Since 2015, the Netherlands has had a National Strategy for Digital Heritage. The strategy has been compiled by the broad heritage sector in close collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The aim of the strategy is to make it easier for people to find their way through our digital heritage collections. Connecting heritage information from archives, libraries, museums and the smaller local historical societies is central to this. What does the National Strategy look like, what has been the impact of NDE as an organizational network since 2015 and what is on the joint network agenda in the coming years? After all, the National Strategy is not only a strategy for digitization, but above all a strategy for further cooperation!

Wilbert Helmus is employed by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision as network manager for the Dutch Digital Heritage Network.