
Hispana also incorporates the content of CER.es, the collective catalogue of the Digital Network of Spanish Museum Collections. This network brings together museums that share a unified documentation and management system for their collections (DOMUS), which has been developed by the Ministry of Culture and is shared by museums and collections throughout Spain after the signing of 24 cooperation agreements with Autonomous Communities and other museum management bodies (city governments, universities and foundations). Currently 128 museums and collections form a part of the Digital Network of Spanish Museum Collections, in addition to 207 other museums that are parties to the aforementioned agreements so that they can be incorporated in the future. CER.ES offers unified access to the collections of 61 of these museums, which belong to different administrations and specialities, in addition to 100,000 pieces of cultural asset and 130,000 images.
In the near future, plans call for the digital content of Hispana to be increased notably through the contribution of the digital materials that the state archives will contribute to the European APEnet project, which groups together the national archives of fourteen European countries coordinated by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and which constitutes an important channel of Spanish cooperation on the Europeana project.
Hispana includes a directory of the digitisation projects that are being carried out in Spain. It therefore constitutes an instrument that provides coordination of the digitisation projects that are being carried out in Spain, thereby preventing the digitisation of the same work two or more times.
Regarding the digitisation projects that are being carried out in Spain (http://hispana.mcu.es/es/comunidades/directorio.cmd), the logo of the Open Archives Initiative appears to the left of some of the titles. The collections of these projects are those that can be searched jointly through the search engine.
It is the first service of this type developed in Spain, and it allows establishing a common strategy between the various administrations, private entities and the Ministry of Culture for participation in Europeana and in the different initiatives of the 7th Framework Programme by applying the European Council's recommendations on digitisation, on-line accessibility to cultural material and digital conservation, published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 24 August 2006. It moreover allows complying with the points that provide details on the initiative, particularly point 6, which invites Member States to reinforce national strategies and objectives for digitisation and digital conservation; to contribute to Europeana, a common, multilingual access point to European cultural heritage; to improve the framework conditions for digitisation and on-line accessibility; to reinforce coordination within Member States; and to contribute to an effective overall view of progress at a European level.
Access to 4,470,005 digital objects of 195 repositories.