Evidence

Commission approves new programme to break down e-barriers

The Commission approved a proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers on a new programme for the
period 2010-15: "Interoperability Solutions for European Public Administrations" (ISA).

For further information visit the IDABC programme website at: http://ec.europa.eu/idabc

Commission consults on how to put Europe into the lead of the transition to Web 3.0

Europe could take the lead in the next generation of the Internet. The European Commission today outlined the main steps that Europe has to take to respond to the next wave of the Information Revolution that will intensify in the coming years due to trends such as social networking, the decisive shift to on-line business services, nomadic services based on GPS and mobile TV and the growth of smart tags. The report shows that Europe is well placed to exploit these trends because of its policies to support open and precompetitive telecom networks as well as privacy and security. A public consultation has been launched today by the Commission on the policy and private sector responses to these opportunities. The Commission report also unveils a new Broadband Performance Index (BPI) that compares national performance on key measures such as broadband speed, price, competition and coverage.

The Commission Communication on Future networks and the Internet is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/eeurope/i2010/index_en.htm

The public consultation on the Internet of Things is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/yourvoice/ipm/forms/dispatch?form=IOTconsultation

Draft Version 1.0 of MINERVAeC IPR Guide online!

This guide is conceived for the use of cultural heritage institutions which are digitising cultural material and publishing it online, or are considering doing so.
The objective of the document is to provide pragmatic, concise advice to cultural heritage institutions on the topic of intellectual property rights, as it impacts on digitisation projects.

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08/09/09

Handbook on cultural web user interaction: first edition online

The MINERVA EC Working Group “Quality, Accessibility and Usability has just edited the first edition of the Handbook on cultural web user interaction, targeted to all people, institutions and projects connected with cultural heritage, which are planning to develop web applications or want to monitor and improve those already on the web.

Communication on Europe’s cultural heritage at the click of a mouse

On August 11, 2008, The Commission adopted a Communication on Europe’s cultural heritage at the click of a mouse - Progress on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation across the EU. The Communication describes progress towards the creation of the European digital library as well as the actions deployed by Member States to address organisational, financial, technical and legal issues, essential for making cultural material available on the internet. It calls on Member States and stakeholders to step up their efforts to make our common heritage more accessible, and confirms the Commission’s commitment to support this goal through its policy actions and funding programmes.

European Commission launches consultation on copyright in the knowledge economy

In the middle of July the European Commission published its Green Paper entitled “Copyright in the knowledge economy”.
The stated purpose of the Green Paper “is to foster a debate on how knowledge for research, science and education can best be disseminated in the online environment. The Green Paper aims to set out a number of issues connected with the role of copyright in the "knowledge economy" and intends to launch a consultation on these issues”.

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Events

• 20-25 October 2008. Limassol, Cyprus ( MINERVA EC and MICHAEL DISSEMINATION )
  VSMM 2008
  "Digital Heritage: Our Hi-tech-STORY for the Future"
  Technologies to Document, Preserve, Communicate,and Prevent the Destruction of our Fragile Cultural Heritage
  
  
• 23 October 2008. Limassol, Cyprus
  Final Workshop organised by the MultiMatch project Multilingual and Multimedia Access to Cultural Heritage Digital Objects: the MultiMatch Solution
  
  
• 11-12 November 2008. Jerualem, Israel. ( MINERVA EC EVENT )
  The EVA/MINERVA Jerusalem 2008
  Conference on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage



• 27-28 November 2008. Paris, Musée du Quai Branly ( MINERVA EC and MICHAEL DISSEMINATION )
  Digitisation of Cultural heritage in Europe Conference
  organised under the French presidency of the EU

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
  
  
• 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)
  
  
• 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)