Workshop during the 2019 Summer School in Osijek.
Over the summer, the European Commission launched a public consultation regarding the evaluation, and possibly the revision of the recommendations of 27 October 2011 on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation aimed to support the digital transformation of the cultural heritage sector.
Individuals, academics, cultural heritage institutions, network organisations, Member State competent authorities with experience in the sector were encouraged to fill in a questionnaire to help the commission ensure that these recommendations still fit the needs and challenges of the cultural heritage sector in light of the extreme and ongoing changes of the current situation, and of the technological changes.
In addition to the questionnaire, the consultation offered a possibility to add a supporting document to the answers. EuroClio took this opportunity to underline the importance of the Europeana platform as an enabler for cooperation on digital heritage on European and global level.
EuroClio recommended that the Cultural Sector, supported by the European Commission:
- Recognises and emphasises the value of digitised heritage in education
- Revives the ambition to give access to all public domain materials on Europeana
- Promotes the use of licenses that allow educational use
- Helps users find and use materials more easily
- Ensures diversity and inclusion in the collections
- Acknowledges and addresses the need for curation of the Europeana Collections
- Creates an overview of the content that is already available
You can read EuroClio’s position paper on the Consultation on Digital for Cultural Heritage here.
