The multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in Europe Antonella Fresa MICHAEL Technical Coordinator

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary Contents  The project background  Objectives and basic facts  The partnership  Progress and next steps  Quick technical overview

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary Reference calendar 2001eEurope Lund Principles National Representatives Group French Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés Apr. 2002The MINERVA Project Starts (FP5-IST) A set of metadata for inventories of digital cultural content is agreed among the MINERVA partners Feb. 2004MINERVA-Plus extends its activities to the new Member States (FP6-IST) Jun. 2004MICHAEL Project Starts (eTEN) 2005i2010 Dynamic Action Plan Jun. 2006MICHAEL-Plus extends the deployment to 14 EU countries (eTEN) Oct./Nov MINERVA-EC will start (currently under negotiation eContent+)

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary NRG and Minerva 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

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary 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

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary  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

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary Michael Partners

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary  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) MICHAELplus Partners  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)

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary  Czech Republic  Finland  Germany  Greece  Hungary  Malta  the Netherlands  Poland  Portugal  Spain  Sweden MICHAEL and MICHAELplus Deployment of the MICHAEL service to 14 countries in Europe:  Italy  France  UK

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary  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

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary Next steps 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)

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary  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

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary Digital Collections 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

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary Digital Collections  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

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary MINERVA model WP3 Specifications for inventories of digitised content ProjectDigital Collections Institution makes Service / Product n n n n n n creates access Programm e Physical collection

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary MICHAEL data model  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

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary MICHAEL data model Based on the Relations among five Entities  Digital collection  Service/product  Institution  Project/programme  Physical collection XML schema publicly available online

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary Open source  SDX (implemented by the French Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés)  Xdepo  eXist  Apache, Tomcat, Cocoon  Java technologies Technical platform

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary  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 Technical platform

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary Distributed architecture

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