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This web site was set up in 2004 under the Austrian Digital Heritage Initiative and can be used as national reference point to Austrian digitisation policies and initiatives as well as ongoing projects for creating digital cultural content.
During the year 2001 the European member states recognised the need to co-ordinate activities in the area of digital content creation to avoid duplication of effort and a waste of investments and launched together with the European Commission in April 2001 the Lund principles to co-ordinate digitisation policies and programmes at the European level.
The strategic objectives of the "Austrian Digital Heritage Initiative" were:
- to raise awareness of the European coordination effort and the "Lund Principles" within the cultural heritage community,
- to stimulate and foster information transfer of digitisation activities from the European level, down to the national and regional level - and vice versa,
- to simplify cross-European resource discovery
- the use of standards and good practice among cultural heritage institutions, and
- to make available, especially to the regional cultural heritage community, (international) best practice guidelines, proven methods and quality criteria to improve their in-house practices.
Selection criteria: The digitisation projects and results presented here are - with some exceptions - publicly accessible. The majority of the projects have digitised images or have created major inventories.
International projects are mentioned only if Austrian institutions take part to a considerable extent. The data collection is by no means exhaustive.
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Gewöhnlicher Frauenschuh
Moritz Michael Daffinger
about 1850, Watercolor
© Kupferstichkabinett, Akademie der bildenden Künste Vienna.
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