EVA Florence 18th October 2008 Rossella Caffo (MiBAC) MINERVA and MICHAEL fostering access to digital cultural and scientific heritage: the prospects for.

EVA Florence18th October 2008 Rossella Caffo (MiBAC)

MINERVA and MICHAEL fostering access to digital cultural and

scientific heritage: the prospects for the future

Rossella Caffo Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali


The MINERVA network

www.minervaeurope.org


Minerva/Minerva Plus/ Minerva EC (2002-2008)

It gathers the culture ministries of 20 EU countries.sustained by more than 150 cultural institutions.

Activities are aligned with the Commission’s activities for the construction of the European Digital Library.

Continues and reinforces the following action lines: Integration among the various sectors: libraries, museums,

archives; Tematics of intellectual property rights, interoperability and

multilingualism; Sharing good practices in digitisation; Coordination inside and among Member States; Monitoring progresses


MINERVA in practice:yesterday

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 approachAll cultural fields involved

OUTPUTS:Good practices handbookDigitisation guidelinesQuality tools for cultural web sites (handbooks, Museo&Web)Cost reduction in digitisation handbookMultilingualism reportIPR reportAnnual Progress Report


MINERVA in practice:today

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 Report on content interoperability European directory of the websites regulatory framework Map of cultural heritage in Europe Annual digitisation report


MINERVA for Europeana

MINERVA eC contributes in stimulating decision makers and implementers:

• 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.


MINERVAfor Europeana

MINERVA eC makes available to Europeanaall the results obtained:

• Experiences, recommendations and guidelines• The network of Ministries or governing bodies of

all Member States• The network of hundreds of experts from all over

the Member States• The work methodology and a well-tested

mechanism of coordination


MICHAEL and the

European Digital Library


One national portalfor each State

+European portal

Member States represented Phase 2MICHAELplus (2006-8)

BelgiumBulgariaCzech RepublicEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryItaly (coordinator)Maltathe NetherlandsPolandPortugalSlovak RepublicSpainSwedenUnited Kingdom

Phase I

MICHAEL

(2004-7)

Italy

France

United

Kingdom


Cultural institutions represented in MICHAEL

• Ministries• Government • and local heritage agencies• Foundations• Research Networks• Universities• Libraries• Archives• Museums

National surveys of digital collections reach thousands of cultural institutions spread over the territory, at a national, regional and local level.


The European MICHAEL portal is on line at http://www.michael-culture.orgMore than 7,000 digital collections from FR, IT, UK inside!The digital collections groups millions of records.

The national systems are on line and constantly updated and enriched with new data.

FR http://www.michael-culture.fr or http://www.numerique.culture.frIT http://michael-culture.it UK http://www.michael-culture.org.uk

The national portals of DE, GR, NL, PL, PT are under construction.

The achievements so far


ATHENAAccess to cultural heritage networks

across EuropeMuseums towards Europeana


• ATHENA is a Network of best practices

• within the eContentPlus Programme,

• taking its origins from the existing MINERVA network

• Coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage,

• now is under negotiation

The project


The project

CRITICAL MASS

21 European Member States + Israel, directly represented or appointed by their national government109 top museums and other cultural institutions directly partner or associated to the project;140 digital collections, without considering the several thousands digital collections already included in the MICHAEL database, managed by the project partner Michael Culture AISBL;more than 16 millions of digital cultural items directly referring to the museum sector20 European languages


GoalsThe main goals are :

To reinforce, support and encourage the participation of museums and other institutions coming from this sectors of cultural heritage not fully involved yet in the EDL

To contribute to the integration of the different sectors of cultural heritage, in cooperation with other projects more directly focused on libraries and archives, with the overall objective to merge all these different contributions in the EDL

To facilitate access to digital contents belonging to European museums


ATHENA will:

contribute to the creation of Europeana on the basis of standards shared on the basis of integration with other sectors of cultural heritage

will develop the work of MINERVA in the field of harmonization of digitisation standards and guidelines

Will use the experience acquired through EDLnet, will be based on the experience achieved by MICHAEL

and the other national portals (like CulturaItalia, Culture.fr, etc.) in the field of cross-domain

will continue in the direction of interoperability, semantic web and quality services for the final user

Goals

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Goals

ATHENA:• will define the conditions for museums and other

cultural institutions to join Europeana • will collect, analyse and compare cataloguing

standards, metadata schemata and terminologies adopted by all partner countries

ATHENA will not:• make research • digitise new contents • develop new standards

Main activities

Mapping of description metadata schema Mapping and SKOSification of thesauri and controlled

theriminologies Ontologies in the field of the description of cultural

heritage Technical standards and protocols for the exchange of

data Integration of data in the structure of the European

Digital Library Coordination of contents: localisation of a competence

center in each country partner Analysis of the problems related to copyright and

possible solutions Development of a prototype

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Expected outputs A set of scalable tools, recommendations and guidelines,

agreed by partners and easily applicable, focusing on:

Multilingualism and semantics Metadata and thesauri Data structures IPR issues Realisation of a prototype

They will be used principally by museums to support internal digitisation activities to facilitate the integration of their digital content into Europeana to improve the accessibility to their contents



Strategic cooperation

Strategic partnership will be constructed with other projects, like:

• EDLNet, which could give requisites on how to trasfer the ATHENA results into EUROPEANA

MICHAEL, the registry of digital cultural collections in Europe

MinervaEC, with its set of guidelines and handbooks MultiMatch and CLEF, two of the most challenging

research project on technologies supporting multilingualism for digital libraries

The new projects presented in the same Call for Proposals of Athena, in order to stimulate the participation of cultural institutions into Europeana (APEnet, EDLocal, etc.)


Thank you for your attention !

Rossella CaffoMinistero per i beni e le attività culturali

[email protected]

Christophe DesseauxMinistère de la Culture et de la Communication

[email protected]

www.minervaeurope.orgwww.michael-culture.org www.athenaeurope.org

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