Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003 Italy Israel Bi-national Seminar on Digital Access to Scientific and Cultural Heritage Antonella Fresa MINERVA Technical Coordinator Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activising in digitisation

Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003 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.

Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003 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 Foreground

Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003 NRG – National Representatives Group: –Composed by representatives officially nominated by Member States authorities; –Chaired by the European Commission and the Presidency of the Union in turn; –NRG is the 'guardian of the Lund Principles; –Minerva hosts the secretariat of the NRG. National Representatives Group

Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003 Italy, coordinator (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali); Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Ireland the Netherlands Portugal Spain Sweden United Kingdom The Partners of MINERVA

Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003 Czech Republic Estonia Hungary Israel Malta Poland Russia Slovenia Enlargement of Minerva

Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003 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. What MINERVA does

Israel, 10th and 11th of December Working Groups WP Enlargement WP Dissemination, training and publications WP Project management Benchmarking activities The project structure

Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003 Inventories, discovery of digitised content, multilingual issues Interoperability, Service Provision and IPR Idenitification of user needs, contents and quality framework Good Practices and Competence Centres The Working Groups:

Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003 Which enlargements for MINERVA: to get involved ALL the 25 MS + Russia and Israel to co-operate with other running projects to establish co-operation agreements with different sectors towards a stable European co-ordination framework f or digitisation of cultural heritage. Network enlargement

Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003 The Co-operation Agreement to enlarge the network towards: the industry, the research and academy, the local administrations, the associations, any other subject who is interested in contributing to the implementation of the Lund Principles. Network enlargement

Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003 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. Reasons to join Minerva

Israel, 10th and 11th of December 2003 contact details Antonella Fresa MINERVA Technical Coordinator