Presentation by Victoria Tsoukala at the conference Using digital heritage for research - policy challenges and opportunities _ Understanding the policies and strategies needed to integrate digital heritage into humanities research. A meeting organised by Europeana and the KB, Royal Library of the Netherlands. 25 & 26 April 2016 in the Hague, the Netherlands.

1. Developing the Europeana for
Research policy
recommendations:
The Wayback Machine, Athens
2014
Victoria Tsoukala, PhD
Head, ePublishing and SSH Unit
National Documentation Centre/NHRF
Using Digital Heritage for Research, Europeana
Strategic Meeting, The Hague, 25 & 26/4/2016
@victsoukala

2. Aim of recommendations
Contribute to development of such conditions
that will help realize Europeana vision
Vision:
Europeana occupies an important position as a
resource for research in the Arts and Humanities
It matches researcher needs with content and
services

3. Environment and conditions in
research
Significant advances in digital research
Importance of content availability
Increasing openness in the research process

4. Main Stakeholders
Policymakers (for research: national and
European, for culture: national and European)
Cultural heritage institutions
Europeana

5. Challenges identified
Lack of skills (researchers, memory institutions)
Quantity (availability) and quality of available
content
Perceptions about value and use of digital
cultural heritage (the divide between research
and culture)
Lack of collaboration of policymakers
Fragmented e-infrastructure environment
IPR barriers

6. Recommendation ‘themes’
Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration for policies,
strategies, instruments, sustainability (+synergies,
complementarities, work together)
Demonstrate use of digital cultural heritage for
research
Facilitate data-driven research and reuse of digital
cultural heritage
Digitization fit to purpose
Open up cultural heritage (digitize and set rights)

7. What is new at this
moment?
Significant advances in policy at the EC on digital
open research, ie Open Science and the Open
Science Cloud
Significant advances to promote data-driven
research through policy and in practice
European developments such as Copyright
Reform and policies on TDM

8. Thank you!
tsoukala@ekt.gr