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• digitising documents and museum exhibits that reflect an ethnic
entity’s history and culture, establishing corresponding electronic
libraries, museums and archives, and granting public access to them;
• establishing electronic and other museum expositions in the given
language or bilingual exhibitions using that language;
• creating electronic catalogues in museum systems in the given
language; and
• preparing archives of electronic publications and exhibitions on
cultural and linguistic diversity and memorable dates and events.
Together with other cultural, research and educational establishments, libraries,
museums and archives can launch multimedia projects pertaining to the founders
of ethnic cultures, folklore collectors, writers, artists, composers and performing
musicians to be applied in various fields. Texts, photographs, digital copies of
paintings and sketches, sound and video recordings can be recorded on discs for
broad circulation, and their online versions be posted on the websites of cultural,
research and educational institutions with due respect for copyright.
Mass Media
Today mass media tend to become most important and efficient tools for
influencing public opinion, their effect being even stronger than that of
education. Federal, regional and municipal media outlets can be purveyors of
cultural and linguistic diversity and promote spiritual values exchange. The
contemporary mass media should focus on:
• preserving and developing periodicals in minority languages and
sections in those languages in other periodicals;
• organising television and radio broadcasting in minority languages,
especially the release of programmes entirely or partly conducted in
those languages and dedicated to the areas of their active use and the
original ethnic culture of their speakers;
• organising internet broadcasting in minority languages; and
• establishing information portals.
Book Publishing and Circulation
Book publishers and traders can make a tremendous contribution to the
support of minority languages and development of multilingualism: a language
without access to the book industry is a language excluded from intellectual
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