Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia Antonella Fresa Technical Coordinator MinervaEC MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation, eContent

Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia

Antonella FresaTechnical Coordinator

MinervaECMInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation,

eContentplus Supporting the European Digital Library

MinervaEC Bulgaria National WorkshopSofia, February 26, 2008


MinervaEC: the project

Thematic NetworkSupported under eContentplus Started on 1st October 2006Duration: 2 years

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, MICHAEL Plus and ATHENA 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.


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


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


MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus deploying MINERVA results

• 2 deployment projects

• Supported by eTEN

• Involving 18 EU countries

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

• Aimed to build a unique multilingual access point to the digital collections of museums, libraries and archives in Europe

• Total investment: ˜90 million €


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


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


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:

– Institutions– Projects / programmes– Services / products– Physical collections

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


MICHAEL European portal

• Launched December 2006

• Periodical harvesting of the published national instances

http://www.michael-culture.org/


MICHAEL national portals

FR

1450 digital collections

500 institutions

250 services-products

IT 2588 digital collections

1396 institutions

1404 services/products

1520 physical collections

423 projects/programs

UK

766 digital collections

616 services

321 projects

306 institutions


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

new initiatives: ATHENA, EDL-Local, etc.

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


MinervaEC 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.


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.


MinervaEC 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, MICHAEL Plus, ATHENA)

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.)


MinervaEC publications

• 2 Annual Reports (the edition 2008 is ongoing, under the direct coordination of EC)

• 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


MinervaEC national workshops

National workshops in each partner country to promoter 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• …..


MinervaEC project meetings

• Working groups meetings:– Rome, 5/12/2006– Berlin, 20/6/2007

• Plenary meetings in cooperation with the EU Presidencies:

– Helsinki, 12 October 2006– Berlin, 23 February 2007– Ljubljana, 5-6 June 2008– Paris, 27 November 2008 (final event)


The futureMinervaEC will last until September 2008

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 programmeCurrently under negotiation, it will last for the next 2 years, with the participation of many partners from all over Europe.The Academy of Science is partner of ATHENA.


ATHENA objectives

• to reinforce the participation of Museums and other institutions coming from the sectors of Cultural Heritage that are not yet getting enough involved in the creation of the EDL;

• to contribute to the integration of the different sectors of cultural heritage promoting standards and guidelines, in order to harmonise their contributions to the EDL;

• to develop a set of plug-ins to be integrated within the EDL, facilitating the access to and the re-use of digital contents belonging to European cultural institutions museums, libraries and archives.


Next appointments

19 March, Luxembourg: MinervaEC National Workshop

18 April, Florence: MinervaEC workshop in the frame of EVA Florence

19-20 May, Warsaw: MICHAEL International Conference

23 May 2008, London: MICHAEL UK Conference

5-6 June 2008, Ljubljana: International conference on media and digital cultural heritage, under the aegis of the Slovenian Presidency of the EU

25 August, Vienna: MinervaEC National Workshop, in the frame of EVA Vienna

November 2008: International conference on the European Digital Library, under the aegis of the French Presidency of EU

Second Half 2008: launch of ATHENA Best Practice Network


Thank you for your attention

www.minervaeurope.org

[email protected]

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Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia Antonella Fresa Technical Coordinator MinervaEC MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation, eContent