Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia Antonella Fresa Limassol, 23/10/2008 Antonella Fresa Technical Coordinator MICHAEL / MINERVA workshop 23 October, 2008

Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 SofiaAntonella Fresa Limassol, 23/10/2008

Antonella FresaTechnical Coordinator

MICHAEL / MINERVA workshop23 October, 2008

DIGITAL HERITAGE: International Conference VSMM 2008

Limassol, Cyprus


MICHAEL and MINERVA: from the LUND Principles to

EUROPEANA

MINERVA

MINERVA Plus

MINERVA-EC ATHENA

MICHAEL

MICHAEL Plus

Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia

R&D initial deploym. full depl.

MICHAEL Plus

The projects phases

Catalogue des fonds culturels numérises (FR)

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

MICHAEL

MINERVA, MINERVA Plus, MINERVA-EC

ATHENA, …

eEurope …………….. i2010 ……………….. 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 at a glance

Aligned with eEurope

Implementing the Lund Action Plan

In synergy with the National Representatives Group (NRG)

5 working groups:

Benchmarking

Inventories of digital content

Interoperability and IPR

Quality and user needs

Best practices and Competence Centres


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


MINERVA-EC

Thematic NetworkSupported under eContentplus Started on 1st October 2006Completed on 30th September 2008

Coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Culture

22 EU countriesMore than 150 cultural institutions from all

over Europe


MINERVA-EC objectives

• Aligned with and Europeana

• 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.


MINERVA-EC approach

MinervaEC followed the approach of the previous MINERVA / MINERVA Plus projects:

a. a tight liaison with the national digitisation policies

b. the implementation of the results achieved into new initiatives (e.g. MICHAEL, MICHAEL Plus, ATHENA)

c. the involvement of experts from all the cultural institutions (museums, libraries, archives etc.)

d. the cooperation with the other networks


MINERVA-EC 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.


Translation of Handbooks Guidelines and Reports from Minerva / Minerva Plus continued

during MINERVA-EC

All the publications are available at: minervaeurope.org

Hundreds of cultural institutions are continuing to download the MINERVA products to support their daily work in digitisation


MinervaEC publications

• 2 Annual Reports (2008 in cooperation with EC)

• 5 Thematic studies: Technical guidelines v.2 Handbook on cultural web user interaction IPR guidelines Directory of the European legislation v.2 Initial study on the map of the cultural

heritage sector in Europe


First release 2004

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

qualitycriteria1_2draft/appendix4.htm

New release 2008

Update and addition of new Member States

national rules

http://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…


Content 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


National workshops15 National workshops held in 2 years to promote MINERVA and to illustrate its tools and publications

• 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

• Vienna, 25/8/2008

• Brussels, 19/09/2008


MinervaEC international 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 in September 2008


The MINERVA initiative

MinervaEC continued the work undertaken by MINERVA and MINERVA Plus towards the elaboration of a platform of recommendations, guidelines and tools for digitisation.

MINERVAMINERVA PlusMINERVA-EC

three projects belonging to the same European initiative


MINERVA andEUROPEANA

MINERVA 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 successives,

the Council Conclusions of November 2006 and the new Concil Conclusions that are currently under finalisation

MINERVA contributes to the creation of the European digital library.


MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus deploying MINERVA results

• 2 deployment projects: 2004 - 2008

• Supported by eTEN

• Currently involving 20 EU countries

• Based on the metadata standard for cultural inventories developed by MINERVA

• MICHAEL Culture Association to continue the operation of the MICHAEL services beyond the EC funding period

• MICHAEL Culture Association is a member of EUROPEANA Foundation within its Executive Committee


Cross-domain approach

MICHAEL data model is conceived for describing digital collections belonging to every sector of cultural heritage

MICHAEL is designed to provide integrated online access to the whole European cultural heritage

MINERVA:

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


Policy links

• MICHAEL has strong policy links• Its success 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:

Ability to interact with Ministries, Presidencies and other political stakeholders


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


MINERVA: Study on the User Needs

MICHAEL Users

• many different user communities– education– cultural tourism– research– ‘co-ordination’– and computers & networks …


The futureMINERVA and MICHAEL are now completed projects.

The next project is ATHENA, currently under negotiation.ATHENA is 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.

New initiatives will follow in the frame of the ICT-PSP programme of CIP.


Thank you for your attention

www.minervaeurope.org

[email protected]

Documents

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