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MINERVA Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes
developed on behalf of the Minerva Project by UKOLN, University of Bath, in association with MLA The Council for Museums, Libraries & Archives.

Throughout Europe, international, national, regional and local initiatives are investing significant public and private sector funding to enable access to a range of cultural heritage resources through digital channels.  The motivations and drivers for these initiatives may vary widely. The various agencies supporting digitisation programmes typically share a common concern of seeking to maximise the value of their grant awards, by requiring that the content produced should be as widely useful, portable and durable as possible.  These qualities are encapsulated within the notion that resources (and the mechanisms through which resources are accessed) should be ‘interoperable’.

The key to such ‘interoperability’ is to ensure consistency of approach to the creation, management and delivery of digital resources through the effective use of standards, the rules and guidelines that codify good practice.
This document seeks to provide some guidelines for the use of standards - primarily technical standards.   It seeks to identify those areas in which there is already commonality of approach and to provide a core around which context-specific requirements might be built. 

The appropriate use of standards in digitisation can deliver the consistency that makes interoperability possible.  Moreover, the benefits of deploying standards include accessibility and preservation the digital resources created and that the integrity and authenticity of resources can be determined.

The structure of this document reflects a ‘life cycle’ approach to the digitisation process, and (with some modifications) parallels the structure of the Good Practice Handbook developed in the Minerva project. 

Draft versions

  • 2003-11-25. Working Draft Version 0.06 [pdf 470kb]
  • 2003-11-17. Working Draft Version 0.05 [pdf 123kb]
  • 2003-09-15. Working Draft Version 0.01 [pdf 178kb]
 

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Interoperability

Quality, accessibility, usability

Best Practices

 
 
 

Copyright Minerva Project 2006-11, last revision 2008-06-13, edited by Minerva Editorial Board.
URL: www.minervaeurope.org/interoperability/technicalguidelines.htm