MICHAEL and the European Digital Library: promoting teaching, learning and research

1. MICHAEL and the European Digital Library: promoting teaching, learning and research David Dawson Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK The MICHAEL Project is funded under the  European Commission eTEN Programme

2. Users of MICHAEL • many different user communities • education • cultural tourism • research • ‘co-ordination’

3. Researcher • Associate Professor from Canada

10. Subjects

12. What will the EU Digital Library be? • a common multilingual access point to Europe’s distributed • held in different places by different organisations - digital cultural heritage, • all types of cultural material • texts, audiovisual, museum objects, archival records etc • targeted at delivering rapidly a critical mass of resources to the users.

13. Building blocks • The European Library (TEL) as a gateway to the collective resources of national libraries across Europe • The work ongoing in the Michael and Michael Plus projects in describing and linking digital collections of museums, libraries and archives from different Member States and providing access to these collections

14. MICHAEL and the European Digital Library European Digital Library MICHAEL TEL Collections Items

15. How is the EDL going to work? • Interoperability Working Group established by the Commission • Representatives and experts from all sectors • Discussing high-level issues • Being taken forward by EDLNet • MLA leading workpackage to involve all stakeholders

16. The European Digital Library Semantic interoperability2010 functionality 2008 Search functionality Support for semantic interoperability (eg RDF) MARC TEL AP EADArchives AP SPECTRUM / CIDOC Museum AP Scholarly PublicationsePrints AP Other …specific APs Existing portals(UK PNDS, FR Guichet, DE BAM etc) Libraries search Archives search Museumssearch ePrintssearch Search ‘Who, what, where, when’ Controlled vocabularies Controlled vocabularies Controlled vocabularies Controlled vocabularies Controlled vocabularies XML Harvesting ONE institution may have both library (MARC) and archives (EAD) databases

18. Licensing Policies • Users need to know what use conditions and rights apply to a resource • Administrators need to know what use conditions and rights apply to a resource • Systems need to know what use conditions and rights apply to a resource • Every digital resource has use conditions and rights associated with it: • even if it is freely available • even if it is public domain • even if it is not obvious what they are • Make the use conditions and rights in your resources explicit: • use a recognised machine readable license if you are able to • state the use conditions and rights that apply to your resources in the metadata • use the basic controlled vocabulary (to be) developed by the European Digital Library, and use it consistently • look at existing frameworks for expressing use conditions and rights

19. Enabling the EDL to promote your content The EDL will help you to promote your content to new audiences. Get involved! Start planning! Your content • Technical standards • Create your content using open standards • use the MINERVA Technical Guidelines • Metadata • Use your existing cataloguing standards • Prepare to map your data to domain-specific Dublin Core Application Profiles – use the European Metadata Registry • Terminologies • Prepare to take the opportunity offered by the semantic web • Publish your terminologies and thesauri using SKOS • Registries • Make your content visible • register your content and services with existing registries - such as TEL and MICHAEL • …

20. Thank you david.dawson@mla.gov.uk