The English version of the CALIMERA Good Practice Guidelines for museums, archives and libraries are available online including the full version, individual guidelines and summaries of guidelines (in html or pdf file formats).

Work on translating the CALIMERA Guidelines into 31 languages is now complete.

Translations are already available on the following CALIMERA country pages, as well as accessible from the Guidelines page, using the pull down menu.

Albania

Armenia

Azerbaijan (summaries only)

Belarus

Bosnia & Herzegovina

Bulgaria

Croatia

Czech Republic

Estonia (summaries only)

Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.)

France

Germany

Greece

Hungary

Iceland

Israel

Italy

Latvia (summaries only)

Lithuania

Malta (summaries only)

Netherlands (summaries only)

Poland

Portugal

Romania

Russia

Serbia and Montenegro

Slovak Republic

Slovenia

Spain

Turkey

Ukraine 

About the CALIMERA Good Practice Guidelines

The Guidelines are a valuable and practical resource for policy makers and professionals working in local cultural institutions, in particular museums public libraries and archives.  They aim to provide concise and relevant summaries of the state of the art in the use of new technologies.  There is a focus on explaining how these technologies can be deployed to develop digital services designed to meet user needs – social, cultural and economic – and to stimulate wider take up and creativity among the professional community.  They are also intended to support a clearer understanding of the way in which local cultural services can play a key role in the fulfilment of the major policy goals in Europe, including those in the e-Europe action plan.

There are 23 separate Guidelines organised into sections covering social, management and technical issues.  To offer ease of use by busy decision makers, a summary of each Guideline is available in addition to the full version.  The last part of each Guideline includes links to innovative applications of technology involving or affecting local cultural institutions.

Good Practice Guidelines Outline

Section 1: Social Policy
Cultural identity and cohesion
eGovernment and citizenship
Learning (formal and informal)
Social and economic development
Social inclusion

Section 2: Management
Business models
Co-operation and Partnership
Legal and rights issues
Performance and evaluation
Staffing
Strategic planning

Section 3: Technical
Accessibility for disabled people
Content and context management
Digital preservation
Digitisation
Discovery and retrieval
Interactivity
Multilingualism
Multimedia services
Personalisation
Resource description
Security