Evidence

A Digital Agenda for Europe

The Commission adopted he Communication "A Digital Agenda for Europe" [COM(2010) 245].  The Agenda aims at contributing to the EU's economic growth and at spreading the benefits of the digital era to all sections of society.  It outlines seven priority areas for action: creating a digital Single Market, greater interoperability, boosting internet trust and security, much faster internet access, more investment in research and development, enhancing digital literacy skills and inclusion, and applying information and communications technologies to address challenges facing society like climate change and the ageing population.

Methods and Technologies Used by EU Cultural Institutions for Inventory and Authentication of Objects

A research activity is carried out by the Russian Federal Ministry of Culture within a EU-Russia exchange programme on the use of modern technical tools to support the inventory, identification, safety and security of cultural valuables in EU countries.
The group of experts working on this initiative is taking a survey on ‘Methods and Technologies Used by EU Cultural Institutions for Inventory and Authentication of Objects’.
The questionnaire is quite short and you will take only few minutes to complete it. At the end you will find an automatic submission button.
All institutions from the ALM sectors can fill it in; feel free to forward the news of this survey to other colleagues that may be interested on the subject.
Questions regarding the survey/questionnaire can be addressed to the research team (Struan Simpson, Barbara Morganti or Nevra Erturk) at museums@stjamess-research.com, with the subject line ‘EU/Russia Museums Project’.
Deadline for the submission of the questionnaire: Friday, 28 May 2010

Russian edition of Handbook for cultural web user interaction

The MINERVA Handbook for cultural web user interaction has been translated in Russian. The Russian edition has been enriched with comments, links to resources and best practices of Russian cultural institutions.

Europe 2020: A strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth

Over the last two years, we have faced the world's worst economic crisis since the 1930s. This crisis has reversed much of the progress achieved in Europe since 2000. We are now facing high levels of unemployment, sluggish structural growth and excessive levels of debt. The economic situation is improving, but the recovery is still fragile. At the same time, the world is moving fast and long-term challenges – globalisation, pressure on resources, climate change, ageing – are intensifying.

Europe can succeed if it acts collectively, as a Union. The Europe 2020 strategy put forward by the Commission sets out a vision of Europe's social market economy for the 21st century. It shows how the EU can come out stronger from the crisis and how it can be turned into a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy delivering high levels of employment, productivity and social cohesion. To deliver rapid and lasting results, stronger economic governance will be required.

Following the Commission's communication "Europe 2020: a strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth"  and the discussions held in the Council, on the 25-26 March 2010, the European Council reached an agreement on the new strategy, which will be formally adopted in June.

The Europeana Public Domain Charter

The Europeana Foundation has published a policy statement, the Public Domain Charter, to highlight the value of public domain content in the knowledge economy. It alerts Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audiovisual collections to the fact that digitisation of Public Domain content does not create new rights in it.

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Events

• 23 September 2010, Mikkeli, Finland
  With Quality in Mind
  Digitisation and Preservation Seminar

MINERVA Activities

Museo & Web  (en) - (fr) - (it)  
Kit for planning a quality website for small museums, edited by WP5 Italy.

Publications

• Handbook on cultural web user interaction (en - it - ru)
  
  
• IPR Guide
  
  
• Cost reduction in digitisation
  
  
• Final Plan for using and disseminating knowledge and raise public participation and awareness Report on inventories and multilingualism issues: Multilingualism and Thesaurus
  
  
• Dynamic Action Plan for the EU co-ordination of digitisation of cultural and scientific content
  
  
• Quality Principles for cultural Web sites: a handbook (ar [.pdf] - az [.pdf] - ee - en - el - fr - hu - lv - ru)
  
  
• MINERVA: Digitising content together: Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in Digitisation: Activities 2003 - 2004 (information brochure on the project) (en [pdf 837KB]) - (it [pdf 825KB])
  
  
• Coordinating digitisation in Europe
  Progress report of the National Representatives Group: coordination mechanisms for digitisation policies and programmes.
  
  
• Charter of Parma
  
  
• Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes
  
  
• Cultural Website quality principles (ar [.jpg] - de - fr - ee - el - en - es - hu - it - nl - pl - si - sk) [POSTER PDF 49KB]
  A decalogue for cultural website developers
  
  
• Handbook for quality in cultural Web sites: improving quality for citizens. (en - it)
  
  
• Good practice handbook (de - ee - el - en - fr - hu - it - lv - pt - sk)