The multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in Europe Pier Giacomo SOLA

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 Launching a European online service to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience Strategic objective

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 Celebrating the richness, breadth and diversity of the European cultural heritage by promoting it to a world-wide audience through the Internet  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 Why Michael?

EVA Jerusalem November / 23  Online European service to enable users to search the digital cultural heritage  Multilingual support  National data capture and information services  Interoperable information systems  Promoting collections held by small, medium and large institutions  Supporting cultural tourism, education, research Services

EVA Jerusalem November / 23  Supported by the eTEN Programme  Michael:36 months (June 2004-May 2007) MichaelPLUS: 24 months (June 2006-May 2008)  National investment (90%) Michael:33 M€ MichaelPLUS:51 M€  eTEN (10%) Michael:3,3 M€ MichaelPLUS:5,1 M€ Will create a legal entity to manage the service (sustainability) Basic facts

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 Michael Partners

EVA Jerusalem November / 23  Menon (Belgium)  MKCR (Czech Republic)  UH.HUL (Finland)  Finnarchives (Finland)  Museovirasto, NBA (Finland)  Dédale (France)  MCC (France)  SPK (Germany)  Bundesarchiv (Germany)  BSB (Germany)  DDB (Germany)  DMM (Germany)  LABW (Germany)  SNG (Germany)  ICCS-NTUA (Greece)  HMC (Greece)  MiBAC (Italy)  IBACN (Italy)  Amitié (Italy)  Neumann (Hungary)  NKOM (Hungary)  IHM (Hungary)  Heritage Malta (Malta)  KB (The Netherlands)  MINOCW (The Netherlands)  MSWA (Poland)  ICIMSS (Poland)  Secretaria-Geral do Ministério da Cultura, Portugal  Biblioteca Nacional de España, Spain  University of Uppsala - Department of Information Science, Sweden  MLA (UK) MichaelPLUS Partners

EVA Jerusalem November / 23  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  European Services going to start in its test phase (4 December) Current Status and Results

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 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

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 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

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 WP3 Specifications for inventories of digitised content Minerva model Project Digital CollectionInstitution makes Service / Product n n n n n n creates access Programme Physical collection

EVA Jerusalem November / 23  Model for resource discovery  Centred 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 XML schema publicly available online Michael data model

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 Open source  SDX (implemented by the French Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés)  Xdepo  eXist  Apache, Tomcat, Cocoon  Java technologies Technical platform

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 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

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 Surfing Michael

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 Surfing Michael

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 Surfing Michael

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 Roma, 4 December 2006  Michael Conference  Please register at:  Presentation of the new public interface of the transnational service

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 The new web site

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 The new web site

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 The new web site

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 The new web site

EVA Jerusalem November / 23 Thank you for your attention! The end