Diapositiva 1 Taipei, 22/2/2012 Antonella FRESA Technical Coordinator Central Institute Union Catalogue Italian Libraries A data infrastructure for digital cultural heritage: characteristics, requirements and priority services 22 February 2012 TELDAP 2012 Conference Taipei, 22/2/2012 Table of content • The Digital Cultural Heritage sector: characteristics and needs • The vision towards a DCH data infrastructure • Two inter-related projects: DC-NET and INDICATE • Positioning of the DCH sector Taipei, 22/2/2012 Initiatives of the European Member States in the last 10 year A wide range of activities: • Building a shared platform of tecommendations and guidelines • Agreement on common data models • Experimenting and launching innovative online services • E-infrastructures for the citizens • E-infrastructures for the research • International cooperation: in Europe and abroad • Digitisation within national and regional programmes 3 3 Taipei, 22/2/2012 DATA MODEL & SERVICES DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE e-INFRASTRUCTURE 2002 2005 2009 2012 2014 NATIONAL & REGIONAL INITIATIVES EUROPEANA RECOMMENDATIONS & GUIDELINES E-INFRASTRUCTURES for the citizens for the researchers Taipei, 22/2/2012 The amount of digitised material is growing very rapidly • National, regional and European programmes support the digitisation of the content of Museums, Libraries, Archives, Archaeological sites and Audiovisual repositories • The generation of digital cultural heritage is accelerated also by the impulse of Europeana that is fostering the European cultural institutions to produce even more digital content • Digital cultural heritage content are complex and interlinked through many relations Digital cultural content characteristics Taipei, 22/2/2012 6 NATIONAL PROGRAMMES REGIONAL PROGRAMMES EUROPEAN PROGRAMMES Digital cultural content National portals National portals Regional portals Thematic portals Data Continuum THE VISION …….. International portals Taipei, 22/2/2012 1. high quality information technology management, to ensure trust, availability, reliability, long term safety of content, security, preservation and sustainability; 2. access facilities to the final users (the researchers) who will search into the DCH e-Infrastructure for their research and to the cultural institutions that will deliver their data to the DCH e-Infrastructure; 3. interoperation among existing cultural heritage repositories and of cultural heritage data with research data. The needs of the DCH sector Taipei, 22/2/2012 The e-infrastructure for DCH It is not a “new infrastructure”, but it is instead a “new approach” - based on national and regional systems - Valorising existing resources The keyword is INTEROPERABILITY Regional system National system Thematic system National system Regional system Taipei, 22/2/2012 Expected impacts • e-Infrastructures The adoption of the e-Infrastructures by the digital cultural heritage community will open new scenarios of use and exploitation • Cultural Heritage Cultural managers will become more aware about the potential that the e- infrastructures can offer to their work: storage, preservation, access services for the cultural institutions, etc. • Research A better integration of the cultural sector with the e-Infrastructures will enable the research of new advanced services and applications • Other sectors Digital cultural content will become more usable and re-usable for education, cultural tourism, long-life learning, non-professional cultural interests, creative industry, etc. 9 9 Taipei, 22/2/2012 • To focus on the use of existing e-infrastructures as a channel for digital cultural heritage data • Storage, computing, connectivity together with authentication , authorisation and accounting mechanisms offered by the e-infrastructures can well serve the needs of the sector: the issue here is to establish factual cooperation among two sectors (the research and the cultural heritage) that are not used to work together DCH V/S e-Infrastructures Taipei, 22/2/2012 • Key players from the DCH: – Ministries of Culture – Cultural institutions  Cross-domain: museums, libraries and archives together • Key player from the research: – Ministries of Research – Researchers in the Humanities – Researchers in ICT applied to CH • E-Infrastructure providers Key players Taipei, 22/2/2012 • To define priorities among the services to be deployed • To consult and to advocated with stakeholders • To engage with programme owners • To improve awareness: standards, who-is-who, … • To promote trust building, covering different aspects and including organisational, operational and legal issues • To run experiments: pilots and use case studies • To open international cooperation • To establish an e-culture community Preparatory actions Taipei, 22/2/2012 1. DC-NET: joint activities plan for DCH e-infrastructure implementation 2. INDICATE: international cooperation, use case studies, pilots, policy harmonisation Two integrated projects Priorities and progamming Support and demonstration Taipei, 22/2/2012 DC-NET ERA-NET A Network for the European Research Area: • Composed by Programme Owners and Programme Managers in the cultural sector • To agree common perspectives & priorities across EU Member States • To establish an operative dialogue between cultural heritage and e-Infrastructures communities in Europe, • To identify constraints and capabilities in order to establish a plan of joint activities Started in December 2009, it will last until March 2012 A project funded by EC FP7 e-Infrastructures 14 Taipei, 22/2/2012 INDICATE A concrete approach within an international dimension – Stimulating the international cooperation of eInfrastructures providers and cultural heritage users – Target areas: • Mediterranean region, (Egypt, Turkey and Jordan) • Cooperation with China in liaison with the EPIKH Grid School • exchanges with South America in the frame of experiments for live distributed performances – Case studies: preservation, virtual exhibitions, GIS Started in September 2010, it will last until September 2012 A project funded by EC FP7 e-Infrastructures 15 Taipei, 22/2/2012 • The two projects share the same coordinator and have many partners in common. • The e-infrastructure programmes identified in DC-NET will be at the basis of the sustainability of the results of INDICATE. • The two projects represent the same DCH community. DC-NET 1/12/2009 1/9/2010 INDICATE 31/05/2012 31/8/2012 1/4/2011 Taipei, 22/2/2012 Research workflow and Service priorities Priorities for the Digital Cultural Heritage sector have been put together, having in mind the typical workflow of the DCH research. 17 17 Taipei, 22/2/2012 Typical DCH research workflow • Find: accessing information • Process: tools for manipulating information • Publish: make the results visible online • Conference: discuss and annotate published information • Preserve: maintaining access to content over the longer term • Secure Plus lower-level “basic digital services” such as email, data storage, web hosting, etc. 18 18 Taipei, 22/2/2012 Services priorities On the basis of the typical workflow of the DCH research, services are divided into 3 categories: 1. Services for content providers, i.e. those related to the creation of online data resources for DCH 2. Services for managing and adding value to the content itself 3. Services which enable, support and enhance virtual research communities and the activities of content consumers 19 19 Taipei, 22/2/2012 Services for content provides and data resource creation FROM common issues TO common priorities 20 20 Taipei, 22/2/2012 Services for content provides and data resource creation Common issues: • Interoperability of online resources • Insularity in terms of searching • Changes in location • High cost of establishment • Vulnerability to technical problems • Limitation on servers capacity and processing 21 21 Taipei, 22/2/2012 Services for content provides and data resource creation Common priorities: • Interoperation of systems • Aggregation of content • Cross-search • Semantic search • Persistent identification of digital objects • Simplification of set-up services • Stable platform • Scalability 22 22 Taipei, 22/2/2012 Services for managing and adding value to content e.g.: • Geo-referencing • 3D representation • Virtual reality and immersive interfaces • Annotation • Linked data generation 23 23 Taipei, 22/2/2012 Services for content consumers The “cafeterial model”: a broad range of services to be made available, without the need to actually deliver them for all members of the community. e.g.: • User authentication and access control • Collaborative environments • Advanced search • Visualisation 24 24 Taipei, 22/2/2012 Services priority ordering A prioritised list of the most immediately important services has been agreed: 1. Long-term preservation 2. Persistent identifiers 3. Interoperability and Aggregation 4. Advanced search 5. Data resource set-up 6. User authentication and access control 7. IPR and digital rights management Taipei, 22/2/2012 26 culture research e- infrastructures Cooperation and coordination among these three sectors is at the core of the DCH e-infrastructure Taipei, 22/2/2012 The network of common interest It combines: – regional, national and international levels, – bottom-up (working groups) and top-down (Joint Programming) approaches Working groups: experts seconded by their cultural, research and infrastructure organisations Cooperation with other networks and projects: EPIKH, CHAIN, EUMEDGRID-Support, EUMEDCONNECT2, LINKED HERITAGE, …. Taipei, 22/2/2012 Liaisons with strategic bodies Factual cooperation is established with: – e-IRG e-Infrastructure Reflection Group – ESFRI European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastruftures (SSH thematic working group) – EGI European Grid Initiative – TERENA Trans-European Research and Networking Association – MSEG Member States Expert Group on digitisation – ASREN – Arab States Research and Education Network Taipei, 22/2/2012 Position Paper Open consultation Green Paper on Common Strategic Framework 1. European Coordination: the role of Member States and European Commission 2. Europeana: towards its full deployment 3. Preservation: a task for the Member States 4. Digital Cultural Heritage: the need for a research e-Infrastructure 5. Research and innovation in the digital cultural heritage: an international matter 6. Users involvement: the success factor 7. Coordination and demonstration: a requirement for the DCH sector Taipei, 22/2/2012 Next appointment 8 March 2012, Rome – DC-NET Final Conference 20 April 2012, Catania – INDICATE Technical Conference to demonstrate the e-Culture Science Gateway and to present the result of the use case studies on long-term preservation, virtual exhibitions and geo-coded cultural content 9-10 July 2012, Cairo – INDICATE Final Conference Taipei, 22/2/2012 The vision • INDICATE and DC-NET are part of a wider process, which started 10 years ago among cultural institutions • This process entered in a new phase joining the research e- infrastructures • Time is ready to start working towards an Open Science Infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage in 2020 Joint Programming Support and demonstrations Roadmaps DCH-RP Proposal Taipei, 22/2/2012 Thank you Antonella Fresa DC-NET and INDICATE Technical Coordinator fresa@promoter.it antonella.fresa@beniculturali.it www.dc-net.org www.indicate-project.org mailto:fresa@promoter.it mailto:antonella.fresa@beniculturali.it http://www.dc-net.org/ http://www.dc-net.org/ http://www.dc-net.org/ http://www.indicate-project.org/ http://www.indicate-project.org/ http://www.indicate-project.org/