Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activising in digitisation

Italy Israel Bi-national Seminar on Digital Access to Scientific and Cultural Heritage Antonella Fresa MINERVA Technical Coordinator [email protected]

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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.

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Foreground

June 2000: eEurope endorsement by EU Member States April 2001: meeting in Lund to discuss co-ordination mechanisms for digitisation programmes across European Member States  Lund Principles to be developed through the  Lund Action Plan

MINERVA is the instrument to support the implementation of the Lund Action Plan

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National Representatives Group

NRG – National Representatives Group: – Composed by representatives officially nominated by Member States authorities; – Chaired by the European Commission and the Presidency of the Union in turn; – NRG is the 'guardian of the Lund Principles‘; – Minerva hosts the secretariat of the NRG.

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The Partners of MINERVA

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Italy, coordinator (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali); Austria Belgium Ireland Denmark Finland the Netherlands Portugal France Germany Greece

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Spain Sweden United Kingdom Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003

Enlargement of Minerva

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Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Israel Malta Poland Russia Slovenia Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003

What MINERVA does

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Working Groups; Publications (guidelines, reports, case studies, etc.); National Policy Profiles concerning digitisation; Harmonising activities; NRG meetings; Workshops; Co-operation with other projects; Enlargement of the network.

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The project structure

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4 Working Groups WP Enlargement WP Dissemination, training and publications WP Project management Benchmarking activities Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003

The Working Groups:

• Inventories, discovery of digitised content, multilingual

issues

• Interoperability, Service Provision and IPR • Idenitification of user needs, contents and quality

framework

• Good Practices and Competence Centres

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Network enlargement

Which enlargements for MINERVA:

• to get involved ALL the 25 MS + Russia and Israel • to co-operate with other running projects • to establish co-operation agreements with different

sectors towards a stable European co-ordination framework f or digitisation of cultural heritage.

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Network enlargement

The Co-operation Agreement to enlarge the network towards:

• the industry, • the research and academy, • the local administrations, • the associations, • any other subject who is interested in contributing

to the implementation of the Lund Principles.

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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 mistakes, to co-ordinate 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.

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contact details

Antonella Fresa MINERVA Technical Coordinator

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[email protected]

www.minervaeurope.org

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