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Antonella FresaTechnical Coordinator
MinervaECMInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities
in digitisation, eContentplusSupporting the European Digital Library
MinervaEC National Workshop
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MinervaEC: the project
Thematic NetworkSupported under eContentplus Started on 1st October 2006Duration: 2 years
Coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Culture
21 EU countriesMore than 150 cultural institutions from all
over Europe
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MinervaEC andthe European digital library
MinervaEC continues the work undertaken by MINERVA and MINERVA Plus towards the elaboration of a platform of recommendations, guidelines and tools for digitisation.
MinervaEC supports MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus initiatives.
MinervaEC is aligned with:i2010 strategy for a European Information Society for growth
and employment,
the EC Recommendation on digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation,
and the Council Conclusions.
In this light, it contributes to the creation of the European digital library.
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MINERVA and MINERVA Plus: a flashback
MINERVA – IST FP5
from 2002 until 2005
7 countries
MINERVA Plus – FP6
from 2004 until 2006
14 EU countries + Russia and Israel
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MINERVA and MINERVA Plus at a glance
Aligned with eEurope
Implementing the Lund Action Plan
In synergy with the National Representatives Group (NRG)
5 working groups:
Benchmarking
Inventories of digital content
Interoperability and IPR
Quality and user needs
Best practices and Competence Centres
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MINERVA and MINERVA Plus main results
Annual Reports: 4 editions (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)
A set of practical Handbooks:
Good Practices
Technical Guidelines
Good quality cultural websites
Cost reduction
Multilingual websites and thesauri
The Minerva website: www.minervaeurope.org
9 NRG meetings under the aegis of 9 EU Presidencies: Alicante-Spain, Copenhagen-Denmark, Corfu-Greece, Parma-Italy, Dublin-Ireland, The Hague-The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Bristol-UK, Salzburg-Austria
Hundreds of European cultural institutions involved in workshops, seminars, training
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MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus deploying MINERVA results
• 2 deployment projects
• Supported by eTEN
• Involving 14 EU countries
• Based on the metadata standard for cultural inventories developed by MINERVA
• Aimed to build a unique multilingual access point to the digital collections of museums, libraries and archives in Europe
• Total investment: ˜90 million €
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MICHAEL actors and roles• Ministries of culture:
coordination and financing
• Central cultural institutes: standardisation and guidelines
• Technology providers: software implementation
• Regions and Universities: surveys and local coordination of the cataloguers
• The actual cultural institutions on the territory: museums, libraries and archives to provide content
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Policy links
• MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus have strong policy links
• The success of the initiative is based on the actual political commitment at national and European levels
• Main targeted policy domains:– Culture & multilingualism– Education & training– Research & innovation– Tourism & economic development
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R&D initial deploym. full depl.
MICHAEL Plus
The projects phases
Catalogue des fonds culturels numérises (FR)
2002 ………............. 06/2004 …...........… 05/2006 .. ………… 05/2008
MICHAEL
MINERVA, MINERVA Plus, MINERVA-EC
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i2010 - European Digital Library: the contribution of MinervaEC
Digital libraries are organised collections of digital content made available to the public1
There are a number of priorities to be addressed:
- Improve digitisation among museums, libraries and archives
- Create new services for integrated access
- Generate the conditions for use and re-use of the cultural digital material
MinervaEC is working on these priorities
1 – from the EC leaflet on i2010 - ISBN 92-79-02332-2
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i2010 - European Digital Library: the contribution of MinervaEC
There are a number of key issues to be addressed at European level, for the European digital library:
- Choice of material
- Meeting user needs
- Leveraging public/private partnerships
- European added value
- Intellectual property
MinervaEC is working on these issues
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MINERVA eC objectives
• To improve accessibility to and visibility of European digital cultural resources;
• To contribute to increasing interoperability between existing networks of services;
• To promote the use of digital cultural resources by business and citizens;
• To facilitate exploitation of cultural digital resources, providing clear rules for their use and re-use, respecting and protecting the creators’ rights.
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MINERVA eC targetsBeneficiaries of the actions of the project:
• public and private organisations and institutions that create, collect or own digital content;
• private citizens, interested in receiving quality contents, reliable and directly responding to their interests;
• universities and schools, which wants to use cultural contents for educational purposes in a legal and safe environment;
• small and large enterprises interested in (re)using digital cultural content.
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MINERVA eC impact
3 main directions:
• Stimulating decision makers and implementers in carrying out their initiatives of content enrichment,
• Creating the conditions to improve the quality of cultural content and services,
• Enhancing accessibility to cultural digital content.
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The MINERVA approach
The MINERVA eC approach follows the steps of the MINERVA project:
a. a tight liaison with the national digitisation policies
b. the implementation of the results achieved into new initiatives (e.g. MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus)
c. the involvement of experts from all the cultural institutions (museums, libraries, archives etc.)
d. the cooperation with the other networks (EDLnet, EPOCH, DELOS, etc.)
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Expected outcomes 1 publications
• 2 Annual Reports
• 5 Thematic publications: Map of the cultural heritage in Europe IPR guidelines Technical guidelines v.2 Directory of the European legislation v.2 Study on the user needs
• Project dissemination literature
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Expected outcomes 2national workshops
• National workshops in each partner country; two formats:– quality of the cultural web sites and
Museo&Web– diffusion of the MINERVA tools and
publications– Next appointments:• Brussels, 24/4/2007• Santiago de Compostela, 11/5/2007• Berlin, 20/6/2007 (working groups meeting)• Tallin, 18-19/10/2007
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Expected outcomes 2 plenary meetings
• Five plenary meetings in cooperation with the future Presidencies:– Helsinki, 12 October 2006– Berlin, 23 February 2007– Lisbon, October/November 2007 (date to be
confirmed)– Ljubljana, 5-6 June 2008– France, September 2008 (final event)
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Minerva AwardMINERVA Award "Best practice in cultural heritage websites" :• assigned to cultural heritage projects that are outstanding
realisation of how to make cultural heritage content best available online to different audiences.• Focussing on the idea of how to make our rich cultural and
scientific content offerings easily findable,
The Minerva Award will give recognition to those projects that excel and perform exceptionally well in terms of accessibility, usability and interoperability .
An international jury of independent experts will select the most outstanding projects.
Winners are then invited to the winners ceremony (June 2008 in Ljubljana)
Categories and award critera soon available on the Minerva website.
www.minervaeurope.org
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ConclusionThe MinervaEC workplan is fully correlated with the priorities of the Conclusions of the Council :
– To work towards the integration of libraries, museums and archives
– To address: IPR, interoperability and multilingualism
– To share good practices– To reinforce coordination within and between MS – To contribute to the overview of progress through
the publication of the Minerva Annual Reports
The agenda of MinervaEC is aligned with TEL/EDL, MICHAEL/MICHAEL Plus and the other initiatives in the sector
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Thank you for your attention
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