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cultural heritage in Europecultural heritage in EuropeRossella CaffoRossella Caffo Paris, 12th September Paris, 12th September
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Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activising in digitisation
The MINERVA project is the operative section of a wider framework made up with the Lund Principles, the LUND
Action Plan and the National Representatives Group (NRG)
The MINERVA framework
Lund Meeting – 4th April 2001 Representatives and experts
from the Member States gathered in order to identify
ways in which “a coordination mechanism for digitisation
programmes across the Member States” could be put in place
to stimulate European content on global networks.
National Representatives GroupThe NRG is made up of officially nominated
experts from each Member State. Purposes:• to coordinate digitisation policies and
programmes and to facilitate the adoption and implementation of the Lund Action Plan.
• to monitor progress regarding the objectives encapsulated in the Lund Principles.
The NRG meets every 6 months to share national experiences under the aegis of the presidency in turn.
What is MINERVA
MINERVA is the spreading arm of the National Representatives
Group.It is financed by the European Commission in the ambit of the
IST Programme.It is a network of
Member States’ ministries.
Original Partners• 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 Educaciòn, Cultura y
Deporte)• Sweden (Riksarkivet)• United Kingdom (The Council for
Museums, Archives and Libraries)
New Members•Denmark•Greece•The Netherlands•Austria•Germany• Ireland•Portugal
MINERVA missionThe network has been created to:The network has been created to: to discuss, correlate and harmonise
activities carried out in digitisation of cultural and scientific content;
for creating agreed European common recommendations and guidelines about:
– digitisation, – metadata, – long-term accessibility,– preservation.
ENDORSEMENT
MINERVA has demonstrated to have contributed to the creation of a broad consensus on the European framework. This consensus constitutes the basis for the definition, the validation and the adoption of international standards and guidelines, promoted by governments with the support of the European Commission.
Activities• MINERVA has demonstrated to have
contributed to the creation of a broad consensus on the European framework derived from the e-Europe initiative
• In many countries, under the aegis of MINERVA, many new national programmes of digitisation of cultural heritage started up
• MINERVA has contributed to creating a process of institutional collaboration among the various presidencies of the European Union
How MINERVA works• 5 Working Groups at European level• Publications (guidelines, reports,
etc.)• National Policy Profiles on
digitisation• Workshops• Co-operation with other projects• Harmonising activities• Enlargement of the network• Training courses
The Working Groups
•To provide political and technical framework for improving digitisation activities and scientific contents
•To contribute at the definition of a common European platfoprm for the harmonisation of national initiatives
Working Group: BenchmarkingTo exchange comparable information
between Member States on programmes and policies;
To give visibility to national activities in order to share similar experiences and skills;
To promote the adoption of a benchmarking framework as a key tool for co-ordinating and harmonising national activities as well as to develop measures to show progress and improvement.
Working Group: Inventories, discovery of digitised content,
multilingual issuesTo share experiences, to discuss and to facilitate implementation of common actions concerning:
inventories of past, on-going and planned digitisation projects based on national observatories;
technical infrastructure for coordinated discovery of European digitised cultural and scientific content, including a common set of metadata for description;
multilingual issues;
Analysis of the French model of descriptive standards and its adaptability to the Italian requirements.
Working Group: Interoperability,
Service Provision and IPR • analysing, identifying and evaluating activities on metadata, registries and schemes;
• discussion on standards, conformance testing centres, agreed terminologies, common metadata schema, middleware specifications;
• examination of related legal issues, such as IPR and copyright;
Working Group: User needs, contents and quality
framework•to define quality criteria for the digitised content encourage quality plan in cultural and scientific web sites;
•supporting the initiatives launched by the European Commission with the provision of national digital content;
•encourage training actions in cultural sites, to promote knowledge of multicultural issues.
Working Group: Good practicesAim:
• to select and to promote good practice examples from Member State programmes and projects in order to exchange experiences, skills and to collect consensus from different communities of users.
• First selection presented in Alicante, June 2002
• First MINERVA Handbook on Good Practices to be published during the Italian Presidency.
Network enlargementThe instruments:
• Membership agreementTo formalise the participation of
Ministries in the MINERVA network• Co-operation agreementTo formalise the participation of
interested organisation in the MINERVA Users Group
Minerva Web sitewww.minervaeurope.org
Whose goals are:• To promote the Lund Principles, the
acitivities and the results of the project• To promote the project’s partners• To be a “gate” to other linked
initiatives• To be an essential instrument on Web
quality, digitisation, metadata, long-term preservation, accessibility
TrainingA programme of training courses that uses opendistance learning methodologies has been set
up todiffuse the results of the project. Action lines:1. digitisation: process, cataloguing and
management, including metadata for the preservation;
2. legal aspects: IPR/copyright and data protection;
3. quality: criteria for design and development of cultural Web sites;
4. management of projects and services.
PublicationsMinerva publishes handbooks and guidelines on
digitisation, edited by its working groups, and an annual progress report of the NRG.
Already published• Progress report of the National Representatives
Group 2002 Next publications• Good practice handbook with the collection of the
existing guidelines on digitisation• Handbook for quality in public cultural
applications: criteria, guidelines and basic recommendations
• Collection of the existing laws on IPR• II Progress report of the National
Representatives Group 2003
The Global report
The Global report aims at diffusing MINERVA results to a wide public on politics, programmes, projects on digitisation of cultural and scientific content in the 15 Member States
The handbook on quality• Proposes methods and criteria to join
content quality agreed at European level • Available on Minerva web site• To be presented during the Parma
Conference • Commitment of European Commission and
Member States to adopt the guidelines presented.
• It represents one of the actions to be undertaken to ensure quality of digitisation process and quality of contents.
The good practice handbook
Provides useful information to the establishment, execution and management of digitisation projects.
It is a reasoned organisation of data collected across Europe until May 2002 and it is enriched with a selection of existing guidelines on digitisation.
New toolsThe Newsletter:The subscription to the English
newsletter is now possible through the MINERVA web site: a constant updating about the MINERVA news.
The MINERVA mailing list:Soon available, the MINERVA mailing list
will distribute information to users interested in the digitisation issues
The “rolling agenda”
In order to guarantee the continuity of the initiatives undertaken, the past, present and future presidencies of the EU commonly define the so-called “rolling agenda”.
Italian Presidency Events 1Minerva participation• Florence, 16th-17th October: International
Conference on Long Term Preservation of Digital Memories (organised by the MiBAC - DG for Libraries, in cooperation with MINERVA)
• Naples, 23rd-24th October: seminar Territorial information systems for the conservation, preservation and management of Cultural Heritage (organised by the MiBAC - DG for Archaeology, in cooperation with MINERVA)
Italian Presidency Events 2
MINERVA organisation• Rome, 29th October: workshop Digitisation:
what to do and how to do it (in cooperation with AIB)
• Parma, 19th November: NRG meeting
• Parma, 20th-21st November: International Conference Quality for Cultural Web Sites (organised with MiBAC, City of Parma, Emilia-Romagna region, Parma local authorities, University of Parma)
The Parma ConferenceQuality in cultural Web sites - Online Cultural
Heritage for Research, Education and Cultural Tourism Communities
The conference intends to debate the main themes connected to the aspects of the online accessibility of cultural heritage to facilitate its access to a wider public all over the world, and to promote the development and valorisation of cultural tourism services.
• I session: Accessibility and communication: principles - best practices
• II session: Guidelines on quality for cultural Web sites
• III session: IPR, copyright and data protection
The poster session
The poster session “Web quality for culture” is already open:
1. Content quality for cultural Web Site
2. Accessibility 3. IPR issues 4. Communication and language
… and MinervaPLUS
• MINERVAplus intends to enlarge the existing network to extend its dimension to the new countries accessing the Union in 2004, Russia, and Israel
• The project was approved on the occasion of last callof the 6FP
