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The eChase project seeks to demonstrate:
- sustainable business models and processes that have been evaluated
and proven for a range of cultural heritage content holders and content
users.
- policies and processes for cultural heritage content holders to
filter and make accessible their content according to the needs, prospects,
rights and usage of different user-groups at a European level.
Just imagine being able to go to a single, on-line, site that provides
a contextualised access point for the multimedia cultural content currently
distributed across the museums, galleries, photo libraries and audiovisual
archives of Europe. However, the current market for cultural heritage
content is highly fragmented and typically constrained by national boundaries
and language barriers. The diversity of content types, locations, languages,
semantics, and existing services (if any) for commercial access makes
aggregation and cross-border exploitation a major business and technical
challenge.
This proposal seeks to demonstrate that public-private partnerships between
content holders and commercial service providers can create new services
and a sustainable business based on access and exploitation of digital
cultural heritage content at a European level. The project is ambitious
and takes an innovative approach to pioneering a market that has great
potential, is under developed and is hard to quantify.
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