2003-07-04
Minerva. European Support Program for Digital Development in the Cultural Sector
Minerva stands for Ministerial Network for Valorising Activities in digitisation and its main task is to bring together European Culture Ministries to discuss, co-ordinate and harmonise the digitisation of cultural scientific content.
The main aim of MINERVA is to support the European framework made up by the National Representative Groups (NRG), the Lund Principles and eEurope Action Plan.
During the first year of activity, the MINERVA project has been able to increase the interest on the issues related to digitisation of cultural heritage. It succeeded in building a consensus on the matter, involving all the Member States in its network and committing them to concentrate their efforts on that field and share common action lines.
Aiming at guaranteeing a long-term coordination strategy, the Greek and the Italian 2003 presidencies worked out a joint programme, the Patras-Rome Initiative, in order to share their attempts and to assure a continuity to their actions.
In order to give the widest visibility possible to its outcomes, MINERVA organises The European Conference. The main purpose of this event is to focus on quality issues related to web communication of cultural institutions on the basis of three topics: Accessibility and communication: principles/best practices, Guidelines on quality for cultural Web sites and IPR, copyright and data protection. The call for posters is already open (http://www.minervaeurope.org/events/parma/parmaposter.htm).
On this occasion the publication Quality criteria for Public Cultural Web Application. Recommendations and Guidelines will be presented (www.minervaeurope.org/structure/workinggroups/userneeds/documents/Indexhandbook5.pdf). This book is part of the editorial collection of MINERVA.
Under the Greek and Italian Presidencies, other important results will also be achieved:
- training modules on digitisation issues based on the results of MINERVA, existing methodologies and platforms developed in other projects and other courses and training programmes elaborated by major European research centres and universities
- the Best Practice Handbook, containing also a world wide collection of the digitisation guidelines
- the booklet Whos who in digitisation
- the collection of the regulations of Europe, United States and Canada on copyright issues and data protection
During the first year of activity, the MINERVA project has been able to increase the interest on the issues related to digitisation of cultural heritage. It succeeded in building a consensus on the matter, involving all the Member States in its network and committing them to concentrate their efforts on that field and share common action lines.
Aiming at guaranteeing a long-term coordination strategy, the Greek and the Italian 2003 presidencies worked out a joint programme, the Patras-Rome Initiative, in order to share their attempts and to assure a continuity to their actions.
In order to give the widest visibility possible to its outcomes, MINERVA organises The European Conference. The main purpose of this event is to focus on quality issues related to web communication of cultural institutions on the basis of three topics: Accessibility and communication: principles/best practices, Guidelines on quality for cultural Web sites and IPR, copyright and data protection. The call for posters is already open (http://www.minervaeurope.org/events/parma/parmaposter.htm).
On this occasion the publication Quality criteria for Public Cultural Web Application. Recommendations and Guidelines will be presented (www.minervaeurope.org/structure/workinggroups/userneeds/documents/Indexhandbook5.pdf). This book is part of the editorial collection of MINERVA.
Under the Greek and Italian Presidencies, other important results will also be achieved:
- training modules on digitisation issues based on the results of MINERVA, existing methodologies and platforms developed in other projects and other courses and training programmes elaborated by major European research centres and universities
- the Best Practice Handbook, containing also a world wide collection of the digitisation guidelines
- the booklet Whos who in digitisation
- the collection of the regulations of Europe, United States and Canada on copyright issues and data protection
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