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Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in
digitisation
EVA Florence 2004 MINERVA Project Antonella
Fresa Technical Co-ordinator
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What is MINERVA

• A NETWORK OF MEMBER STATES MINISTRIES
• to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities
  carried out in digitisation of cultural and
  scientific content
• for creating agreed European common
  recommendations and guidelines about
• digitisation,
• metadata,
• long-term accessibility,
• preservation.

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Foreground

• June 2000 eEurope endorsement by EU Member
  States
• April 2001 meeting in Lund to discuss
  co-ordination mechanisms for digitisation
  programmes across European Member States
• ?Lund Principles
• to be developed through the
• Lund Action Plan
• MINERVA is the instrument to support the
  implementation of the Lund Action Plan

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National Representatives Group

• NRG National Representatives Group
• Composed by representatives officially nominated
  byMember States authorities
• NRG is the 'guardian of the Lund Principles
• Meets on a six-monthly basis, hosted by the
  Presidency of the Union in turn
• Minerva hosts the secretariat of the NRG.

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Aims

• Due to the involvement of EU governments, MINERVA
  aims
• to co-ordinate national programmes and
• to establish contacts with
• other European countries,
• international organisations,
• associations,
• networks,
• international and national projects involved in
  the cultural sector.

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The original Partners of the MINERVA project

• Italy, coordinator (Ministero per i Beni e le
  Attività Culturali)
• Belgium
• Finland
• France
• Spain
• Sweden
• United Kingdom

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The elargement of Minerva MINERVA PLUS project

• Italy is still the coordinator
• Austria
• Germany
• Greece
• Ireland
• Portugal

• Czech Republic
• Estonia
• Hungary
• Malta
• Poland
• Slovenia

• and
• Israel
• Russia

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Policy Scenario

• The main aim of MINERVA is to support the
  European framework made up of NRG, Lund
  principles, Lund Action Plan and Presidencies of
  EU in the field of the cultural heritage
  digitisation.
• The members agreed to give the highest visibility
  to the Lund principles in their countries, by
  setting-up national structures in charge of
  disseminating the results of the Minerva project.
• The Charter of Parma.

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National Resources

• All the member states agreed on the opportunity
  to invest on MINERVA project their own funding in
  addition to the budget provided by EC
• National and trans-European initiatives are
  generated within the MINERVA framework, which
  acts as the catalyst of national investments in
  the area of the cultural digitisation

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What MINERVA does

• Working Groups
• Publications (guidelines, reports, case studies,
  etc.)
• National Policy Profiles concerning digitisation
• Harmonising activities
• NRG meetings
• Workshops
• Co-operation with other projects
• Enlargement of the network.

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The project structure

• Working Groups
• Benchmarking
• Enlargement
• Dissemination, training and publications
• Project management and coordination

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The MINERVA Working Groups

• To provide political and technical framework for
  improving digitisation activities of cultural and
  scientific contents
• To contribute at the definition of a common
  European platform for the harmonisation of
  national initiatives

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Working Group Inventories, discovery of
digitised content, multilingual issues

• inventories of past, on-going and planned
  digitisation projects
• technical infrastructure for coordinated
  discovery of European digital collections,
  including a common set of metadata for
  description
• multilingual issues.
• It has represented the incubator for the MICHAEL
  project

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Working Group Interoperability, Service
Provision and IPR

• analysing, identifying and evaluating activities
  on metadata, registries and schemes
• discussion on standards, conformance testing
  centres, agreed terminologies, common metadata
  schema, middleware specifications
• examination of related issues, such as IPR
• to develop the European Guidelines for cultural
  digitisations.

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Working Group User needs, contents and quality
framework

• Aim
• To agree on quality criteria for the digitised
  content as well as cultural and scientific web
  sites
• The layers of instruments
• Handbook for Quality of cultural web sites
• the 10 Principles
• Criteria and Check-lists to interpret and
  implement the 10 Principles (under
  implementation)

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Working Group Good practices
Aim to select and to promote good practice
examples from Member State programmes and
projects in order to exchange experiences, skills
and to collect consensus from different
communities of users. First selection presented
in Alicante, June 2002. New selection launched
now. Lessons learnt are gathered and illustrated
within the MINERVA Handbook on Good Practices.
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Benchmarking

• Horizontal activity
• To exchange comparable information between Member
  States on programmes and policies
• To give visibility to national activities in
  order to share similar experiences and skills
• To promote the adoption of the benchmarking
  framework as a key tool for coordinating and
  harmonising national activities as well as to
  develop measures to show progress and
  improvement.

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The Global Report
Progress report of the National Representatives
Group Two editions 2002/3 (available), 2003/4
(under printing) It includes also the annual
revision of the Lund Action Plan, giving the
opportunity to create synergy with on-going
activities in the same sector.
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The Global Report
Aim To give visibility to the 'Digitisation
Initiative', based on the Lund Principles and to
NRG, in order to make easier for National
Representatives to get support, resources and
infrastructures to implement the Lund Action
Plan. Target users are the top level
Authorities, to remark their commitment to the
initiative and to reinforce their national
support.
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Network enlargement

• Which enlargements for MINERVA
• to get involved ALL the 25 MS Russia and
  Israel
• to co-operate with the other running projects
• to settle the Minerva Users Group
• to create the conditions for a stable and
  sustainable European framework.

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Network enlargement

• The instrument to join MINERVA
• the Co-operation Agreement, to formalise the
  participation of interested organisations to the
  Minerva Users Group.

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Network enlargement

• Who can participate
• the industry,
• the research,
• the local administrations,
• the cultural associations,
• any other subject who is interested in
  contributing to the implementation of the Lund
  Principles.

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Reasons to join Minerva

• Why should an organisation invest in order to
  bring its activities under the MINERVA framework
  ?
• to share knowledge and experiences, avoiding
  to duplicate mistakes,
• to co-ordinate national/local initiatives
  within a European approach, being prepared for
  larger exploitation
• to share technological platforms and tools,
  saving efforts and money in replicating what
  already exists,
• to contribute to the necessary and ambitious
  common goal of implementing the Lund Action Plan.

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Minerva Web Site

• www.minervaeurope.org
• The site is divided in two parts
• the Intranet, for internal use by the Minerva
  partners
• the public section, an extensive source of
  information.

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Minerva Web Site

• in the short term
• - to promote the Lund principles as well as the
  activities and the results of the project
• - to promote the projects partners
• - to become a gate to access to other linked
  initiatives
• in the long term
• - to become an essential instrument for the
  sustainability, to resarch information on
  digitisation, metadata, long-term accessibility,
  preservation, etc.

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Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activising in
digitisation
www.minervaeurope.org Minerva Secretariat
minerva_at_beniculturali.it Thank you !