MICHAEL and the European Digital Library: promoting teaching, learning and research The MICHAEL Project is funded under the European Commission eTEN Programme David Dawson Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK

Users of MICHAEL many different user communities education cultural tourism research ‘co-ordination’

Researcher Associate Professor from Canada

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What will the EU Digital Library be? a common multilingual access point to Europe’s distributed held in different places by different organisations - digital cultural heritage, all types of cultural material texts, audiovisual, museum objects, archival records etc targeted at delivering rapidly a critical mass of resources to the users.

Building blocks The European Library (TEL) as a gateway to the collective resources of national libraries across Europe The work ongoing in the Michael and Michael Plus projects in describing and linking digital collections of museums, libraries and archives from different Member States and providing access to these collections

European Digital Library Collections Items MICHAELTEL MICHAEL and the European Digital Library

How is the EDL going to work? Interoperability Working Group established by the Commission Representatives and experts from all sectors Discussing high-level issues Being taken forward by EDLNet MLA leading workpackage to involve all stakeholders

Semantic interoperability 2010 functionality 2008 Search functionality MARC TEL AP EAD Archives AP SPECTRUM / CIDOC Museum AP ONE institution may have both library (MARC) and archives (EAD) databases Support for semantic interoperability (eg RDF) XML Harvesting Scholarly Publications ePrints AP Libraries search Controlled vocabularies Existing portals (UK PNDS, FR Guichet, DE BAM etc ) The European Digital Library Archives search Museums search ePrints search ‘Who, what, where, when’ Other … specific APs Controlled vocabularies Search

Licensing Policies Users need to know what use conditions and rights apply to a resource Administrators need to know what use conditions and rights apply to a resource Systems need to know what use conditions and rights apply to a resource Every digital resource has use conditions and rights associated with it: even if it is freely available even if it is public domain even if it is not obvious what they are Make the use conditions and rights in your resources explicit: use a recognised machine readable license if you are able to state the use conditions and rights that apply to your resources in the metadata use the basic controlled vocabulary (to be) developed by the European Digital Library, and use it consistently look at existing frameworks for expressing use conditions and rights

Enabling the EDL to promote your content The EDL will help you to promote your content to new audiences. Get involved! Start planning! Your content Technical standards Create your content using open standards use the MINERVA Technical Guidelines Metadata Use your existing cataloguing standards Prepare to map your data to domain-specific Dublin Core Application Profiles – use the European Metadata Registry Terminologies Prepare to take the opportunity offered by the semantic web Publish your terminologies and thesauri using SKOS Registries Make your content visible register your content and services with existing registries - such as TEL and MICHAEL …

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