MINERVA Plus in Russia

Dissemination of the NRG and MINERVA PLUS activities and results at national and international conferences and workshops.

The NRG, MINERVA and MINERVA Plus activities and results were presented and discussed at 20 national and international events in Russian and abroad. 3 articles in professional editions are published in Russian. MINERVA editions are in the collections of several the most important libraries of Russia.

Participation in MINERVA PLUS working groups activities

Six Russian working groups were organised:

• Development and Promotion of the Russian National Digitisation Policy;
• Inventories, discovery of digitised content, multilingual issues;
• Interoperability and service provision, IPR issues;
• Identification of user needs, content and quality framework for common access points;
• Identification of good practices and competence centres;
• Digital Cultural and Scientific Heritage Preservation.

Russian experts were the most active in MINERVA PLUS multilingual WG, IPR WG, and Firenze Agenda.

Russian MINERVA PLUS web-site

The MINERVA PLUS web-site in Russian was opened 12 April 2004. It presents the information on the NRG activities, on history, structure, achievements, progress and special events of MINERVA and MINERVA PLUS. Basic documents of the both projects are also available on the web site in Russian. Translated into Russian and published on the web-site:

• Lund Principles;
• Lund Action Plan;
• Firenze Agenda;
• 5^th Official Meeting of the National Representatives Group (NRG), Parma, 19th November 2003;
• Charter of Parma;
• Cultural Website Quality Principles;
• Quality Guidelines;
• Inspection of the European legislation regarding Intellectual Property Rights (WP4);
• What is thesaurus (terminology review);
• Dynamic Action Plan;
• Quality Principles Handbook.

English pages present Russian activities in MINERVA PLUS and important events in Russia.