Minerva project newsletter

September 2004, n.8
edited by Minerva Editorial Board

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Table of content

• Evidence
• Publications
• Events

Evidence

• MINERVA Survey of multilingualism
  In the ambit of Minerva Plus, the subgroup of WP3 Multilingualism and thesaurus, coordinated by France and Hungary, is charged to collect information on multilingualism of cultural websites in participant countries.
  Cultural sites, public collections (libraries, museums, archives, ecc.) maintaining a Website are asked to fill in and send back this online questionnaire.
  http://www.mek.oszk.hu/minerva/survey/
  
  
• MICHAEL
  The proposal of MICHAEL (Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe) project, approved in the framework of the eTen programme, was born on the basis of the joint efforts of Italy, France and United Kingdom on interoperability and inventories carried out for MINERVA; it can be considered a MINERVA spin off.
  The project will define a common approach and a model of digital cultural heritage services that will be applied across the participating nations. It will establish an international online service, which will allow its users to search, browse and examine multiple national cultural portals from a single point of access. This online service will be actively supported and endorsed by the national governments and agencies responsible for cultural heritage. Based on standards and open-source technologies, built upon an existing platform, flexible and extensible in terms of adding additional nations to the scope of the resource, it implements the newly-agreed pan-European standards and guidelines for digital cultural heritage initiatives, as approved by the National Representatives Group.
  The end user will exploit the MICHAEL services to find and explore European cultural heritage material, which will be accessible, on a multilingual basis, over the Internet.
  The MICHAEL consortium is made up of the ministries of culture of France, Italy and the United Kingdom, supported by the private bodies Dedale, AJLSM and Amité for the technological and administrative aspects.
  http://www.michael-culture.org
  

Publications

• Coordinating digitisation in Europe
  Progress report of the National Representatives Group: coordination mechanisms for digitisation policies and programmes 2003.
  http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/globalreport.htm
  
  
• Good practice handbook
  edited by the MINERVA Working Group 6 - Identification of good practices and competence centres
  Final versions available online in English, French and Portuguese. Under preparation: German and Italian online versions.
  http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/goodhand.htm
  http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/bonnesprat.htm
  http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/boasprat.htm
  
  
• MINERVA: Digitising content together: Ministerial for Valorising Activities in Digitisation: Activities 2003 - 2004 (information brochure on the project)
  http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/
  minervabooklet2003-2004-e.pdf
  

Events

• 15-16 September 2004
  The Hague, The Netherlands (MINERVA DISSEMINATION)
  Towards a Continuum of Digital Heritage. Strategies for a European Area of Digital Cultural Resources
  http://eu2004.digitaliseringerfgoed.nl/
  cultuurtechnologie/cultuurtechnologie/i000264.html
  
  
• 27-28 September 2004
  Salzburg, Austria ( MINERVA PLUS EVENT )
  Salzburg Research eCulture Symposium 2004
  Parallel Session 2: Digitisation of cultural heritage
  http://eculture.salzburgresearch.at/index_e.html
  
  
• 11-13 October 2004
  Jerusalem, Israel (MINERVA PLUS EVENT)
  EVA Jerusalem 2004. Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage
  EVA, MINERVA and Harvard University (Widener Library) with the MINERVA Network in Israel are organizing a conference focused on the digitization of cultural and scientific content. It will include hands-on workshops; poster presentations and sessions dedicated to the different aspects of the process of digitization and matters related to it. The conference will be the occasion for issuing the Jerusalem Chart on Digitisation of Cultural and Scientific content.
  http://minervaisrael.org.il/sectionPages
  /sectionPageDisplay.aspx?sectionpageid=46
  
  
• 10 -12 November 2004
  Berlin, Germany (MINERVA DISSEMINATION)
  EVA Berlin 2004
  http://www.gfai.de/pinboard/eva/
  
  
• 29 Nov. - 03 Dec. 2004
  Moscow, Russia (MINERVA DISSEMINATION)
  EVA2004 Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
  http://conf.cpic.ru/eva2004/eng/info/str_2.html

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