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1Giuliana De Francesco, MiBAC CIDOC 2005 - Zagreb

MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisationActivities in digitisation

MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisationActivities in digitisation

CIDOC 2005CIDOC 2005Zagreb, 24-27 MayZagreb, 24-27 May

Towards an Agreed European Platform for Towards an Agreed European Platform for Digitisation of Cultural and Scientific HeritageDigitisation of Cultural and Scientific HeritageTowards an Agreed European Platform for Towards an Agreed European Platform for Digitisation of Cultural and Scientific HeritageDigitisation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage

Giuliana De Francesco Giuliana De Francesco Ministero per i beni e le attività culturaliMinistero per i beni e le attività culturali


MINERVA frameworkMINERVA frameworkeEurope Initiative (december 1999)

• to foster the Internet and new economy across Europe

• allow citizens to participate in the information society

eEurope Action Plan (June 2000)3d) European digital cultural content for global networks

meeting of experts and representatives of EU Member States to stimulate European cultural content for global networks

Lund Principles

Lund Meeting, 4 April 2001


Lund PrinciplesLund PrinciplesDigitisation of heritage resources crucial to:

•provide improved access to cultural heritage•preserve Europe's collective cultural heritage•sustain cultural diversity in a global environment

•also key resource for education and for the tourism and media industries

To achieve eEurope objectives:• ongoing forum for coordination of digitisation policies • support a European view on policies and programmes• exchange and promote good practices, guidelines and skills

• work in a collaborative manner to make visible and accessible the digitised cultural heritage of Europe


NRG: representatives appointed by Member States’ authorities

• to coordinate digitisation policies and programmes • to guarantee a close relationship between the Ministries or

other governmental institutions and the EC• to assure that EC policies and programmes have a

widespread diffusion in every country• to be the voice of national policies and programmes at

European level – to allow visibility to national initiatives

The NRG meets every 6 months co-chaired by the rotating EU Presidency and the EC

National Representatives GroupNational Representatives Group


A network of Member States’ Ministries:• to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities in

digitisation of cultural and scientific content• to create a common European platform made up of

agreed recommendations, guidelines and standards • to promote awareness and exchange of

experiences and skills at European level to enlarge the network and establish further

international cooperation

MINERVA is a collaborate operative framework for implementing Lund Action Plan and organising its working groups (support to NRG)

MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisationValorising Activities in digitisation


MINERVAMINERVAFunded by the EC IST 5th FP (2002–2005)

Started with 8 partners, representing 7 countries:

Italy, coordinator (Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali)

Belgium (Ministère de la communauté française)

Finland (University of Helsinky)

France (Ministère de la culture et de la communication)

Spain (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte)

Sweden (Riksarkivet)

United Kingdom (Museums, Archives and Libraries Council)


MINERVA PlusMINERVA PlusFunded by EC IST 6th FP (2004-2005)

Enlarges the network including NAS countries, sharing MINERVA objectives

18 partners representing 14 countriesAustria Czech Republic

Estonia Germany

Greece Hungary

Ireland Israel

Italy Malta

Poland Portugal

Russia Slovenia


MINERVA NetworkMINERVA NetworkThe remaining 6 EU countries:

have a membership agreement and take part on a regular basis to NRG and MINERVA activities

• MINERVA is a network of the 25 EU Member States’ ministries + Russia and Israel

• Italy coordinates the network

Cyprus

Denmark

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

The Netherlands


NRG – Charter of ParmaNRG – Charter of Parma

Charter of Parma • strategic document, continues and

supports Lund Principles• approved at the 5th NRG meeting

in Parma (2003)

Printed: eng – fre - itaOnline: eng – fre – ger – gre – ita – slk

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

charterparma031119final.htm


Charter of Parma - ArticlesCharter of Parma - Articles

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


Progress report of the National Progress report of the National Representatives Group Representatives Group Coordinating Coordinating Digitisation in EuropeDigitisation in Europe

1st (2002)http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/ globalreport/globalrep2002.htm

2nd (2003) includes contributions from NAS, Israel and Russiahttp://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/

globalreport/globalrep2003.htm

3rd (2004) under print

NRG Global Report NRG Global Report


MINERVA technical WPsMINERVA technical WPs

• WP3 Inventories, discovery of digitised content, multilingualism issues

• WP4 Interoperability, service provision, IPR

• WP5 User needs, quality framework for common access points

• WP6 Good practice and competence centres


WP3 Inventories and multilingualismWP3 Inventories and multilingualism

Inventories, discovery of digitised content, multilingualism issues

MINERVA+ specific topic: multilingual thesauri

Key issues:• Inventories of digital content and digitisation

projects needed both for management and strategic issues and to enable access to European scientific and cultural digital contents

• Multilingualism issues


Inventories productsInventories products

Specifications for Inventories of Digitised Content

• metadata set for inventories of digital collections• Definition of a data model and a metadata set for

invetories of digital content


Inventories productsInventories products

French-Italian Prototype Portal of Digital French-Italian Prototype Portal of Digital CollectionsCollections

•Specifications implemented through the open source platform used by the French Inventory project

MICHAEL: a MINERVA spin-off projectMICHAEL: a MINERVA spin-off project


WP4 InteroperabilityWP4 Interoperability

Interoperability, service provision, IPRMINERVA+ specific topic: business models for

digitisation programmes

Key issues:

• Technical and metadata standards to support interoperability, long term preservation, access, security of digital resources

Recommendations on OAI

DC.Culture

• IPR Round Tables


Interoperability productsInteroperability products

Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content Creation ProgrammesContent Creation ProgrammesIn print: eng – fre – itaOnline: eng – fre http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/ technicalguidelines.htm

• not a single prescriptive set of requirements to which all projects must conform

• identify areas where there is broad agreement–Flexible, context-specific requirements might be built–Conceived for policy-makers and funding programmes–Can be used for self-assessment by projects


Interoperability productsInteroperability products

• Preparation for digitisation (Hardware, Software, Environment)

• Handling of originals

• The digitisation process

• Storage and management of the digital master material (File formats,Preservation strategies)

• Metadata creation/capture• Publication (Delivery formats,

3D and Virtual Reality Issues, GIS, websites)

• Disclosure of resources (Metadata harvesting, Distributed searching)

• Re-use and re-purposing (Learning resource creation)

• Intellectual property rights and Copyright (Identifying, recording and managing IPR, Safeguarding IPR)

TG structure: ‘life cycle’ approach


WP5 QualityWP5 QualityIdentification of user needs, quality framework for common access points

MINERVA+ specific topic: small cultural institutions requirements

Key steps:• Brussels Quality Framework (December 2001)• Parma Quality Conference (November 2003)• Berlin Quality Conference (April 2005)


Handbook for Quality in Cultural Websites: Handbook for Quality in Cultural Websites: Improving Quality for CitizensImproving Quality for CitizensVersion 1.2 – Draft, November 2003 Printed: eng - itaOnline: eng – ita http://www.minervaeurope.org/ publications/ qualitycriteria.htm

Quality products - 1Quality products - 1

• Focussed on content- Intelligent use of the Web as an effective

mean for the communication of culture - Quality as the result of interaction

between cultural organisations and users- Accessibility and usability



Cultural Website Quality Principles Cultural Website Quality Principles “A quality cultural website celebrates European cultural diversity by providing access for all to digital cultural content”A quality website must be:

responsive multilingual interoperablemanaged preserved

transparent effective maintained accessible user centred


Ten Principle CardsTen Principle CardsPrinted: eng – fre - ger – hol - itaOnline: eng - fre - gre – spa – est – hun – ita – slo - slk http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/tenqualityprinciples.htm

Front page: 10 Quality PrinciplesBack page: Short explanation



Quality Principles for Cultural Websites: Quality Principles for Cultural Websites: a Handbooka Handbook (2005)

Printed: eng; fre and ita under preparationOnline: eng – gre – hun http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/qualitycommentary_en.htm

• A set of practical and pragmatic criteria • Can be used to gain further insight into the compliance with the Principles• A checklist, based on the critera, can be used in assessing the website



Museo&Web - Planning Kit for a Quality Museo&Web - Planning Kit for a Quality Site for Small and Medium Sized MuseumsSite for Small and Medium Sized Museums

• Based on – Quality handbooks– W3C accessibility guidelines

• Will follow:- Planning kit for schools - Planning kit for libraries

Quality products - Practical toolsQuality products - Practical tools


WP6 Good PracticeWP6 Good Practice

Good practice and competence centres MINERVA+ specific topic: digitisation cost reduction

Key issues:• Identification of competence and advisory centres on

digitisation• Promotion of good practices developed within Member

State programmes and project– First selection of good practices (2002)– New campaign started 2004. Submission forms available

on MINERVA website


Good practice productsGood practice products

Good Practice HandbookPrinted: eng, fre, itaOnline: ger – eng – gre - Fr – It – Por – Slk http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure/workinggroups/goodpract/document/goodpractices1_3.htm

• A practical handbook to the establishment, execution and management of digitisation projects

• Target: teams within and across cultural institutions planning, or executing, digitisation projects

• Complemented by the collection of existing guidelines on digitisation, available online in MINERVA website


International cooperation: International cooperation: cultural networkscultural networks

Coordination between the European cultural networks in the field of digital culture promoted by MINERVA aiming at:

• Sharing knowledge and exchanging experience• Merging efforts together to maximise the impact of the individual projects• Adopting common standards and agendas• Avoiding duplication of effort and waste of resources• Evolving towards a common European research area

Cooperation has been established with: BRICKS – CALIMERA – DELOS – DIGICULT – EMII DCF – EPOCH – ERPANET - EUROMED HERITAGE II – EVA – HEREIN – MINERVA – MUSICNETWORK –PRESTOSPACE - SCRAN


Information for All Programme (IFAP)– MINERVA participation to IFAP St. Petersburg and

Petropavlovsk annual conferences– MINERVA participation in the IFAP board meeting

(October 2004)

•MEDCULT project, for dissemination of MINERVA products within Arab-speaking Mediterranean countries of the STRABON network, approved by IFAP board (April 2005)

International cooperation: UNESCOInternational cooperation: UNESCO


Regional Bureau for Science in Europe – ROSTE

• Joint organisation of the SEE Regional Meeting on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage (Ohrid, 17-20 March 2005), in cooperation with the FYROM Ministry of Culture

• Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYROM, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro

Set of Recommendations on digitisation of cultural heritage in South-Eastern Europe that will be adopted as an official UNESCO document

International cooperation: UNESCOInternational cooperation: UNESCO


Ohrid outcomeOhrid outcome

• Proposal of training actions on digitisation in South-Eastern Europe

• Supported by MINERVA

• Submitted to EC in the framework of Marie Curie programme for knowledge transfer


contact details:contact details:

Find out more!Find out more!

www.minervaeurope.orgwww.minervaeurope.org

[email protected]@beniculturali.it

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