5 Norwegian National Policies for Digitalization in the LAM Sector – Imperative and Implementation

Abstract

Norway is central, but otherwise, each museum must be seen independently.We bring in museums, public libraries, and municipal archives when necessary for the study.The temporal scope of the study starts with the white paper on LAMinstitutions in a digital age, Stortingsmelding 22 (1999Stortingsmelding 22 ( -2000) ) (Ministry of Culture 1999) and ends with the Norwegian National Budget 2018 (Ministry of Finance 2017).This period is characterized by high ambitions on digitalization and varying results, which are high on some areas, such as the National Library's digitization of analogue material, and low on other areas, especially the digitization of analogue material in museums and archives and long-term preservation of borndigital materials in general.It is a rather long period during which digitalization took important steps forward elsewhere, and it is of importance to analyze why the development in the LAM institutions did not keep up with this development in important matters.The aspects of digitalization that are the subjects of this study illustrate two challenges of digitalization: firstly, realizing the potential of the new technology that became available in order to augment the dissemination of cultural heritage artefacts and documents in a new and radical way, giving the public electronic access to the collections of the cultural heritage institutions.Secondly, decreasing a danger that follows digitalization -a possible loss of born-digital materials due to lack of capacity to maintain long-term preservation.

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