220 likes | 431 Views
http://www.michael-culture.org/ Maria Śliwińska, ICIMSS (Wisła November 9 th 2006. Vision . Launching a European online service (A European Culture Portal) to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience. Europe’s cultural heritage.
E N D
http://www.michael-culture.org/ Maria Śliwińska, ICIMSS (Wisła November 9th 2006
Vision Launching a European online service (A European Culture Portal)to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience
Europe’s cultural heritage • Digital content from museums, libraries, archives, galleries and other sources • from across Europe • accessible in multiple languages • for people to use and enjoy
Investing in digitisation Since the 1990s: • Across Europe State and local authority programmes invested in the digitisation of cultural collections from across the sectors, involving thousands of cultural institutions and private organisations. • Identified the need for a way of promoting access to the richness and diversity of our collections Building a diverse digital offer
Revealing collections • MINERVA WP3 work on inventories lead to • Specifications for inventories of digitised content • Agreed by NRG • Based on international standards and main inventory projects across Europe • Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés in France and the SDX platform
MICHAEL project - beginnings MICHAEL project: • Funded by the eTEN programme • Began June 2004 • France, Italy and the UK • 33 m euros National investment in digitisation • 3.3 m euros from the EU • Ministries of Culture in France and Italy • Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK with • Dédale, Amitié andAJLSM
MICHAEL Plus • eTEN funding • Extends MICHAEL to 11 new countries • 32 partners • 24 months • Started 1st June 2006
MICHAEL Plus • MICHAELplus partner countries: • the Czech Republic • Finland • Germany • Greece • Hungary • Malta • the Netherlands • Poland • Portugal • Spain • Sweden
MICHAEL Plus Partners • Belgium: Menon • Czech Republic: Ministerstvo Kultury • Finland: Helsinki University UH.HUL • Finland: Kansallisarkisto • Finland: Museovirasto • Germany: SPK • Germany: Bundesarchiv • Germany: Bayerische SB • Germany: Deusche Nationalbibliothek • Germany: Deutsches Museum • Germany: Landesarchiv BW • Germany: Senckenbergische Gesellsch. • Greece: ICCS-NTUA • Greece: Elliniko Ypourgeio Politismou • Hungary: Nemzeti Kulturális Örökség Minisztériuma • Hungary: Informatikai és Hírközlési Minisztérium • Hungary: Neumann • Italy: IBACN • Malta: Heritage Malta • Malta: Across Limits • Netherlands: Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap • Netherlands: Koninklijke Bibliotheek • Poland: Ministerstwo Spraw WiA • Poland: ICIMSS • Portugal: MC Segretaria-Geral • Spain: Biblioteca Nacional de España • Sweden: Uppsala University • UK: MLA • France: MCC • France: Dédale • Italy: MiBAC • Italy: Amitié
MICHAEL • A common approach for digital cultural heritage inventories • A tool for revealing digital collections • Supports multilingualism • Project’s website: http://www.michael-culture.org
A distributed platform • Open source software • National instances with national databases • Sharing metadata to contribute to European services http://www.michael-culture.org/technology.html
TECHNOLOGY USED • A production module allows users to create, modify, import and manage records that describe aspectsof the digital cultural heritage. All of these functions are available using a standard Web browser. Data isstored using a powerful and flexible XML database, which is based on the MICHAEL data model. • A publication module provides an intuitive interface to enable end-users to search with their Web browser. This module uses an XML search and display engine, whichcan be customized to allow institutions to adapt the interface to meet their particular needs. http://www.michael-culture.org/technology.html
TECHNOLOGY USED • Open source software • Apache Cocoon: an XML infrastructure for complex Web applications. Cocoon provides services such as a robust catching mechanism, XSLTtransformations, aserver-side scripting environment and a flexible environment for building Web forms, used for data creation and modification; • eXIST an XML database management system. The database can be accessed by different standard protocols, such as WebDAV, XMLRPC and the xmldb protocol directly from a Cocoon environment. http://www.michael-culture.org/technology.html
TECHNOLOGY USED • Xdepo: a Cocoon environment to manage data stored in an XML database using Web forms.Xdepoprovides the link between Cocoon, eXist and the Web browser for the MICHAEL platform production module Using Java technologies, the MICHAELplatform can be deployed on wide variety of systems. • SDX: a search engine for large collections of XML documents. Based on the stable and largely used Apache Lucene search engine, SDX provides an easy tool to use API to build search and display services for XML documents, in a Cocoon environment. http://www.michael-culture.org/technology.html
Progress • Implementations in France, Italy and the UK • National strategies for data collection underway • Public interfaces now being launched! • Implemention started in the 11 MICHAELplus countries • Prototype of the European service to be launched at MICHAEL international conference (Rome, December 4th-5th 2006)
MICHAEL International Conference “Museums, Libraries and Archives Online” -Rome, December 4th-5th
European Services • Content will be harvested from each of the 14 partner countries • A simple search interface • Supports multiple languages • Gives easy and quick access to content from trusted sources
New opportunities • MICHAEL services will open up access to the digital cultural heritage for people • in their homes • in schools, colleges and universities • in public libraries and online centres
Diversity and accessCase studies • Using MICHAEL a teacher will be able to • access a rich diversity of cultural heritage resources from across Europe • use online resources in the curriculum • promote cultural diversity and • increase digital skills and competences of children in the class
Diversity and accessCase studies • Through MICHAEL a mother will be able to • plan a visit to a museum • finding offline resources • to enjoy with her child • promoting learning
Diversity and accessCase studies • Using MICHAEL a tourist is able to • learn about places online • plan an itinerary for her holiday and • to learn more when she returns home