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 orf 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:

Conservation Centre Kanut – CC Kanut 

URL: http://www.kanut.ee

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  Digitisation of research materials____________ (please, specify)

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

Name of the institution: Ennistuskoda Kanut 

English name of the institution: Conservation Centre Kanut 

Acronym of the institution: CC Kanut 

Mailing address: Pikk 2 Tallinn 10123 

Country: Estonia 

Tel.: +3726446915 

Fax: +3726313935 

e-mail: kanutkoda@kanut.ee 

URL: http://www.kanut.ee 

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

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

Legal status:  Public   Private    No profit

Description of the institution (max 200 characters):

The Conservation Centre Kanut was founded in 1986 as non-profit institution. Its aims are to deal with investigation, preventive and active conservation of cultural heritage. The Documentation department has been established in 2001 since the need of professional digitalisation has enormously increased. 

CONTACT PERSON OF THE COMPETENCE CENTRE

Name: Andres  Surname: Uueni

Gender:    M		 F

Title: IT Manager assistant

Institution: Conservation Centre Kanut 
Mailing address: Pikk 2 Tallinn 10123 

Country: Estonia 

Tel.: +3726442563

Fax: +3726313935 

e-mail: sysadmin@kanut.ee 

Contact languages: English, Estonian 

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):

Consulting, collection management, metadata ontology -  involving in Information system for Estonian museums , Digital Preservation State Strategy of Estonian Cultural Heritage 2004-2007 and Digitalisation Metadata of Cultural Heritage workgroups; archiving digital objects.

Digitisation of museum collections – (including: art objects, manuscripts, newspapers, photographic objects), digitalisation guidelines.

Digitisation of research materials – micro and macro digital pictures for scientific research.

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

 Yes  No

Name: Andres Uueni 

e-mail: sysadmin@kanut.ee