This area is coordinated by the European Commission's Cultural Heritage Applications Unit, DG XIII-E2, in Luxembourg. Access to scientific and cultural heritage - call was launched on 19 March 1999 and closed on 16 June. E-2 as well as an electronic questionnaire for submission of further ideas and comments. The main English-language section is supplemented by resource pages in French , German , Italian and Spanish which will be gradually expanded by providing translations of key documents as well as news, information and links to external web sites covering items of interest in the various languages. The Digicult web site is regurarly updated and will be further developed and expanded in the future by including information, news and documents produced by the Cultural Heritage Applications Unit in connection with the new Cultural Heritage area.
Informed facility are is provided on the site.
Also the Keep Me Informed service, shown in Figure 2, is available for those interested in receiving news by email of important additions and modifications to the Digicult web site. The EU team working on Digital Heritage and Cultural Content is based in Luxembourg, in the Euroforum building . External experts provide additional support and, among other things, participate actively in developing the web site. While the new Cultural Heritage Applications Unit has already started to carry out activities in this area, it is still monitoring on-going projects and activities under the Telematics for Libraries Programme within the former Fourth Framework Programme in which libraries but also museums and archives played an important role. The new web site links to the Telematics for Libraries site in many places to demonstrate the continuity of the work and will become the starting point for libraries interests too.