European Digital Treasures
- Project Type
- Cultural Heritage, Digital Arts, Research
- Title
- European Digital Treasures
- Irish Partner
- Cork Institute of Technology, Ireland
- Co-Partners
- Ministerio De Educacion, Cultura Y Deporte (Spain)
- Direção-Geral do Livro, dos Arquivos e das Bibliotecas (Portugal)
- Factoria Cultural Asociación de Apoyo al Emprendimiento y a las ICCs (Spain)
- International Centre For Archival Research - ICARUS, (Austria)
- Kulturdepartementet - Ministry of Culture (Norway)
- National Archives Of Hungary (Hungary)
- National Archives Of Malta (Malta).
- Ministerio De Educacion, Cultura Y Deporte (Spain)
- Funding Strand
- Larger Scale Co-operation Projects
- Year Funded
- 2018
- Funding Amount
- €1,535,401
European Digital Treasures: Management of Centennial Archives in 21st Century (European Digital Treasures) runs from 2018 until 2022. The European Digital Project aims to bring joint European heritage, especially its digital versions, increased visibility, outreach and use.
Over the last decades, institutions with archival holding have invested important resources to offer access to digitised items. These 'digital treasures' are incorporated as primary sources to free access portals but lack a transformation process.
The challenges of the digital age are moving memory institutions into new business models and developing institutional enterprises around digitisation. The rapidly changing technology is facilitating a period of experimentation and evaluation of new models. Digital collections have enormous potential for changing the way that information is used, and for developing new ways of preserving, collecting, organising, propagating and accessing knowledge.
The European Digital Treasures project will:
- Develop new business models for European archives through the realisation of various training workshops, round tables on serious games, as well as artisitic residencies and exchanges for graphic and industrial designers.
- Create 3 interactive, roaming transmedia exhibitions to provide a major visibility of shared European history through a selection of key documents.
- Explore new audiences and work with new profiles to promote the archives to new target groups through the realization of an archival literacy online course, the creation of an 'edutainment' App linked to the 3 transmedia exhibitions and connected to social networks creation, by teenagers of a virtual 'European Youths Archives.'
- Further the cooperation with silver researchers and hobby researchers through surveys and crowdsourcing activities.
'The European Digital Treasures project has been a fantastic opportunity to join our skillset (technology enhanced learning, media design & development, and instructional design) with the knowledge and skills of our European National Archives partners in order to delight and engage new non-specialist audiences. By combining innovative digital media, games and exhibitions and the ageless art of storytelling, the project outputs will enrich new audience’s understanding of untold and unknown stories preserved by the European National Archives, both past and present.' Christina Pinkaow, Technology Enhanced Learning, Cork Institute of Technology.Across Borders - Across the Board Irish Projects 2017 - 2019