Dov WinerThe Jewish Agency Initiative for Developing Jewish Networking

Infrastructures

Seminar: Advanced Technologies for Archives

December 6, 2005

The MINERVA ProjectIntroduction

an initiative of the Jewish Agency for Israel

http://www.minervaeurope.org http://www.minervaisrael.org.il

Lund Principles and Lund Action Plan 2001

Identified the barriers to digitisation, access and long term preservation of scientific and cultural heritage

Providing rich and diverse digital resources that support education and research, tourism and creative industries

Enabling digital access by all citizens to national, regional and local cultural heritage of Europe

Advancing the European Digital Libraries initiative

NRG – National Representatives Group

A policy framework for coordination of digitisation in Europe – representatives of Members States and Observers (Israel, Russia)

Dynamic Action Plan – December 2005

Dynamic Action Plan Objectives

o Providing strategic leadership – changing environment

o Strengthening coordination

o Efforts in overcoming fragmentation and duplication

o Identifying appropriate models

o Promoting cultural and linguistic diversity

o Improving online access

Dynamic Action Plan Action Areas

o Users and Content

o Technologies for digitisation

o Sustainability of content

o Digital preservation

Operational Secretary for the NRG

MINERVA

MINERVA Plus

upcoming MINERVA EC

Strong involvement of the Italian MiBAC – Ministry of Cultural Assets

MINERVA and MINERVA Plus in the RTD Framework Program

end of January 2005

MINERVA EC in the eContent Plus Call

Substantial results:

MICHAEL (eTEN), Quality criteria, Controlled Vocabularies, IPR, Interoperability, Multi Linguality, Technical Guidelines, intensive networking, Best practices, Cost reduction

Steering Committee for MINERVA in Israel involving all statutory institutions

The National Archives

The National Jewish and University Library

Israel Antiques Authority

Pais Council for Arts and Culture

Directorate for Culture of the Ministry of Education; The Department of Public Libraries; The Department for Museums and Visual Arts

The Council for Public Libraries

The Forum for preservation of the Audio Visual Heritage of Israel (Film Producers and Broadcasting)

ICOM Israel – The International Council of Museums

MALMAD – Israel Center for Digital Information Services

Meital – The Israel Universities Center for Learning Technologies

Unesco Secretary in Israel

Division for Scientific and Cultural Agreements – MOFA

The Jewish Agency for Israel *

The Ministry of Science and Technology *

WG4

Cataloguing, Metadata and Interoperability

Ora Zehavi [ Dr Judit Bar Ilan, Rachel Kedar]and Amalia Keshet

WG5

User Needs and Quality Framework for Common AccessSusan Hazan

WG6

Identification of Good Practices and Competence CentersOrly Simon

WG3

Inventories, discovery of digitized content

Dr. Allison Kupietzky

Conferences

Italy Israel Bi National, EVA/MINERVA 2004, 2005

Jerusalem Declaration

Knesset sub committee: nomination of an economist to analyse creative industries

Consultation: Coordination of Digitisation of Jewish Cultural Heritage in Europe

GIS for European Jewish Cultural Heritage access

Surveys

Controlled Vocabularies

Jewish Cultural Heritage content

Several new proposals

Protean – Mosaica – MINERVA EC and more