Jean Moulin

Jean Moulin has been Director of the scientific and Technical Information Service (STIS) since January 2000.

He has a degree in physics and a Ph.D. in elementary particle physics awarded by the Free University of Brussels. He worked as a researcher for the Free University of Brussels (1969-1978) and at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (Dubna, Russia) (1971-1974), as a scientific adviser at the National Centre for Scientific and Technical Documentation (Brussels) and was responsible of the Belgian National Centre of ESA-IRS (European Space Agency - Information Retrieval Service) (1978-1987).

He has been working as Project manager (1988-1995), Adviser for scientific affairs (1996-2008) and Advisor General (since 2009) at the Belgian Federal Science Policy Office (Brussels).

• Operational director of the national incentive programme on high-temperature superconductors (1989-1995)
• Representative of Belgium in various EU-programme committees since 1988: telematics applications for libraries/FP3 and FP4; innovation/FP2 to FP5; research infrastructures/FP6; promotion of the European electronic information market (IMPACT 1 and 2, INFO2000, eContent and eContentPlus)
• Member of the ESA-DAG (Documentation Advisory Group) from 1988 to 1996. Vice-Chairman (1991-1994) and Chairman (1994-1996)
• Member of the Megascience Forum and Global Science Forum of the OECD since 1992 and of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures since 2002 (member of the Executive Board since 2007)
• Secretary of the Belgian NFP for Libraries during FP3 and FP4. Participation in the CULTIVATE project (FP5/IST 2000-2003). Chairman of the Belgian NFP for Archives, Libraries and Museums during FP5
• Member of the Member States' Expert Group on digitisation and digital preservation (since 2007)
• Expert for the preparation and implementation of the multiannual digitisation plan of the federal scientific and cultural institutions (since 2001)
• Belgian national referee for DC-NET
  
  

  

Cultural Heritage approaches e-Infrastructures: abstract

The central goal of the DC-NET project is to bring together the cultural heritage sector and the existing national and international e-Infrastructures. More precisely it aims to explore how e-Infrastructures could contribute to the development of new cultural services, and to establish a joint programme of research priorities with all stakeholders, including research, for the digital cultural heritage (DCH) sector. The project’s Work Package II, “e-Infrastructure awareness” has an essential role in this, and its results will serve as the basis on which new cooperation can be built.

At this point, 11 months into the DC-NET project, the first step of identifying access and services offered by NRENs and other relevant e-Infrastructures has been successfully carried out, and the exchange and analysis of information between all the parties involved is underway.

The first deliverable expected of WP II is an e-Infrastructures Handbook, detailing the e-Infrastructures service offer and regulations for access and use. Meetings with, and a survey filled in by, representatives of the e-Infrastructures in the partner countries provided the necessary information for this handbook, which will be made available in December 2010.

A second deliverable is a proposal of National Memorandum of Understanding, a concise policy document recognising the need for cooperation and outlining access to e-Infrastructures for the cultural heritage sector. On this basis an International Memorandum of Understanding will be drawn up, formalising the cooperation between both sectors.

During a Concertation Seminar which will take place in Tallinn in January 2011, representatives of e-Infrastructures, the cultural heritage sector and research will meet and discuss the next steps to be undertaken in their cooperation, in particular identifying and agreeing on commonalities in accessing e-Infrastructures and on common future research goals.

By month 15 of the project, the digital cultural heritage actors should have established strong awareness of the e-Infrastructures: their capacities and access criteria; what the limitations and constraints are; the services they may offer to DCH research and the regional/national programmes available to support the exploitation of NREN services. This will be essential for the further development of the project.

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