Austria Iceland • ARS Electronica • National Gallery of Iceland • Reykjavik Art Museum Belgium • argos – Centre for art and media Latvia • Interdisciplinary Institute for Broad-Band • Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art Technology • Museum of Contemporary Arts Grand-Hornu The Netherlands Bringing the masterpieces of • Mu.ZEE • Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen European contemporary art online! • PACKED vzw – Centre of expertise in digital • Netherlands Media Art Institute heritage • Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium • WRO Art Center Croatia • Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Portugal • Fundação Serralves • European Media Art Festival Slovenia • Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung • Museum of Modern Art • Transmediale Greece • Fundació Antoni Tàpies • Frissiras Museum • Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art • National Gallery - Alexandros Soutzos Museum • National Technical University of Athens • Ubitech www.digitisingcontemporaryart.eu Digitising Contemporary Art (DCA) The key objectives of the DCA project are to If you wish to know more about the project is a CIP ICT PSP project launched • identify best practices for digitisation and objectives, its progress and its publication in January 2011. attribution for different situations you can visit us at and contexts; By June 2013, the DCA project, drawing • digitise contemporary artworks and www.digitisingcontemporaryart.eu upon the know-how of 4 experienced contextual documents; technical partners, will make available • aggregate the digitised reproductions for Project coordination: online central parts of the collections of ingestion into Europeana; PACKED vzw – Centre of expertise in 21 European art institutions: paintings, • determine long-term preservation strategies. digital heritage sculptures, photographs, installations, video, Rue Delaunoystraat 58 drawings, prints, collages and book art A main characteristic of the DCA project is the B - 1080 Brussels created after 1945. Improved access to focus on sharing knowledge from the Belgium these masterpieces will benefit both the experience gained during the project. www.packed.be general public and the professional art project coordinator: Rony Vissers community. The following publications will result from the [email protected] collaboration: Around 27,000 artworks and 2,000 • Guidelines for an A-Z digitisation workflow Dissemination: contextual documents are being digitised for contemporary art works; Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art to create high quality digital reproductions, • Best practices for a digital storage Alberta iela 13 using the best practices in digitisation, infrastructure for long-time preservation of LV – 1010 Riga metadata implementation and long-term digital files; Latvia preservation. The digital reproductions and • Guidelines for a long-time preservation www.lcca.lv the relevant metadata will be aggregated for strategy for digital reproductions and dissemination officer: Kristine Briede ingestion into Europeana – the single access metadata; [email protected] point to ’s cultural heritage. • Metadata implementation guidelines for digitised works of contemporary art.

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