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Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Opportunities for collaboration. Muriel Foulonneau Advisor Information Technologies French Ministry of Culture and Communication – Research & Technology Department « Open Access to Hidden Resources» Lisbon, December 2002.
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Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata HarvestingOpportunities for collaboration Muriel Foulonneau Advisor Information Technologies French Ministry of Culture and Communication – Research & Technology Department « Open Access to Hidden Resources» Lisbon, December 2002 RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE
National role of the Research & Technology Department • Cross-domain issues • Online products • Coordination of ministerial council for multimedia • Manages National Digitisation Programme • Centre of expertise • Funding research activities RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE
European cooperation • STRABON : use of digitised cultural heritage in tourism platform • EMII-DCF : European researchers use of digital cultural content, • MINERVA : Coordination of digitisation policies RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE
Distributed content • Organisational issue at European level • Decentralisation at national level • Building up cross-domain services RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE
Open-source platform for XML-formatted document publishing + retrieval (Cocoon) Distributed content indexing for : Directory of francophone museums (on-going) STRABON (on-going) SDX distributed content indexing => OAI-repository as a complementary approach - test-beds planned 2003 for considering organisational issues Current activities : SDX platform RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE
European IST researchers & digital cultural content Content creation analysis Content re-usability? Legal & technical framework for making content available (content holders) European Museums’ Information Institute – Distributed Content Framework RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE
EMII-DCF - Contentcreation model • Partnerships between memory institutions and technology providers • Material comes from various origins + is of various types • Same material used by various systems • Contributory model of content creation When content creators are users / end-users RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE
National Representative Group for Digitisation of Cultural & Scientific Heritage • 14 Ministries of Culture • Supported by Presidencies + EC • Lund principles • Meeting every 6 months RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE
XML-formatted descriptions? Building up services for accessing various collections “Networks of knowledge” Collaboration of institutions / sectors Coordination of activities Need for contextualisation = adding value to content by using it in various contexts (ie. Italian Network of the cultural Tourism) National status reports RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE
Experiences with DC (ie. SBN-Online) Attempts to adapt DC (ie. NL) Need for a qualification of DC for common access to cultural collections? Need for mapping terminologies (ie. issues of ICCU) Status reports - Cross-searching RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE
Status reports - Accessing collections • Item-level access to cross-domain collections • Distributed content • Heterogeneous collections (ie. Semantic Web portal for Finnish museums) • OAI-PMH development strategies (ie. Germany, Netherlands, France) RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE
Minerva project • Quality of cultural Web sites • Good practices • Benchmarking • Interoperability & services • Inventories of digitisation initiatives • IPR • Multilingualism issues RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE
Standards in use : technical + documentary + vocabularies Orientations : structural metadata? Protocols : Z39.50, OAI-PMH, SOAP / Web services? Access points, metadata mapping & terminology : a DC-Culture? => A test-bed for inventories? Minerva - Interoperability RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE
Need is for : re-usability + access to distributed content + intermediary processing Which information is suitable? Full library descriptions? Directory of institutions? Directory of events? Organisational issue : data update? data maintenance?… To be supported by semantic (+ organisational ?) standardisation Main issues to deal with RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE
Eeurope digitisation http://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/home.html Research & Technology Department – French Ministry of Culture http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/mrt/ Muriel Foulonneau mfoulonneau@relais-culture-europe.org References RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE