An app won't get you there. Why the minister should make archiving all arts mandatory

The heritage sector is not the sexiest sector of the Dutch cultural world. Even though nude exhibitions are flying around your ears this season, you're more likely to think of obscure museums, monuments, stamp collections, old stuff. This is how it happened that the Digital Heritage Netherlands Foundation could have existed for almost 25 years without anyone in the 'more popular' arts (stage, film, literature) having heard of it. in 2018, that changed. With an 'open call for ideas', and at the urging of...