The document summarizes a meeting about the Digital Heritage Netherlands (DEN) Foundation and its CEMEC project. DEN is the Dutch knowledge hub for digital culture that supports good practices for digitization at cultural heritage institutions. Its core mission is to share knowledge and experiences about technology and practices for digital heritage. DEN encourages institutions to invest in open technologies, create sustainable services, and use common standards to jointly create a national Digital Cultural Collection. The CEMEC project aims to establish shared digital heritage services at a national level in the Netherlands.

1. Open Session
Digital Heritage
Policy & Pratice
Discovery Programme and DEN
CEMEC project meeting
Dublin, 21 April 2017

2. What is DEN?
The DEN Foundation (Digital Heritage Netherlands) is the Dutch
knowledge hub for digital culture.
DEN supports good digitisation practices at institutions that produce,
use and preserve digital collection.
DEN encourages the institutions to jointly create a future-proof national
Digital Cultural Collection.
DEN is sponsored by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Cultural Affairs
and Science as part of the Basic
Infrastructure for Culture.
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3. Core mission: Knowledge dissemination
Share knowledge & experiences with ICT
& good practise for digital heritage
Support heritage institutions to improve their
digital strategies and services
 Quality assurance for
digital heritage! 
Encourage institutions to...
... invest in open technology
... create sustainable (services
 Be aware of vendor lock in,
(un)sustainable cloud services…
... use the same ICT-standards
 Create 1 national
Digital Heritage Collection
What does DEN do?
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4. Published in March 2015.
Roadmap to establish
crossdomain shared services for
digital heritage at the national
level.
Collaborative effort of Ministry
of Culture, National Institutions
and supporting organisations.
Not an official governmental
document.
National Strategy
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5. Put focus on users Acknowledge the
value of networks
+
‘Network Digital Heritage’
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6. Implementation:
Netwerk Digitaal Erfgoed
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7. CEMEC architecture
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8. New value propositions
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Source:http://www.den.nl/art/uploads/files/Publicaties/BusModIn_eng_final.pdf
analog ‘in house’
digital ‘in house’
digital in a
controlled network
‘out there’
on the web

9. Pleasure
Money
Status
Self-
improve
ment
Interaction
Knowledge
Professional
information
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10. The key challenge for cultural heritage
institutions is to find the sweet spot
between (trustworthy) offer and demand Source: BMICE
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11. Roadmap
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Multiple value creation
Multiple cooperation

12. Thank you!