ABSTRACT

Technological Landscapes for Tomorrow’s Cultural Economy: The DigiCULT Study

Archives, libraries and museums (ALMs) all over Europe face similar challenges as they try to take advantage of information technologies in the emerging digital cultural economy. While the conversion of all sorts of contents into bits and bytes opens up totally new opportunities for interoperability and information exchange between the formally separated ‘memory institutions’ and other sectors, it also causes challenging problems and difficulties that are not only of technological but also of an organizational and political nature.