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RECAP is an international and
informal network of European documentation centres in the field of cultural policy.
RECAP aims to improve the quality of access to, and delivery of, cultural
policy information. RECAP's activities are free of charge for anyone interested through study,
work or personal interest.
As well as, collecting
information on international cultural policy developments, the participating
documentation centres play a key role as a source of information on national
and local cultural policies in their respective countries. RECAP provides an
overview of these nationally based resources and hopes through its actions
to support the flow of information in Europe.
RECAP�s activities have grown from a need to share and pool resources and
exchange and support new and emerging cultural policy documentation centres.
Informally, the network began in 1999 with smaller and newer documentations
seeking help from the Boekmanstichting, which is widely considered to be one
of the largest documentation centres on arts, culture and related policy
in Europe. After some informal meetings and exchanges of both
expertise and information, the idea emerged to begin pooling resources in
certain areas (i.e. new acquisitions lists) and develop the possibilities
for an international flow of information (i.e. books reviews and web
links).
RECAP
is currently a co-operative environment among
documentation and research centres in many countries, led and nurtured by
the three main partners, Boekmanstichting,
Fondazione Fitzcarraldo and Oesterreichische Kulturdokumentation.
With the rise of new
technologies, RECAP�s aims have given rise to greater challenges such as, to
find a common lexicon (thesaurus) which could be applied in each partners
on-line catalogues, thus creating the possibility to search in multiple
resource centres housed in different countries and languages across Europe.
This website has been
designed to provide you with information about the RECAP network and provide you
with a portal to information and links that the partners offer.
As the RECAP network develops we hope to be able to continually update and
improve these services.
Your feedback and interest
in RECAP is welcome!
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