The strategy acknowledges the value of the reusability of data by everyone and explicitly recognises the value of public sector data, produced with public funds, and the need for it to benefit society at large, including data from the cultural heritage sector. This can be seen as an opportunity for the cultural heritage sector: its data is part of a key strategic vision, attracting new ideas, partners, investment, infrastructure, and above all, joint efforts to have a bigger impact.
The strategy seeks to create a ‘single European data space – a genuine single market for data, open to data from across the world –’ in a way that defends ‘the best of Europe – open, fair, diverse, democratic, and confident’. Beyond facilitating economic gain, it seeks to empower citizens to make better decisions and democratise data by making it equally available to all. Thus, its application in our sector contributes to advancing a socially responsible digital transformation.
The strategy foresees the success of its objectives through the adoption of various legislative measures and the creation of data spaces, among which the data space for cultural heritage. The strategy includes data from the cultural heritage sector within its scope, in particular by making it part of the legislative measures that support its implementation and through the creation of a common European data space for cultural heritage.
