DIGITAL HERITAGE International Conference VSMM 2008 Limassol Cyprus

DIGITAL HERITAGE: International Conference VSMM 2008 Limassol, Cyprus MICHAEL / MINERVA workshop 23 October, 2008 Antonella Fresa Technical Coordinator Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

MICHAEL and MINERVA: from the LUND Principles to EUROPEANA MINERVA Plus MINERVA-EC IST - FP 5 & FP 6 ATHENA MICHAEL Plus Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

The projects phases R&D Catalogue des fonds culturels numérises (FR) e. Europe ……………. . initial deploym. full depl. ATHENA, MICHAEL … Plus i 2010 ………………. . European Digital Library MINERVA, MINERVA Plus, MINERVA-EC 2002 ………. . . 06/2004 …. . . … 05/2006. . ………… 05/2008 Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia

MINERVA and MINERVA Plus: a flashback MINERVA – IST FP 5 from 2002 until 2005 7 countries MINERVA Plus – FP 6 from 2004 until 2006 14 EU countries + Russia and Israel Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008 4/ 9

MINERVA and MINERVA Plus at a glance Aligned with e. Europe 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 Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008 5/ 9

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 Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

MINERVA-EC Thematic Network Supported under e. Contentplus Started on 1 st October 2006 Completed on 30 th September 2008 Coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Culture 22 EU countries More than 150 cultural institutions from all over Europe Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

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. Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

MINERVA-EC approach Minerva. EC 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 Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

MINERVA-EC targets Beneficiaries 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. Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

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 Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

Minerva. EC publications • 2 Annual Reports (2008 in cooperation with EC) 5 Thematic studies: • ü ü ü 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 Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

Directory of European and national rules on web applications First release 2004 http: //www. minervaeurope. org/publications/ qualitycriteria 1_2 draft/appendix 4. 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. Limassol, of the Italian Senate Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

www. minervaeurope. org > Directory… Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia

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 Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia

National workshops 15 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 Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

Minerva. EC international meetings • Working groups meetings: – – – • Plenary meetings in cooperation with the EU Presidencies: – – – • Rome, 5/12/2006 Berlin, 20/6/2007 Tenerife, 1 -3/6/2008 – cooperation to the workshop Semantic Interoperability in the European Digital Library Helsinki, 12 October 2006 Berlin, 23 February 2007 Ljubljana, 5 -6 June 2008 Final conference in Leipzig in September 2008 Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

The MINERVA initiative Minerva. EC continued the work undertaken by MINERVA and MINERVA Plus towards the elaboration of a platform of recommendations, guidelines and tools for digitisation. MINERVA Plus MINERVA-EC three projects belonging to the same European initiative Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

MINERVA and EUROPEANA MINERVA is aligned with: i 2010 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. Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus deploying MINERVA results • 2 deployment projects: 2004 - 2008 • Supported by e. TEN • 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 Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

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 Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia

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 Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

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 Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

MICHAEL Users • many different user communities – – – education cultural tourism research ‘co-ordination’ and computers & networks … MINERVA: Study on the User Needs Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

The future MINERVA 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 e. Contentplus programme ATHENA 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 ICTPSP programme of CIP. Antonella Limassol, Antonella Fresa, 26/02/2008 Sofia 23/10/2008

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