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MINERVA website

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MINERVA website updating

The site is managed by two persons, who make daily updating.

Primary sources for updating:• Documents edited by working groups• Documents edited by Minerva Secretariat and

Project Management• News sent to the editorial board• Press


MINERVA website preservation

All changes in pages are preserved:• a general backup of the site is effected monthly• all versions and drafts of the documents are

maintained on line• even for little changes we effect the so called

“filing rename”, preserved in a directory on the service

The site of Minerva has been selected by the National Library of Australia to be preserved (PADI initiative)


MINERVA Newsletter

First issue published in June 2003Last issue published in September 2006Total published issues: 12Languages: English and ItalianTotal of subscriptions: more than 3.000


MINERVA national Websites: Estonia


MINERVA national Websites: Hungary


MINERVA national Websites: Israel


MINERVA national Websites: Poland


MINERVA national Websites: Russia


Search engines:

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cultural+heritage


Search engines:

good+practices+digitisation


Search engines

Search engines:

cultural+web+sites+quality


MINERVAPublications


Annual Progress Reports

The annual global report of the national policies, programmes and projects in the Members States of the European Union

Three editions published:2003 – 2004 - 2005


MINERVA Activities Reports

A structured presentation of the activities carried out by the MINERVA network and its working groups.Two editions published:2002 - 2003 and2004 - 2005


MINERVA PolicyCharter of Parma

A policy instrument published under the Italian Presidency of the European Union.

It describes the long-term vision of the MIENRVA network and its partners, through 10 articles about rights for the accessibility of digital cultural heritage.

It has been followed by national declations in several countries in Europe and other regions.


MED-CULT

MINERVA-EC

MINERVA Posters

Cultural Website Quality Principles Poster

and now also:

MEDCULT PosterMINERVA-EC Poster


MINERVA PostcardsIt started as an

experiment for the dissemination of the 10 Quality Principles.

Now, for each product published by MINERVA, a postcard is produced (in different languages) to disseminate information of the new publication around the network


MINERVA HandbooksA collection of products to support best proctices in digitisation and creation of cultural online services:

Handbook for quality in Cultural Web sites

Quality Principles for Cultural Website: a handbook

Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content Creation Programme Good Practice Handbook

Multiligualism Report on Tesauri and multilingual websites

Cost Reduction in Digitisation


Catalogue of the MINERVA products

http://www.minervaeurope.org/

publications.htm


The most downloaded filesThe most downloaded publication:

The good practices handbook (56,680 copies), in all its versions and languages (Manual de Boas Práticas N. 5!).

But also all of the different tools for the quality of the cultural web sites (Handbook for quality in public cultural applications, quality principles and quality principles handbook etc) reach 61,120 copies.

TOTAL amount of the top 20 downloaded files list: 141,479 copies


The MICHAEL initiative: a spin-off of MINERVA

simple multilingual access to the digital collections of museums, libraries and archives from different European countries.


The MICHAEL platform


MICHAEL on line national portals


For further information:www.minervaeurope.org

www.michael-culture.org

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