Digitisation, held at the National
in Lisbon on 11 May 2004, was promoted
as an initiative of the MINERVA project.
MINERVA is `a network of Member
States' Ministries to discuss, correlate and
harmonise activities carried out in digi-
tisation of cultural and scientific content
for creating an agreed European common
platform, recommendations and guidelines
about digitisation, metadata, long-term
accessibility and preservation'.
of MINERVA-PLUS, a project associated
with MINERVA), the General Office of
the Ministry of Culture (the Portuguese
National Representative in MINERVA),
and the Portuguese Operational
Programme for Culture.
to promote the idea that digitisa-
both desirable and useful for the future
of the sector. This highly successful event
involved 250 participants (the maximum
capacity of the venue as the requests
for registration exceeded 500!). The audi-
ence was composed of representatives
of libraries, museums and archives from
all over Portugal and from several other
European institutions, in addition to mem-
bers of Portuguese governmental bodies
and other relevant institutions and private
companies.
presentations:
Claude Poliart (European Commission -
DG Information Society)
ˇ The European Project MINERVA -
Rossella Caffo (Ministero per i Beni e le
Attivitŕ Culturali, Italia), Pier Giacomo
Sola (Consortium Amitié)
ˇ Digitisation in Bulgaria: a look from
inside and outside - Milena Dobreva
(KT-DigiCult-BG)
ˇ Project EnrichUK (United Kingdom) -
Peter Dowdell (UKOLN, the UK Office
for Library and Information Networking)
ˇ The Digitisation Centre of the Göttingen
University (Germany) - Andrea Rapp
(Göttinger Digitalisierungszentrum)
ˇ The TASI Service (United Kingdom)
- Edmund I. Bremner (TASI Technical
Advisory Service for Images University
of Bristol)
ˇ The National Digital Library Initiative
- José Borbinha (National Library of
Portugal)
ˇ Digitisation of the National Museological
Patrimony: an integrated project - Paulo
Ferreira da Costa (Portuguese Institute
for Museums)
ˇ Parliamentary Debates Online - Rui
Costa (Portuguese Parliament), Joaquim
Sousa Pinto (University of Aveiro)
ˇ Project for the Digitisation of the
Archive of Images of the IPCR - Rui
Ferreira da Silva (Portuguese Institute for
Preservation)
ˇ Project PrIM - Maria Emília Melo,
Dr Frederico Rosa (Humberto Delgado
Foundation)
ˇ Digital Archive of Portuguese Art -
Maria Inęs Cordeiro (Calouste
ˇ Citizenship Contents in the Internet
- Alfredo Caldeira (Mário Soares
Foundation)
port of many other organisations, with
Council, the Goethe-Institut, FCCN (the
Portuguese academic Internet Provider)
and BAD (the Portuguese Association of
Librarians, Archivists and Documentalists).
entations are available online from the
bnd.bn.pt/agenda/sdigit/programa-en.html.
Making the most of modern technology to
reach as many people as possible, the semi-
nar was transmitted over the Internet in
real time, where it reached a wide audience.
The sessions were also recorded, which
will result in a DVD being made available
(it is currently in production). This DVD
will include the recordings and slides of the
presentations in addition to complemen-
tary material developed by the National
Library of Portugal, comprising examples
of digitised works and the tools developed
as part of the scope of the National Digital
Library Initiative (http://bnd.bn.pt). Most
of this technology is being released by the
National Library of Portugal and its part-
ners as Open Source tools to benefit the
sector as much as possible.