Appendix 6 - International Music Council

The following list provides examples for projects from these domains.
EXAMPLE 1: BELGIUM
Digitalization efforts of Belgium's Flemish Community
In the domain of new media the Minister of Culture of Belgium's Flemish Community
emphasises long term engagement in the digitalization efforts in the cultural heritage sector.
The administration has created a website on digital culture in order to help the coordination
of different ongoing programs (http://www.vlaanderen.be/cultuurdigitaal) with the aim of
disseminating information on digitization in Europe and Flanders (ericarts Belgium, p. 25).
Belgium's French Community improving citizens' media Competencies
Besides digitalization projects and activitivies in the domain of digital art, Belgium's
French Community puts an emphasis on the providing citizens with the competencies to
make use of the new media and supports activities of libraries, for example, aiming at
improving the media competencies of the citizens. Activities in the domain of eadministration
can be evaluated in the same line since these activities publicly underline the
use and value of new technologies (ericarts Belgium,p. 25).
Belgium's German speaking Community improving accessibility
German speaking Cummunity emphasis several projects aiming at the improvement of
accessibility of existing cultural information such as a the expansion of a virtual library
network. Another focal point is the development of an eMuseum with the Community's art
collection (Ericarts Belgium,p. 25).
EXAMPLE 2: AUSTRIAN INITIATIVE FOR DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE
The goal of the Austrian Initiative for Digital Cultural Heritage is the promotion and
implementation of the Lund principles such as the promotion of international, national and
regional exchange of information and the access to digital cultural and economic resources
(http://www.digital-heritage.at). It functions as a platform for the coordination of digitizing
projects. Since the project includes information on digitalization projects in the audiovisual
sector, it directly supports musical diversity.
EXAMPLE 3: ECONTENTPLUS
The objective of the EU program eContentPlus is to increase accessibility, usability and
exploitation of digital content in Europe. It supports the development of multi-lingual
content for innovative, online services.
The Program addresses specific market areas where development has been slow:
geographic, educational, cultural, scientific and academic content. It also supports EU-wide
co-ordination of collections in libraries, museums and archives and the preservation of
digital collections to ensure availability of these contents for the future.
Previous digitalization projects revealed that the mere technical realization of the
digitalization process is not the main problem, but a lack of accessibility of digital
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