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Berlin, 7-8 April 2005Antonella Fresa

Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation

Why MINERVA?Why MINERVA?a a EuropeanEuropean network for promoting network for promoting

culture through the webculture through the web


The eEurope initiative started on December 1999 to foster the internet and new economy development across Europe and allow the citizens to participate to the information society.

Member States and the European Commission were invited to define coordination mechanisms for digitisation policies and programmes.

The MINERVA background:eEurope


The Lund meeting

The European Commission organised on 4th April 2001 in Lund a meeting of experts and representatives from Member States to accomplish coordination mechanisms of digitisation policies and programmes across Europe.

The Lund Principles and the Lund Action Plan are the results of the convention.


The European culture can be freely accessible through the digitisation of cultural content. This will also support and promote the cultural difference in a global scenario.

The Lund Principles


The European Commission asked the Member States to officially nominate their national representatives for digitisation in the cultural sector.

All the people appointed constitute the National Representatives Group

The National Representatives Group NRG


National Representatives Group

The NRG meets every 6 months to share national experiences under the aegis of the presidency in turn.


MINERVA

MINERVA is the operative section of the NRG

• Project funded by the EC in the frame of IST (5th Framework Programme)

• then enlarged to the new countries (6th Framework Programme) to implement the Lund Action Plan


MINERVA Network• MINERVA is a

network of all the 25 EU Member States’ ministries + Russia and Israel

• Italy coordinates the project


MINERVA goals To discuss, correlate and harmonise activities

carried out in digitisation of cultural content to promote awareness and exchange of experiences at European level

To create a common European platform of recommendations and guidelines about digitisation, standards, long-term accessibility, preservation and quality of cultural web sites.

To coordinate the national programmes To enlarge the network and to cooperate with other

projects acting in the field of digitisation To create the conditions for the sustainability of the

network


ImpactMINERVA has demonstrated to have contributed to the creation of a broad consensus at institutional level on the importance of promoting the European culture trhough the web.

The NRG activated a mechanism of institutional cooperation among the Presidencies of the Council of the European Unione.

MINERVA affected the national digitisation prorammes carried on by member States with tangible results in Belgium, France, Italy and Sweden.


The results• The Charter of Parma• The Progress Report• The Good Practices Handbook• The Principles and the Handbook for

quality in cultural web sites• The Technical Guidelines• Training• The cluster• MICHAEL and the Portal of culture


The Charter of ParmaDuring the conference Quality in cultural Web sites (Parma 20-21 November 2003), event of the

Italian Presidency, the Charter of Parma was introduced and adopted by the NRG to strengthen the Lund Principles that are its background.


The articles of the Charter of Parma

Art. 1 Intelligent use of new technologiesArt. 2 AccessibilityArt. 3 QualityArt. 4 IPR and privacyArt. 5 Interoperability and standardsArt. 6 Inventories and multiligualismArt. 7 BenchmarkingArt. 8 Cooperation at national, European and

international levelsArt. 9 EnlargementArt. 10 Building the future together: at the forefront of

the knowledge society


The Progress ReportThe Progress Report of the NRG has the objective of promoting digitisation policies, programmes and projects in the field of cultural heritage carried on by Member States.

The updating 2004 is forthcoming


Good practices handbookA practical handbook to the

establishment, execution and management of digitisation projects.

Target: teams within and across cultural institutions who are contemplating, or are already executing, digitisation projects.

Foreword: the research undertaken all over Europe, enriched with an online collection of existing guidelines on digitisation.


Cultural web site quality principles

A quality cultural website celebrates European cultural diversity by providing access for all to digital cultural content.

A quality website must be:

transparent - effective - maintained - accessible – user centred - responsive - multilingual - interoperable - managed - preserved


The quality handbookGoal: exploiting the possibilities of the web

communication in the filed of the cultural heritage

Key steps:• Brussels Quality Framework, (December 2001,

during the Belgian Presidency)• MINERVA WP5 activity, Identification of user

needs, content and quality framework for common access points

Ongoing activity: dissemination, testing and validation on the field


Technical Guidelines for digital cultural content creation programmes• Based on the activities carried out by

NOF elaborated together with PULMAN, EMII-DCF ERPANET and Minerva

• Thought for decision makers and managers of digitisation programmes and projects

• Foster the development of interoperable content taking also into account long term preservation issues.


TrainingA programme of training courses that uses opendistance learning methodologies has been set up todiffuse the results of the project.Action lines:

1. MINERVA technical guidelines2. digitisation process, cataloguing and management,

including metadata for the preservation;3. legal aspects: IPR/copyright and data protection;4. quality: criteria for design and development of cultural

Web sites;5. management of projects and services.


The clusterTwo meetings of the European cultural networks (Rome, 30 October 2003 and Florence 31 March 2004) were organised by Minera, with the aim of creating a synergies and cooperations among the running projects in the area of digital culture.

The following projects are so far involved:BRICKS, CALIMERA, DELOS, DIGICULT, EMII-DCF, EPOCH, ERPANET, EUROMED HERITAGE II, EVA, HEREIN, MINERVA, MUSICNETWORK, PRESTOSPACE, SCRAN


Minerva and MinervaPLUS working groups

Inventories & discoery of digitised content > multilingual thesauri

Interoperability, Service Provision & IPR > business models for digitisation programmes

Quality & User requirements > small cultural institutions requirements

Good Practices & Competence Centres > cost reduction for cultural digitisation


MICHAEL Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe

Project supported by the eTEN programme, originally involving Italy, UK and France (currently under preparation the extension to new participants),to establish an international online service, to search, browse and examine multiple national cultural portals (starting with France, Italy, and UK) from a single point of access,based on standards and open source software.


The NRG sustainability

Due to the success achieved in term of impact on the institutions, the NRG is working now on a long term sustainability strategy.

The concrete results of MINERVA should find the way to be further exploited and improved.

Next meetings in Luxembourg (June 2005) and UK (November 2005) will define the programme and organisation for the next years.


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for further informationwww.minervaeurope.org

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