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Digital Culture (DigiCULT) is an IST Support Measure (IST-2001-34898) to establish a regular technology watch for cultural and scientific heritage over the period of 30 months (03/2002-08/2004).
DigiCULT draws on the results of the strategic study "Technological Landscapes for Tomorrow's Cultural Economy - DigiCULT", that was initiated by the European Commission, DG Information Society (Unit D2: Cultural Heritage Applications) in 2000 and completed in 2001.
This study covers several areas of interest, (national policies & initiatives, organisational change, exploitation, and ICT) and formulates a series of recommendations. In particular, it provides a roadmap of how cultural heritage technologies will or could develop in the near future (until 2006)
Building on the knowledge and expertise of over 50 cultural heritage experts, DigiCULT will discuss and analyse current and future trends in several technology domains, that have been identified as key areas during the DigiCULT study. DigiCULT will also function as a stimulus for future R&D in/for the cultural heritage sector.
In order to encourage early take up of new issues, the results and recommendations of DigiCULT will be actively disseminated and distributed to the relevant target groups throughout Europe. The DigiCULT products will include: Technology Watch Reports, Thematic Issues and Newsletters.
The members of the Steering Committee of DigiCULT are:
Philippe Avenier, Ministère de la culture et de la communication,
France
Paolo Buonora, Archivio di Stato di Roma, Italy
Costis Dallas, Critical Publics SA, Greece
Bert Degenhart-Drenth, ADLIB Information Systems BV, The Netherlands
Paul Fiander, BBC Information & Archives, United Kingdom
Peter Holm Lindgaard, Library Manager for the Library & Archives
Department of TV2, Denmark
Erich J. Neuhold, Fraunhofer IPSI, Germany
Bruce Royan, Concurrent Computing, United Kingdom
The Project Consortium of DigiCULT Forum consists of:
Salzburg Research
Forschungsgesellschaft
(Project co-ordinator) www.salzburgresearch.at
HATII - Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute, University of Glasgow www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
©DigiCULT 2003