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Minerva: Standards and Guidelines for DigitisationMICHAEL: cultural heritage collections onlineMoscow, 2 December, 2008

EVA Moscow

MINERVA: Standards and Guidelines for Digitisation

MICHAEL: cultural heritage collections online

Antonella FresaAdvisor of the Italian Ministry of Culture


MICHAEL and MINERVA: from the LUND Principles to

EUROPEANAMINERVA

MINERVA Plus

MINERVA-EC ATHENA

MICHAEL

MICHAEL Plus


R&D initial deployment full depl.

MICHAEL Plus

The projects phases

Catalogue des fonds culturels numérises (FR)

2002 ………............. 06/2004 …...........… 05/2006 .. ………… 05/2008 …… 11/2008

MICHAEL

MINERVA, MINERVA Plus, MINERVA-EC

ATHENA

eEurope …………….. I2010 ………. European Digital Library ……… EUROPEANA


The MINERVA initiative

MinervaEC continued the work undertaken by MINERVA and MINERVA Plus towards the elaboration of a platform of recommendations, guidelines and tools for digitisation.

MINERVAMINERVA PlusMINERVA-EC

Three projects belonging to the same initiativeActive since 2002 in Europe and beyond


MINERVA objectives

• Aligned with and Europeana

• To improve accessibility to and visibility of European digital cultural resources;

• To contribute to increasing interoperability between existing networks of services;

• To promote the use of digital cultural resources by business and citizens;

• To facilitate exploitation of cultural digital resources, providing clear rules for their use and re-use, respecting and protecting the creators’ rights.


MINERVA targetsBeneficiaries of the MINERVA initiative are:

• public and private organisations and institutions that create, collect or own digital content;

• private citizens, interested in receiving quality contents, reliable and directly responding to their interests;

• universities and schools, which wants to use cultural contents for educational purposes in a legal and safe environment;

• small and large enterprises interested in (re)using digital cultural content.


MINERVA approachSame successful approach for the three projects (MINERVA, MINEVA Plus and MinervaEC) :a.tight liaison with national digitisation policiesb.implementation of the results achieved into new initiatives (e.g. MED-CULT, MICHAEL, MICHAEL Plus, ATHENA)c.involvement of experts from all cultural sectors (museums, libraries, archives etc.)d.cooperation with other networks and projects

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MINERVA and MINERVA Plus: a flashback

MINERVA – IST FP5

from 2002 until 2005

7 countries

MINERVA Plus – FP6

from 2004 until 2006

14 EU countries + Russia – Centre PIC and Israel


MINERVA and MINERVA Plus main results

Annual Reports: 4 editions (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005)

A set of practical Handbooks:

Good Practices

Technical Guidelines

Good quality cultural websites

Cost reduction

Multilingual websites and thesauri

The Minerva website: www.minervaeurope.org

9 NRG meetings under the aegis of 9 EU Presidencies: Alicante-Spain, Copenhagen-Denmark, Corfu-Greece, Parma-Italy, Dublin-Ireland, The Hague-The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Bristol-UK, Salzburg-Austria

Hundreds of European cultural institutions involved in workshops, seminars, training


MINERVA-EC

Thematic NetworkSupported under eContentplus Started on 1st October 2006Completed on 30th September 2008

Coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Culture

22 EU countriesMore than 150 cultural institutions from all

over Europe


National workshops15 National workshops held in 2 years to promote MINERVA and to illustrate its tools and publications

• Brussels, 24/4/2007

• Santiago de Compostela, 11/5/2007

• Poprad, 2/10/2007

• Vilnius, 4/10/2007

• Tallin, 18-19/10/2007

• Riga, 30/10/2007

• Bratislava, 12-13/11/2007

• Jerusalem, 20-21/11/2007

• Sofia, 26/02/2008

• Warsaw, 20/5/2008

• Belfast, 22/5/2008

• Athens, 29/5/2008

• Vienna, 25/8/2008

• Brussels, 19/09/2008


MinervaEC international meetings

• Working groups meetings:– Rome, 5/12/2006– Berlin, 20/6/2007– Tenerife, 1-3/6/2008 – cooperation to the workshop Semantic

Interoperability in the European Digital Library

• Plenary meetings in cooperation with the EU Presidencies:

– Helsinki, 12 October 2006– Berlin, 23 February 2007– Ljubljana, 5-6 June 2008

• Final conference in Leipzig in September 2008


An overview of the MINERVA products


Translation of Handbooks Guidelines and Reports from Minerva / Minerva Plus

continued during MINERVA-EC

All the publications are available at: minervaeurope.org

Hundreds of cultural institutions are continuing to download the MINERVA products to support their daily work in digitisation

Many products translated in Russian language by Centre PIC


New products

• Annual Reports 2007-2008 (in cooperation with EC)

• Directory of the European legislation v.2• 3 new Handbooks:

Technical guidelines v.2 IPR guidelines Handbook on cultural web user interaction


• Realised in cooperation with the European Commission

• Based on the questionnaire sent by EC in February/March 2008

• Reports gathered by EC are on the Thematic Portal:http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/

digital_libraries/experts/mseg/reports/index_en.htm • The national reports + complementary information

about MINERVA and MICHAEL activities are published in the MINERVA Annual Report.

Annual Report 2007-2008


The report includes the following chapters:

MINERVA eCMICHAEL Culture serviceKey Steps 1999-2007MINERVA publications Reports from Member States and Observers

Member States’ Expert Group communication



Printed version of the Report distributed at the Conference “Numérisation du patrimonine culturel”, held in Paris on 27-28 November 2008, under the aegis of the French Presidency of the EU. PDF files are available on the MINERVA Website at the following URL:http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/globalreport.htm



First release 2004http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/qualitycriteria1_2draft/appendix4.htm

New release 2008Update and addition of new Member States national ruleshttp://www.minervaeurope.org/eu_nat_webapplications.html

edited by the Research Staff of the Italian Senate Library in co-operation with European Parliamentary Libraries

Directory of European and national rules on web applications


www.minervaeurope.org > Directory…


Content of the Directory

What?• normative or strategic documents

Who?• by public sources• addressed to public agencies

Why? • relevant to Web applications

When?

• since 1995• in force, or relevant to the evolution of policies


The new MINERVA Handbooks

2008 editions


Technical Guidelines (2004)

•For policy-makers and funding programmes for the creation of digital cultural content

•Propose the adoption of standards as the foundation for interoperability of resources and the creation of services for integrated access

•Technical standards support:

– Interoperability

– Access

– Preservation

– Security

Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes


• Identify areas where there is broad agreement

• Not a single prescriptive set of requirements to which all projects must conform

– can be used flexibly by Programme Managers

– can be used for self-assessment by projects

• Reflect a ‘life cycle’ approach to the digitisation process (as in MINERVA Good Practice Handbook)

• Divided into 10 sections matching life cycle stages



Digitisation life cycle

• Digitisation project planning

• Selection of material and preparation for digitisation

• Handling of originals

• HW, SW, digitisation process

• Digital master: storage and management

• Metadata

• Publication

• Disclosure/Use of resources

• IPR, re-use, re-purposing



Why:

• New and updated standards

• Standards which have failed

• Accompanying resources which are no longer available

• Impact of Web 2.0

• 3D

Technical Guidelines (2008)

Updates To Version 2

Technical Guidelines (2008)Technical Guidelines (2008)Technical Guidelines (2008)


Focus:

• Standards and methods for acquisition, storage and visual display of digital three-dimensional models for objects or scenes of cultural interest

Context:

• Progress in the development of digital 3D graphics and visualization tools, both HW and SW

• Decrease of their cost

• Foreseen increase of 3D digitisation by cultural institutions

• Need for guidance to the institutions

• Prepare a training route for people in charge

Guidelines on 3D and virtual reality


Goals:

• Identify standards and provide guidelines for planning, designing, carrying out, documenting, publishing and communicating multimedia 3D projects and resources

• Cover:

– 3D scanning of physical objects

– 3D modelling (born digital 3D content created with computer graphics systems)

• Make a census of the 3D realisations and identify good practices, according the different project objectives (education, research, communication to the public, etc.)

Guidelines on 3D and virtual reality


IPR Guidelines

Focus:

• For the use of cultural heritage institutions which are digitising cultural material and publishing it online, or are considering doing so.

Goals:

• To provide pragmatic, concise advice to cultural heritage institutions on the topic of intellectual property rights, as it

impacts on digitisation projects. • Summarize, update and re-organise materials produced by

MINERVA on IPR


Content:

• Two main sections, corresponding to the two key points where Intellectual Property Rights impact on digitisation projects:– Rights clearance: Permission must be obtained from rights holders to

digitise and publish must be obtained

– Publication: The rights of rights holders and of the cultural heritage institution must be protected during the online publication of the digitised material.

• For each section, a range of background information is provided.

• Guidelines on how a digitisation project should respond to this background information are then provided.

• Information is complemented by reference to relevant Web resources

IPR Guidelines


Key messages:Quality must be planned into a website from

the start of the projectThe user is critical – involve him at every stage Relationships with other resources must be

considered: online (interoperability) and future

(long term preservation)

Handbook on cultural web user interaction


The users: who are they in 2008?

Some definitions: • hybrid individual• transceiver (transmitter + receiver)• prosumer (producer + consumer) = information recipient and provider of its own contents

Different terms characterize the many user’s activities and behaviours on the web: consumer / client / audienceuser / surfer / viewerplayer / clicker / downloader / streamer


Another type of user...

Non human users/agents:

robots, spiders, crawlers, harvesters…

This variety of definitions reflects an articulated offer of contents and applications in the new media environment


To help the designer of a cultural web site to answers to some questions such as:

What do users want?

How do users behave?

How can we understand the use they make of our web applications?

Do effective methods exist to ask users about their expectations (before) and their degree of satisfaction (after)?

Handbook on cultural web user interaction


MICHAEL to deploy MINERVA results

• MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus: 2 deployment projects lasted between 2004 – 2008, supported by eTEN

• MICHAEL service currently involves 20 EU countries

• MICHAEL Culture Association has been established in 2007 to manage the MICHAEL services and it is member of the Executive Committee of EUROPEANA Foundation

• MICHAEL implementation is based on the metadata standard for cultural inventories developed by MINERVA


MICHAELMultilingual Inventory of

Cultural Heritage in Europe• A European online service offering quick

and easy access to European cultural heritage

• Based on surveys of digital cultural collections at national level

• European portal giving access to national databases through periodical harvesting


Standards

Open source software platform

MINERVA recommendations and guidelines

Data model aligned to the Dublin Core Metadata Set and the emerging Dublin Core Collection Description Application Profile

XML data base

Metadata harvesting through OAI-PMH


MICHAEL European Portal

• The European service MICHAEL Culture is on line at

http://www.michael-culture.org

• More than 7,000 digital collections corresponding to millions of digital objects!


Several national portals are on line and constantly updated and enriched with new data.FR http://www.michael-culture.fr IT http://michael-culture.it UK http://www.michael-culture.org.uk DE http://www.michael-portal.de FI http://www.michael-culture.fi

+ Bulgaria, Czech Rep., Estonia, Flemish Belgium, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Latvia, Poland, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden

MICHAEL National Portals

Rossella Caffo, MIBACWarsaw, 19 May 2008


Cross-domain approach

MICHAEL data model is conceived for describing digital collections belonging to every sector of cultural heritage

MICHAEL is designed to provide integrated online access to the whole European cultural heritage

MINERVA: Involving all the cultural domains, museums, libraries and archives


Policy links

• MICHAEL has strong policy links• Its success is based on the actual

political commitment at national and European levels

• Main targeted policy domains:– Culture & multilingualism– Education & training– Research & innovation– Tourism & economic

development

MINERVA: Ability to interact with Ministries, Presidencies and other political stakeholders


MINERVA: Study on the User Needs

MICHAEL Users

• many different user communities– education

– cultural tourism

– research

– ‘co-ordination’

– and computers & networks …


MICHAEL actors and roles• Ministries of culture:

coordination and financing

• Central cultural institutes: standardisation and guidelines

• Technology providers: software implementation

• Regions and Universities: surveys and local coordination of the cataloguers

• The actual cultural institutions on the territory: museums, libraries and archives to provide content

MINERVA: model for cooperation and quality framework


The futureMINERVA and MICHAEL are now completed projects.

The next project is ATHENABest Practice Network, coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Culture supported by eContentplus

ATHENA will last for the next 2 years, with the participation of many partners from all over Europe and cultural institutions from Russia, under the coordination of Centre PIC


The Italy-Russia protocol of cooperation

Italian Ministry – Direction General Librariesand

Russian State Library of Moscow

are going to sign a cooperation protocol for the valorisation of Russian culture and language in Italy and viceversa.

This protocol includes the exploitation of the results of MICHAEL and MINERVA for the online access to digital cultural content.


The Italy-Russia protocol of cooperation

Foreseen activities include:•Exhibitions,•Translations,•Bibliographic exchange,•Cataloguing and digitation,•Communication.

MICHAEL, MINERVA and ATHENA will contribute to:-Best practices exchange-Cooperation in the frame of implementation projects-Encounters among experts-Dissemination


Thank you for your attention

www.minervaeurope.orgwww.michael-culture.org

Antonella [email protected]

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