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Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Opportunities for collaboration

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 Harvesting Opportunities for collaboration

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  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. Distributed content • Organisational issue at European level • Decentralisation at national level • Building up cross-domain services RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. 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

  11. 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

  12. Minerva project • Quality of cultural Web sites • Good practices • Benchmarking • Interoperability & services • Inventories of digitisation initiatives • IPR • Multilingualism issues RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

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