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Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activising in digitisation
The MINERVA Project
Marzia Piccininno
London, 25th July 2003
What is MINERVA
A NETWORK OF MEMBER STATES’ MINISTRIES
 to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities carried
out in digitisation of cultural and scientific content;
 for creating agreed European common
recommendations and guidelines about:
– digitisation,
– metadata,
– long-term accessibility,
– preservation.
The MINERVA framework
•
MINERVA is the operative section of a wider
framework made up of the Lund Principles, the LUND
Action Plan and the National Representatives Group
(NRG) in the field of the cultural heritage digitisation.
•
The members agreed to give the highest visibility to
the Lund Principles in their countries, by setting-up
national structures in charge of disseminating the
results of the MINERVA project and assure a
European coordination.
Foreground
June 2000: eEurope Action Plan endorsement by EU Member
States (renewd until 2005)
4th of April 2001: meeting in Lund to discuss co-ordination
mechanisms for digitisation programmes across European Member
States and how to stimulate a European content on global networks.
Lund Principles
Lund Action Plan
to be developed through the
MINERVA is the instrument to support the implementation of the
Lund Action Plan
Lund Principles: the major outcome of the
meeting
They state that the Member States could make progress on
the eEurope objective if they:
• establish an ongoing forum for coordination of policies for
digitisation;
• support the developing of a European view on policies and
programmes;
• exchange and promote good practices, guidelines and
consistency of practice and skills development;
• work in a collaborative manner to make visible and
accessible the digitised cultural heritage of Europe.
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/lund_principles.htm
Lund Action Plan
The Action Plan describes a first set of actions to be
launched, and assigns responsibilities for them to Member
States or to the European Commission.
The Lund Action Plan takes as its reference the Lund
Principles, identifying four main areas where specific
actions are needed:
Area 1: Improving policies and programmes through cooperation and benchmarking
Area 2:Discovery of digitised resources
Area 3:Promotion of good practice
Area 4:Content framework
National Representatives Group
The NRG is made up of officially nominated experts
from each Member State. Purposes:
• to coordinate digitisation policies and programmes
and to facilitate the adoption and implementation of
the Lund Action Plan.
• to monitor progress regarding the objectives
encapsulated in the Lund Principles.
The NRG meets every 6 months to share national
experiences under the aegis of the presidency in turn.
Activities
• MINERVA has demonstrated to contribute to the
creation of a broad consensus on the European
framework derived from the e-Europe initiative
• In many countries, under the aegis of MINERVA,
many new national programmes of digitisation of
cultural heritage started up
• MINERVA has contributed to creating a process
of institutional collaboration among the various
presidencies of the European Union
The “rolling agenda”
In order to guarantee the
continuity of the initiatives
undertaken, the past, present and
future presidencies of the EU
commonly define the so-called
“rolling agenda”.
Benchmarking
• To exchange comparable information between Member
States on programmes and policies;
• To give visibility to national activities in order to share
similar experiences and skills;
• To promote the adoption of a benchmarking
framework as a key tool for coordinating and
harmonising national activities as well as to develop
measures to show progress and improvement.
Short term strategy:
Benchmarking
• Elaboration of a data model to collect information (phase closing
on August 2003; report on the results achieved so far, NRG
meeting in Corfu (June 2003)
Long term strategy:
• Complete definition of the data base;
• to set-up methodology, shared data format and tool, for collecting
data on a continuous base;
• to update constantly qualitative and quantitative information and
to create a common database.
Inventories, discovery of digitised content,
multilingual issues
To share experiences, to discuss and facilitate implementation of
common actions concerning:
 inventories of past, on-going and planned digitisation projects
based on national observatories;
 technical infrastructure for coordinated discovery of European
digitised cultural content, including a common set of metadata
for description;
 multilingual issues;
 Analysis of the French model of descriptive standards and its
adaptability to the Italian requirements.
Interoperability, Service Provision,IPR
• analysing, identifying and evaluating activities on
metadata, registries and schemes;
• discussion on standards, conformance testing centres,
agreed terminologies, common metadata schema,
middleware specifications;
• examination of related legal issues, such as IPR and
copyright;
User needs, contents and quality framework
• quality
criteria for the digitised content (MINERVA
Handbook expected by end of 2003),
• encourage quality plan in cultural and scientific web
sites;
• supporting the initiatives launched by the European
Commission with the provision of national digital
content;
• encourage training actions in cultural sites.
Good practices
Aim:
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to select and promote good practice examples from
Member State programmes and projects in order to
exchange experiences, skills and collect consensus from
different communities of users.
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First selection presented in Alicante, June 2002
First MINERVA Handbook on Good Practices to be
published during the Italian Presidency
Training
A programme of training courses that uses open
distance learning methodologies has been set up to
diffuse the results of the project. Action lines:
1. digitisation: process, cataloguing and management,
including metadata for the preservation;
2. legal aspects: IPR/copyright and data protection;
3. quality: criteria for design and development of cultural
web sites;
4. management of projects and services.
Publications
Already published
• Progress report of the National Representatives Group
2002
Next publications
• Good practice handbook with the collection of the
existing guidelines on digitisation
• Quality framework for the development of cultural Web
sites
• Collection of the existing laws on IPR
• Progress report of the National Representatives Group
2003 (2004)
New tools
The Newsletter:
The subscription to the English newsletter is now
possible through the MINERVA web site: a constant
updating about the MINERVA news.
The MINERVA mailing list:
Soon available, the MINERVA mailing list will
distribute information to users interested in the
digitisation issues
Some reasons to join MINERVA
Why should an organisation invest in order to bring its
activities under the MINERVA framework ?
• to share knowledge and experiences, avoiding to
duplicate the efforts;
• to coordinate national/local initiatives within a
European approach, being prepared for larger
exploitation;
• to share technological platforms and tools, saving
efforts and money in replicating what already exists;
• to contribute to the necessary and ambitious common
goal of implementing the Lund Action Plan.
Italian Presidency Events 1
Minerva participation
• Florence, 16th-17th October: International Conference
on Long Term Preservation of Digital Memories
(organised by the MiBAC - DG for Libraries, in
cooperation with MINERVA)
• Naples, 23rd-24th October: seminar Territorial
information systems for the conservation,
preservation and management of Cultural Heritage
(organised by the MiBAC - DG for Archaeology, in
cooperation with MINERVA)
Italian Presidency Events 2
Minerva organisation
• Rome, 29th October: workshop Digitisation: what to
do and how to do it (in cooperation with AIB)
• Parma, 19th November: NRG meeting
• Parma, 20th-21st November: International
Conference Quality for Cultural Web Sites (organised
with MiBAC, City of Parma, Emilia-Romagna
region, Parma local authorities, University of Parma)
The Parma Conference
Quality in cultural Web sites - Online Cultural Heritage for
Research, Education and Cultural Tourism Communities
The conference intends to debate the main themes connected to
the aspects of the online accessibility of cultural heritage to
facilitate its access to a wider public all over the world, and to
promote the development and valorisation of cultural tourism
services.
• I session: Accessibility and communication: principles - best
practices
• II session: Guidelines on quality for cultural Web sites
• III session: IPR, copyright and data protection
The poster session
The poster session “Web quality for
culture” is already open (deadline 15th
September):
1. Content quality for cultural Web Site
2. Accessibility
3. IPR issues
4. Communication and language
… and MinervaPLUS
• MINERVAplus intends to enlarge the existing network
to extend its dimension to the new countries
accessing the Union in 2004,
Russia, and Israel
• The project was approved on
the occasion of last call
of the 6FP
For further information:
www.minervaeurope.org
[email protected]
Thanks for your attention.
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