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The multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in Europe

The multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in Europe. Pier Giacomo SOLA. The project background Objectives and basic facts The partnership Progress and next steps Quick technical overview. Summary.

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The multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in Europe

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  1. The multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in Europe Pier Giacomo SOLA

  2. The project background Objectives and basic facts The partnership Progress and next steps Quick technical overview Summary

  3. Launching a European online service to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience Strategic objective

  4. National investment in digitisation of the cultural heritage National Representatives Group for Digitisation in Cultural Heritage MINERVA project and its resources and methodologies Technical platform of the French inventory project Background

  5. 2001 eEurope Lund Principles National Representatives Group French Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés Apr. 2002 The Minerva Project Starts (FP5-IST) A set of metadata for inventories of digital cultural content is agreed among the Minerva partners Feb. 2004 MinervaPLUS extends its activities to the new Member States (FP6-IST) Jun. 2004 Michael Project Starts (eTEN) 2005 i2010 Dynamic Action Plan Jun. 2006 MichaelPLUS extends the deployment to 14 EU countries (eTEN) Oct. 2006 MinervaEC starts (currently under negotiation eContentplus) History

  6. The National Representatives Group for digitisation: A network of Ministries of Culture aiming to co-ordinate digitisation of cultural heritage at European level. Includes the 25 EU member states + Bulgaria, Romania, Norway, Israel and Russia. Minerva was a EU-funded project supporting NRG activities Products: Good Practice Handbook Quality of cultural websites Technical Guidelines IPR Guidelines National Global Reports NRG and Minerva

  7. Celebrating the richness, breadth and diversity of the European cultural heritage by promoting it to a world-wide audience through the Internet A common approach for digital cultural heritage inventories in Italy, France, the UK and beyond Integrates national digitisation initiatives A distributed platform to provide access digital cultural collections Open source software Supports multilingualism Why Michael?

  8. Online European service to enable users to search the digital cultural heritage Multilingual support National data capture and information services Interoperable information systems Promoting collections held by small, medium and large institutions Supporting cultural tourism, education, research Services

  9. Supported by the eTEN Programme Michael: 36 months (June 2004-May 2007) MichaelPLUS: 24 months (June 2006-May 2008) National investment (90%)Michael: 33 M€MichaelPLUS: 51 M€ eTEN (10%) Michael: 3,3 M€MichaelPLUS: 5,1 M€ Will create a legal entity to manage the service (sustainability) Basic facts

  10. Michael Partners

  11. France: Steering committee for the digitisation of cultural heritage (all departments of the MCC) networking with French public cultural institutions (400 institutions recorded in the French catalogue) Collaboration with Culture.fr portal Official launch of MICHAEL in France, Paris, 1st April 2005, with the French Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres Collaboration with the Ministry of Education (libraries and documentation) Italy: Joint development with the Italian Culture Portal Agreements signed with 17 Regions and 77 Universities to include their digital collections in the system Involvement of all the Departments of the Ministry of Culture agreement with the Ministry of Education for using Michael in schools Participation of more than 600 cultural institutions in the project Interest created by Michael

  12. UK: MICHAEL also available through Regional portals, People’s Network Discovery Service, UK Cultural Information Services English and Welsh languages Culture.Mondo Interest created by Michael

  13. MichaelPLUS Partners • MiBAC (Italy) • IBACN (Italy) • Amitié (Italy) • Neumann (Hungary) • NKOM (Hungary) • IHM (Hungary) • Heritage Malta (Malta) • KB (The Netherlands) • MINOCW (The Netherlands) • MSWA (Poland) • ICIMSS (Poland) • Secretaria-Geral do Ministério da Cultura, Portugal • Biblioteca Nacional de España , Spain • University of Uppsala - Department of Information Science, Sweden • MLA (UK) • Menon (Belgium) • MKCR (Czech Republic) • UH.HUL (Finland) • Finnarchives (Finland) • Museovirasto, NBA (Finland) • Dédale (France) • MCC (France) • SPK (Germany) • Bundesarchiv (Germany) • BSB (Germany) • DDB (Germany) • DMM (Germany) • LABW (Germany) • SNG (Germany) • ICCS-NTUA (Greece) • HMC (Greece)

  14. Data model, software platform and related documentation Localised National instances First online version of the European service Legal framework for IPR Communication and marketing plan Population of the national instances as a continuous on going process Current Status and Results

  15. 1st June 2006: MICHAEL Plus kick-off Localisation of the service in the new eleven countries Population of national instances Extension of the MICHAEL public access interface to the new countries June 2007 Full service available in France, Italy and UK and at trans-European level Legal organisation set-up (MICHAEL) Next steps

  16. Definition of “Collection” by Dublin Core Metadata Initiative WG on Collection Description: Any aggregation of physical or digital items. Collections of physical items, collections of digital surrogates of physical items, collections of 'born-digital' items and catalogues of such collections Digital Collections

  17. Groups of electronic items, described as a whole Examples: Museum, Library, Archives collections of born digital records MLA collections of digitised records based on physical items Library, museum and archival digital catalogues and inventories, even where these relate to physical collections Internet directories and subject gateways Web indexes Collections of electronic text, images, datasets, sounds, software, other media or combinations of these Digital Collections

  18. WP3 Specifications for inventories of digitised content Programme • Physical collection access creates makes Institution Project Digital Collection Service / Product n n n n n n Minerva model

  19. Model for resource discovery Centred on digital collection description Based on work by Research Support Libraries Programme, the French Catalogue des Fonds Culturels Numérisés and MINERVA metadata standards Aligned to the Dublin Core metadata set and the emerging Dublin Core Collection Level Description XML schema publicly available online Michael data model

  20. Technical platform Open source • SDX (implemented by the French Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés) • Xdepo • eXist • Apache, Tomcat, Cocoon • Java technologies

  21. Technical platform Two modules • Production module to catalogue • Publication module to access the collections XML data base Metadata harvesting • OAI-PMH protocol • MICHAEL format, Dublin Core simple

  22. Distributed architecture

  23. Surfing Michael http://www.michael-culture.org.uk

  24. Surfing Michael

  25. Surfing Michael http://www.michael-culture.org

  26. Thank you for your attention!

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