1. DCA is co-funded by the CIP-ICT Policy Support Programme of the European Union

2. THE DCA PROJECT
 Pilot B project in the EU CIP-ICT PSP programme
 PACKED vzw – Centre of Expertise in Digital Heritage (BE)
 25 partners from 12 countries
 21 content providers – European museums and other art
institutions
 4 technical partners
 1/1/11 – 30/6/13
 Budget 3.947.286
 Funding of 50%
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Kick-off meeting in Brussels, january 2011

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Frissiras Museum (Athens), MMCA - Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki), National
Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum (Athens), National Gallery of Iceland (Reykjavik), RAM - Reykjavík
Art Museum (Reykjavik), Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (Riga), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
(Rotterdam), NIMk - Netherlands Institute for Media Art (Amsterdam), WRO Art Center (Wroclaw), Ars
Electronica (Linz), argos - centre for art and media (Brussels), MAC’s - Museum of Contemporary Art of
the French Community of Belgium (Grand-Hornu), Mu.ZEE – Collection of the province of West Flanders
and the City of Ostend (Ostend), Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium (Brussels), MMSU - Museum of
Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka (Rijeka), EMAF – European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück), HfG –
Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe), transmediale (Berlin)

4. THE GOAL (I)
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Digitisation workshop
Brussels, february 2011
“Digitising European Contemporary Artworks and aggregating the
created digital reproductions to Europeana – the single access
point of Europe’s cultural heritage”
 Digitising works made after 1945
 Around 27.000 contemporary artworks
 And 2.000 contextual documents
 # types: drawing, multimedia-installation, sculpture …

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6.  Not only ‘digitising for Europeana’ according to the motto
‘digitise once for all purposes’
 Identification of best practices for
 Digitisation (WP4)
 Metadata attribution (WP3)
 Long term preservation (WP6)
 Aggregation (WP5)
 And in some cases
 Collection management system?
 Rights management?
 Online (collection) platform?
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THE GOAL (II)

7. PREPARATION
Assessment of expertise
present with the partners by
means of detailed
questionnaire:
 Knowledge of digital formats
 Metadata practices
 Long term preservation
policy
 …
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8. PREPARATION
Template of digitisation plan
Completed based on own
workflow + digitisation
guidelines
 Tech parameters
 Timing
 Handling
 …
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9. PREPARATION
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Making a planning based
on detailed
questionnaire + status
analog materials

10. MONITORING
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11. AGGREGATION
 No dedicated content portal or single aggregator
 Showcase of DCA content through implementation of the
Europeana API on the DCA project website
Distributed aggregation to Europeana through
 DCA-MINT by NTUA (6 partners)
 GAMA – Gateway to Archives of Media Art (5 partners)
 National aggregators (6 partners: Austria, Spain, the
Netherlands, Croatia, Slovenia, Latvia)
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12. http://www.dca-project.eu
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http://www.dca-project.eu/deliverables

15. SHARING KNOWLEDGE
 Public deliverables available through the project website
Additionally:
 Template for digitisation plan
 Monitoring sheet
Also available for re-use in other digitisation projects
-> write to info@packed.be to get your copy
DCA wiki: contribute your own expertise and experiences with
digitisation on http://wiki.dca-project.eu/
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http://wiki.dca-project.eu/

17. Thanks for your attention!
www.digitisingcontemporaryart.eu
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