Slides from Wilbert Helmus presentation at the kick-off conference BeMuseum (14th October 2016, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels).

1. ‘Network Digital Heritage’
Strategy
Dutch National Digital Heritage
BeMuseum - Kick-off conference on innovation in museums
Brussels, 14 October 2016
Wilbert Helmus

2. What is the National Strategy
for Digital Heritage?

3. =
‘Network Digital Heritage’
Focus on users Value of networks

4. Pillars Network Digital Heritage
Decentralised approach:
• Strengthening local activities and innovation
• Promoting creation of institutional ICT policies
• Investing in staff training
• Funding on national, provincial and local level
Strengthening the national infrastructure (in EU-context):
• Digital Collection Netherlands - Linked Open Data
• Infrastructure for preservation and access
• Legal framework / copyright
• Quality assurance based on self regulation

5. Focus on users
Cross domain openness
and connectivity
Creating shared
facilities for
digital preservation

7. Top 20 most popular websites in NL in 2016
Digital heritage…?
Source:Alexa
1. Google.nl /.com
2. Youtube.com
3. Facebook.com
4. Wikipedia.org
5. Live.com
6. Marktplaats.nl
7. Yahoo.com
8. LinkedIn.com
9. ING.nl
10.Twitter.com
11.Nu.nl
12.Instragram.com
13.Telegraaf.nl
14.Dumpert.nl
15.msn.com
16.Rabobank.nl
17.Bol.com
18.Aliexpress.com
19.ABNamro.nl
20.Netflix.com

8. User surveying by Dutch heritage institutions
56%
44%
Do you measure the use of
your digital services? (n=103)
ja nee
98%
49%
40%
29%
How do you measure the use of
your digital services? (n=55)
% instellingen

10. 42%
34%
14%
10%
5%
5%
3%
3%
2%
2%
42%
42%
21%
18%
8%
7%
5%
4%
3%
3%
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
Offline
Institutional website
National aggregator
Europeana
Other aggregator
Institutional API
Other Social media platforms
3rd party API
Other Access channels
Wikipedia
Now 2 years from now
Estimated percentage of all the digital objects
that are and/or will be accessible by access form

11. creators are consumers are creators are consumers are cr
Source: meSch project

13. 33%
67%
Do you have a digital preservation
strategy? (n=101)
ja nee
29%
71%
Digital collections managed in a
certified deposit? (n=94)
ja nee

14. Marjan Hammersma, DG Culture & Media,
Ministry of Culture (and chair NDE)
“Digital is the new normal!”

15. Share your knowledge about digital heritage!
Wilbert Helmus
wilbert.helmus@den.nl
www.den.nl/pagina/511/netwerk-digitaal-
erfgoed/