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Digital Culture: The Changing Dynamics
expertise and experience through cooperation in several international research and
development projects, which in the future will require better domestic opportunities
(ibid: 37 and 38). Another contact point with culture in this area is to ensure the
participation and quality cooperation of Slovenian partners in EU programmes
allowing them access to EU budgetary funds (ibid: 28) As already mentioned,
e-culture is included in the third basic area with a separate subheading with the
following vision (ibid: 49):
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“Ensure development and broad access to Slovenian digital cultural content as a
foundation for increasing Slovenia’s international profile, creating added value
in culture and related cultural industries, and contributing to knowledge for a
better quality of life.”
There are several strategic goals and areas of activity predicted as follows:
Strategic goals:
• accelerating the process of digitization of existing analogue cultural content
found in museums, libraries, archives, the media and art;
• introducing digital content, e-business and e-services for collaboration between
cultural institutions and citizens and other information society organizations;
• participation in the European digital cultural area in the field of content,
standards, protocols and digital rights management systems;
• exploiting Slovenia’s advantage in Europe – its small size makes it an ideal
environment for experimental implementation of complex digital culture
models involving material, legal, commercial and informational dimensions;
• ensuring the material, professional, legal and educational incubator support for
creators and users of digital cultural art.
Scope of activity:
• ensuring adequate computer and broadband communications infrastructure for
transmission, processing, long-term storage and use of digital cultural content;
• encouraging digitization of all types of cultural content through suitable
documentation, development of Slovene language terminology and permanent
storage of digital content;
• supporting the creation of digital cultural content and services, especially by
SMEs and individual authors;
• continuing the development of the Slovenian Digital Library (dLib.si),
Slovenian e-Archive and the national television broadcasting service’s
multimedia centre;
• expanding the central cultural heritage register to include all segments of
cultural heritage;