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Identification of good practices and competence centres
Working group

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Coordinator:

Riksarkivet (SE)

Objectives

The objectives of this working group (WP6) are:

  1. to support the development of skills and increase of efficiency in digitisation by
    • encouraging take-up of good practice
    • encouraging promotion of "centres of competence"; the aim is that these "centres of competence" should be sustained by national governments.
  2. to support MINERVA/WP 2 - 5 in the selection and identification of guidelines.

Activities

Examples of good practice in digitisation will be selected and promoted from, in the first place, Member State programmes and projects in order to

  • exchange experiences and skills
  • collect consensus from different communities of users

Existing projects in cultural heritage under the IST programme like DigiCULT will also be analysed for potential contribution to good practice.
Organisations and centres with leading skills and competence in key technical domains will be identified and contacted. The purpose is to establish a "consortia" of such organisations with services to support and inform cultural organisations embarking on digitisation. Information about this "consortia" has to be made accessible on the web.

Sequence of work

As a start, existing good practices will be identified and promoted in the short term, with a view to producing a set of consensus guidelines on good practices at a later date in the project. Relevant standards will also be identified and recommendations about their application developed.
As a second activity organisations and centres with leading skills and competence in key technical domains will be identified and contacted.

The Work Plan

At the kick-off meeting of MINERVA in Rome in April 2002 a work plan for WP6 was presented and accepted.

General conditions

  • Benchmarking and good practice in digitisation are on-going activities; MINERVA is just a (first) step.
  • Focus has to be on pull factors and not on push factors; otherwise no one will be interested in these activities, at least not in the long run.
  • Benchmarking and good practice (guidelines, standards, recommendations, advice etc) form together a "wheel" that has to be rolling on by its own force.
  • To underline the close relationship of benchmarking and good practices MINERVA/WP 2 (benchmarking) and WP 6 have a joint organisation. On top is a Ministerial Board with representing the Ministries of Culture in Finland and Sweden. The actual work is carried out by national project groups, one in Finland (benchmarking) and one in Sweden (good practice). All matters concerning the relations between the two work packages are handled by a Finnish-Swedish coordination group which meet regularly in regular meetings or in meetings over the phone.

Working phases of WP 6

For managing the task given to WP 6 four working phases has been identified:

  • Construction of a generic model that define, describe, and delimit the activities identified in the MINERVA contract ("handling the reality").
  • Analyse of the situation today ("state of the art").
  • Describing a first version of a web application (prototype) that responds to the conditions given in the working model ("from words to deeds").
  • Describing the entering data elements in the web application (prototype) and revising the application (prototype) before its acceptance as the final version ("finalising").

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