Actas da - Xunta de Galicia

Glyn Williams
Culture is universal in context, the market for these resources is also universal
and the value is therefore considerable. In this respect we envisage a continuity
of the modern bias towards certain cultural forms over others.
What is now required is a coherent programme to develop DAMS which can
serve regional culture economies. These must be linked with regional digital
archives which are flexible enough to harness both global and local needs.
These local needs must involve the development of production capacities. As I
have underlined this capacity must also involve trans-regional integration and
the ability to operate production processes across lines within on-line
environments. The relevant production platforms must be created. However
these platforms must not merely be production platforms but they must also be
learning platforms involving the capacity for regions to learn off one another.
The production environments must be serviced by the use of human language
technologies which can allow regions to operate through the medium of their
minority languages. Thus far this technology is scarce and it should be the
responsibility of regional and central authorities to pioritise these developments.
Unless minority language groups can enter the economic order using their
respective languages then the future for these groups is limited. We learnt this
lesson by reference to the Old Economy. Let us not forget it by reference to the
New Economy.
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