GOOD PRACTICE FORM FOR NOMINATIONS

We propose to start the activity of the workgroup on 'good practice' proposing an initial set of some main areas where to put the nominations. In particular we think to start with the basic issue of digitisation itself.
Each project can be 'nominated' for more than one area, following your evaluation of the most important features contained in the example.

AREAS for nominations of 'good practice' for on-going projects on digitisation:
1.	Preservation of physical objects via digitisation and electronic surrogates.
2.	High quality of the digitisation process.
3.	Metadata and Thesaurus.
4.	Usability of project results.
5.	Management of the process and workflow
6.	Accessibility including copyright issues and web sites

For each project please specify:

•	Area of 'good practice' where you like to nominate your project (you can put more than only one area): 4. Usability of project results, 5. management of the process and workflow

•	Name: “The soldier in the Backyard – an interactive children’s story on the Internet”

•	Responsible body and/or any specific : CultureNet Denmark
Co-ordinating body/mechanism:

•	Contact person: Lisbeth Brodin (lisbeth.brodin@www.kulturnet.dk)

•	Web site: http://www.soldatenibaghaven.dk

•	Description of the project, objectives and priorities: 

The main idea of the project is to disseminate a piece of cultural history, directly aimed at children at the age of 9-12, on the Internet.
A fictitious story creates the framework for a multi-media exhibition of digitised material from a wide range of the most important Danish cultural collections. The story takes place in 1945 and is told from the point-of-view of two children. Inserted into the drawn story is a wealth of digitised material – sound, drawings, music, photos, video clips etc. – from the historical period. 
Furthermore the project serves as a model of a collaborative project and an innovative example of how to provide integrated Internet access to the Danish cultural collections.  
Participants
Project management and responsibility: CultureNet Denmark in collaboration with The Children's Culture Council. Furthermore the project receives support from the Ministry of Culture Development Fund, Louis Petersens Legat and The Egmont Foundation. 
The project is realized in collaboration with a wide range of Danish cultural collections: 
The Labour Movement Library and Archive (Arbejderbevægelsens Bibliotek og Arkiv)
The Workers' Museum (Arbejdermuseet)
Arken – Museum of modern art (Arken)
Danish Folklore Archives (Dansk Folkemindesamling)
Danish Film Institute (Det Danske Filminstitut)
The Danish Museum of Decorative Art (Det Danske Kunstindustrimuseum)
The Royal Library (Det Kongelige Bibliotek)
The Museum of the Danish Resistance (Frihedsmuseet)
The Danish Maritime Museum (Handels- og Søfartsmuseet, Kronborg)
Copenhagen City Museum (Københavns Bymuseum)
Copenhagen City Archives (Københavns Stadsarkiv)
The National Museum of Denmark (Nationalmuseet)
The Danish national gallery (Statens Museum for Kunst)
The State and University Library (Statsbiblioteket i Aarhus)
Danish Defence Museum (Tøjhusmuseet)
Tårnby Kommunes Lokalhistoriske Samling (a local collection of material from Tårnby) 
The development of the project and the production of "The soldier in the backyard" are made in collaboration with professional artists from various backgrounds. 
Publication
"The soldier in the backyard" was published in novenber 2001 and is accessible free of charge at http://www.soldatenibaghaven.dk

•	The main technical features for what you consider the project a 'good practice' example:

See “comments”

•	Long term sustainability strategy:

•	Accessibility by users via local network or Internet (describe modalities and IPR issue from a technical point of view):

The project is accessible free of charge on the internet at
http://www.soldatenibaghaven.dk

•	Problems encountered :

Comments: 
Motivation for areas for nomination:

4. Usability of project results

"The Soldier in the Backyard" is a project aimed at children. The primary target-group is children between 9 and 12 years: a group very keen on using information technology. By addressing this group directly, the project serves as a tool that can be used in educational contexts, schools and museums, as well as by the common user.

5. Management of the process and workflow

The project serves as a model for a collaborative project: 16 Danish museums and other cultural collections have contributed to a joint online exhibition, presenting digitized material. The exhibition combines the material in new ways and shows the scope of the collections by using different kinds of digitized material: sound, drawings, music, photos, objects and video clips. Thereby the project has served both the purpose of a joint dissemination of digitized material and the purpose of motivating the institutions for further digitizations, by showing an obvious utility value for the digitized material. 

Figures and documents enclosed:

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Organisation & person completing the questionnaire

•	Formal name of organisation: CultureNet Denmark

•	Type of organisation: Project 

•	Field of action: Providing Integrated Internet Access to the official Danish Cultural Collections

•	Address: Slotsholmsgade 1, DK-1216 Copenhagen K, Denmark

•	Name of director: Pia Vigh

•	Name and role of person completing the questionnaire: Lisbeth Brodin and Hans Møller Jensen

•	Tel: + 45 72 26 51 77

•	Fax: -

•	Web site: http://www.kulturnet.dk

•	E-mail: kulturnet@www.kulturnet.dk

Date: 08.05.2002