63 Action needed in the field of cultural heritage digitisation is planned in details in cultural guidelines “Creative Latvia” 2014–2020 (draft)48, which define the main measures to be performed in the field of cultural heritage digitisation and new digital cultural content in order to ensure content availability and long-term conservation, including: * digitisation of cultural heritage, including digitally generated cultural heritage, and creation of a publicly accessible digital collections; * long-term preservation of digital cultural heritage to ensure, by the rationally using public resources, cultural and scientific heritage availability for future generations; * development of services, which as widely as possible would ensure digital heritage and cultural content resources availability to the public, including the inclusion in digital products and services; * incorporation of Latvian digital cultural heritage content into the European digital library Europeana and in other international cultural resources; * exploitation of digital cultural heritage in general and higher education processes, as well as in lifelong learning activities. 5.4.7 Stimulation of Latvian Language Usage Distribution in the Digital Environment Latvian is the official language the Republic of Latvia and one of the official languages of the EU, so it is necessary to make full use of it in all ICT application areas. Latvian society should have the opportunity to use all e-services, e-commerce capabilities, information access, elearning solutions and other options provided by information technology in the official language. Also it is necessary to provide high quality translation of content in Latvian language, including public administration content, into other foreign languages. The distribution of Latvian language and its usage in the digital environment is closely related to language technology development and exploitation level of the Latvian language. EuroBarometer and Multilingual Europe Technology Alliance studies49 show that the Latvian language is among those languages of the EU which have not been sufficiently secured according to the requirements of the digital era, which reduces the possibility to use ICT options and threatens language’s long-term existence due to the lack of technology support. This not only reduces the use of ICT, but also burdens to cross-border cooperation and integration of Latvia into EU’s economic, political and cultural space. The use of machine translation will be particularly topical issue when Latvia will be fulfilling the role of the EU Presidency in 2015 and when tremendous amount of information in foreign languages will have to be processed very quickly. The exploitation of machine translation in e-governance will help foreign companies to do entrepreneurship and will encourage investments in Latvia, as well as the integration of foreign businesspersons, students, education, science and culture sector employees into Latvian society. On the other hand, it will facilitate the access for Latvian population to the information of other EU countries; will help to ensure protection of the rights while working or studying in other EU 48 http://www.km.gov.lv/lv/ministrija/radosa_latvija.html The Latvian Language in the Digital Age, Rehm, Georg; Uszkoreit, Hans (Eds.), Springer, 2012, ISBN 978-3-64230876-5, http://www.springer.com/computer/ai/book/978-3-642-30875-8, http://www.meta-net.eu/whitepapers/ebook/latvian.pdf; User language preferences online, Analytical report, Flash Eurobarometer 313 – The Gallup Organization, Coordinated by European Commission DG Communication, May 2011, http://ec.europa.eu/public_opinion/flash/fl_313_en.pdf information_society_development_guidelines_2014_2020.docx; Information Society Development Guidelines 2014-2020 49