1. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 The MINERVA Products Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 Ministerial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activising in digitisation

2. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MINERVA website Main navigation Copyright and updating dates news Services for users Meta-navigation

3. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MINERVA website updating The site is managed by two persons, who make daily updating. Primary sources for updating: Documents edited by working groups Documents edited by Minerva Secretariat and Project Management News sent to the editorial board Press

4. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MINERVA website preservation All changes in pages are preserved: a general backup of the site is effected monthly all versions and drafts of the documents are maintained on line even for little changes we effect the so called “filing rename”, preserved in a directory on the service The site of Minerva has been selected by the National Library of Australia to be preserved (PADI initiative)

5. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MINERVA Newsletter First issue published in June 2003 Last issue published in September 2006 Total published issues: 12 Languages: English and Italian Total of subscriptions: more than 3.000

6. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MINERVA national Websites: Estonia

7. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MINERVA national Websites: Hungary

8. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MINERVA national Websites: Israel

9. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MINERVA national Websites: Poland

10. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MINERVA national Websites: Russia

11. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 Search engines: benchmarking+ cultural+ heritage

12. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 Search engines: good+ practices+ digitisation

13. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 Search engines Search engines: cultural+ web+ sites+ quality

14. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MINERVA Publications

15. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 Annual Progress Reports The annual global report of the national policies, programmes and projects in the Members States of the European Union Three editions published: 2003 – 2004 - 2005

16. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MINERVA Activities Reports A structured presentation of the activities carried out by the MINERVA network and its working groups. Two editions published: 2002 - 2003 and 2004 - 2005

17. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MINERVA Policy Charter of Parma A policy instrument published under the Italian Presidency of the European Union. It describes the long-term vision of the MIENRVA network and its partners, through 10 articles about rights for the accessibility of digital cultural heritage. It has been followed by national declations in several countries in Europe and other regions.

18. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MED-CULT MINERVA-EC MINERVA Posters Cultural Website Quality Principles Poster and now also: MEDCULT Poster MINERVA-EC Poster

19. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MINERVA Postcards It started as an experiment for the dissemination of the 10 Quality Principles. Now, for each product published by MINERVA, a postcard is produced (in different languages) to disseminate information of the new publication around the network

20. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MINERVA Handbooks A collection of products to support best proctices in digitisation and creation of cultural online services: Handbook for quality in Cultural Web sites Quality Principles for Cultural Website: a handbook Technical Guidelines for Digital Cultural Content Creation Programme Good Practice Handbook Multiligualism Report on Tesauri and multilingual websites Cost Reduction in Digitisation

21. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 Catalogue of the MINERVA products http://www.minervaeurope. org/publications.htm

22. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 The most downloaded files The most downloaded publication: The good practices handbook (56,680 copies), in all its versions and languages (Manual de Boas Práticas N. 5!). But also all of the different tools for the quality of the cultural web sites (Handbook for quality in public cultural applications, quality principles and quality principles handbook etc) reach 61,120 copies. TOTAL amount of the top 20 downloaded files list: 141,479 copies

23. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 The MICHAEL initiative: a spin-off of MINERVA simple multilingual access to the digital collections of museums, libraries and archives from different European countries.

24. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 The MICHAEL platform

25. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006 MICHAEL on line national portals

26. Antonella Fresa Amman, 12-13 December 2006

29. For further information: www.minervaeurope.org www.michael-culture.org fresa@promoter.it