What is Project Minerva?
The Minerva project is a European initiative which aims to achieve the objective of the digitization of cultural and scientific heritage.
Compared to the cultural sector, the web is an instrument of enormous power for knowledge dissemination and exchange in research, teaching and information. The project represents a common European platform, which are developed recommendations and guidelines about digitization, access and the creation of metadata (metadata is information describing a on the structure and meaning of the data, applications, as well as the processes that manipulate them).
A public cultural web site is a site that has among its principal promoters of a public - archives, libraries, museums, research centers and training. By its nature, therefore, a public cultural web site that can not reach all citizens, regardless of their training, skills and technologies they own.
The Minerva project seeks to promote the interaction between web designers and cultural entities in the belief that only through dialogue and collaboration between the IT world and the culture you can build cultural websites public quality.
On the one hand it is necessary for people to know the cultural properties and mechanisms of the Web in order to be able to really exploit the potential, and second is equally important that experts in the web, developers, aware of the problems of the world of culture.
Minerva provides a set of directions, objectives, principles by which to assess the quality of a public cultural web site. The intent is to provide an open model in which each person may devise original though bound by common tesnione to the result of a quality offer.
The issue of quality of a public cultural web site is difficult. It 'clear that everything that exists because there has qualities. However, some qualities are valuable, others less so. The working group seeks Minerva, with its guidelines, to answer the question:
what are the qualities that a public cultural web site must have to be valid and well made?
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