International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and TechnologyLisbon, 11th May 2004

Minerva &MinervaPLUSBenefits for Cultural

Institutions and Industries

Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and TechnologyLisbon, 11th May 2004

- Set of publications focusing on good practices, guidelines, recommendations, quality principles to be used

- Actrivation of national Working groups, to share experiences with transnational colleagues

- Development of new and impulse of running digitisation programmes at national level

- Organisation of training materials available on the web, to set-up a transnational virtual classroom

Outputs for Cultural Institutions

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and TechnologyLisbon, 11th May 2004

An eLearning platform was set-up, to allow people to access training materials and communicate with European colleagues.

Two learning materials have been already developed and are going to be put on the platform:

- Quality principles for web sites in the cultural sector

- Technical guidelines for digital cultural content creation programmes

The first materials

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and TechnologyLisbon, 11th May 2004

The 10 principles to be used when implementing a cultural web site. A quality cultural website must be:

Quality principles for web sites 1

Transparent

Effective

Maintained

Accessible

User-

centred

Responsive

Multi-lingual

Interoperable

Managed

Preserved

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and TechnologyLisbon, 11th May 2004

General definitions, principles, recommendations (Principles, Policies and Strategies)

Quality in web applications (Accessing the contents, Usability criteria, Patterns)

The Minerva Model for cultural web applications (Archives, Libraries, Museums, Archaeological sites, Research and training centres, Cultural projects, Temporary exhibitions, etc.)

Quality principles for web sites 2

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and TechnologyLisbon, 11th May 2004

Preparation for digitisation (Hardware, Software, Environment)

Handling of originals (Choice of digitisation hardware, Appropriate movement and manipulation of original material, Staff training)

The digitisation process (Scanning, Photography, Optical Character Recognition, Sound capture,Video capture, 3D capture)

Storage and management of the digital master material (File formats, Media choices, Migration strategies)

Technical guidelines 1

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and TechnologyLisbon, 11th May 2004

Metadata creation/capture (The scope of the metadata, Appropriate standards)

Publication (Processing for delivery, 3D and Virtual Reality Issues, Geographic Information Systems, Web Sites)

DisclosureRe-use and re-purposing (Learning

Resource Creation)IPR and Copyright (Establishing Copyright,

Safeguarding Copyright, e-Commerce)

Technical guidelines 2

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and TechnologyLisbon, 11th May 2004

The eLearning platform

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and TechnologyLisbon, 11th May 2004

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International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and TechnologyLisbon, 11th May 2004

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and TechnologyLisbon, 11th May 2004

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and TechnologyLisbon, 11th May 2004

will be available soon on the Minerva web site:

http://www.minervaeurope.org

The eLearning platform

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and TechnologyLisbon, 11th May 2004

Many thanks for your attention