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http://www.michael-culture.org/. Vision . Launching a European online service to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience. Europe’s cultural heritage. Digital content from museums, libraries and archives from across Europe accessible in multiple languages
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Vision Launching a European online service to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience
Europe’s cultural heritage • Digital content from museums, libraries and archives • 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 WA • 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
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