DC-NET - Digital Cultural heritage NETwork is an ERA-NET (European Research Area Network) project, financed by the European Commission under the e-Infrastructure - Capacities Programme of the FP7.

The main aim is to develop and to strengthen the co-ordination of the public research programmes among the European countries, in the sector of the digital cultural heritage.

This scope will be pursued by the participating Ministries of Culture by endorsing a Joint Plan of Activities, to be initiated already during the project time-frame, through a wide and intensive programme of seminars, workshops, meetings and Presidential conferences dedicated to the encounter of the digital cultural heritage sector with the technological research and the e-Infrastructure providers in Europe.

The DC-NET project started on the 1st December 2009 and will end the 31st March 2012.

To know more about the project, download the DC-NET booklet (.zip, 1570 kb).

 DIGITAL PRESERVATION SERVICES: STATE OF THE ART ANALYSIS

This report, edited by by Raivo Ruusalepp and Milena Dobreva, presents an overview of the state of the art in service provision for digital preservation and curation. Its focus is on the areas where bridging the gaps is needed between e-Infrastructures and efficient and forward-looking digital preservation services. Based on a desktop study and a rapid analysis of some 190 currently available tools and services for digital preservation, the deliverable provides a high-level view on the range of instruments currently on offer to support various functions within a preservation system.

Download the prublication (PDF, 2643 kb)

 DC-NET PRIORITIES AND BEST PRACTICES FOR DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE

DC-NET Service Priorities and Best Practices for Digital Cultural Heritage: coverThis document, edited by DC-NET WP3, intends to give an overview of Service Priorities and Best Priorities and Best Practices for Digital Cultural Heritage. It is targeted to institutions from the cultural heritage domain invlolved in the creation and use of online data resources for DCH that could benefit from e-Infrastructures as well as to e-Infrastructures service providers, which can learn more about cultural institutions needs in order to offer more empowered services.

Download the publication (PDF, 7516 kb)

DC-NET INTERNATIONAL FINAL CONFERENCE

The conference has taken place in Rome, Italy, last 8 March 2012

How can e-Infrastructures support digital cultural heritage? What can Member States do so that cultural institutions may benefit from the research infrastructures? What are the priorities to be addressed? The final DC-NET international conference will answer to these questions. The talks will focus on the results of the project in terms of reflections and concrete actions. The conference is targeted to digital cultural heritage experts, e-infrastructures providers and policy makers.

Programme, info and presentations

 DC-NET TRAINING WORKSHOPS

The workshops aim at providing basic knowledge on e-infrastructure, their typologies and usage. User stories will demonstrate how their potential can also effectively serve the cultural institutions and not only the world of research. These training days are targeted to decision makers and experts in cultural institutions that operate in the ICT and digitization of cultural heritage. 

 DC-NET SIMPLE ONLINE VALIDATION FORM ON SERVICE PRIORITIES

 
DC-NET invites cultural institutions, policy makers, national programme managers, research experts to fill in the "simple online validation form" concerning service priorities relating to e-infrastructures, proposed by WP3 for DCH organizations.

This validation process aims:

  • To explore how the service priorities could be supported by e-Infrastructures
  • To gather a common assessment for the services - in terms in terms of feasibility, cost, perceived value to the cultural heritage sector, impact on e-Infrastructures and other users, international replication and collaboration potential and cost and consequences- from the Ministries participating in DC-NET and beyond,  policy makers, national programme managers, research experts.

The online form is available at http://dcnet.situla.org.

 

Events

Roma: DC-NET International Final Conference

8 March 2012

Florence: 2nd LIBER international workshop on digital preservation

7-8 May 2012

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