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The multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in Europe

The multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in Europe. Antonella Fresa MICHAEL Technical Coordinator. The project background Objectives and basic facts The partnership Progress and next steps Quick technical overview. Contents.

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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 Antonella Fresa MICHAEL Technical Coordinator

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

  3. 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 MINERVA-Plus extends its activities to the new Member States (FP6-IST) Jun. 2004 MICHAEL Project Starts (eTEN) 2005 i2010 Dynamic Action Plan Jun. 2006 MICHAEL-Plus extends the deployment to 14 EU countries (eTEN) Oct./Nov. 2006 MINERVA-EC will start (currently under negotiation eContent+) Reference calendar

  4. 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 an EU-funded project supporting NRG activities Products: Good Practice Handbook Quality of cultural websites Technical Guidelines IPR Guidelines National Global Reports NRG and Minerva

  5. Celebrating the richness, breadth and diversity of the European cultural heritage by promoting it to a world-wide audience through the Internet MICHAEL Objectives • 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

  6. Supported by the eTEN Programme 36 months (June 2004-May 2007) + 12 months MICHAELplus (starting in June 2006 till May 2008) Based on national investment in digitisation of the cultural heritage National investment (90%), eTEN (10%) MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus together: more than 90 million euros of total investment Will create a legal entity to manage the service (sustainability) Basic facts

  7. Michael Partners

  8. MICHAELplus Partners • Coordinator: MiBAC (Italy) • Neumann (Hungary) • NKOM (Hungary) • ICCS-NTUA (Greece) • HMC (Greece) • UH.HUL (Finland) • Finnarchives (Finland) • Museovirasto, NBA (Finland) • SPK (Germany) • Bundesarchiv (Germany) • BSB (Germany) • DDB (Germany) • DMM (Germany) • LABW (Germany) • SNG (Germany) • MKCR (Czech Republic) • Heritage Malta (Malta) • KB (The Netherlands) • MINOCW (The Netherlands) • MLA (UK) • Dédale (France) • MCC (France) • IBACN (Italy) • Amitié (Italy) • MNII (Poland) • IHM (Hungary) • Menon (Belgium) • ICIMSS (Poland)

  9. MICHAEL and MICHAELplus Deployment of the MICHAEL service to 14 countries in Europe: • Czech Republic • Finland • Germany • Greece • Hungary • Malta • the Netherlands • Poland • Portugal • Spain • Sweden • Italy • France • UK

  10. 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 Progress

  11. 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

  12. 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 participation of the French Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres Italy: Joint development with the Italian Culture Portal Agreements with 17 Regions and 77 Universities to describe their digital collections in the system Official launch of MICHAEL in Italy, Rome, 22nd April 2005, with the participation of the Director General Antonia Recchia of the Italian Ministry of Culture UK: MICHAEL also available through Regional portals, People’s Network Discovery Service, UK Cultural Information Services English and Welsh languages Official launch of MICHAEL in the UK, Bristol, 15th November 2005, with the participation of the English Minister David Lammy Interest around MICHAEL

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. WP3 Specifications for inventories of digitised content Programme • Physical collection access creates makes Institution Project Digital Collections Service / Product n n n n n n MINERVA model

  16. Model for resource discovery Centered 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 MICHAEL data model

  17. Based on the Relations among five Entities Digital collection Service/product Institution Project/programme Physical collection XML schema publicly available online MICHAEL data model

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

  19. 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

  20. Distributed architecture

  21. Access http://www.michael-culture.org.uk

  22. Access

  23. MICHAEL website http://www.michael-culture.org

  24. Thank you! fresa@promoter.it www.michal-culture.org

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