Digisam is a department at the Swedish National Archives that coordinates the digitization of Sweden's cultural heritage according to the national strategy set in 2011. The strategy aims to regulate agencies' and institutions' work in collecting, preserving, and providing access to cultural heritage information. Digisam's main tasks are to coordinate digital information management between agencies, develop proposals for long-term digital preservation, and define roles for aggregating, accessing, and preserving digital cultural heritage. It works with 24 agencies responsible for different aspects of cultural heritage.

1. Rolf Källman
@rolfkallman
Together we are strong – crossings and solutions
The National Library Digital Seminar
Helsinki
The 10th of December 2013
Towards coordination of the national
digital cultural heritage in Sweden…

2. The national strategy for digitisation,
digital access and digital preservation
• The national strategy for digitisation, digital access and digital
preservation was established by the Swedish Government on
21 December 2011.
• The aim of the strategy is to regulate the work for the
government agencies and institutions that collect, preserve
and make cultural heritage information available for the end
users.
• The strategy covers the whole range of digitisation issues,
from selection to the preservation and use. The focus is on the
opportunities digitisation offers for use, reuse and creativity,
and what is necessary for this to be possible.

3. Europe 2020
European Digital Agenda
Council conclusions
Commission recommendations
National policies och agendas

4. Digisam…
…is a part of the strategy
The main task is to coordinate the work with
national digital strategy between 2012-2015
– Node for knowledge and competence
– Present recommendations for coordinated digital
information management of collections and holdings.
– Develop proposals for cost-effective long-term digital
preservation of collections and holdings.
– Define roles and responsibilities for the work on
aggregation, access and preservation of digital
cultural heritage information.

5. Increase…

6. …within present budget frames…

7. 24 central agencies and institutions,
responsible for different perspectives of the
cultural heritage, are targeted by the strategy

8. The Governement and the Public
Agencies
• The Government decides upon the preconditions for the
indivual agency´s operations
– Annual appropriations directives
– Ordinances
– Special assignements
• The Governement agencies are the Governement´s
most important instrument in carrying out its policies
• Annual reports and evaluation
• Quite substantial scope for steering the operations of
government agencies but no power to intervene in an
agency´s decision in specific matters relating to the
application of the law or the due exercise of its authority.

9. …scalable solutions in the benefit for the
cultural heritage sector as a whole.

10. Archives
Libraries
Museums
Immobile Cultural Heritage

11. Steer
Produce
Use
Preserve
Follow up

13. Plans for digitisation
In the national strategy it is decided that
all government agencies and institutions
covered by the strategy will deliver plans
for digitising and making available their
archives, collections and libraries.
Plans will include selection criteria
priorities, and the volume of digitised
material to be presented.

14. Recommendations
Regulations
Legal framework

15. From infrastructure…

16. …to an evolving interstructure

17. e-infrastructure
Information layers
Services and tools

18. K-SAMSÖK
NAD
LIBRIS
SOFIE
Linked
Heritage
ATHENA
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Fashion
CARARE
DINA
GBIF-SE
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Heritage
CARARE
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Heritage
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Heritage
ATHENA
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Heritage
ATHENA
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CARARE
Linked
Heritage
EU Screen
Europeana
Fashion
CARARE
Linked
Heritage
Europeana
Fashion
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Fashion
CARARECARARE
Linked
Heritage
Linked
Heritage
Open Up
APEx
TEL
Lifewatch
.eu
Svenska
Lifewatch
Baltic
Diversity
SND

19. Interoperability and harmonisation…

20. Semantics

21. …who says what ?

22. Semantic Isolation
Semantic Coexistence
Semantic Collaboration

24. The value is in the use

25. Tillgängligt och
användbart
People, places, events…

26. Cost effective workflows

27. European collaboration

28. EUDAT – European Data
Infrastructure

29. Preservation is the mother of use

30. Love your data

31. Linkable Open Data

32. Archives and archiving in a new
context…

33. The regional archives
There are 7 regional archives within the
organisation of the National Archives.
Proposed roles:
• Connectors between the national
infrastructure and the regional and local
institutions
• Nodes for advice and support

34. Digisam + SUNET (Swedish
University Network) and KTH
(Royal Institute of Technology)=
Platform for infrastructure,
research and development

35. • Modelling
• Technology enhanced
learning
• From analogue quality
to digital quality
• Man - Machine
• Tools and services
• Query models and
calculations
• Visualisation
• Testbed

36. If we are successful…?

37. Tillgängligt och
användbart
Nordic collaboration…

38. Stories that wants to be told…

39. www.digisam.se
Thanks for your attention!
Follow us, collaborate and discuss.

40. Digisam…
is a secretariat for coordination of the digitisation of the
swedish culgtural heritage.
is a department at the Swedish National Archives