adaptation of the legal
framework to bring in-copyright material
online
Forthcoming: update of the Commission
Recommendation to Member States
• 2006: Commission Recommendation on the
digitisation and online accessibility of
cultural material and digital preservation
• 2011: Update of the Recommendation:
– Support to Europeana
– Role of PPPs
– Principles on openness
– Importance of Public Domain
– - Bringing also in-copyright works into Europeana
Cultural material as part of an
Open Data strategy
• Aim: widest possible access to and re-use of cultural
material for creativity
• Both for non-commercial and commercial purposes
• Review of the Directive on the re-use of public sector
information
• Importance of open metadata
Our ambitions for Europeana
• Access for all
– Enriching and diversifying collections & users experience
– Target of more than 30 Million objects
• (already 19 million in 2011)
• A hub for the creative industries
– Inspire creation of content and new online services
– Facilitate economic activity based on digitised cultural
resources.
• A platform also for in-copyright material
– Full respect of the underlying intellectual property rights
Cultural resources and digitisation in ICT
in FP7
• Call 9 (DL is 17 April, 2012):
– Digital preservation and cultural heritage
• Addressing digitisation challenges
• Total budget 70 M€
– Including R&D projects and CSAs
• WP 2013 Orientation in preparation
– Could include ICT for creativity, Preservation,
Cultural resources and digitisation in
- CIP ICT PSP, 2012-2013
• Orientations on digital content, open data & creativity
– Content in Europeana / experiment new technological
solutions
– Extend operations on re-use / links to creative industries
– Open Data (GI, OA, PSI, CH) - continue the competition
experiments
Funding opportunities 2014-2020
Multiannual Financial Framework
• Horizon 2020 - a significant increase to
Research and Innovation funding
• Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) –
– cross-border infrastructures in energy, transport
and ICT to strengthen the internal market
Horizon 2020 proposal
• Multiannual Financial Framework (20142020)
– Commission proposal adopted on 29 June 2011
• Proposed amount for Horizon 2020:
– €80 billion bringing R&I togther
• 46% increase compared to current period
(2007-13)
• R&I increases to 8.5% of overall EU budget
• Detailed proposal in November
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Horizon 2020 – proposed objectives and structure
Draft
Europe 2020 priorities
European Research Area
International cooperation
Shared objectives and principles
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Tackling Societal Challenges
Health, demographic change and wellbeing
Food security and the bio-based economy
Secure, clean and efficient energy
Smart, green and integrated transport
Supply of raw materials
Resource efficiency and climate action
Inclusive, innovative and secure societies
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Simplified access
Creating Industrial Leadership and
Competitive Frameworks
 Leadership in enabling and industrial
technologies
ICT
Nanotech., Materials, Manuf. and
Processing
Biotechnology
Space
 Access to risk finance
 Innovation in SMEs
Excellence in the Science Base
Frontier research (ERC)
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Skills and career development (Marie Curie)
Research infrastructures
Common rules, toolkit of funding schemes
Dissemination & knowledge tranfer
Connecting Europe Facility CEF
2014-2020
• Commission proposal to promote the
completion of :
– Energy priority corridors €9.1 billion
– Transport core network €21.7 billion
– Broadband and key digital services €9.2 billion
• High speend Internet
• 9 European Digital Infrastructures,
Connecting Europe Facility CEF:
Key digital services
• Access to digital resources of European
heritage:
– make available large collections of European
cultural resources in digital form
– Foster their re-use by third parties
• Core platform: Europeana
• Generic services
– Includes competence centres on digitisation and
preservation of digital cultural heritage
Competence centres:
- Our vision for coordinated effort in
digitisation in Europe
• Support for the ‘best of breed’
– Generate equal access to excellence from anywhere
• While avoiding redundancy
• Improve digitisation capacity
– quality, coherence, efficiency, widespread accessibility
• Provide services of guaranteed quality
– directly or brokerage access
• Leveraging effect
– link EU added value and national initiatives
• Facilitate training and spreading knowledge,
•  Lasting structuring effect!
Competence centres
addressing the challenges for digitisation
in Member States
• Organisation of digitisation
– Clear overviews and targets, avoid overlaps
• Optimisation of capacity
– Pooling of digitisation efforts
• equipment and expertise, cross-border collaboration
• Support in access to funding
– PPPs, Structural Funds…
– CEF, aggregation in Europeana and digitisation?
Challenges for Competence centres
• Sustainability
– transition from the project innovation to brokerage
of services and expertise
• Types of services, clients, funding, business
plans
– EU provides both guidance (recommendation) and
financial support (eg FP7, CIP and CEF)
DAE: “Every European digital!”
In summary:
• Continued support to digitisation
– Platform, competence, innovation and creativity
• Openness for access and re-use
– Creative industries
• Improving framework conditions for digitisation
– online access & digital preservation of cultural material
“The culture industry will tomorrow be one of the biggest industries, a
creator of wealth and jobs. We have to build a powerful European culture
industry that will enable us to be in control of both the medium and its
content, maintaining our standards of civilization, and encouraging the
creative people amongst us.”
Jacques Delors
Inaugural speech at the European Parliament 1985