The culture minister, Marianne Jelved (Radikale), has established a pool of funds in the amount of six million kroner annually between the years of 2013 and 2015 to go towards digitalisation at the nation's cultural institutions.

 

Seven different projects across various institutions will be given a piece of the cumulative 18 million kroner pie. The National Museum, for instance, will receive four million in order to put the majority of the Resistance Museum’s physical collections and archives online. 

 

“When cultural heritage is available digitally, it can be accessible to anyone, anytime, and anywhere – as it should be," Jelved said. "Digitalisation implies a revolution in terms of usability; materials can be used in ways that were previously not possible. That is why it is extremely important to me to support the digital efforts put forth by some of our key cultural institutions.”

 

The funds will be distributed to the following projects:

 

– 4 million to the a national letter database at the Royal Library

– 4 million to digitalising the Resistance Museum's physical collection and archives 

– 2.6 million to fully digitalise search functions at the National Archives

– 2 million to the development of a digital registration system at the National History Museum

– 0.9 million for digitalisation in connection with the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage in 2015

– 2 million to the digitalisation of Danish graphic art and the National Gallery of Denmark 

– 2.5 million to a documentary portal at the Danish Film Institute