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MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising
Activities in digitisation
Towards an Agreed European Platform for
Digitisation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage
Giuliana De Francesco
Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali
CIDOC 2005
Zagreb, 24-27 May
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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 stimulate European cultural content for global networks
 Lund Principles
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Lund Principles
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
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 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
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MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for
Valorising Activities in digitisation
A network of Member States’ Ministries:
• to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities in
digitisation of cultural and scientific content
• to create a common European platform made up of
agreed recommendations, guidelines and standards
• to promote awareness and exchange of
experiences and skills at European level
 to enlarge the network and establish further
international cooperation
 MINERVA is a collaborate operative framework for
implementing Lund Action Plan and organising its
working groups (support to NRG)
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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 a network of the 25 EU Member
States’ ministries + Russia and Israel
• Italy coordinates the network
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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
 MINERVA+ 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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metadata set for inventories of digital collections
Definition of a data model and a metadata set for
invetories of digital content
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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
• 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 for self-assessment by projects
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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
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 – hol - ita
Online: eng - fre - gre – spa – est – hun – ita – slo - slk
http://www.minervaeurope.org/
publications/tenqualityprinciples.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
 MINERVA+ 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: ger – eng – gre - Fr – It – 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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International cooperation:
cultural networks
Coordination between the European cultural networks in
the field of digital culture promoted by MINERVA aiming
at:
• Sharing knowledge and exchanging experience
• Merging efforts together to maximise the impact of the
individual projects
• Adopting common standards and agendas
• Avoiding duplication of effort and waste of resources
• Evolving towards a common European research area
Cooperation has been established with:
BRICKS – CALIMERA – DELOS – DIGICULT – EMII DCF – EPOCH
– ERPANET - EUROMED HERITAGE II – EVA – HEREIN – MINERVA
– MUSICNETWORK –PRESTOSPACE - SCRAN
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International cooperation: UNESCO
Information for All Programme (IFAP)
– MINERVA participation to IFAP St. Petersburg and
Petropavlovsk annual conferences
– MINERVA participation in the IFAP board meeting
(October 2004)
• 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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International cooperation: UNESCO
Regional Bureau for Science in Europe –
ROSTE
• Joint organisation of the SEE Regional Meeting on
Digitisation of Cultural Heritage (Ohrid, 17-20
March 2005), in cooperation with the FYROM
Ministry of Culture
• 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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Ohrid outcome
• Proposal of training actions on digitisation in
South-Eastern Europe
• Supported by MINERVA
• Submitted to EC in the framework of Marie
Curie programme for knowledge transfer
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Find out more!
www.minervaeurope.org
contact details:
[email protected]
Thank you for your kind attention
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