The digitisation of cultural material

Sustainable public funding of digitisation was introduced in 2008.
The main objectives were: 

• to preserve cultural heritage for future generations,
• to preserve cultural diversity through wide access and use
• to democratize access to the Slovenian collective knowledge and to make it accessible to the greatest number of people.

Challenges identified in the implementation of this measure:
The material accessible through Slovenian digital library and European digital library Europeana is mostly public domain material.
One of the key challenges is to include in-copyright material, so as to avoid a ‘20th century black hole’ - a situation in which much cultural material from before 1900 before 1900 is accessible on the web, but very little material from the more recent past.