MINERVA network

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Culture OnLine, 5-7.6
MINERVA network
Rossella Caffo
Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali,
Italy
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MINERVA

• Network of policy makers and professionals from
  cultural ministries and national institutions
  (EU)
• Involving all EU MS plus Russia and Israel
• Core concern harmonising the digitisation of
  cultural and scientific content across Europe
• Avoiding fragmentation, minimising duplication,
  enabling long-term accessibility and
  preservation, quality
• Outcome agreed European common recommendations
  and guidelines
• Addressing Digitisation project management,
  Interoperability, Quality, Accessibility and
  Usability of resources, IPR, Inventories and
  Multilingualism, Good practice and competence
  centres

http//www.minervaeurope.org/home.htm
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European framework

• eEurope
• Lund Action Plan
• i2010 strategy for a European information Society
  for growth and employment
• i2010 Digital Libraries
• MINERVA contributes to the creation of the
  European digital library

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The projects

• MINERVA
• Funded by the EC IST 5th FP
• From 2002 until 2005
• 7 EU countries

• MINERVAeC
• Thematic network supported by eContentplus
• From 2006 until 2008
• 21 EU countries
• Coordinated by the Italian Ministry for Cultural
  Heritage

• MINERVAplus
• FP6
• From 2004 until 2006
• 14 EU countries Russia and Israel

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MINERVA objectives

• To improve accessibility to and visibility of
  European digital cultural resources
• To contribute to increasing interoperability
  between existing networks and services, in a
  multilingual context
• To improve the quality of digital cultural
  content and services
• To promote the use of digital cultural resources
  by citizens and business, education and research
• To facilitate exploitation of cultural digital
  resources, providing a clear framework of the
  rules for their use and re-use, respecting and
  protecting the creators rights.

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Approach

• All CH sectors involved
• Integration of libraries, museums, archives,
  other research and cultural institutions
• Share good practices
• Cooperation with other networks
• Monitoring progress
• Tight liaison with the national digitisation
  programmes
• Coordination among and within member states

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MINERVA outcome

• MINERVA network has established a European view
  on policies and programmes
• Developed a set of agreed European
  recommendations and guidelines in the field of
  digitisation and digital access to cultural
  heritage
• MINERVA products support best practice in
  digitisation and the creation of quality cultural
  online services
• All available online. List of MINERVA
  publications at the url
• http//www.minervaeurope.org/publications.htm

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Handbooks and Guidelines
MINERVA MINERVA Plus MINERVA EC
English
English French - Greek-italiano Dutch
German
English- German French Italiano-Estonian-Greek-H
ungarian - Latvian Portuguese- Slovenian
All the publications are available at
www.minervaeurope.org
English
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Digitisation project management
Good practice handbook

• Translations
• German
• French
• Italian
• Estonian
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Latvian
• Portuguese
• Slovenian

More than 150.000 downloads!
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MINERVA in practiceyesterday

• The MINERVA network (2002-2006) elaborated
  guidelines and recommendations shared by the EU
  Member States for the digitisation of cultural
  heritage and online accessibility.
• ADDED VALUE
• Bottom up approach
• All cultural fields involved
• OUTPUTS
• Good practices handbook
• Digitisation guidelines
• Quality tools for cultural web sites (handbooks,
  MuseoWeb)
• Cost reduction in digitisation handbook
• Multilingualism report
• IPR report
• Annual Progress Report

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MINERVA in practicetoday(2006-2008)

• WORKSHOPS AND SEMINARS
• MINERVA tools for digitisation of cultural
  heritage
• Quality of cultural websites
• HANDBOOKS, GUIDELINES AND STUDIES
• IPR guidelines
• Digitisation Guidelines updating
• Study on user needs of cultural websites and
  portals
• European directory of the websites regulatory
  framework
• Map of cultural heritage in Europe
• Annual digitisation report in cooperation with
  the European
• Commission

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MINERVA for Europeana and for the
national portals

• MINERVA eC makes available to Europeana and to
  the national portals all the results obtained
• to use international standards
• to adopt the MINERVA guidedlines, shared at
• European level
• to enhance interoperability and accessibility of
  
• digital content
• to create the conditions to improve the quality
  of
• content and services

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