Bristol, 17 November 2005 Minerva Plus Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation

Bristol, 17 November 2005 Results from Minerva Plus IPR Guide Multilingualism Quality Cost Reduction Assessment Report Translation of Minerva products in national languages

Bristol, 17 November 2005 Multilingualism Survey from June 2004 till June 2005 Almost 600 registered multilingual websites A new section of minervaeurope.org is under construction

Bristol, 17 November 2005 Editorial Board on 8th of September 2005 Draft available online on the website soon To be published in January for European distribution Multilingual Access to European Digital Heritage

Bristol, 17 November 2005 Multilingual Access to European Digital Heritage 1.Introduction, Acknowledgement, Foreword, Executive Summary 2.Country reports (19) 3.Best practices  multilingual thesauri  Multilingual websites 4.Conclusions 5.Annexes  Questionnaire  Thesauri listed

Bristol, 17 November 2005 For further information about multilingualism Gabriella Szaloki National Szechenyi Library, Budapest

Bristol, 17 November 2005 Quality Monika Hagedorn-Saupe Institute for Museum Research, Berlin

Bristol, 17 November 2005 In cooperation between Minerva and Minerva Plus 3 main activities: Workshop in Fransta, January 2005  “decision tree” Desktop research and Analysis of cost modelling Final report and publication, to be ready by beginning of 2006 Cost Reduction GOOD PRACTICES TOOL BOXES

Bristol, 17 November 2005 For further information about cost reduction Dov Winer The Jewish Agency, Jerusalem Borje Justrell National Archives, Stockholm