Analysis Back

Mapping Wild Cards

Inspired by: FP7 » Europe's cultural and historical digital libraries erased forever

version: 1 / created: 2009-10-26
id: #215 / version id: #215
mode: VIEW

Originally submitted by: Yoel Raban
List of all contributors by versions (mouse over)
Last changed by: Yoel Raban
WI-WE status:

submitted

unpublished

Source of inspiration

European Commission Framework Programme for RTD (FP7)

Theme/activity of inspiration

Theme 3 - ICT - Information & communication technologies

Sub-theme/area of inspiration

Digital libraries and content

Optional reference/s to FP7 project/s

Use the following format: Project Acronym (Project Reference No.). Use commas if more than one project is associated to this Wild Card, for example: ALFA-BIRD (213266), SAFAR (213374), LAPCAT-II (211485)

PAPYRUS (215874)

Headline

(max. 9 words)

Europe's cultural and historical digital libraries erased forever

Description

(approx. 150 words)

Please describe the Wild Card (approx. 150 words)

European projects to capture and store cultural and historical heritage succeed beyond expectation. Centrally stored and accessible through the Internet, they are used by citizens daily. Angered by the demand for his early retirement, a high management level digital library employee decides to erase all of Europe's cultural and historical heritage information including backups. What will make this Wild Card interesting? It would be unpredictable

Keywords

library, cultural heritage, historical heritage, electronic archive

Type of event

Human planned (e.g. terrorist attack or funded scientific breakthrough)

Type of systems affected

Human-built Systems - E.g. organisations, processes, technologies, etc.

Classification

Undesirable

Importance

		please specify:
	please select	please specify:
Level 3: important for the European Union

Progress: 41.32% WWI-WE Version: 1
0	mandatory questions pending
26	questions total
8	questions answered
8	questions completed
18	questions pending