Antonella Fresa

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DIGITAL HERITAGE International Conference VSMM
2008 Limassol, Cyprus
MICHAEL / MINERVA workshop 23 October, 2008

• Antonella Fresa
• Technical Coordinator

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MICHAEL and MINERVA from the LUND Principles to
EUROPEANA

• MINERVA
• MINERVA Plus
• MINERVA-EC ATHENA
• MICHAEL
• MICHAEL Plus

IST - FP5 FP6
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The projects phases
RD initial
deploym. full depl.
MICHAEL Plus
Catalogue des fonds culturels numérises (FR)
MICHAEL
ATHENA,
eEurope .. i2010 ..
European Digital Library
MINERVA, MINERVA Plus, MINERVA-EC
2002 ............. 06/2004 ...........
05/2006 .. 05/2008
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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

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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

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MINERVA-EC

• Thematic Network
• Supported under eContentplus
• Started on 1st October 2006
• Completed on 30th September 2008
• Coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Culture
• 22 EU countries
• More than 150 cultural institutions from all over
  Europe

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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.

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MINERVA-EC approach

• MinervaEC followed the approach of the previous
  MINERVA / MINERVA Plus projects
• a tight liaison with the national digitisation
  policies
• the implementation of the results achieved into
  new initiatives (e.g. MICHAEL, MICHAEL Plus,
  ATHENA)
• the involvement of experts from all the cultural
  institutions (museums, libraries, archives etc.)
• the cooperation with the other networks

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MINERVA-EC targets

• Beneficiaries 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.

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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
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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

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Directory of European and national rules on web
applications
First release 2004 http//www.minervaeurope.org/pu
blications/ qualitycriteria1_2draft/appendix4.htm
New release 2008 Update and addition of new
Member States national rules http//www.minervaeu
rope.org/eu_nat_webapplications.html edited by
the Research Staff of the Italian Senate Library
in co-operation with European Parliamentary
Libraries
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www.minervaeurope.org gt Directory
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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
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National workshops

• 15 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

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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

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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.
• MINERVA
• MINERVA Plus
• MINERVA-EC
• three projects belonging to the same European
  initiative

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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.

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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

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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
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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
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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
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MICHAEL Users

• many different user communities
• education
• cultural tourism
• research
• co-ordination
• and computers networks

MINERVA Study on the User Needs
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The future

• MINERVA 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 programme
• ATHENA 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.

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