Digitalisation of archive, library and museum artefacts


Where
Croatia
When
2021
Who
Ministry of culture and media
Website of the policy/measure
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Description of the policy/measure

The programme is based on a yearly call for projects oriented to: availability of materials, creation of rich, widely available digital content and services based on modern information technologies; protection of archival, library, museum material while creating access to that material on the internet; presentation and promotion of digitized material for networking and enhancing presence of croatian cultural heritage in european and regional networks, while contributing to cooperation between heritage institutions at the local, regional, national and international level; development of new services and products based on the use of digitized cultural content (in education, tourism and other service activities); use of new technologies, 3d laser scanning in the function of cultural digitization of historical - architectural monuments of the republic of croatia.

Results achieved

Seventy-six programmes have been submitted for the call in 2019, while 45 programmes have been approved in the total amount of 655.743kn (102.459usd). the priorities were given to programmes that are economical and/or that have secured support from other sources (either on regional or local level, from sponsors, foreign organisations and such). as noted from the number of applications and their total financial request (3.991.384kn-623.653usd), there is a need for more strategic support for the digitalisation activities not only in archive, museum and library subsectors. this will be achieved with the new project entitled eculture that will be implemented as of 2020.

Financial resources allocated to the policy

Yearly budget for the measure: 93.750usd.