CALIMERA: Co-ordination CALIMERA: Co-ordination ActionAction

Cultural Applications: Local Institutions

Mediating Electronic Resource Access

Strategic objectiveStrategic objective

• Ensure that local cultural institutions right across Europe are well-placed to benefit from and contribute to the goals of the new RTD framework programme 2002-2006 (FP 6);

• ie enabling ‘anywhere, anytime, natural access to IST services for all’ …. advanced and intelligent systems which improve access to Europe‘s knowledge and educational resources and generate new forms of cultural and learning experience;

• help establish a stable pan-European infrastructure for distributed repositories of digital content and community memory within 5 to 10 years.

Central goalsCentral goals• Turn IST research outcomes into helpful services

for ordinary people • Focus on the needs of the end user• Sensitise decision-makers, professional and

stakeholders national, regional and local levels– implement and deliver digitally-based services

locally which support their own policy agendas e-government, social inclusion, e-learning, skills for employment, regional and local economic development etc.

• Alert business and tourism interests and hardware manufacturers, software suppliers to the economic potential of the 'local to global approach'

Where are we going?Where are we going?

Some intended benefits for the end userSome intended benefits for the end user

• Local identity in Europe + increased exploration of remote resources

• Promotion of social and cultural inclusion e.g. through access to local, ethnic and linguistic cultural heritage and family history

• Comprehensive living archive of local activities, occupations, interests and cultural attractions

• Enhanced ability to link up present needs and interests with an awareness of their historical context

Where are we going?Where are we going?Some intended benefits for the end userSome intended benefits for the end user

• Concentrating on the contributions of ordinary people to development of the Information Society

• Addressing the digital divide by improving the delivery of services

• Tackling educational disadvantage and helping deal with demographic changes

• Ultimately, access from any home and any vehicle in Europe to local cultural content

The argument for CALIMERA The argument for CALIMERA

• Assess potential of emerging IST research as widely transferable technologies for use by local institutions

• Mobilise public libraries, local museums and archives to make best use of existing technologies

• Stimulate the creation, use and delivery of local cultural content to meet specific local information and learning needs:– elicit and preserve oral testimonies, memorabilia and

cultural objects in the care of individuals and communities– representations conceptual maps etc. of cultural identities– typologies of cultural assets relevant at the community

memory level

A CALIMERA ethos?A CALIMERA ethos?

• Interactivity - information in both directions

• Motivation - fun for the user

• Creativity - the user can contribute in the form of stories, pictures - photos or art work, music or voice, or full moving video