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MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in
digitisation - eContentplus - Supporting the European Digital
Library
Project Summary
MinervaEC is a proposal for a Thematic Network in the area of
cultural, scientific information and scholarly content. It is
intended as a strategic network, bringing together stakeholders
and experts from all the EU Member State, capitalising the results
achieved by the IST Minerva project (http://www.minervaeurope.org),
supporting the Dynamic Action Plan of the NRG launched in Bristol
on 16th November 2005, and the proposals by France and the European
Commission to develop a European Digital Library.
MinervaEC will operate through the coordination of national
policies, programmes and institutions of the cultural sector,
and by supporting the National Representatives Group of the
European Ministries of Culture. Its goal is to support the
creation of added value products and services at European
level to improve awareness of the state-of-the-art in the
sector, to contribute to the overcome of fragmentation and
duplication of digitisation activities of cultural and scientific
content and to maximise synergies among Member States.
This following tasks will be implemented:
- Development of the European Cultural Content Interoperability
Framework, to provide clear guidance on the creation, use
and management of cultural content across Europe by establishing
an informal network of competence centres funded at National
level across Europe and enabling them to work together
- Establishment of the Quality, Usability and Accessibility
service mediating the complexity of the European cultural
information space for users to ensure that it is accessible,
relevant and usable
- Development of a repository of cases of good practices
in the area of enriched cultural content, working towards
digital cultural heritage to reflect and to promote European
cultural and linguistic diversity
- Coordination, Assessment, Mobilisation, Awareness and Dissemination
functions.
MinervaEC will be run by a network of Ministries of Culture
in cooperation with many cultural institutions.
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