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Digital culture in policy documents
• establishing one-stop-shop Internet access for the entire range of Slovenian
cultural heritage and culture, connected to the European digital library and other
places storing digital cultural content around the world.
Economies of scale place smaller language groups at a disadvantage and threaten
the preservation and promotion of smaller cultural spaces and their identities. To
ensure a “socially optimal” level of development and usage of quality Slovene
language e-content, adequate measures which could be defined as “appropriate” or
“essential” for civilized society (Casey et al., 1996: 5) need to be taken by the public
authorities. The Republic of Slovenia’s development strategy (si2010) followed this
rationale and prescribed the following measures to be taken by the state (The
Development Strategy for the information society in the Republic of Slovenia
(si2010): 28 and 29):
• support the development of Slovene linguistic standards, translation
mechanisms and collaboration to build a multilingual thesaurus which must
include the Slovene language, among others;
• create and enforce the legal bases to consistently ensure the use of the Slovene
language in the digital environment;
• promote access to multilingual content for all citizens of Europe in terms of
achieving maximum inclusion, accessibility and increasing the quality of life;
• intensively develop new (original or translated/localized) Slovene language
software tools (the Slovene language should not appear only as the content of
databases, etc., but it should also be the language of computer commands, dialog
boxes, menus, spreadsheet titles, etc.), computer analysis systems and programs
for synthesized speech in the Slovene language.
What makes this document special from a cultural point of view is that the use of
the Slovene language as an equal language in the field of e-content and e-accessibility
is not regarded as a sectorial issue. Instead it is considered as a horizontal priority
guideline which is listed among the general challenges of the strategy such as
interoperability and open standards, security and privacy, copyright on the Internet
and accessibility and inclusion. In this way it follows the fifth development priority of
Slovenia’s development strategy (integration of measures aimed at achieving
sustainable development – development of the national identity and culture) where a
common Slovenian cultural space and the preservation and development of the
Slovene language is also understood as a transversal issue.
As with the first strategy, this one lacks a financial plan for the adopted set of
objectives and related activities. There is only the list of potential resources, as
follows:
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