Giuliana De Francesco, MiBAC CIDOC 2005 - Zagreb MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation Activities in digitisation CIDOC 2005 CIDOC 2005 Zagreb, 24-27 May Zagreb, 24-27 May Towards an Agreed European Platform for Digitisation Towards an Agreed European Platform for Digitisation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage of Cultural and Scientific Heritage Giuliana De Francesco Giuliana De Francesco Ministero per i beni e le Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali attività culturali
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1Giuliana De Francesco, MiBAC CIDOC 2005 - Zagreb
MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisationActivities in digitisation
MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisationActivities in digitisation
CIDOC 2005CIDOC 2005Zagreb, 24-27 MayZagreb, 24-27 May
Towards an Agreed European Platform for Towards an Agreed European Platform for Digitisation of Cultural and Scientific HeritageDigitisation of Cultural and Scientific HeritageTowards an Agreed European Platform for Towards an Agreed European Platform for Digitisation of Cultural and Scientific HeritageDigitisation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage
Giuliana De Francesco Giuliana De Francesco Ministero per i beni e le attività culturaliMinistero per i beni e le attività culturali
• to foster the Internet and new economy across Europe
• allow citizens to participate in the information society
eEurope Action Plan (June 2000)3d) European digital cultural content for global networks
meeting of experts and representatives of EU Member States to stimulate European cultural content for global networks
Lund Principles
Lund Meeting, 4 April 2001
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Lund PrinciplesLund PrinciplesDigitisation of heritage resources crucial to:
•provide improved access to cultural heritage•preserve Europe's collective cultural heritage•sustain cultural diversity in a global environment
•also key resource for education and for the tourism and media industries
To achieve eEurope objectives:• ongoing forum for coordination of digitisation policies • support a European view on policies and programmes• exchange and promote good practices, guidelines and skills
• work in a collaborative manner to make visible and accessible the digitised cultural heritage of Europe
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NRG: representatives appointed by Member States’ authorities
• to coordinate digitisation policies and programmes • to guarantee a close relationship between the Ministries or
other governmental institutions and the EC• to assure that EC policies and programmes have a
widespread diffusion in every country• to be the voice of national policies and programmes at
European level – to allow visibility to national initiatives
The NRG meets every 6 months co-chaired by the rotating EU Presidency and the EC
National Representatives GroupNational Representatives Group
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A network of Member States’ Ministries:• to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities in
digitisation of cultural and scientific content• to create a common European platform made up of
agreed recommendations, guidelines and standards • to promote awareness and exchange of
experiences and skills at European level to enlarge the network and establish further
international cooperation
MINERVA is a collaborate operative framework for implementing Lund Action Plan and organising its working groups (support to NRG)
MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for MINERVA - Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisationValorising Activities in digitisation
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MINERVAMINERVAFunded by the EC IST 5th FP (2002–2005)
Started with 8 partners, representing 7 countries:
Italy, coordinator (Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali)
Belgium (Ministère de la communauté française)
Finland (University of Helsinky)
France (Ministère de la culture et de la communication)
Spain (Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte)
Sweden (Riksarkivet)
United Kingdom (Museums, Archives and Libraries Council)
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MINERVA PlusMINERVA PlusFunded by EC IST 6th FP (2004-2005)
Enlarges the network including NAS countries, sharing MINERVA objectives
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Charter of Parma - ArticlesCharter of Parma - Articles
Art. 1 Intelligent use of new technologiesArt. 2 AccessibilityArt. 3 QualityArt. 4 IPR and privacyArt. 5 Interoperability and standardsArt. 6 Inventories and multiligualismArt. 7 BenchmarkingArt. 8 Cooperation at national, European and
international levelsArt. 9 EnlargementArt. 10 Building the future together: at the forefront of
the knowledge society
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Progress report of the National Progress report of the National Representatives Group Representatives Group Coordinating Coordinating Digitisation in EuropeDigitisation in Europe
Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content Creation ProgrammesContent Creation ProgrammesIn print: eng – fre – itaOnline: eng – fre http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/ technicalguidelines.htm
• not a single prescriptive set of requirements to which all projects must conform
• identify areas where there is broad agreement–Flexible, context-specific requirements might be built–Conceived for policy-makers and funding programmes–Can be used for self-assessment by projects
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Handbook for Quality in Cultural Websites: Handbook for Quality in Cultural Websites: Improving Quality for CitizensImproving Quality for CitizensVersion 1.2 – Draft, November 2003 Printed: eng - itaOnline: eng – ita http://www.minervaeurope.org/ publications/ qualitycriteria.htm
Quality products - 1Quality products - 1
• Focussed on content- Intelligent use of the Web as an effective
mean for the communication of culture - Quality as the result of interaction
between cultural organisations and users- Accessibility and usability
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Quality products - 2Quality products - 2
Cultural Website Quality Principles Cultural Website Quality Principles “A quality cultural website celebrates European cultural diversity by providing access for all to digital cultural content”A quality website must be:
transparent effective maintained accessible user centred
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Ten Principle CardsTen Principle CardsPrinted: eng – fre - ger – hol - itaOnline: eng - fre - gre – spa – est – hun – ita – slo - slk http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/tenqualityprinciples.htm
Front page: 10 Quality PrinciplesBack page: Short explanation
Quality products - 2Quality products - 2
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Quality Principles for Cultural Websites: Quality Principles for Cultural Websites: a Handbooka Handbook (2005)
Printed: eng; fre and ita under preparationOnline: eng – gre – hun http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/qualitycommentary_en.htm
• A set of practical and pragmatic criteria • Can be used to gain further insight into the compliance with the Principles• A checklist, based on the critera, can be used in assessing the website
Quality products - 3Quality products - 3
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Museo&Web - Planning Kit for a Quality Museo&Web - Planning Kit for a Quality Site for Small and Medium Sized MuseumsSite for Small and Medium Sized Museums
• Based on – Quality handbooks– W3C accessibility guidelines
• Will follow:- Planning kit for schools - Planning kit for libraries
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WP6 Good PracticeWP6 Good Practice
Good practice and competence centres MINERVA+ specific topic: digitisation cost reduction
Key issues:• Identification of competence and advisory centres on
digitisation• Promotion of good practices developed within Member
State programmes and project– First selection of good practices (2002)– New campaign started 2004. Submission forms available
on MINERVA website
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Good practice productsGood practice products
Good Practice HandbookPrinted: eng, fre, itaOnline: ger – eng – gre - Fr – It – Por – Slk http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure/workinggroups/goodpract/document/goodpractices1_3.htm
• A practical handbook to the establishment, execution and management of digitisation projects
• Target: teams within and across cultural institutions planning, or executing, digitisation projects
• Complemented by the collection of existing guidelines on digitisation, available online in MINERVA website
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International cooperation: International cooperation: cultural networkscultural networks
Coordination between the European cultural networks in the field of digital culture promoted by MINERVA aiming at:
• Sharing knowledge and exchanging experience• Merging efforts together to maximise the impact of the individual projects• Adopting common standards and agendas• Avoiding duplication of effort and waste of resources• Evolving towards a common European research area
Cooperation has been established with: BRICKS – CALIMERA – DELOS – DIGICULT – EMII DCF – EPOCH – ERPANET - EUROMED HERITAGE II – EVA – HEREIN – MINERVA – MUSICNETWORK –PRESTOSPACE - SCRAN
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Information for All Programme (IFAP)– MINERVA participation to IFAP St. Petersburg and
Petropavlovsk annual conferences– MINERVA participation in the IFAP board meeting
(October 2004)
•MEDCULT project, for dissemination of MINERVA products within Arab-speaking Mediterranean countries of the STRABON network, approved by IFAP board (April 2005)
International cooperation: UNESCOInternational cooperation: UNESCO
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Regional Bureau for Science in Europe – ROSTE
• Joint organisation of the SEE Regional Meeting on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage (Ohrid, 17-20 March 2005), in cooperation with the FYROM Ministry of Culture
• Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FYROM, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro
Set of Recommendations on digitisation of cultural heritage in South-Eastern Europe that will be adopted as an official UNESCO document
International cooperation: UNESCOInternational cooperation: UNESCO
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Ohrid outcomeOhrid outcome
• Proposal of training actions on digitisation in South-Eastern Europe
• Supported by MINERVA
• Submitted to EC in the framework of Marie Curie programme for knowledge transfer
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