- A portal website
www.calimera.org
provides easy access to all of the information which CALIMERA has
produced.
- 42 Country Reports provide an
in-depth analysis of the current situation in relation to public
libraries, local museums and archives in each country and detail the
developments which have followed the Oeiras Manifesto.
- The State of the Art Report on
National and Local policies provides a concise check on progress toward
policy level objectives, linked to the results of CALIMERA’s Policy
Conference on A New Kind of Access, held in Copenhagen, January 2005.
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The Policy Toolkit
provides support for all those who are developing policies for
partnerships between museums, public libraries and archives backed up by
case studies providing best practice examples.
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23 individual Best
Practice Guidelines on aspects of digital service provision, for policy
makers and practitioners, covering Social, Management and Technical
issues, have been compiled and translated into over 30 languages.
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A Policy and Best
Practice Forum has been launched to stimulate discussion and development
of ideas.
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Impact Measurement
Recommendations assess the steps necessary to achieve greater systematic
assessment of impact on users, leading to improved exploitation of
cultural resources.
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The Report on Business
Models for local cultural institutions highlights the most important
business issues, in their adoption and delivery of technological
solutions.
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A Solutions Noticeboard
(http://solutions.calimera.org)
provides an overview of solutions and research outputs relevant to
digital local cultural services (together with access to expertise) in
the form of both a Solution Providers Directory and a Solutions
Directory.
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Training Guidelines
assess the changed role and responsibilities of staff working in local
cultural institutions in the digital era and the requirements
for continuing education and training.
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The Research Roadmap
takes an end-user and professional view of the research needs of local
cultural institutions from a functional perspective and maps
user requirements to IST research.
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A Community Mapping
Model assesses the scope for combination of GIS and semantic web technologies for expressing the potential of local cultural
communities.
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Usability Guidelines
place this key topic in the context of the complete lifecycle
of digital cultural communication applications targeted to the
end-user.
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European cultural heritage is a function of the collective memory of the
varied cultural traditions and communities within Europe. The
increasing importance of local cultural identity, combined with the
potential of technology, will be a major catalyst for the take up of the
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