EVA 2005 Florence, 17th March 2005 Pier Giacomo Sola The MICHAEL Project is funded under the European Commission eTEN Programme
Strategic objective Launching a European online service to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience
The context Michael is a deployment project carried out within the framework of the eTEN Programme, run by the DG Information Society of the European Commission.
The Partners
Aims Integrating national digitisation initiatives Agreeing on a common approach for digital cultural heritage inventories in Italy, France and the UK Implementing a distributed platform based on open source software Supporting multi-lingualism Building the infrastructure for sustainability Supporting its adoption by other countries in Europe
Activities Defining the architecture and data model Collecting digital cultural heritage data Communications and marketing Building the infrastructure to manage and support the system Designing the delivery system and pan-European services
Basic facts 36 month project 1 June 2004 to 31 May 2007 Project finance National investment in digitisation = 33 MEuros EU Funding = 3.3 MEuros Milestone 1 has been just completed, and the databases are going to be populated with data from the three countries
Something more URL: http://www.michael-culture.org eMail: AskMichael@amitie.it Rossella Caffo Biblioteca di storia moderna e contemporanea via M. Caetani, 32 I-00186 Roma