The European Commission and the DCA consortium, comprising 25 partners from 10 EU member states and the 2 associated countries, Croatia and Iceland, have officially launched the project Digitising Contemporary Art (DCA) initiating a significant increase in the presence of
contemporary art in Europeana, the single access point to Europe's cultural heritage.
The DCA project aims to create high-quality digital reproductions and assure the long-term preservation of and online access to such reproductions and their data.
These Guidelines for a long-term preservation strategy for digital reproductions and metadata explain how to preserve digital materials such as text, images and video. It gives a theoretical introduction to the subject as well as practical examples of how to manage a collection of digitized and born-digital artworks.
