DIGITISATION COMPETENCE CENTRE 
FORM FOR NOMINATION

This is the form for the nomination of a competence centre in digitisation.
Please, send a form for each different competence centre.
Each competence centre can be “nominated” for more than one area.

Send the form/forms to the attention of Maria Teresa Natale by e-mail to minerva2@beniculturali.it or by fax to +390667232499.

The form will be submitted to the National representative for approval.

English must be used.

NAME AND ACRONYM OF THE COMPETENCE CENTRE:

Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe (CVCE)

URL:
http://www.cvce.lu
http://www.ena.lu

AREAS for nominations of the 'competence centre' 

	Consulting, collection management, metadata ontology
•	Digitisation of art objects
	Digitisation of books
	Digitisation of film
•	Digitisation of manuscripts
•	Digitisation of museum collections
	Digitisation of newspapers
	Digitisation of photographic objects
•	Digitisation of public archives
	Digitisation of sound
•	Digitisation of TV and radio
	Multimedia
•	3D-environment
•	Virtual exhibitions
•	Other _____________________________________ (please, specify)

RESPONSIBLE BODY AND/OR ANY SPECIFIC 
CO-ORDINATING BODY/MECHANISM/INSTITUTION

Name of the institution: Centre Virtuel de la Connaissance sur l’Europe

English name of the institution:  Virtual Resource Centre for Knowledge on Europe

Acronym of the institution: CVCE

Mailing address: Château de Sanem L-4992 Sanem

Country: Luxembourg

Tel.: (+352) 59 59 201

Fax: (+352) 59 59 20 555

e-mail: cvce@cvce.lu

URL: http://www.cvce.lu and http://www.ena.lu

Type of institution:  National		 Governmental		 Regional
             Other   Specify ........................................................................

Sector:  Archive   Library  Museum  Foundation  
             Other   Specify Public Foundation

Legal status:  Public   Private    No profit

Description of the institution (max 200 characters):

The CVCE comes under the aegis of the Luxembourg Ministry of Culture, Higher Education and Research. Its main objective is the research, creation, selection, processing and diffusion of digital resources on the process of European integration, drawing on ICT.

CONTACT PERSON OF THE COMPETENCE CENTRE

Name: Backes	Surname: Marianne

Gender:	 M		 F

Title: Director

Institution: CVCE
Mailing address: Château de Sanem L-4992 Sanem

Country: Luxembourg

Tel.: (+352) 59 59 201

Fax: (+352) 59 59 20 555

e-mail: marianne.backes@cvce.lu

Contact languages: French, English, German

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE COMPETENCE CENTRE DOES

The main features for what you consider the institution a 'competence centre', with respect to the selected areas ((max 200 characters for each area):

The CVCE specialises in the research, processing and integration of documents on European History in a knowledge base accessible via Internet. These documents originate from a variety of sources, media and languages. 
Specialised areas:
-	Digitisation and integration of book excerpts and other text based documents
-	Digitisation and integration of film and sound objects
-	Digitisation and integration of newspaper articles
-	Digitisation and integration of photographic objects
-	Creation and integration of multimedia objects (maps, diagrams)
Processing includes IPR management, meta-data management, subtitling, and language management. 
Special focus is put on collection management, structuring and user-friendly access to content to the main user group (education). 
Technologically the latest standards in digitisation are used. The competence of the CVCE lies in its ability to process and to integrate multisource, multimedia and multilanguage objects in to one single database, the European Navigator knowledge base (www.ena.lu).

I agree this information may be published on Minerva Knowledge Base: http://www.minervaeurope.org

 Yes  No

Signature: _____________________

Name: Marianne Backes

e-mail: marianne.backes@cvce.lu