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Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation
MINERVA: Framework and Outcomes
Giuliana De Francesco,
Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali
Museoforum
Ljubljana. 30th May 2005
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MINERVA framework
eEurope Initiative (december 1999)
• to foster the Internet and new economy across Europe
• allow citizens to participate in the information society
 eEurope Action Plan (June 2000)
3d) European digital cultural content for global networks
Lund Meeting, 4 April 2001
meeting of experts and representatives of EU Member
States to start a coordination and stimulate European
cultural content for global networks
 Lund Principles
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Lund Principles
“Europe's cultural and scientific knowledge resources
are a unique public asset forming the collective and
evolving memory of our diverse societies…”
Digitisation of heritage resources crucial to:
•provide improved access to cultural heritage
•preserve Europe's collective cultural heritage
•sustain cultural diversity in a global environment
•also key resource for education and for the
tourism and media industries
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Lund Principles
Main barriers:
• Fragmentation of approach
• Obsolescence
• Lack of synergies between cultural and technologies
programmes
• Lack of institutional investment and commitment
To achieve eEurope objectives:
• ongoing forum for coordination of digitisation policies
• support a European view on policies and programmes
• exchange and promote good practices, guidelines and
skills
• work in a collaborative manner to make visible and
accessible the digitised cultural heritage of Europe
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National Representatives Group
NRG: representatives appointed by Member States’
authorities
• to coordinate digitisation policies and programmes
• to facilitate and monitor implementation of Lund Action Plan
• to guarantee a close relationship between the Ministries or
other governmental institutions and the EC
• to assure that EC policies and programmes have a
widespread diffusion in every country
• to be the voice of national policies and programmes at
European level – to allow visibility to national initiatives
The NRG meets every 6 months
co-chaired by the rotating EU Presidency and the EC
Slovenian Representative: Jelka Gazvoda, Ministry of Culture
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MINERVA
Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation
is the “operative arm” of the NRG for implementing Lund
Action Plan and organising its working groups
A network of Member States’ Ministries:
• to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities carried out in
digitisation of European cultural content
• to create an agreed European platform made up of agreed
recommendations and guidelines
• to give international visibility to national initiatives
• to embed the results of European coordination in national
digitisation activities
• to promote awareness and exchange of experiences and skills
at European level
 to enlarge the network and establish further international
cooperation
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MINERVA
Funded by the EC IST 5th FP (2002–2005)
Started with 8 partners, representing 7 countries:
Italy, coordinator (Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali)
Belgium (Ministère de la communauté française)
Finland (University of Helsinky)
France (Ministère de la culture et de la communication)
Spain (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte)
Sweden (Riksarkivet)
United Kingdom (Museums, Archives and Libraries
Council)
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MINERVA Plus
Funded by EC IST 6th FP (2004-2005)
Enlarges the network including NAS countries,
sharing MINERVA objectives
18 partners representing 14 countries
Austria
Czech Republic
Estonia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Malta
Poland
Portugal
Russia
Slovenia
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MINERVA Network
The remaining 6 EU countries:
Cyprus
Denmark
Latvia
Lithuania
Luxembourg
The Netherlands
have a membership agreement and take part on a
regular basis to NRG and MINERVA activities
• MINERVA is the network of the 25 EU Member
States’ ministries + Russia and Israel
• Italy coordinates the network
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MINERVA’s main activity strands
• Strategical: support to NRG
• Networking: enlargement and
dissemination
• Technical: creation of the common
platform
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International cooperation:
cultural networks
Coordination between the European networks in the
field of digital culture promoted by MINERVA aiming at:
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Creating synergies
Sharing knowledge and exchanging experience
Avoiding duplication of effort and waste of resources
Maximising the impact of the individual projects
Adopting common standards
Evolving towards a common European research area
Cooperation has been established with:
BRICKS
CALIMERA
DELOS
DIGICULT FORUM
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EMII-DCF
EPOCH
ERPANET
Euromed Heritage II
EVA
HEREIN
MINERVA
MUSICNETWORK
PRESTOSPACE
SCRAN
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International cooperation: UNESCO
Regional Bureau for Science in Europe –
UNESCO ROSTE
• Joint organisation of the SEE Regional Meeting
on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage (Ohrid, 1720 March 2005), in cooperation with the FYROM
Ministry of Culture. Participants: Albania, Bosnia &
Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYROM, Romania,
Serbia & Montenegro
 Set of Recommendations on digitisation of
cultural heritage in South-Eastern Europe
that will be adopted as an official UNESCO
document
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International cooperation: UNESCO
Ohrid background
• Previous contacts between MINERVA, South Eastern
Europe and SEEDI (South Eastern European
Digitisation Initiative,
http://www.ncd.matf.bg.ac.yu/seedi/)
Further Ohrid outcome
• Proposal of training actions on digitisation in
South-Eastern Europe
• Supported by MINERVA
• Proposal submitted to EC in the framework of Marie
Curie programme for knowledge transfer
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International cooperation: UNESCO
Information for All Programme (UNESCO
IFAP)
• MINERVA participation to IFAP St. Petersburg and
Petropavlovsk annual conferences
• MINERVA presentation at IFAP board meeting
(October 2004)
Outcome:
• MEDCULT project, for dissemination of MINERVA
products within Arab-speaking Mediterranean
countries of the STRABON network, approved by
IFAP board (April 2005)
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Results
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NRG – Charter of Parma
 Charter of Parma
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strategic document, continues and
supports Lund Principles
• approved at the 5th NRG meeting
in Parma (2003)
Printed: Eng – Fre - Ita
Online: Eng – Fre – Ger – Gre – Ita – Slk
http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure/nrg/documents/
charterparma031119final.htm
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Charter of Parma - Articles
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Intelligent use of new technologies
Accessibility
Quality
IPR and privacy
Interoperability and standards
Inventories and multiligualism
Benchmarking
Cooperation at national, European and
international levels
Art. 9 Enlargement
Art. 10 Building the future together: at the forefront of
the knowledge society
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NRG Global Report
 Progress report of the National
Representatives Group Coordinating
Digitisation in Europe
1st (2002)
http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/
globalreport/globalrep2002.htm
2nd (2003)
includes contributions from NAS, Israel and
Russia http://www.minervaeurope.org/
publications/globalreport/globalrep2003.htm
3rd (2004) under print
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MINERVA technical WPs
• WP3 Inventories, discovery of digitised
content, multilingualism issues
• WP4 Interoperability, service provision, IPR
• WP5 User needs, quality framework for
common access points
• WP6 Good practice and competence centres
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WP3 Inventories and multilingualism
Inventories, discovery of digitised content,
multilingualism issues
 M+ specific topic: multilingual thesauri
Key issues:
• Inventories of digital content and digitisation
projects needed both for management and strategic
issues and to enable access to European scientific
and cultural digital contents
• Multilingualism issues
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Inventories products
Specifications for Inventories of Digitised
Content
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Definition of a data model and a metadata set for
inventories of digital cultural collections
Describes Digital Collection, Institution,
Project/programme, Service/product, Physical
collection
DC terminology or DC mapped
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Inventories products
French-Italian Prototype Portal of Digital
Collections
•Specifications implemented through the open source
platform used by the French Inventory project
 MICHAEL: a MINERVA spin-off project
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WP4 Interoperability
Interoperability, service provision, IPR
MINERVA+ specific topic: business models for
digitisation programmes
Key issues:
• Technical and metadata standards to support
interoperability, long term preservation, access,
security of digital resources
 Recommendations on OAI
 DC.Culture
• IPR Round Tables
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Interoperability products
Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural
Content Creation Programmes
In print: Eng – Fre – Ita
Online: Eng – Fre
http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/
technicalguidelines.htm
TG come from the UK NOF-Digitise programme
experience, consultation among PULMAN, EMII-DCF
and ERPANet projects and further expertise by a wide
range of experts
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Interoperability products
Technical standards support:
Interoperability
Access
Preservation
Security
MINERVA Technical Guidelines:
• are not a single prescriptive set of requirements to
which all projects must conform
• identify areas where there is broad agreement
•Flexible, context-specific requirements might be built
•Conceived for policy-makers and funding
programmes
•Can be used by projects for self-assessment
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Interoperability products
TG structure: ‘life cycle’ approach
• Preparation for digitisation
(Hardware, Software,
Environment)
• Handling of originals
• The digitisation process
• Storage and management
of the digital master
material (File
formats,Preservation
strategies)
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• Metadata creation/capture
• Publication (Delivery formats,
3D and Virtual Reality Issues,
GIS, websites)
• Disclosure of resources
(Metadata harvesting,
Distributed searching)
• Re-use and re-purposing
(Learning resource creation)
• Intellectual property rights
and Copyright (Identifying,
recording and managing IPR,
Safeguarding IPR)
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WP5 Quality
Identification of user needs, quality
framework for common access points
 MINERVA+ specific topic: small cultural institutions
requirements
Key steps:
• Brussels Quality Framework (December 2001)
• Parma Quality Conference (November 2003)
• Berlin Quality Conference (April 2005)
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Quality products - 1
Handbook for Quality in Cultural Websites:
Improving Quality for Citizens
Version 1.2 – Draft, November 2003
Printed: Eng - Ita
Online: Eng – Ita
http://www.minervaeurope.org/ publications/qualitycriteria.htm
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Focussed on content
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Intelligent use of the Web as an
effective mean for the communication
of culture
Quality as the result of interaction
between cultural organisations and
users
Accessibility and usability
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Quality products - 2
Cultural Website Quality Principles
“A quality cultural website celebrates European
cultural diversity by providing access for all to
digital cultural content”
A quality website must be:
transparent
effective
maintained
accessible
user centred
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responsive
multilingual
interoperable
managed
preserved
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Quality products - 2
Ten Principle Cards
Printed: Eng – Fre - Ger – Dut - Ita
Online: Eng - Fre - Gre – Spa – Est – Hun – Ita – Slo - Slk
http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/tenqualityprin
ciples.htm
Front page: 10 Quality Principles
Back page: Short explanation
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Quality products - 3
Quality Principles for Cultural Websites:
a Handbook (2005)
Printed: Eng; Fre and Ita under preparation
Online: Eng – Gre – Hun
http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/
qualitycommentary_en.htm
• A set of practical and pragmatic criteria
• Can be used to gain further insight into the
compliance with the Principles
• A checklist, based on the critera, can be used in
assessing the website
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Quality products - Practical tools
Museo&Web - Planning Kit for a Quality
Site for Small and Medium Sized Museums
• Based on
– Quality handbooks
– W3C accessibility guidelines
• Will follow:
- Planning kit for schools
- Planning kit for libraries
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WP6 Good Practice
Good practice and competence centres
 M+ specific topic: digitisation cost reduction
Key issues:
• Identification of competence and advisory centres on
digitisation
• Promotion of good practices developed within Member
State programmes and project
–First selection of good practices (2002)
–New campaign started 2004. Submission forms available
on MINERVA website
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Good practice products
Good Practice Handbook
Printed: Eng, Fre, Ita
Online: Eng – Ger – Gre - Fre – Ita – Por – Slk
http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure/workinggroups/
goodpract/document/goodpractices1_3.htm
• A practical handbook to the establishment, execution
and management of digitisation projects
• Target: teams within and across cultural institutions
planning, or executing, digitisation projects
• Complemented by the collection of existing guidelines
on digitisation, available online in MINERVA website
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Find out more!
www.minervaeurope.org
contact details:
[email protected]
Thank you for your kind attention
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