Rossella Caffo Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane (ICCU) DC-NET and INDICATE Workshop Beijing, 26th May 2011 Central Library of the Peking University

The Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries (ICCU) is the national center which promotes and coordinates cataloguing and digitisation activities of the Italian libraries is a body of the Italian Ministry for cultural heritage and activities is responsible for guiding, producing, adapting and disseminating the standard rules for cataloguing and digitisation of the library heritage.

ICCU Departments and Activities 1. Administrative Service 2. Service for the cultural promotion ICCU is structured in 2 services and 6 departments Projects: Internet Culturale CulturaItalia Europeana (Italian partic.) World Digital Library (Italian partic.) European projects Google Books (Italian partic.) 1.Standards rules for cataloguing and digitisation 2. National Library Service (SBN) 3. Bibliographic information and activities, Registry of the Italian libraries 4. Digitisation and access to documents 5. Activities concerning bibliography, cataloguing and census of the ancient book 6. Census and management of the Italian bibliography of manuscripts

National projects National Library Service – SBN Internet Culturale CulturaItalia

SBN: the National Library Service The National Library Service (SBN) is the network of the Italian libraries providing services to libraries and to end-users. SBN: is a network promoted by the Italian Ministry for Cultural Heritage and coordinated by ICCU acts in cooperation with Regions and Universities is based on the cooperation among libraries provides services to libraries and end-users gets over the fragmentation of the Italian Libraries structure OPAC SBN online since

SBN today 71 nodes –4,500 libraries all over the country –national, university, local and specialist Over 11 M bibliographic descriptions –authors: over 3 M –holding locations: 55 M OPAC – over 30 M searches /

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SBN services Union Catalogue (Index): for libraries (administrative and cataloguing purposes) OPAC: public interface of the UC for the final users InterLibrary Loan (ILL): compliant with ISO ILL (ISO 10160:1997) Access to digital objects: libraries can link their digital objects to the Union Catalogue through URI

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Searches in OPAC SBN More than 30 M in 2009 and Many from abroad (especially USA)

SBN governance (1) 11 SBN steering committee: partner representatives (chaired by the Culture Minister) responsible for the SBN policy and strategy SBN partners Ministry for cultural heritage and activities (MiBAC) Ministry of education, university and research (MIUR) Ministry for public administration and innovation Conference of the Italian Regions Union of the Italian Provinces (UPI) National Association of the Italian municipalities (ANCI)

SBN governance (2) Responsible for: guidelines and standards evolution of the network service development SBN technical committee: ICCU director 1 representative of MiBAC-DG for libraries 13 representatives appointed by the steering committee (policy makers, technicians, specialists)

SBN: technical features Open architecture based on common internet protocols: –TCP/IP, HTTP, XML/XSL, SOAP, JMS etc… Easy integration with other systems: –based on Java Platform 2 Enterprise Edition High performance and reliability –Unix platforms and Java multi-threaded services –High performance relational DBMS (Oracle RDBMS) 13

SBN: functionalities Web interface for central cataloguing functions: –authority files management; –quality control and revision (corrections, elimination of duplicates) and data exchange –import/export of bibliographic records 14

SBN: shared cataloguing SBN libraries work independently and integrate their work into a cooperative system based on a national network. SBN is an architecture for a cooperative library services network: –Central Union Catalogue (Index) at national level –Union Catalogues (Nodes) at regional and local levels The Union Catalogue uses structured data, not flat records (i.e. MARC format) –records are registered only once and reused afterwards (captured) –records can be improved through different levels of correction (levels of authority) –modifications and updating are sent to all participating libraries

The SBN MARC protocol The solution for the interoperability between the Union Catalogue (Index) and the LMSs is guaranteed by the SBN MARC protocol, based on 'request' (libraries => Index) and 'response' (Index =>libraries) The xsd schema is freely available ( It is based on international standards (UNICODE UTF-8, ISBD, etc.) and uses MARC semantic elements and an xml syntax 16

SBN: offline services Import –Preparatory or executive elaboration –Documents, authority entries –Formats: UNIMARC, MARC21, SBN-MARC Export –Documents, authority entries –Formats: UNIMARC, MARC21, SBN-MARC UNIMARC/MARC21 records SBN records 17 IMPORT EXPORT

Access to OPAC OPAC is integrated in: Internet Culturale, the portal of the digital resources of the Italian libraries ( CulturaItalia, the Italian culture portal ( The European Library, the portal of the European national libraries (

Internet Culturale IC is the portal of the Italian libraries; it provides access to the heritage of public libraries and prestigious Italian cultural institutions. Thanks to IC, the user can search and browse both bibliographic information and digital collections IC offers digital and multimedia resources provided by the participating institutions to deepen specific topics, from literature to science, art, and music The mission It promotes knowledge, valorisation, and availability of the heritage of the Italian libraries and cultural and research institutions IC can fulfil the requirements of users with different education, interests, and age; Internet Culturale is absolutely necessary for students and researchers

Data bases Internet Culturale allows integrated searches in 20 millions news from: Opac SBN: 12 M bibliographic records Manus (Census of the manuscripts held by the Italian libraries): 120,000 records Edit16 (Census of the Italian printed editions from XVI century): 64,000 records ReMI (Italian music network): 9,000 records from Archivio Ricordi Digital library: 8 M files (jpg, mp3, text) from the digital collections Internet Culturale Multimedia content: virtual exhibitions, 3D itineraries, cultural routes) Historical catalogues (215 historical catalogues from 35 libraries): almost 7M (soon available)

From the homepage user can access the Digital library to search and retrieve information on manuscripts, printed volumes, audio files, photographs, engravings, drawings, and many other stuff on literature, arts and sciences. (8 millions of images)

Digital object visualisation: single page Author: Braun, Georg - Hogenberg, Frans Title: De praecipuis, totius universi urbibus, liber secundus Localisation: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - Venice

Digital object visualisation: double page

Digital object visualisation: page list

Digital object visualisation: zoom

Internet Culturale in depths The ‘Explore’ item gives access to multimedia resources with in depth content: Digital library – informative reports on the digital collections and access to the content Itineraries – focuses that merge cultural content with historical, geographical, and scientific ones on institutions, documents, digital objects Virtual exhibitions – online exhibitions of equivalent real exhibitions organised by libraries and cultural institutions 3D itineraries – literary, artistic, scientific, and musical events realised in 3D Authors and literary works – monographs on Italian writers, scientists and musicians and their works

Standards Bibliographic and digital databases in the MetaIndex are mapped to DC The Digital library database is realised with MAG (Metz compliant) Content providers transfer their data through OAI-MPH Metadata of the Digital Library are mapped to PICO towards CulturaItalia

MagTeca: a service for all ICCU created in 2005 a digital repository (MagTeca) for all libraries and cultural institutions that create digital collections but don’t have an institutional digital repository. MagTeca offers a free service for the management and preservation of metadata and low and medium resolution images. MagTeca software was renewed in 2010 as well as the hardware. Software can be distributed for free to cultural institutions.

CulturaItalia On-line since April 2008 CulturaItalia in Europeana: 1.652,000 sent through OAI-PMH Interoperable with MICHAEL, the MiBAC and the Regions informative systems National aggregator of museums, libraries, archives content: more than 2 M records inside!

Mission  To make the digital cultural resources already existing available and searchable online  To realise the interoperability of the Italian content and services Mission and content Each provider holds the rights on the digital objects shown through the portal and is responsible for their maintenance and update Editorial content news and articles to bring out the metadata and the digital resources harvested Directory of cultural websites More than 5,200 selected websites Multimedia 450 Catalogue of metadata Up to now, beyond 2,000,000 records

Standards integration ICCU, in cooperation with the Central Institute for cataloguing and documentation (ICCD) and the DG for Archives of the Italian Ministry, is working for the harmonization of the metadata standards of the ALM sectors in a cross-domain perspective. MAG (conceived for the Italian libraries) is mapped into METS PICO (the national cross-domain application profile) is based on DC OAI PMH is nowadays the most common way for the data transmission among the MiBAC’s informative systems.

MuseiD-Italia Musei Regioni aggregatori ATHENA Aggregatore Tematico Università Internet Culturale Aggregatore Tematico Contenuti culturali italiani in Europeana

Thank you! Rossella Caffo DC-NET and INDICATE Coordinator