MINERVA NETWORK

The Ministry of Cultural Heritage of Italy has set up the MINERVA Project in the EU RTD Framework Program. This project is now being enlarged as part of the MINERVA Plus initiative, approved by the European Commission in the 6FP. The Centre on the Problems of Informatisation of Culture, Russian Federation, was a full partner in MINERVA Plus. Starting from October 2006 MINERVA Project is enlarged to MINERVA EC, MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation, eContentplus - Supporting the European Digital Library.

The aim of MINERVA is to create a network of Member States' Ministries to discuss, correlate and harmonise activities carried out in digitisation of cultural and scientific content. It will create an agreed European common platform, recommendations and guidelines about digitisation, metadata, long-term accessibility and preservation. MINERVA identifies and integrates best practices in a pan-European framework, to facilitate the adoption of the Lund Principles, to implement the Dynamic Action Plan.

The Centre on the Problems of Informatisation of Culture, Russian Federation, supports the Russian WEB-site and goes on with dissemination activities after the end of the MINERVA Plus project to promote in Russia the NRG initiatives, implementation of the Dynamic Action Plan, “i2010 Digital Libraries”, EU Programmes and projects.

Evgeny Kuzmin, the President of the Information Society Development Foundation and the Chair-person of the Russian Committee of the UNESCO “Information for all Programme” and Nadezhda Brakker, the Senior Expert of the Centre on the Problems of Informatisation of Culture, Russian Federation, are official observer of the National Peresentatives Group.