European Convention for the Protection of the Audiovisual Heritage of 2001 entered into force for the Slovak Republic on 1. January 2008 (after its signature in 2003 and ratification in 2007). Also in connection with this convention, the Slovak Film Institute has been implementing a long-term project since 2006 with the support of the Government of the Slovak Republic. Project for the systematic restoration of the audiovisual heritage of the Slovak Republic . It included the digitisation of Slovak audiovisual heritage in an external environment between 2008 and 2011. Thanks to the national project Digital Audiovisual co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund, this was followed by the internal digitisation of Slovak film heritage in the digitisation workplace of the Slovak Film Institute, built in mid-2014. The two previous ones are related to the long-term project of the SK CINEMA information system.
