Evidence

Stockholm: Michael Culture Workshop on Virtual exhibitions 23 May 2012, National Archives

Cultural institutions are increasingly recurring to exhibitions that fall outside the traditional space and time parameters, and are instead staged on IT platforms. Virtual exhibitions are more and more used by museums, holders of cultural funds, as well as artists to diffuse their works. This approach is not new, but the means, technologies and methodology evolve very quickly and allow today the design of new virtual exhibitions. Virtual exhibitions are available at any moment, with contents of a validated and attested quality, allowing new forms of cultural exploration. Thus, they give the opportunity to promote cultural content beyond physical and social boarders. This workshop, organised by the MICHAEL Culture Association in cooperation with the Linked Heritage project, will contribute to the sharing of best practices examples and innovative projects on virtual exhibitions.

Programme

Council Conclusions on the contribution of culture to EU 2020 and on mobility information services

These two sets of Council Conclusions are now available in all EU official languages. On 19 May, the Culture Ministers of the EU Member States adopted Council Conclusions underlining the important contribution of culture to the smart, sustainable and inclusive growth objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy. These conclusions highlight that according to latest studies the cultural and creative industries contribute 4.5% to Europe's GDP. On the same day, the Culture Ministers also adopted Council Conclusions calling on the Member States and the Commission to facilitate the provision by mobility information services of comprehensive and accurate information to artists and culture professionals seeking to be mobile within the EU.

Second progress report on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and on digital preservation in the European Union - Working document

This report reviews and assesses the overall progress achieved in the European Union in implementing the Commission Recommendation of 24 August 2006 on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation (2006/585/EC), as well as the related Council Conclusions of 13 November 2006 (2006/C 297/01).

Europeana: Comité de sages Report "New Renaissance" and Strategic Plan 2011-2015

Comité des Sages delivered its report, called "New Renaissance" by bringing Europe's cultural heritage online
The report of the Comité des Sages (high-level reflection group) on Digitisation of Europe's cultural heritage was delivered today to Neelie Kroes, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Agenda, and Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner responsible for Education and Culture.
Among its top recommendations are that Europeana should become the central reference point for Europe's online cultural heritage. Member States must ensure that all material digitised with public funding is available on the site, and bring all their public domain masterpieces into Europeana by 2016. Cultural institutions, the European Commission and Member States should actively and widely promote Europeana.

To access the press release in other languages:
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/17&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

To access the full report:
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/doc/reflection_group/final-report-cdS3.pdf

Europeana just published its Strategic Plan 2011-2015

Strategic Plan colour version
http://version1.europeana.eu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=c4f19464-7504-44db-ac1e-3ddb78c922d7&groupId=10602

Strategic Plan black and white print version
http://version1.europeana.eu/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=ffba031f-b320-4119-b9bc-8412890fd5a5&groupId=10602

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Events

• 23 May 2012, Sweden, Stockholm
  Michael Culture Workshop: Virtual exhibitions
  Programme

MINERVA Activities

Museo & Web  (en) - (fr) - (it)  
Kit for planning a quality website for small museums, edited by WP5 Italy.

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