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IV SITUATION ANALYSIS
Cultural Sector
1996
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Electronic publishing,
multimedia tools
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Content not yet adapted for new
technologies
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Therefore, highest potential for
content owners
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Promising new organisational
structures:"flat virtual
enterprises" with networked
creative knowledge workers
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Cultural industries will easily
adapt to electronic production
and delivery
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Mergers, mergers, mergers
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Need to position oneself in the
new (e-publishing) markets as
soon as possible
Cultural Heritage Sector
2001
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Efficient but still rather complex
tools with low usability
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Besides collection management
systems, not many tools for
cultural heritage sector
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Digitisation of cultural
objects/collections without
focus ("accidental digitisation")
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Cultural heritage institutions
rely on traditional hierarchical
structures
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They lack business view and
competency
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New media & IT-skills often
missing
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Cultural heritage institutions
enter into partnerships mostly
within own sector: e.g. libraries
co-operate on union catalogues
Cultural Heritage Sector
2006
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New generation of easy to
handle tools for domain experts
and other target groups (e.g.
teachers)
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Co-operative authoring tools
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Tools for defining automated
workflows and data capturing in
integrated systems
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Clear digitisation policy and
strategies focused on particular
themes (clear concepts: which
collections, how: methods &
standards, e.g. of documentation)
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Traditional institutions: still
relatively inflexible (generation
gap)
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Some transfer through
partnerships with businesses
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New competencies & skills
incorporated through new
personnel, best practice examples
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New types of cultural heritage
organisations: cultural networks,
service providers
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Clear cross-sector partnerships
on key issues, e.g. standards
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Technical support organisations
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Strategic partnerships with new
types of cultural organisations
and businesses
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Well established co-operative
frameworks across sectors
Tools
Content
Management and organisation
Strategic partnerships and co-operation