Mission
Benefiting the Cultural Heritage sector, through monitoring and assessing existing and emerging technologies that provide opportunities to optimise the development, access to, and preservation of Europe's rich cultural and scientific heritage, within the emerging digital cultural economy.
Description
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.
Steering Committee
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
Project co-ordinator:
Salzburg Research m.b.H
Project partner:
Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII),
University of Glasgow
The DigiCULT Team:
John Pereira
DigiCULT Project Manager
john.pereira@
salzburgresearch.at
Seamus Ross
Director HATII / ERPANET
s.ross@
hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
Guntram Geser
DigiCULT Senior Researcher
guntram.geser@
salzburgresearch.at
Martin Donnelly
DigiCULT Forum Technology Assessor
m.donnelly@
hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
Daisy Abbott
DigiCULT Forum Researcher
d.abbott@
hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
Birgit Retsch
DigiCULT Network co-ordinator
birgit.retsch@
salzburgresearch.at
Brian Aitken
DigiCULT Web Developer
b.aitken@
hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk
Jan Steindl
DigiCULT Designer & Illustrator
jan.steindl@
salzburgresearch.at
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