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Antonella FresaTechnical Coordinator
MICHAEL / MINERVA workshop23 October, 2008
DIGITAL HERITAGE: International Conference VSMM 2008
Limassol, Cyprus
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MICHAEL and MINERVA: from the LUND Principles to
EUROPEANA
MINERVA
MINERVA Plus
MINERVA-EC ATHENA
MICHAEL
MICHAEL Plus
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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
ATHENA, …
eEurope …………….. i2010 ……………….. European Digital Library
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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 NetworkSupported under eContentplus Started on 1st October 2006Completed on 30th September 2008
Coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Culture
22 EU countriesMore 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. 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
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MINERVA-EC 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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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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First release 2004
http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/
qualitycriteria1_2draft/appendix4.htm
New release 2008
Update and addition of new Member States
national rules
http://www.minervaeurope.org/eu_nat_webapplications.html
edited by the Research Staff of the Italian Senate Library in co-operation with European Parliamentary Libraries
Directory of European and national rules on web applications
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www.minervaeurope.org > 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 workshops15 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.
MINERVAMINERVA PlusMINERVA-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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MINERVA: Study on the User Needs
MICHAEL Users
• many different user communities– education– cultural tourism– research– ‘co-ordination’– and computers & networks …
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The futureMINERVA 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 programmeATHENA 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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Thank you for your attention
www.minervaeurope.org