OPENHERITAGE Enabling the European Culture Economy
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THE FIFTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME The Fifth Framework Programme focuses on Community activities in the field of research, technological development and demonstration (RTD) for the period 1998 to 2002. OPENHERITAGE Enabling the European Culture Economy PART C RTD Proposals: Description of Contribution to EC Policies, Economic Development, Management and Participants Proposal no. IST-2000-25136 Release 1.0, 8 May, 2000 OpenHeritage IST-2000-25136 May 8, 2000 Part C C2. CONTENT LIST C3. COMMUNITY ADDED VALUE AND CONTRIBUTION TO EC POLICIES...............3 C4. CONTRIBUTION TO COMMUNITY SOCIAL OBJECTIVES ......................................5 4.1 PRIMARY CONTRIBUTION ...................................................................................................5 4.2 SUPPORTING ELEMENTS......................................................................................................6 C5. PROJECT MANAGEMENT.................................................................................................7 5.1 PROJECT MANAGEMENT PROCEDURES ............................................................................7 5.2 PLANNING AND REPORTING ...............................................................................................9 C6. DESCRIPTION OF THE CONSORTIUM ........................................................................10 6.1 THE CONSORTIUM ...................................................................................................................10 6.2 OBLIGATIONS AND RIGHTS AND RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PARTICIPANTS ...............................11 C7. DESCRIPTION OF THE PARTICIPANTS ......................................................................14 7.01 IL SESTANTE S.P.A..............................................................................................................14 7.02 SYSTEM SIMULATION LTD.......................................................................................................16 7.03 THE NATIONAL MUSEUMS OF SCOTLAND................................................................................17 7.04 THE MUSÉE HISTORIQUE DES TISSUS DE LYON .......................................................................18 7.05 ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM "GENNA MARIA" OF VILLANOVAFORRU.........................................18 7.06 MUSEON (THE HAGUE)............................................................................................................19 7.07 MUSEUMS ON LINE S.A. ..........................................................................................................20 7.08 CIES (CENTRE FOR SOCIO-ECONOMIC ENGINEERING, RENDE (CS), ITALY ............................21 7.09 CSC-AUSTRIA .........................................................................................................................22 7.10 DIGITAL PUBLISHING JAPAN (J)...............................................................................................23 7.11 ASSOCIATION FOR DOCUMENTATION AND NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES (ADIT) (RU) 24 7.12 SUPPORTING MEMORY INSTITUTIONS......................................................................................25 C8. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL PROSPECTS.........................................................................................................................28 8.1 OVERVIEW...............................................................................................................................28 SESTANTE Exploitation Objectives........................................................................................28 System Simulation Ltd Exploitation Objectives ......................................................................28 Museums On Line Exploitation Objectives.............................................................................29 CSC-Austria Exploitation Objectives......................................................................................29 DPJ Exploitation Objectives...................................................................................................29 8.2 OPENHERITAGE BUSINESS PLAN..............................................................................................29 Products and Services.............................................................................................................30 Business Model .......................................................................................................................30 Positioning..............................................................................................................................31 Market Analysis for software packages and related services .................................................31 Market Analysis for regional CH portals................................................................................31 Market Analysis for reproduction rights and multimedia products ........................................31 Strategy and Implementation Summary ..................................................................................32 8.3 DISSEMINATION SCHEME .........................................................................................................34 2 OpenHeritage IST-2000-25136 May 8, 2000 Part C C3. Community added value and contribution to EC policies The project has an evident European breadth, involving partners from 6 CEC countries plus not-funded partners from Russia (and Japan). The supporting memory institutions (partly funded through partner museums, partly participating to the specification and validation activities as external not-funded users) represent a wide range of European countries and convey a broad cultural and geographic dimension to the project. The European dimension of the initiative stems, though, from other significant intrinsic qualities: The attention to the ‘glocal’ dimension with the consequent emphasis on modelling and valorising the aptitudes and assets of individual territories confronting each other in a competitive, Europe-wide chessboard; The attempt to leverage an European core strength (the new culture economy) in a systematic effort of critical-mass dimension; The business project underpinning the proposal, a venture based on the co-operation of 4 European companies that are teaming together to establish the “openheritage.com” new economy company, a major on-line resource leveraging a multimedia value chain that has its roots in the distributed deployment of innovative solutions in memory institutions all over Europe; The timely (but possibly already belated) attempt at stopping the silent haemorrhage of European CH rights and institutional identities actively hunted for by major economic actors from the U.S.A. and Japan, that puts our unique, irreplaceable heritage at high risk; The potential to enable a massive and long-lasting expansion of the accessible digital CH on a pan-European scale, encouraging the diffusion of common platforms and standards. The OpenHeritage business initiative will almost certainly resort - even in case of successful access to CEC funding - to venture capital, in order to quickly ramp up its start-up and early development. Given the established criteria that regulate the intervention of venture capital, though, it is evident that an early support by non-private sources would enable the proposers to limit venture capital support to a phase 2/phase 3 participation, with the result of preserving the control of a larger share of the company and ensuring a more even balance of the social component with the economic one (definitely more directly pursued by venture capital, in need of early revenue streams). The EU co-operative research framework represents the most likely and natural source for this kind of support, and would guarantee the timely start and unbiased development of a potentially strategic initiative as OpenHeritage aims to be. Technically speaking, OpenHeritage addresses a number of issues (among them, certainly the ones related to the application of meta-data standards) that are best treated at an international level. Also, aspects such as Intellectual Property Rights and marketing will be dealt with at an international level to reflect the present differences in systems, attitudes etc. OpenHeritage will promote excellence in advanced technologies for the cultural environment, following a process launched by pioneer projects as early as 1989. By addressing (both directly and indirectly) an user base of at least 35 key museums in the CEC and Russia, it will enable the take up of these technologies, with impact on a broad range of activities in memory institutions. 3 OpenHeritage IST-2000-25136 May 8, 2000 Part C OpenHeritage is in line with some of the mainstream CEC policies: building key, user-friendly applications that enable the potential of the Information Society; developing integrated management and personalised access to content, knowledge and information in the cultural sector, supporting new organisational schemes to enable publishing businesses, museum institutions and museum professionals to take advantage of new environments; enhancing the efficiency and friendliness of museums in collection management; creating new working environments to give European citizens broader access to their Cultural Heritage; establishing new museum inter-relationships for planning exhibitions, new museum/public relationships for educating people prior to their visits to their premises, and museum/publisher relationships as well, by increasing the number