Athens, 28th June 2005

Antonella FresaMINERVA and MICHAEL Technical Coordinator

fresa@promoter.it

Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in

digitisation

Athens, 28th June 2005

1999: eEurope > the EC fostered the creation of coordination mechanism in the field of digitisation of cultural heritage

2001: The National Representatives Group, the Lund Principles, the Lund Action Plan

2002: MINERVA project launched to support the NRG in implementing the LAP

2004: MINERVA Plus enlarges the network to the new EU Member States

2005: i2010

The European framework for thedigitisation of the cultural

heritage and the creation of culture portals

Athens, 28th June 2005

National Representatives GroupThe NRG meets every 6

months to share national experiences under the aegis of the presidency in turn: Lund, Alicante, Copenhagen, Corfu, Rome,

NEXT:

Bristol, November 2005

Salisburg, June 2006

Just passed Luxembourg

June 2005

The Hague, September 2004

Dublin, June 2004

Athens, 28th June 2005

The current debate: awareness about the importance of digitisation is increasing at all

levels• the Member States

Chirac’s message: Paris, 17 March 2005un “vaste mouvement de numérisation des savoirs est engagé à travers le monde. Riches d'un exceptionnel patrimoine culturel, la France et l'Europe doivent y prendre une part déterminante”

• the European Commission Reading’s communication: Brussels, 3 May 2005Improving and extending the use of ICT to make the most of Europe’s cultural and audiovisual heritageReading’s speech: Luxembourg, 21 June 2005Reinforcing synergies between culture and technologies

To improve visibility and accessibility to European cultural content on line

To continue and to reinforce coordination among Member States and with the research

Athens, 28th June 2005

IST supported network, involving the 25 European Ministries of Culture, plus Russia and Israel.Active since 2002, under the Italian coordination.The following products have been realised to date, through the MINERVA working groups:

– Strategic documents– Technical guidelines– Prototype– Information material– Training

– Website: www.minervaeurope.org

MINERVA

Athens, 28th June 2005

Progress Reports 2002-2003-2004Progress Report 2002

Printed copies: 3,000 (en)url:

http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/ globalreport/globalrep2002.htm

Progress Report 2003Printed copies: 4,500 (en)url:

http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/ globalreport/globalrep2003.htm

Progress Report 2004 (just printed, June 2005)

Athens, 28th June 2005

Charter of Parma

Printed copies 3,000 (en/it/fr)

Online version: de - en - fr - he - it - sk Url:

http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure/nrg/

documents/charterparma031119final.htm

Athens, 28th June 2005

A shared and common platform of reports, guidelines & recommendations:

Technical Guidelines Best Practices Quality of cultural websites

Still under development: IPRMultilingualismCost reduction

The MINERVA Knowledge Base: www.minervaeurope.org

and the national MINERVA websites

Training

Technical products

Athens, 28th June 2005

Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content Creation

ProgrammePrinted version: under preparation (en - fr - it)

Online version: en - fr

Url: http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/technicalguidelines.htm

Downloaded files:

8,000 (on MINERVA website)

11,000 (on French Ministry of Culture website)

Athens, 28th June 2005

Good Practice HandbookPrinted copies:3,000 (en) + 1,000 (fr) + 1,000 (it)Online version: de – en – el - fr – it – pt –

sk Url:

http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure /workinggroups/goodpract/document/goodpractices1_3.htm

Downloaded files: 25,000 (on MINERVA website)5,000 (on French Ministry of Culture

website)

Athens, 28th June 2005

Handbook for quality in Cultural Web sites

Printed copies 500 (en) + 3000 (it)Online versions: en - itUrl: http://www.minervaeurope.org/

publications/qualitycriteria.htm

Downloaded files: 35,000 (on MINERVA website)

Athens, 28th June 2005

Cultural Website Quality Principles - Poster

Printed copies: 500url:

http://www.minervaeurope.org/

immagini/cwqp.jpg

Downloaded files: 1,800 (on MINERVA website)

Athens, 28th June 2005

Cultural Website Quality Principles – Postcards

Printed copies: 1000 x 5 (de - en - fr - it - nl)

url: http://www.minervaeurope.org/ publications/tenqualityprinciples.htm

Athens, 28th June 2005

Quality Principles for Cultural Website: a handbook

Printed copies: 4,000 (en) it+fr under preparation

Online version: en - el - hu

url: http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/

qualitycommentary_en.htm

Athens, 28th June 2005

Museum & Web

Planning Kit for a good quality website for Small and Medium Sized Museums

based on the Handbook for Quality in Cultural Web Sites and the European principles for quality in a cultural Web site

Italian and English versions available online:http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure/

workinggroups/userneeds/prototipo/museoweb_e.html

Athens, 28th June 2005

Athens, 28th June 2005

Information Brochure Printed copies 3,000 (en) + 3,000 (it)url:

http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/

minervabooklet-e.pdf

Printed copies 5,000 (en) + 3.000 (it)url:

http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/

minervabooklet2003-2004-e.pdf

Athens, 28th June 2005

Newsletter

Total of published issues: 8

First issue published in June 2003

Languages: English and Italian

Total of subscriptions: 2901

Athens, 28th June 2005

The MINERVA project is going to develop a set of educational materials, using an eLearning approach, starting from the products of its working groups. The first application concerns the

“Technical Guidelines” issued at the beginning of 2005, and soon available as an educational tool at the MINERVA Web site.

We are also signing agreements with individual universities and trans-European networks of Higher Education institutions, with the objective to facilitate the re-use of the outputs developed by the project for educational purposes.

Education and Training

Athens, 28th June 2005

UNESCO-IFAPPreparatory actions:• MINERVA and NRG introduced at the Information for

All Programme conferences in Russia (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky September 2003 and Saint-Petersburg June 2004);

• Official inviation at the formal meeting of the IFAP board in Paris in October 2004.

May 2005: MEDCULT project approved by UNESCO for funding, to spread MINERVA products through Mediterranean Arab countries, in cooperation with the STRABON network.

Athens, 28th June 2005

UNESCO-ROSTE

The Regional Bureau for Science in Europe ROSTE of UNESCO asked the support of MINERVA for organising the Ohrid conference (17-20 March 2005) in order to introduce the coordination mechanisms and MINERVA products to the South-eastern Europe countries.

MINERVA SPACE project submitted to the Marie Curie EC programme

Athens, 28th June 2005

Cooperation with other EU projects

• Presto Space Audiovisual• Bricks Semantics & Ontologies• Delos Digital Libraries• Calimera Best practices• Erpanet Digital Preservation• Euridice Cultural contents for

eLearning

Athens, 28th June 2005

What remains still to be doneIn addition to the natural continuation of the political, technical and international coordination, MINERVA has the following priorities that will be carried out in the continuation of the work of the network:

– To agree on common content selection criteria to avoid duplications and to better represent the cultural European diversity;

– To enhance the involvement of the cultural institutions, also at regional and local levels;

– To reinforce the relationship with stakeholders, to help exchanges and cooperation between the private sector and the public cultural institutions.

Athens, 28th June 2005

MICHAEL Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in

Europesupported by eTEN

to establish an international online service, to search, browse and examine multiple national cultural portals from a single point of access, based on open source software. www.michael-culture.org

towards the European portal of

culture

Athens, 28th June 2005

MICHAEL

MINERVA spin offThe presentation continuesAntonella.MICHAEL.28.06.05.Athens.ppt