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.
Cultural institutions - museums, libraries and archives - were funded on an annual basis according to yearly programmes of activities. Eligible costs included the costs of conversion to digital format, workforce, technical infrastructure, website and software licences.
US$700,000.00
More than 3 million digital objects accessible online.