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MinervaEC: Standards and Guidelines for Digitisaion in a EU FrameworkVienna - 25 August, 2008

MinervaEC: Standards and Guidelines for Digitisation in

a European Framework

EVA Vienna 2008

Antonella FresaMINERVA Technical Coordinator


MinervaEC: the project

Thematic NetworkSupported under eContentplus Started on 1st October 2006Lasting until end of September 2008

Coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Culture

22 EU countriesMore than 150 cultural institutions from all

over Europe


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 ATHENA projects.

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

MinervaEC contributes to EUROPEANA.


MINERVA and MINERVA Plus main results

Annual 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

MinervaEC: Standards and Guidelines for Digitisaion in a EU FrameworkVienna - 25 August, 2008Antonella Fresa Warsaw, 20/5/2008

MICHAEL to deploy MINERVA results

• MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus: 2 deployment projects lasted between 2004 – 2008, supported by eTEN

• MICHAEL service currently involves 20 EU countries

• The MICHAEL Culture Association has been established in 2007 to manage the MICHAEL services

• MICHAEL implementation is based on the metadata standard for cultural inventories developed by MINERVA


MINERVA: Study on the User Needs

MICHAEL Users

• many different user communities– education

– cultural tourism

– research

– ‘co-ordination’

– and computers …


MICHAEL actors and roles• Ministries of culture:

coordination and financing

• Central cultural institutes: standardisation and guidelines

• Technology providers: software implementation

• Regions and Universities: surveys and local coordination of the cataloguers

• The actual cultural institutions on the territory: museums, libraries and archives to provide content

MINERVA: model for cooperation and quality framework


Policy links

• MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus have strong policy links

• The success of the initiative is based on the actual political commitment at national and European levels

• Main targeted policy domains:– Culture & multilingualism– Education & training– Research & innovation– Tourism & economic

development

MINERVA: support to the political dimension


Cross-domain approach

MICHAEL data model is suitable for describing digital collections belonging to every sector of cultural heritage and for recording related and context information

MICHAEL aimed since the beginning at giving integrated access to the whole European cultural heritage through the Internet

MINERVA: Involvement of all the cultural domain, museums, libraries and archives


R&D initial deploym. full depl.

MICHAEL Plus

The projects phases

Catalogue des fonds culturels numérises

(FR)

2002 ………............. 06/2004 …...........… 05/2006 .. ………………………. 06/2008

MICHAEL

MINERVA, MINERVA Plus, MINERVA-EC

ATHENA, …

eEurope …………….. i2010 ……………….. European Digital Library EUROPEANA


MinervaEC publications

• 2 Annual Reports (the edition 2008 is in progress)

• 5 Thematic studies: 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


MinervaEC national workshops

15 National workshops all over Europe and beyond:

• Brussels, 24/4/2007

• Santiago de Compostela, 11/5/2007

• Poprad, 2/10/2007

• Vilnius, 4/10/2007

• Tallin, 18-19/10/2007

• Riga, 30/10/2007

• Bratislava, 12-13/11/2007

• Jerusalem, 20-21/11/2007

• Sofia, 26/02/2008

• Warsaw, 20/5/2008

• Belfast, 22/5/2008

• Athens, 29/5/2008

• Ljubljana, 6/6/2008

• Today in Vienna

• then: Brussels, 19/9/2008


MinervaEC meetings• Working groups meetings:

– Rome, 5/12/2006– Berlin, 20/6/2007– Tenerife, 1-3/6/2008 – cooperation to the workshop Semantic

Interoperability in the European Digital Library

• Plenary meetings in cooperation with the EU Presidencies:

– Helsinki, 12 October 2006– Berlin, 23 February 2007– Ljubljana, 5-6 June 2008

Final conference in Leipzig,

25-26 September 2008


An overview of the products


MINERVA – MINERVA Plus – MINERVA EC

Handbooks and Guidelines

English- German – French

Italiano-Estonian-Greek-Hungarian - Latvian Portuguese- Slovenian

English

English – French - Greek-

italiano – Dutch – German

English

All the publications are available at: www.minervaeurope.org


Technical Guidelines (2004)

•For policy-makers and funding programmes for the creation of digital cultural content

•Propose the adoption of standards as the foundation for interoperability of resources and the creation of services for integrated access

•Technical standards support:

– Interoperability

– Access

– Preservation

– Security

Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes


• Identify areas where there is broad agreement

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

– can be used flexibly by Programme Managers

– can be used for self-assessment by projects

• Reflect a ‘life cycle’ approach to the digitisation process

– paralleled in MINERVA Good Practice Handbook

• Divided into 10 sections matching life cycle stages



Digitisation life cycle

• Digitisation project planning

• Selection of material and preparation for digitisation

• Handling of originals

• HW, SW, digitisation process

• Digital master: storage and management

• Metadata

• Publication

• Disclosure/Use of resources

• IPR, re-use, re-purposing



Why:

• New and updated standards

• Standards which have failed

• Accompanying resources which are no longer available

• Impact of Web 2.0


Updates To Version 2

Technical Guidelines (2008)Technical Guidelines (2008)Technical Guidelines (2008)


Web 2.0:• Significant change since version 1 • Benefits:

– Simple light weight standards– Popularity of many Web 2.0 services– Popularity of ‘social’ services– Agility of light weight developments

• Challenges:– Risk assessment– Risk management

Impact of Web 2.0



Guidelines on 3D and Virtual Reality (under preparation)

• Focus: Standards and methods for acquisition, storage and visual display of digital three-dimensional models for objects or scenes of cultural interest

Complementary to Technical Guidelines


Context:

• Progress in the development of digital 3D graphics and visualization tools, both HW and SW

• Decrease of their cost

• Foreseen increase of 3D digitisation by cultural institutions

• Need for guidance to the institutions

• Prepare a training route for people in charge

Guidelines on 3D and virtual reality


Goals:• Identify standards and provide guidelines for planning,

designing, carrying out, documenting, publishing and communicating multimedia 3D projects and resources

• Cover:

– 3D scanning of physical objects

– 3D modelling (born digital 3D content created with computer graphics systems)

• Make a census of the 3D realisations and identify good practices, according the different project objectives (education, research, communication to the public, etc.)

Guidelines on 3D and virtual reality


MINERVAeC IPR Guide

• For the use of cultural heritage institutions which are digitising cultural material and publishing it online, or are considering doing so.

• Objective: To provide pragmatic, concise advice to cultural heritage institutions on the topic of intellectual

property rights, as it impacts on digitisation projects. • Summarize, update and re-organise materials produced by

MINERVA on IPR

• Method: Experts to write Table of Content and give feedback. Professional writer appointed to draft the actual guide.


• N. Korn, Guide to intellectual property rights and other legal issues

• MINERVAplus Interim Draft Report 4.1: Inspection of the European legislation regarding Intellectual Property Rights

• MINERVAplus National IPR legislation reports (Greece, Hungary, Russia)

• Report on interoperability, IPR and service provision: Business models and sustainable approaches (MINERVAplus D. 7, intranet)

• A. Hamber, N. Garnett, A report for MINERVA on the issues surrounding the exploitation of MLA digital content, within wide ranging “learning” contexts, both formal and informal

• WP4-IPR Italy: Tutela dei dati e dei diritti di proprietà intellettuale in relazione all’accesso in rete al patrimonio culturale. Prime considerazioni

MINERVAeC IPR Guide


• Two main sections, corresponding to the two key points where Intellectual Property Rights impact on digitisation projects:– Rights clearance: Permission must be obtained from rights holders to

digitise and publish must be obtained

– Publication: The rights of rights holders and of the cultural heritage institution must be protected during the online publication of the digitised material.

• For each section, a range of background information is provided.

• Guidelines on how a digitisation project should respond to this background information are then provided.

• Information is complemented by reference to relevant Web resources

MINERVAeC IPR Guide


• A mailing list has been created to facilitate exchange of comments among the experts: [email protected]

• Necessary to register in order to be able to post

• Please send an email asking to get inscribed to the list to:

[email protected]

@

MINERVAeC IPR Guide


First release 2004http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/qualitycriteria1_2draft/appendix4.htm

New release June 2008Update and addition of new Member States national ruleshttp://www.minervaeurope.org/eu_nat_webapplications.html

edited by the Research Staff of the Italian Senate Library in co-operation with European Parliamentary Libraries

Directory of European and national rules on web applications


www.minervaeurope.org > Directory…


Contents of the Directory

What?• normative or strategic documents

Who?• by public sources• addressed to public agencies

Why? • relevant to Web applications

When?

• since 1995• in force, or relevant to the evolution of policies


The technical realisation of this model follows the guidelines of:Handbook for Quality in Cultural Web SitesEuropean principles for quality in a cultural Web site

Museo & Web is organised into four parts:1) Structure and Contents of the Prototypes2) Tutorial3) Quality Control4) Content Management System

Museo & Web


Open Source platform

English and Italian administration interface

Museo & Web


Key messages:Quality must be planned into a website from

the start of the projectThe user is critical – involve him at every stage Relationships with other resources must be

considered: online (interoperability) and future

(long term preservation)

Handbook on cultural web user interaction


The users: who are they in 2008?

Some definitions: • hybrid individual• transceiver (transmitter + receiver)• prosumer (producer + consumer) = information recipient and provider of its own contents

Different terms characterize the many user’s activities and behaviours on the web: consumer / client / audienceuser / surfer / viewerplayer / clicker / downloader / streamer


Another type of user...

Non human users/agents:

robots, spiders, crawlers, harvesters…

This variety of definitions reflects an articulated offer of contents and applications in the new media environment


To help the designer of a cultural web site to answers to some questions such as:

What do users want?

How do users behave?

How can we understand the use they make of our web applications?

Do effective methods exist to ask users about their expectations (before) and their degree of satisfaction (after)?

Handbook on cultural web user interaction


The futureMinervaEC will last until end of September 2008

The next project is ATHENA, a Best Practice Network, coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Culture and supported by the EC in the frame of eContentplus programmeATHENA will last for the next 2 years, with the participation of many partners from all over Europe to contribute to

New initiatives are under preparation in the frame of the 2009 call of ICT-PSP programme of CIP.


Thank you for your attention

www.minervaeurope.org

Antonella Fresa, Technical [email protected]

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Documents

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eu framework vienna

minerva results michael

minerva plus

michael plus

quality framework slide

eu countries

council conclusions