Lithuanian museums are striving to digitise their collections. To that end, in July 2009 there was established Lithuanian Museums' Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS (LM IDC LIMIS) which functions as a separate department in Lithuanian Art Museum. It is entrusted to organise and supervise the digitisation of cultural heritage as well as attend to the preservation, storage and spread of digital information. In the coming years, our specialists together with the colleagues from various Lithuanian memory institutions and museums will develop the Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System (LIMIS).

The project “Implementation of Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System LIMIS in Lithuanian Museums”

25-03-2010

March 18, 2010 Lithuanian Art Museum signed an agreement concerning the project “Implementation of Lithuanian Integral Museum Information System LIMIS in Lithuanian Museums”, that is sponsored by EU Structural Funds.

 

Commission’s Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation

03-11-2011

The European Commission on 28th October 2011 has adopted a Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation, asking Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve private actors in digitising cultural material and making it available through Europeana. The Recommendation invites Member States to make available through Europeana 30 million objects by 2015, including all Europe's masterpieces which are no longer protected by copyright, and all material digitised with public funding.
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12 October 2011 – Europeana makeover

12-10-2011

Europeana, Europe’s digital library, museum and archive, today launches a redesign with new functionality. The new interface has more visual appeal and has been adapted for iPads and Android touchscreens, bringing all the benefits of touch to Europe’s online treasury.

May 3, 2011 – Lithuanian Art Museum signed DC-NET Cooperation agreement

10-06-2011

The main objective of the DC-NET project is to develop and to strengthen the co-ordination among the European countries of public research programmes in the sector of the digital cultural heritage. The project will integrate the research capacities of the participant member states, will identify their communalities and will valorise existing programmes and projects in order to initiate the deployment of a wide and comprehensive European e-Infrastructure that will increase the research capacities of the digital cultural heritage community.
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Project Linked Heritage

02-05-2011

It is a 30 month EU project, the main goals of which are to contribute large quantities of new content to Europeana, from both the public and private sectors; to demonstrate enhancement of quality of content, in terms of metadata richness, re-use potential and uniqueness; to demonstrate enable improved search, retrieval and use of Europeana content.
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Lithuanian Cultural Heritage in Europeana

15-02-2011

In February, 2011 European digital library Europeana was supplemented with the exhibits of Lithuanian folk art that were provided by Lithuanian museums.

 
Europeana has been recently provided with digital items from Lithuanian museums and other cultural institutions. For example, 5 700 exhibits from the collection of photographs and archives were submitted by the Sėla Biržai Region Museum; the items depict Biržai town, its castle and related historical figures. Moreover, Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum supplemented Europeana collection with 2000 posters printed out in Polish and Russian – coming from the 19th century they reflect a significant historical period of Lithuanian Press Ban.

"Comité des Sages" on bringing Europe's cultural heritage online presents its report "The new Renaissance"

24-01-2011

The report urges EU Member States to step up their efforts to put online the collections held in all their libraries, archives and museums. It stresses the benefits of making Europe's culture and knowledge more easily accessible. It also points to the potential economic benefits of digitisation, including through public-private partnerships, for the development of innovative services in sectors like tourism, research and education. The report endorses the Digital Agenda's objective of strengthening Europe's digital library Europeana and suggests solutions for making works covered by copyright available online.  

 

Museum Wednesdays

24-01-2011

Every Wednesday the Lithuanian Museums' Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS invites museum specialists and their friends to share their experience and debate major issues concerning digitisation and the development of classifiers, virtual exhibitions, dictionaries of keywords and persons names. You can find us at Bokšto str. 5, Vilnius; or you may write to us info@limis.lt.

Virtual Exhibitions of Lithuanian Museums

26-04-2010

Initiated by the Lithuanian Museums' Centre for Information, Digitisation and LIMIS, there was introduced the Virtual Exhibition System that is dedicated to widely present valuable collections held in Lithuanian museums and what makes Lithuania different and interesting in a world context.

Development of Virtual Electronic Heritage System (VEPS)

08-02-2010

February 3, 2010 Information Society Development Committee under the Government of the Republic of Lithuania together with public company Central Project Management Agency and Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania signed an agreement concerning the sponsorship and administration of the project “The Development of Virtual Electronic Heritage System” (No. VP2-3.1-IVPK-04-V-01-001). The aim of the project is to maintain the virtual electronic heritage system and, by doing so, to ensure continuity in the development and spread of the digitised content of Lithuanian cultural heritage. www.epevaldas.lt