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MINERVA and MICHAEL
fostering access to
digital cultural and
scientific heritage: the
prospects for the future
Rossella Caffo
Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali
EVA Florence
18th October 2008
Rossella Caffo (MiBAC)
The MINERVA
network
www.minervaeurope.org
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18th October 2008
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Minerva/Minerva Plus/
Minerva EC (2002-2008)
It gathers the culture ministries of 20 EU countries.
sustained by more than 150 cultural institutions.
Activities are aligned with the Commission’s activities for the
construction of the European Digital Library.
Continues and reinforces the following action lines:
 Integration among the various sectors: libraries, museums,
archives;
 Tematics of intellectual property rights, interoperability and
multilingualism;
 Sharing good practices in digitisation;
 Coordination inside and among Member States;
 Monitoring progresses
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MINERVA in practice:
yesterday
The MINERVA network (2002-2006) elaborated guidelines and
recommendations shared by the EU Member States for the
digitisation of cultural heritage and online accessibility.
ADDED VALUE:
Bottom up approach
All cultural fields involved
OUTPUTS:
Good practices handbook
Digitisation guidelines
Quality tools for cultural web sites (handbooks, Museo&Web)
Cost reduction in digitisation handbook
Multilingualism report
IPR report
Annual Progress Report
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MINERVA in practice:
today
WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS:
 MINERVA tools for digitisation of cultural heritage
 Quality of cultural websites
HANDBOOKS, GUIDELINES AND STUDIES:
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IPR guidelines
Digitisation Guidelines updating
Study on user needs of cultural websites and portals
Report on content interoperability
European directory of the websites regulatory framework
Map of cultural heritage in Europe
Annual digitisation report
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MINERVA for Europeana
MINERVA eC contributes in stimulating
decision makers and implementers:
• to use international standards
• to adopt the MINERVA guidedlines, shared at
European level
• to enhance interoperability and accessibility of
digital content
• to create the conditions to improve the quality of
content and services.
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MINERVA
for Europeana
MINERVA eC makes available to Europeana
all the results obtained:
• Experiences, recommendations and guidelines
• The network of Ministries or governing bodies of
all Member States
• The network of hundreds of experts from all over
the Member States
• The work methodology and a well-tested
mechanism of coordination
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MICHAEL
and the
European Digital Library
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Member States represented
Phase I
MICHAEL
(2004-7)
Italy
France
United
Kingdom
Phase 2
MICHAELplus (2006-8)
Belgium
Bulgaria
Czech Republic
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Italy (coordinator)
Malta
the Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Slovak Republic
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom
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One national portal
for each State
+European portal
Cultural institutions
represented in MICHAEL
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Ministries
Government
and local heritage agencies
Foundations
Research Networks
Universities
Libraries
Archives
Museums
National surveys of digital collections reach thousands of cultural
institutions spread over the territory, at a national, regional and local
level.
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The achievements so far
The European MICHAEL portal is on line at
http://www.michael-culture.org
More than 7,000 digital collections from FR, IT, UK inside!
The digital collections groups millions of records.
The national systems are on line and constantly updated and enriched
with new data.
FR http://www.michael-culture.fr or http://www.numerique.culture.fr
IT http://michael-culture.it
UK http://www.michael-culture.org.uk
The national portals of DE, GR, NL, PL, PT are under construction.
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ATHENA
Access to cultural heritage networks
across Europe
Museums towards Europeana
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The project
• ATHENA is a Network of best practices
• within the eContentPlus Programme,
• taking its origins from the existing MINERVA
network
• Coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Cultural
Heritage,
• now is under negotiation
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The project
CRITICAL MASS
21 European Member States + Israel, directly represented or
appointed by their national government
109 top museums and other cultural institutions directly partner or
associated to the project;
140 digital collections, without considering the several thousands
digital collections already included in the MICHAEL database, managed
by the project partner Michael Culture AISBL;
more than 16 millions of digital cultural items directly referring to the
museum sector
20 European languages
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Goals
The main goals are :
 To reinforce, support and encourage the participation of
museums and other institutions coming from this
sectors of cultural heritage not fully involved yet in the
EDL
 To contribute to the integration of the different sectors of
cultural heritage, in cooperation with other projects more
directly focused on libraries and archives, with the
overall objective to merge all these different
contributions in the EDL
 To facilitate access to digital contents belonging to
European museums
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Goals
ATHENA will:
 contribute to the creation of Europeana on the basis of
standards shared on the basis of integration with other
sectors of cultural heritage
 will develop the work of MINERVA in the field of
harmonization of digitisation standards and guidelines
 Will use the experience acquired through EDLnet,
 will be based on the experience achieved by MICHAEL
and the other national portals (like CulturaItalia, Culture.fr,
etc.) in the field of cross-domain
 will continue in the direction of interoperability, semantic
web and quality services for the final user
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Goals
ATHENA:
• will define the conditions for museums and other
cultural institutions to join Europeana
• will collect, analyse and compare cataloguing
standards, metadata schemata and terminologies
adopted by all partner countries
ATHENA will not:
• make research
• digitise new contents
• develop new standards
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Main activities
 Mapping of description metadata schema
 Mapping and SKOSification of thesauri and controlled
theriminologies
 Ontologies in the field of the description of cultural
heritage
 Technical standards and protocols for the exchange of
data
 Integration of data in the structure of the European
Digital Library
 Coordination of contents: localisation of a competence
center in each country partner
 Analysis of the problems related to copyright and
possible solutions
 Development of a prototype
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Expected outputs
A set of scalable tools, recommendations and guidelines,
agreed by partners and easily applicable, focusing on:
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Multilingualism and semantics
Metadata and thesauri
Data structures
IPR issues
Realisation of a prototype
They will be used principally by museums
 to support internal digitisation activities
 to facilitate the integration of their digital content into Europeana
 to improve the accessibility to their contents
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Strategic cooperation
Strategic partnership will be constructed with other
projects, like:
• EDLNet, which could give requisites on how to trasfer the
ATHENA results into EUROPEANA
 MICHAEL, the registry of digital cultural collections in
Europe
 MinervaEC, with its set of guidelines and handbooks
 MultiMatch and CLEF, two of the most challenging
research project on technologies supporting multilingualism
for digital libraries
 The new projects presented in the same Call for
Proposals of Athena, in order to stimulate the participation
of cultural institutions into Europeana (APEnet, EDLocal,
etc.)
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Thank you for your attention !
Rossella Caffo
Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali
[email protected]
and
Christophe Desseaux
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
[email protected]
www.minervaeurope.org
www.michael-culture.org
www.athenaeurope.org
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