Jelena Rubić: Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia, Croatia
Today’s technologies generate numerous new challenges and possibilities for preserving and representing cultural heritage, offering powerful tools for processing, protecting and making accessible cultural contents. New tools open up communication spaces for spending time, acquiring and exchanging experiences and offering, seeking, and encountering contents and services from all fields of human activities. Activities connected with cultural heritage are markedly directed towards information and communication technologies: they depend on the quality and accessibility of information regarding stored and offered contents, as well as on the possibility of having the largest possible number of users access its contents and services in an easy and simple manner. The use of information and communication technologies in the digitisation of services and data regarding the most valuable cultural heritage is the foundation for developing these activities and the institutions engaged in them. The digitisation of cultural heritage and introduction of services based on contents created gives Europe’s rich cultural heritage a clear profile on the Internet – promoting regions, protecting cultural diversity and contributing to a better quality of life. The Ministry of Culture and Media has conducted
extensive policy, coordination, and funding actions to supplement CHI in the areas of digitisation and online access to cultural material and digital preservation.
