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From Minerva to Europeana - a process of
increasing access to European cultural heritage
supported by eContentplus
by Julianna Mátrai Head of International
Relations and Tender Department Hungarian Radio
(MR)
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Point of departure scope of the presentation

• The need of digital preservation of national
  cultural heritage
• Thanks to the efforts on national level, great
  number of digital collections emerged, but often
• without on line access
• technologies and meta data systems used were not
  compatible and interoperable
• Efforts were not coordinated

• Therefore on 30 September 2005 the European
  Commission published the i2010 communication on
  digital libraries, to promote and support the
  creation of a European digital library, as a
  strategic goal within the European Information
  Society i2010 Initiative, which aims to foster
  growth and jobs in the information society and
  media industries.
• The European Commission's goal for Europeana is
  to make European information resources easier to
  use in an online environment.
• It will build on Europe's rich heritage,
  combining multicultural and multilingual
  environments with technological advances and new
  business models

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Digitization - Europeana extension of
Europeana

• This presentation is going to outline
• eContentplus and its follow up programmes as
  useful instruments of the European Commission to
  reach its objective to foster growth and jobs in
  the information society and media industries
• Projects are going to be introduced only to an
  extent of highlighting the process towards the
  realization of the Community objectives, and the
  problems to be solved during this process.
• Minerva as coordinated national actions aiming
  at digitization
• EDL/TEL/Michael/Europeana (consortia) the core
  concepts of European Digital Library
• Projects aiming at the extension of Europeana,
  with special regard to Athena (collaboration
  among consortia)

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eContentplus

• Main objectives of eContentplus were to make
  digital content in Europe
• more accessible,
• more usable,
• and more exploitable.
• The multi-annual programme was launched in 2005
  and expired on 31 December last year.
• It had measures in the areas of
• Geographic information
• Educational content
• Digital libraries

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Community programmes following eContentplus I.

• Information and Communications Technologies (ICT)
  Policy Support Programme ("ICT PSP")
• http//ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities
  /ict_psp/index_en.html
• Competitiveness and Innovation Framework
  Programme (2007-2013) ("CIP"), http//ec.europa.eu
  /cip/index_en.htm
• In 2009, measures will cover
• Digital Libraries
• EUR 25 million for funding services, aggregating
  or digitising content for Europeana, open access
  to scientific content and use of cultural
  heritage material for education.
• (Information Day on 17 February 2009 in
  Luxembourg)

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Community programmes following eContentplus II.
Multilingual Web EUR 14 million for funding
projects and networks aiming at machine
translation for the Multilingual Web
Multilingual Web content development and
management Best practices and standards for the
Multilingual Web. Language Technology Days about
the above objectives as well as of Objective 2.2
Language based Interaction of the fourth FP7-ICT
call for proposals, on 14-15 January 2009 in
Luxembourg. http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/langua
ge-technologies/fp7-call4_en.html. Public
Sector Information EUR 9.5 million for funding
projects under the following objectives Legal
aspects of Public Sector Information and
Geographic information.
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MINERVA I.

• MINERVA
• a network of Member States' Ministries
• to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities
  carried out in digitisation of cultural and
  scientific content
• for creating an agreed European common platform,
  recommendations and guidelines about
  digitisation, metadata, long-term accessibility
  and preservation.
• to co-ordinate national programmes, and its
  approach is strongly based on the principle of
  embeddedness in national digitisation activities.
• it also establishes contacts with other European
  countries, international organisations,
  associations, networks, international and
  national projects involved in this
  sector.http//www.minervaeurope.org/structure.htm
  
• MINERVA
• . It starts from the need to extend the good
  results already achieved by the present network,
  and pave the way to a full integration of new
  countries in the existing European mainstream.
• http//www.minervaeurope.org/homeold.htm

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Minerva II.

• MINERVA EC
• from October 2006 -a Thematic Network in the area
  of cultural, scientific information and scholarly
  content.
• the Consortium stakeholders and experts from all
  over Europe, capitalising the results achieved by
  the previous Minerva project, and supporting the
  European Commission initiative i2010 A
  European Information Society for growth and
  employment as well as the Dynamic Action Plan
  launched in Bristol in November 2005 by the
  European Union Member States.
• the coordination of national policies by
  supporting the National Representatives Group of
  the European Ministries of Culture.
• to facilitate the creation of added value
  products and services at European level, to
  contribute to the overcome of fragmentation and
  duplication of digitisation activities of
  cultural and scientific content.
• Objectives - Improve accessibility to and
  visibility of European digital cultural
  resources- Support the development of the
  European Digital Library- Contribute to
  increasing interoperability between existing
  networks- Promote the use of digital cultural
  resources by business and citizens- Reinforce
  the European position in the global market
  competition- Facilitate exploitation of
  cultural digital resources, providing clear rules
  for their use and re-use, respecting and
  protecting the creators rights.
  http//www.minervaeurope.org/about/minervaec.htm

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EDL/TEL
European Digital Library Project EDLproject was
a Targeted Project funded by the European
Commission under the eContentplus Programme and
coordinated by the German National Library.The
project, started in September 2006 and completed
in February 2008, worked towards the integration
of the bibliographic catalogues and digital
collections of the National Libraries of Belgium,
Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein,
Luxembourg, Norway, Spain and Sweden, into The
European Library.EDLproject also addressed the
enhancement of multilingual capabilities of The
European Library portal, took first steps towards
collaboration between The European Library and
other non-library cultural initiatives, and
expanded the marketing and communication
activities of The European Library service.
http//search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/i
ndex.html
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Michael

• Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in
  Europe (MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus) funded through
  the European Commissions eTen programme
• a partnership between France, Italy and the UK to
  deploy a cultural portal platform that was
  developed in France.
• MICHAEL Plus then extended the MICHAEL project to
  the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece,
  Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland,
  Portugal, Spain and Sweden.
• focus on the integration of national initiatives
  in digitisation of the cultural heritage and
  interoperability between national cultural
  portals to promote access to digital contents
  from museums, libraries and archives.
• have established this international online
  service, to allow users to search, browse and
  examine descriptions of resources held in
  institutions from across Europe.
• The MICHAEL Culture Association manages the
  MICHAEL European portal and develops the MICHAEL
  services at European level.
• Is a partner of Athena
• http//www.michael-culture.org/en/home

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Europeana I.

• Europeana think culture
• access through a multilingual interface more than
  2 million books, maps, recordings, photographs,
  archival documents, paintings and films from
  Europe's national libraries and cultural
  institutions.
• by 2010, access to more than 10 million items
  representing Europe's cultural diversity, more
  interactive zones such as communities for special
  interests.
• Originally the European digital library network
  EDLnet) - EC eContentplus Thematic Network
• partnership of 100 heritage and knowledge
  organisations and IT experts from throughout
  Europe.
• http//www.europeana.eu/portal/

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Europeana II.

• Europeana
• aims at making European information resources
  easier to use in an online environment.
• builds on Europe's rich heritage, combines
  multicultural and multilingual environments with
  technological advances and new business models.
• the prototype is the result of a 2-year project
  that began in July 2007.
• The project core team based in the national
  library of the Netherlands, and builds on the
  project management and technical expertise
  developed by The European Library, a service of
  the Conference of European National Librarians.

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Projects aiming at the extension of Europeana I.

• EPA (APENET)
• looks to provide EU citizens, public authorities
  and companies with a common portal, accessing the
  archives of Europe technically and
  organisationally consistent with Europeana
• Arrow - Accessible Registries of Rights
  information and Orphan Works towards Europeana
• European national libraries, publishers and
  collective management organisations to create a
  rights information structure for
• the creation of a European distributed registry
  of orphan works and a network of clearance
  centres for out of print works the management of
  any type of rights information, so facilitating
  the actual implementation of innovative business
  models for both digital libraries and private
  econtent providers.
• BHL Europe
• The lack of access to the published biodiversity
  literature is a major obstacle to efficient
  research and a broad range of other applications,
  including education, biodiversity conservation,
  protected area management, disease control, and
  maintenance of diverse ecosystems services. This
  literature also has cultural importance as a
  resource for the study of the history of science,
  art and other non-science applications.
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Projects aiming at the extension of Europeana II.

• European Film Gateway
• aims at finding and implementing solutions for
  providing integrated access to the wealth of
  Europe's cinematographic heritage. Tackling the
  lack of coherence in digitisation practice and
  metadata standards across the film archives and
  cinémathèques and the solving of IPR issues.
• EuropeanaConnect
• delivers core components essential for the
  realisation of the European Digital Library
  (Europeana) as a truly interoperable,
  multilingual and user-oriented service. The
  project will provide the technologies and
  resources to semantically enrich digital content
  in Europeana.
• EUROPEANAlocal
• improves interoperability of the digital content
  held by regional and local institutions and make
  it accessible through Europeana and to other
  services.
• involves Europe's network of local and regional
  museums, archives, as well as libraries.
• EUROPEANAlocal will make over 20 million items
  available to Europeana.
• EUscreen
• With the support of FIAT/IFTA, the European
  Broadcasting Union and the EDL Foundation, it
  aims at achieving a highly interoperable
  digitised collection of television material.
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Athena Access to Cultural Heritage Networks
Across Europe

• Developed to specifically tackle the gap in
  existing content provision to Europeana.
• Objectives
• reinforce, support and encourage the
  participation of museums and other institutions
  not fully involved yet in Europeana
• coordinate standards and activities of museums
  across Europe
• identify digital content present in European
  museums
• contribute to the integration of different
  sectors in cooperation with other projects with
  the overall objective to merge all these
  different contributions into Europeana
• develop technical tools to be integrated within
  Europeana, to facilitate the access to digital
  contents belonging to European museums.
• produce a set of scalable tools, recommendations
  and guidelines, focusing on multilingualism and
  semantics, metadata and thesauri, data structures
  and IPR issues.
• bring together relevant stakeholders and content
  owners from all over Europe, evaluate and
  integrate standards and tools for facilitating
  the inclusion of new digital content into
  Europeana.
• works in close cooperation with existing projects
  and develop intense clustering activities with
  other relevant projects.

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How to access this process?

• Do you need access to digital cultural heritage?
  (end user) you might use the existing portals
• Would you like to see your collection within
  Europeana? (content provider) Please contact
  the national contact persons of the ongoing
  projects.

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Thank you for your attention
In case of any further questions please feel free
to contact Julianna Mátrai matrai.julianna_at_radio.
hu