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Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activising in digitisation
The MINERVA Activities
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Amman, 12-13 December 2006
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The MINERVA scope
A thematic network to improve
the production of digital cultural
heritage in Europe and their
online access.
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The MINERVA framework
The MINERVA network is the operative section
of a wider framework made up with:
• Lund Principles,
• Lund Action Plan,
• Dynamic Action Plan,
• National Representatives Group,
• i2010 EC initiative
… and the process towards the European digital
library.
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Lund Meeting – 4th April 2001
Representatives and experts from the
Member States gathered together in 2001,
under the Swedish Presidency of the
European Union, to identify a set of
coordination mechanisms for harmonising
the digitisation programmes across the
Member States and for stimulating
European cultural content on the global
networks.
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National Representatives Group
The NRG was created to implement the Lund
Action Plan, made up of officially nominated
experts from each Member State:
• to coordinate digitisation policies and
programmes;
• to monitor progress regarding the objectives
encapsulated in the Lund Principles.
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National Representatives Group
From 2002 until the next 2007, the
NRG met every 6 months to share
national experiences under the
aegis of the Presidency in turn.
The Hague,
September 2004
Salzburg, June 2006
Dublin, June 2005
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The NRG is currently under a renewal phase
as outlined in the conclusions of the
European Council on the Recommendation of
the European Commission for the digital
libraries.
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Dynamic Action Plan for digitisation
– Selection of content
– Conversion from
analogue to digital
– Storage of digital data
– Presentation and access
– Use and re-use for
eLearning
– Preservation
– Impact assessment
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DAP Action Areas
• users and content
• economic sustainability
• technological development and tools
• digital memory preservation
Actors, responsibilities and timescales
determined by MINERVA
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i2010
The European strategic
framework to boost European
digital economy:
• Regulatory framework:
creating a single European
information space
• Technological framework:
innovation and investment in
R&D
• Social framework: promoting
and inclusive European
Information Society
http://ec.europa.eu/i2010
EC initiative
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The MINERVA network
MINERVA is a network of
Member States’ ministries / agencies.
Three projects run since 2002 to implement
the network, to coordinate the working groups
and to publish and disseminate its results:
Minerva
Minerva Plus
MinervaEC
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The MINERVA projects
• Minerva: IST project in FP5
– From April 2002 until June 2005
• Minerva Plus: IST project in FP6
– From February 2005 until January 2006
• MinervaEC: Thematic Network eContent+
– From October 2006 until the next
September 2008
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The MINERVA Galaxy
R&D Constellation:
Learning Constellation:
Minerva, MinervaPLUS,
Bricks, Delos, Multimatch,
Imagination
Euridice university network
Implementation Constellation:
Michael, MichaelPLUS
NRG
CooperationFresa
Constellation:
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MedCult, Strabon, Unesco, TEL
European Digital
Library Constellation:
MinervaEC, EDLnet
The MINERVA mission
 to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities carried
out in digitisation of cultural and scientific content;
 to create an agreed European platform of
recommendations and guidelines about:
– digitisation,
– metadata,
– long-term accessibility,
– preservation.
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The scopes of MINERVA
• to contribute to the creation of a broad
consensus in Europe and beyond about the
creation and access to digital cultural
content;
• to contribute to start up new national and
international programmes of digitisation of
cultural heritage;
• to create new opportunities of cooperation
among the members of the network.
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Founding members of MINERVA
• 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 Educaciòn, Cultura y Deporte)
• Sweden (Riksarkivet)
• United Kingdom (The Council for Museums,
Archives and Libraries)
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New members of MINERVA Plus
Greece
Austria
Germany
Ireland
Portugal
Russia
and
Czech Republic
Hungary
Malta
Slovenia
Estonia
Poland
Israel
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Members of MINERVA-EC
Slovakia and Luxembourg
joined the MINERVA Plus
partnership
Soon:
Cyprus, Denmark, , Latvia,
Lithuania and The Netherlands
20 countries, represented by
29 partners, involving
138 cultural institutions
from all over Europe.
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A growing interest
7 countries in 2002
18 countries in 2005 (plus 2 international
partners)
20 countries in 2006
The largest involvement of cultural
stakeholders across Europe is a fundamental
starting point for the success of the initiative
and the actual applicability of its
recommendations
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How MINERVA works
• Networking activities (workshops, on-line
training, WEB site, newsletter,
benchmarking, cooperation with other
projects, enlargement of the network)
• 4 Working groups at European level
• Publications (guidelines, reports,
handbooks, brochures)
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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.
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Minerva Web site
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www.minervaeurope.org
To promote the Lund Principles, the
acitivities and the results of the project
To promote the project’s partners
To be a “gate” to other linked initiatives
To be an essential instrument on Web to find
information about: quality, digitisation,
metadata, long-term preservation,
accessibility
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MINERVA Newsletter
MINERVA publishes a bi-monthly newsletter
as an instrument to maintain a constant
update about the MINERVA news.
The subscription to the English newsletter is
now possible through the MINERVA web
site.
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MINERVA working groups
• Assessment and evaluation: monitoring progresses
• Awareness, dissemination, mobilising stakeholders:
sustainability of content
• European Cultural Content Interoperability Framework:
technologies for digitisation and access
• Quality, Accessibility and Usability of services and content
• Best practices for content enrichment
and as horizontal activities: Project management and
partners coordination run by MiBAC, based on a project
Secretariat in Italy
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Publications
Minerva publishes handbooks and guidelines on
digitisation.
Already published
• Progress report of the National Representatives Group
2002, 2003, 2004
• Good practice handbook
• Quality criteria for cultural web applications
• Technical Guidelines
• Multilingualism: report about multilingual thesauri and
web sites
• Cost Reduction in digitisation
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MINERVA and IFAP
Preparatory actions:
• MINERVA and NRG were introduced at the
Information for All Programme conferences
in
Russia
(Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
September 2003 and Saint-Petersburg June
2004);
• Official inviation to the formal meeting of the
IFAP board in Paris in October 2004 and Tunis
in March 2005.
May 2005:
MEDCULT project approved by UNESCO for
funding.
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MEDCULT
May 2005:
MEDCULT project approved by UNESCO-IFAP for
funding, to spread MINERVA products through
Mediterranean Arab countries, in cooperation with the
STRABON network
December 2005:
MEDCULT kick-off in Rome
Workshops:
April 2006, Alexandria (Egypt)
June 2006, Rabat (Morocco)
December 2006, Amman (Jordan)
http://www.minervaeurope.org/MEDCULT/home.html
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MEDCULT main goals
General scope:
promoting information literacy, through capacity
building particularly for information professionals
In particular:
• To translate and diffuse among partners the MINERVA
criteria for a quality web communication of the
cultural heritage
• To organise workshops over the countries involved for
experts of both cultural and education sectors
• To set up a replicable model of workshop
• To outline a study on the creation of a permanent
network of experts
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Available tools
• Cultural web sites quality principles:
12 EU languages (including EN & FR) >
translation into Arab
• Quality Principles for cultural Web
sites, a handbook: available in EN, FR,
IT > translation into Arab
• Museo&Web: available in EN, FR, IT
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The seminars
FOCUSED SEMINARS
• organised by the MEDCULT partners in their respective countries;
• organisations from the cultural and educational sectors in the
target Mediterranean countries are invited.
ACTIVITIES
• the participants experiment the applicability of the Principles and
the usability of the MINERVA Handbook.
GOALS
• to create a network of tutors in the Partners' organisations, able to
replicate seminars and workshops beyond the duration of the
MEDCULT project;
• to fully involve partners from southern, eastern and northers sides
of the Mediterranean basin into the organisation of the workshops
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Partners
• Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali,
MiBAC (ITALY, coordinator)
• Fondation Maison des Science de l'Homme,
Coordinator of the STRABON network
(FRANCE)
• CultNat, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EGYPT)
• Ministère de la culture, Centre Multimédia
d'inventaire et de documentation du
patrimoine (MOROCCO)
• Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities,
Department of Antiquities (JORDAN)
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For further information:
www.minervaeurope.org
http://www.minervaeurope.org/MEDCULT/hom
e.html
[email protected]
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