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Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia
Antonella FresaTechnical Coordinator
MinervaECMInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation,
eContentplus Supporting the European Digital Library
MinervaEC Bulgaria National WorkshopSofia, February 26, 2008
Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia
MinervaEC: the project
Thematic NetworkSupported under eContentplus Started on 1st October 2006Duration: 2 years
Coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Culture
22 EU countriesMore than 150 cultural institutions from all
over Europe
Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia
MinervaEC andthe European digital library
MinervaEC continues the work undertaken by MINERVA and MINERVA Plus towards the elaboration of a platform of recommendations, guidelines and tools for digitisation.
MinervaEC supports MICHAEL, MICHAEL Plus and ATHENA initiatives.
MinervaEC 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 the Council Conclusions.
In this light, it contributes to the creation of the European digital library.
Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia
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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MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus deploying MINERVA results
• 2 deployment projects
• Supported by eTEN
• Involving 18 EU countries
• Based on the metadata standard for cultural inventories developed by MINERVA
• Aimed to build a unique multilingual access point to the digital collections of museums, libraries and archives in Europe
• Total investment: ˜90 million €
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MICHAEL Users
• many different user communities– education– cultural tourism– research– ‘co-ordination’– and computers …
Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia
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
Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia
Policy links
• MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus have strong policy links
• The success of the initiative 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
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Cross-domain approach
MICHAEL data model is suitable for describing digital collections belonging to every sector of cultural heritage and for recording related and context information:
– Institutions– Projects / programmes– Services / products– Physical collections
MICHAEL aimed since the beginning at giving integrated access to the whole European cultural heritage through the Internet
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MICHAEL European portal
• Launched December 2006
• Periodical harvesting of the published national instances
http://www.michael-culture.org/
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MICHAEL national portals
FR
1450 digital collections
500 institutions
250 services-products
IT 2588 digital collections
1396 institutions
1404 services/products
1520 physical collections
423 projects/programs
UK
766 digital collections
616 services
321 projects
306 institutions
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R&D initial deploym. full depl.
MICHAEL Plus
The projects phases
Catalogue des fonds culturels numérises (FR)
2002 ………............. 06/2004 …...........… 05/2006 .. ………… 05/2008
MICHAEL
MINERVA, MINERVA Plus, MINERVA-EC
new initiatives: ATHENA, EDL-Local, etc.
eEurope …………….. i2010 ……………….. European Digital Library
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MinervaEC 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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MinervaEC targetsBeneficiaries 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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MinervaEC approach
The MinervaEC approach follows the steps of the MINERVA project:
a. a tight liaison with the national digitisation policies
b. the implementation of the results achieved into new initiatives (e.g. MICHAEL, MICHAEL Plus, ATHENA)
c. the involvement of experts from all the cultural institutions (museums, libraries, archives etc.)
d. the cooperation with the other networks (EDLnet, EPOCH, DELOS, etc.)
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MinervaEC publications
• 2 Annual Reports (the edition 2008 is ongoing, under the direct coordination of EC)
• 5 Thematic publications: Map of the cultural heritage in Europe IPR guidelines Technical guidelines v.2 Directory of the European legislation v.2 Study on the user needs
• Project dissemination literature
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MinervaEC national workshops
National workshops in each partner country to promoter 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• …..
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MinervaEC project meetings
• Working groups meetings:– Rome, 5/12/2006– Berlin, 20/6/2007
• Plenary meetings in cooperation with the EU Presidencies:
– Helsinki, 12 October 2006– Berlin, 23 February 2007– Ljubljana, 5-6 June 2008– Paris, 27 November 2008 (final event)
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The futureMinervaEC will last until September 2008
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 programmeCurrently under negotiation, it will last for the next 2 years, with the participation of many partners from all over Europe.The Academy of Science is partner of ATHENA.
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ATHENA objectives
• to reinforce the participation of Museums and other institutions coming from the sectors of Cultural Heritage that are not yet getting enough involved in the creation of the EDL;
• to contribute to the integration of the different sectors of cultural heritage promoting standards and guidelines, in order to harmonise their contributions to the EDL;
• to develop a set of plug-ins to be integrated within the EDL, facilitating the access to and the re-use of digital contents belonging to European cultural institutions museums, libraries and archives.
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Next appointments
19 March, Luxembourg: MinervaEC National Workshop
18 April, Florence: MinervaEC workshop in the frame of EVA Florence
19-20 May, Warsaw: MICHAEL International Conference
23 May 2008, London: MICHAEL UK Conference
5-6 June 2008, Ljubljana: International conference on media and digital cultural heritage, under the aegis of the Slovenian Presidency of the EU
25 August, Vienna: MinervaEC National Workshop, in the frame of EVA Vienna
November 2008: International conference on the European Digital Library, under the aegis of the French Presidency of EU
Second Half 2008: launch of ATHENA Best Practice Network
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Thank you for your attention
www.minervaeurope.org