EdReNe – Current state of educational repositories – national overview

EdReNe member:
EduWeb, Portuguese/Brazilian holding company, based in Portugal.

• General governmental initiatives. Museums, archives and libraries providing access to their resources.
  • Biblioteca Nacional Digital
    - with 20,000 documents.
    
    
  • DGEMN - With about 2.5 terabits of information, the Architectural Heritage Information System holds the largest online archive on architecture, engineering and urban planning, with 200,000 drawings, 340,000 photographs and 10,000,000 pages of text.
  • Resources in Portuguese museums. In matriznet you can find more than 30,000 objects and 45,000 images from museum's collections.
• Governmental initiatives in education:
  • http://www.giase.min-edu.pt/nonio/default_ing.htm - trained thousands of teachers. The website and resources are not used today.
  • Thousands of local schools repositories.
• Associations/universities initiatives (e.g. an initiative to put extra focus on mathematics to influence the students’ choice of education).
  • GAVE: 1000 mathematics resources 9º year.
  • APP.
• Private/business:
  • Microsoft has signed an agreement with 4 ministries in Portugal. Innovative teachers project is one of the results. www.professoresinovadores.com.pt. The teachers get software etc. and a diploma “Innovative teachers” by Microsoft.
  • Escola Virtual, and Cidade da Malta.