Minerva PlusMinistry of Culture

the Czech Republic, Prague

Zuzana BauerováProject Coordinator

Department of Movable Cultural Heritage Preservation, Museum and Galleries

General Policy

Cultural Policy of the Ministry of Culture

Concept of More Effective Care of Movable Cultural Heritage in the Czech Republic in 2003 – 2008

www.mkcr.cz/en

State policy

to ensure the stabile conditions for the care of movable CH

Digitization = national and regional levels is introduced as improvement of the quality of

dissamination of the information related to the museum collections and movable CH

Enhancement of the accessibility of the information to both professional and general public

More effective investements in digitizing of all sources of CH in accordance with the long-term contribution to the knowledge society primarly through application of IT

State policy

Support of a multilingual and publicly accessible cathalogue of collection items, shared databasis AML, Internet, publications

Encouradgement of the popularisation of AML through Internet, participation in international cooperation and programmes (IST programmes, virtual presentations, etc.)

Museums and tourism Instruments

Central Register of Collections (CRC)

Publicly available through and information system

Aim is to increase information awareness of museums collections and museums themselves

Basic conditions for CH preservation

Integrated Movable CH Protection System

Description of endagered CH objects, documentation, improvement of the quality of the on-going documentation of all collection items

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Integrated Movable CH Protection System

5 sub-projects Information Network – ISO B:

According to the proposals and guidelines of MinervaPlus and other European projects

Technical improvement and central coordination of documentation and digitization of CH

Using Internet network as an instrument for the faster transfer of pictorial and textual information between oarticipant wokplaces

Enlarging and popularisation of Internet among employees of our cultural institutions and public

Impovement of the present state of documentation of CH and its presentation to the public

Enhancement the data accessibility to users Increasement of the efficiency of the entire system of required

information, including security, protection against of certain climatic conditions, etc.

International legal cooperation on illegal export of the CH

Centre for Information Technologies

Database system (DEMUS) General standards, guidelines, software tools,

technical assistance

Museological Centre Cultural websites network Project Czech Museums

Implemented through a public available information system and common Internet portal for CH : www.emuzeum.cz

Connecting present sets of data of the Central Register of Collections with the data of the servers of the Czech museums recently run by the professional organisation Association of Czech, Moravian and Silesion Museums

Virtual presentation of the museums, their collections and activities

national, regional and international levels International standards, AML cooperation –

Cooperation with National Library, idea dissemination

Minerva Plus

AML cooperation (dissemination of guidelines, quality principles; CALIMER) = technical equipment, substantial investment into the human capital, encouraging continuting education, dissemination of information, training and intellectual support

WP 3 (National Technical Museums) international conferences:

Collections in Computers Archives, Libraries and Museums in Digital Era 2004

Thank you very much for your attention.

zuzana.bauerova@mkcr.cz