International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and Technology Lisbon, 11th May 2004 Minerva &MinervaPLUS Benefits for Cultural Institutions and Industries Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and Technology Lisbon, 11th May Set of publications focusing on good practices, guidelines, recommendations, quality principles to be used -Actrivation of national Working groups, to share experiences with transnational colleagues -Development of new and impulse of running digitisation programmes at national level -Organisation of training materials available on the web, to set-up a transnational virtual classroom Outputs for Cultural Institutions

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and Technology Lisbon, 11th May 2004 An eLearning platform was set-up, to allow people to access training materials and communicate with European colleagues. Two learning materials have been already developed and are going to be put on the platform: -Quality principles for web sites in the cultural sector -Technical guidelines for digital cultural content creation programmes The first materials

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and Technology Lisbon, 11th May 2004 The 10 principles to be used when implementing a cultural web site. A quality cultural website must be: Quality principles for web sites 1 Transparent Effective Maintained Accessible User-centred Responsive Multi-lingual Interoperable Managed Preserved

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and Technology Lisbon, 11th May 2004 General definitions, principles, recommendations (Principles, Policies and Strategies) Quality in web applications (Accessing the contents, Usability criteria, Patterns) The Minerva Model for cultural web applications (Archives, Libraries, Museums, Archaeological sites, Research and training centres, Cultural projects, Temporary exhibitions, etc.) Quality principles for web sites 2

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and Technology Lisbon, 11th May 2004 Preparation for digitisation (Hardware, Software, Environment) Handling of originals (Choice of digitisation hardware, Appropriate movement and manipulation of original material, Staff training) The digitisation process (Scanning, Photography, Optical Character Recognition, Sound capture,Video capture, 3D capture) Storage and management of the digital master material (File formats, Media choices, Migration strategies) Technical guidelines 1

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and Technology Lisbon, 11th May 2004 Metadata creation/capture (The scope of the metadata, Appropriate standards) Publication (Processing for delivery, 3D and Virtual Reality Issues, Geographic Information Systems, Web Sites) Disclosure Re-use and re-purposing (Learning Resource Creation) IPR and Copyright(Establishing Copyright, Safeguarding Copyright, e-Commerce) Technical guidelines 2

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and Technology Lisbon, 11th May 2004 The eLearning platform

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and Technology Lisbon, 11th May 2004 The eLearning platform

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and Technology Lisbon, 11th May 2004

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and Technology Lisbon, 11th May 2004

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and Technology Lisbon, 11th May 2004 will be available soon on the Minerva web site: The eLearning platform

International Seminary on Digitisation: Experience and Technology Lisbon, 11th May 2004 Many thanks for your attention