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:
Musée National d’Histoire Naturelle, Luxembourg (MNHNL)
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URL: www.mnhn.lu
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AREAS for nominations of the 'competence centre' 

X	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: Museé National d’Histoire National.........................................................................

English name of the institution:  Luxembourg National Museum of Natural History

Acronym of the institution: ...MNHNL................

Mailing address: 25. rue Munster/L-2160 Luxembourg

Country: ..........Luxembourg..............................................................................

Tel.:....+ 352 46 22 40...............................................................

Fax:.....+352 46 22 40 309.....................................................

e-mail:.... musee-info@mnhn.lu....................

URL:......www.mnhn.lu...........................................................................

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

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

Legal status: x Public   Private    No profit

Description of the institution (max 200 characters):

The MNHNL has the mission to assemble, document and study information on natural heritage. It hosts life and earth science collections and supports nation wide inventories on species. 

CONTACT PERSON OF THE COMPETENCE CENTRE

Name: .....Tania............. Surname: ... Walisch.................

Gender:    M		x F

Title: ..conservatrice du service Information sur le patrimoine naturel (curator of natural heritage information facility)..........................

Institution: ..Musée National d’Historie Naturelle................
Mailing address: .. 25. rue Munster/L-2160 Luxembourg..........

Country:   Luxembourg...................................................................

Tel.: .... + 352 46 22 40 263........................................................

Fax: ..... +352 46 38 48..................................................................

e-mail: twalisch@mnhn.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):

Consulting, collection management, metadata ontology
The MNHNL has developed a collection management module and thesaurus for Recorder, a biological recording software. The result is a powerful tool helping to manage earth and life science collection and observation information and managing controlled term lists.

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

x Yes  No

Signature: _____________________

Name: _Tania Walisch___________
e-mail:  twalisch@mnhn.lu