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Antonella FresaTechnical Coordinator

MinervaECMInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities

in digitisation, eContentplusSupporting the European Digital Library

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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 main results: the starting point

of MinervaECAnnual 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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MinervaEC 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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MinervaEC 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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MinervaEC 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 approach

The MinervaEC 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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Publications under preparation

• 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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National workshops

• National workshops in each partner country to promoter MINERVA and to illustrate its tools and publications

• Past appointments:• Brussels, 24/4/2007• Santiago de Compostela, 11/5/2007• Podram, 2/10/2007

• Next planned appointments:• Tallin, 18-19/10/2007• Riga, 30/10/2007

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Project meetings

• Plenary meetings in cooperation with the EU Presidencies:– Helsinki, 12 October 2006– Berlin, 23 February 2007– Ljubljana, 5-6 June 2008– France, September 2008 (final event)

• Working groups meetings:– Berlin, 20/6/2007

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ConclusionThe MinervaEC workplan is fully correlated with the priorities of the EC Recommendation on the European Digital Library and 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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