MinervaECMInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising

Activities in digitisation, eContentplus

Supporting the European Digital Library

Pier Giacomo SOLA

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2001 eEuropeLund PrinciplesNational Representatives GroupFrench Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés

Apr. 2002 The Minerva Project Starts (FP5-IST)A set of metadata for inventories of digital cultural content

is agreed among the Minerva partners

Feb. 2004 MinervaPLUS extends its activities to the new Member States (FP6-IST)

Jun. 2004Michael Project Starts (eTEN)

Nov. 2005 Dynamic Action Plani2010 Initiative

Jun. 2006MichaelPLUS extends the deployment to 14 EU countries (eTEN)

Oct. 2006 MinervaEC starts

History

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Objectives

MinervaEC was born to support the National Representatives Group in the implementation of the DAP (Dynamic Action Plan), launched by the European Commission and the Member States within the UK Presidency in November 2005, in the framework of the European Digital Library

process.

The DAP updates the Lund Action Plan (2001).

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Name and type of project: MinervaECThematic Network

Max. EU funding: 950.000,00 Euro Start date: 1 September

2006 Duration: 24 months

Administrative details

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Members

Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali (IT) Coordinator Salzburg Research Forschungsgesellschaft mbH (AT) Bundesministerium fuer Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur (AT) Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, administratie Cultuur (BE) Ministère de la Communauté française de Belgique (BE) SPP Politique scientifique - Service d'information S&T / POD

Wetenschapsbeleid - Dienst voor W&T Informatie (BE) Ministerstvo kultury Ceske Republiky (CZ) Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz (DE) Kultuuriministeerium (EE) Biblioteca Nacional de España (ES)

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Members

Helsingin yliopisto (FI) Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (FR) Agence Juive pour Israël (FR) Association Dédale (FR) Erevnitiko Panepistimiako Institouto Epikoinonion & Ypologiston - Etnhiko

Metsovio Polytechnio (GR) Elliniko Ypourgeio Politismou (GR) Panepistemion Patron (GR) Nemzeti Kulturális Örökség Minisztériuma (HU) An Chomhairle Leabharlanna (The Library Council) (IE) Amitié (IT)

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Members

Ministère de la Culture, de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (LU)

Heritage Malta (MT) Biblioteka Narodova (PL) Stowarzyszenie - Międzynarodowe Centrum Zarządzania Informacją

(PL) Secretaria-Geral do Ministério da Cultura (PT) Riksarkivet (SE) Ministrstvo za Kulturo Republike Slovenije (SI) Slovenská národná knižnica (SK) Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (UK)

+ more than 100 cultural institutions in the enlarged network

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Cyprus Denmark Latvia Lithuania Netherlands

After 1st January 2007 Bulgaria Romania

New Members are welcome !

Israel cannot (at least officially) participates in the eContentplus programme

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Activities

WP1 Project Management MiBAC (IT) WP2 Assessment and evaluation MCFB (BE) WP3 Awareness, dissemination mobilising

stakeholders MiBAC (IT) WP4 EU Cultural Content

Interoperability Framework MLA (UK) WP5 Quality, Accessibility Usability SPK (DE) WP6 Best Practices MCC (FR)

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MinervaEC and the EC recommendation

The work undertaken by MinervaEC will contribute to the fulfilment of the key points of the EC recommendation of 24.08.2006, with particular regard to:

Information gathering (WP1-2) Developing quantitative targets (WP2) Partnerships between cultural institutions and private sector (WP3) Establishing links among competence centres (WPs 3, 4, 6) Achieving interoperability (WP4) Fostering on line accessibility (WP5) Reporting to the EC (WP1-2) Best practices (WP6)

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Relationship EC-NRG

More and more the NRG became independent with respect to the original objectives stated in Lund, creating duplications with other activities launched by the EC

Being directly appointed by the Member States, it can be seen as an inter-governmental body, so limiting the organisations of joint activities with the EC

In October 2006, in Helsinki, the EC proposed to re-launch the NRG, in order to facilitate the convergence of activities. NRG will become a working group directly run by the European Commission, through the MinervaEC project

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MinervaEC and the DAP Action

PLANMinervaEC

workpackage

DAP Action areas

WP3Mobilising

stakeholders

WP4EU Cultural

Content Interoperability

Framework

WP5Quality,

Accessibility, Usability

WP6Best Practices for

Content Enrichment

A. Users and content

   

B. Technologies for digitisation

C. Sustainability of content

     

D. Digital preservation

       

E. Monitoring progress

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More information

http://www.minervaeurope.org

In December 2006, a task force including the current and the next EU Presidencies (Finland, Germany and Portugal), as well as Italy as coordinator of MinervaEC, will meet the Commission to define the procedures to pilot the transition between the current and the new structure.

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