Department for Research, Innovation and
Organization
General Directorate for Technological Innovation and
Organization
Arch. Antonia P. Recchia
General Director
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AGENORE Project
“the will to seek founding reasons for European
civilisation. Agenore is emblematic of many
things. In the field relevant to Cultural
ministries, a paradigm of all the great
protagonists of art, literature, music, theatre,
cinema and its offshoots, in our respective
nations; the route which built that common
European civilisation to which we all belong”
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POLITICAL MOTIVES:
Opening up to the other nations
Creation of new institution
Re-launching the social and economic growth
“special” nature of the project
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AGENORE PROJECT HAS GROWN COHERENCE
WITH:
A. community decisions
B. European projects
C. political projects
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THE DECISIONS:
Following the meeting of the Cultural Activities
Committee on the 21st of September 2004, the presidency
presented a draft Work Plan for Culture 2005-2006
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The work plan discussed in the meeting of the
permanent representatives on 27th October 2004,
approved by the Council and adopted (therefore
definitive) on the 15th and 16th November:
• The European Commission
• Member States, the European Commission, cultural
sector
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The Cultural Portal: this is therefore the primary aim of the
Commission
• International seminar in Assisi from May the 26th to the 28th
2005 in which 32 representatives of 17 Countries and of the
European Commission took part.
• The result of this meeting is attached to this paper.
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PORTAL …………….DIGITISATION
• Portal for intercultural dialogue
•Digitisation of heritage in order to spread
knowledge
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PRINCIPLES ESTABLISHED AT LUND ON 4 APRIL
2001
• European cultural and scientific knowledge represent an exclusive
heritage endowed with public value
• This heritage must be at public disposal and be part of a
sustainability dynamic
• Cultural diversity, education and digital content industrial
development must become a reality
• Digitised resources present impressive variety and wealth
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The “political” value of the Internet-Cultural relationship is
highly topical and has been represented at the highest
political levels
“Rencontres de Paris pour l’Europe de la Culture” on 2nd
and 3rd May 2005
Answer to the strong digitalisation campaign of powerful
American search engines such as Google. Culture and
the European cultural heritage, expression of “genius,
values and the identity and particularity” of each
European nation, must be widely present on the web
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Digital library should be naturally extended to the whole
heritage, libraries, museums, archives, sites, landscapes
and the entire audio-visual heritage. Cultural digital
resources concern the whole world of culture and
heritage
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Main topics about the digitisation are
• How to select the content
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Which are the technical instruments to make it
available on the Web
CAC work plan 2005-2006:
1. Lisbon strategy
2. Coordination of digitisation
3. Culture Portal
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THE EUROPEAN FRAMEWORK
• 1999: eEurope > the EC fostered the creation of
coordination mechanism in the field of digitisation of
cultural heritage
• 2001: The National Representatives Group, the Lund
Principles, the Lund Action Plan
• 2002: MINERVA project launched to support the NRG in
implementing the LAP
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MINERVA is…:
• the operative section of the NRG
• Project funded by the EC in the frame of IST (5th
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and 6th Framework Programmes)
MINERVA is a network of all the 25 Member
States’ ministries, plus Russia and Israel
Italy coordinates the project
MINERVA implements the Lund Action Plan
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HOW MINERVA WORKS:
• Political level
• Technical level
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THE STATE OF THE ART:
• the past, present, and future presidencies (The
Nederlands, Luxembourg, UK, Austria) are elaborating,
in co-operation with NRG task force, a new strategic and
dynamic action plan for the digitisation of the cultural
heritage in Europe
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THE DEVELOPS WERE COHERENT
with
• recommendations, guidelines and standards shared at
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European level in the field of:
good practices
creation of digital cultural content in interoperable
manner
quality for cultural websites
multilingualism
IPR and copyright
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There is a great need to conserve and valorise cultural
diversity
Cultural heritage and culture in general are fundamental
resources for an advanced society where information
and knowledge are recognised to be positive, leading
influences. We therefore need to integrate the cultural
dimension into the context of advanced technologies,
with the intention of using the most varying technologies
in the area of culture
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The institutions of memory have the role of filling the
global networks with cultural digital contents
Every European web site project demonstrated their
enormous potential: spread European digital memories
in a structured form on the WEB
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What is needed to feed the cultural web sites is:
• the recovery and production of the digital memory of
cultural content
• the diffusion on the net of this memory
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• MICHAEL is a first important response to
the demands connected with the
development of a European culture Portal.
• The same principles directed in Italy the
project of an Italian Culture Portal, one
access point for all information regarding
cultural heritage, cultural activities,
cultural and entertainment events, in
relation to territorial distribution.
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Privati
•economia applicata ai beni culturali
•La cultura come settore economico:
tra conservazione e gestione del
patrimonio
•La specificità del settore culturale
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he strategic value of the European initiatives
for the construction of cultural web sites,
especially of the European Portal and the
AGENORE initiative and also the MUSEUM
initiative
those project are their roots in the results of
a technical and strategic reflection
concerning the Portal and digitalization, is
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part of this evolving
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The General Directorate of Technologic
Innovation and Promotion finalize own
actions in order to realize the new
European action plan
the Dynamic Action Plan proposed on
November 2005 by UE United Kingdom
Presidency to UE Ministry of Culture
Council
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Italian Ministry will institute a National Commission
to coordinate politics and digitalization
programmes and working teams, correspondent to
5 European work teams recently definied:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Users and contents
Digitization technology
Digital contents tenability
Digital preservation
Progress monitoring
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the objective:
an Italian strategy in connection with
European debate and the proposition of
European digital Library Commission, to
creation and development of this library
contribute all the Cultural Heritage sectors
in connection with Academic and Research
world and with private companies.
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The instruments adopted are 3:
1. the Directive on the guide lines on the
coordinated Communication plan on the web
sites
2. The OTEBAC, Technological Observatory for
Cultural Heritage, mentioned in the directive,
established into the General Directorate
3. The Quality principales for cultural web sites
and handbooks elaborated in the framework of
the Minerva project.
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As well as you are doing with the
MUSEUM project, this is the only one
way to reinforce the definition of the
cultural information on the net and
to extend the knowledge to the
highest percentage of citizens,
European and not.
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