Kate Fernie ICT Adviser (EU Projects) Looking at ways of communicating between systems to reveal digital resources for educational uses
MLA The MLA is the national development agency for museums, libraries and archives –advises government on policy and priorities for the sector –provides strategic leadership –acts as a powerful advocate –develops capacity –promotes innovation and change.
MICHAEL Launching a European online service to enable the digital cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience
Basic facts MICHAEL: 36 month project (to June 2007) Project finance –33 m euros National investment in digitisation –3.3 m euros funding from eTen programme MICHAEL Plus: Just approved! 24 months, not yet started
Consortium MICHAEL –National organisations in Italy, France and UK –5 partners and 1 technical sub-contractor MICHAEL Plus –Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands and Poland –25 partners
Building blocks The MINERVA project and its resources and methodologies The metadata standard for inventories agreed by the National Representatives Group for Digitisation in Cultural Heritage The technical platform of the French inventory project
Activities Implementing a distributed platform based on open source software Building the infrastructure for sustainability Supporting multi-lingualism Agreeing on a common approach for digital cultural heritage inventories –Standards –metadata
MICHAEL in the UK MLA will implement the MICHAEL platform Create a UK-wide inventory of digital collections by: –Incorporating existing data –National and regional partnerships –Building shared services MICHAEL complements Cornucopia
Bringing it all together Supporting content creators Encouraging other projects to use MICHAEL or Cornucopia systems Sharing and harvesting metadata Building multiple points of access
Metadata Data about things – collections, institutions, projects, services, educational resources etc Metadata in the cultural sector: Collections level: RSLP, JISC IESR... Web content: DCMI, DCMI CD Education: IEEE(Lom)... Enables resource discovery...
Designed to help teachers to find educational content and to assess if it meets their needs Uses metadata based on IEEE (LOM)
Tagging tools available to help to create metadata which include educational vocabularies Widely used by educational publishing and software industries Less well used by cultural sector MLA, DFES, DCMS cultural sector pilots Metadata
Pilots British Museum –Ancient Civilisations, Children’s Compass Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum –ARTYfacts Royal Shakespeare Company –Pictures and Exhibitions, Play Packs Shrewsbury Museums Service –Darwin Country
Shrewsbury museum service
Database or learning resource?
context for teachers lesson plans
Outcomes Learning by experience Case studies Support for Cultural Organisations on Curriculum Online Website Guidance on developing learning resources: ‘Inspiring Learning for All’ MLA & DFES roadshow Guidance on Cultural Sector CD
Link to CD
Curriculum specific terminology How subjects are covered at key stages Metadata
Back to metadata
More metadata MICHAEL metadata supports collection description Some people’s collections are other people’s educational resources Can we avoid duplication by reusing the metadata?
Next steps Mapping MICHAEL metadata to IEEE(LOM) Reviewing BECTA vocabulary studio For the future: – exploring the potential to export metadata to the Curriculum Online tagging tool so that educational vocabulary can be added
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