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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
EVA Florence18th October 2008 Rossella Caffo (MiBAC)
The MINERVA network
www.minervaeurope.org
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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MICHAEL and the
European Digital Library
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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
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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.
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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
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ATHENAAccess to cultural heritage networks
across EuropeMuseums towards Europeana
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• 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.)
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Thank you for your attention !
Rossella CaffoMinistero per i beni e le attività culturali
Christophe DesseauxMinistère de la Culture et de la Communication
www.minervaeurope.orgwww.michael-culture.org www.athenaeurope.org