1. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE1 Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting Opportunities for collaboration Muriel Foulonneau Advisor Information Technologies French Ministry of Culture and Communication – Research & Technology Department « Open Access to Hidden Resources» Lisbon, December 2002

2. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE2 National role of the Research & Technology Department Cross-domain issues Cross-domain issues Online products Online products Coordination of ministerial council for multimedia Coordination of ministerial council for multimedia Manages National Digitisation Programme Manages National Digitisation Programme Centre of expertise Centre of expertise Funding research activities Funding research activities

3. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE3 European cooperation STRABON : use of digitised cultural heritage in tourism platform STRABON : use of digitised cultural heritage in tourism platform EMII-DCF : European researchers use of digital cultural content, EMII-DCF : European researchers use of digital cultural content, MINERVA : Coordination of digitisation policies MINERVA : Coordination of digitisation policies

4. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE4 Distributed content Organisational issue at European level Organisational issue at European level Decentralisation at national level Decentralisation at national level Building up cross-domain services Building up cross-domain services

5. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE5 Current activities : SDX platform Open-source platform for XML-formatted document publishing + retrieval (Cocoon) Open-source platform for XML-formatted document publishing + retrieval (Cocoon) Distributed content indexing for : Distributed content indexing for : –Directory of francophone museums (on-going) –STRABON (on-going) SDX distributed content indexing SDX distributed content indexing => OAI-repository as a complementary approach - test-beds planned 2003 for considering organisational issues

6. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE6 European Museums Information Institute – Distributed Content Framework European IST researchers & digital cultural content European IST researchers & digital cultural content Content creation analysis Content creation analysis Content re-usability? Content re-usability? Legal & technical framework for making content available (content holders) Legal & technical framework for making content available (content holders)

7. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE7 EMII-DCF - Content creation model Partnerships between memory institutions and technology providers Partnerships between memory institutions and technology providers Material comes from various origins + is of various types Material comes from various origins + is of various types Same material used by various systems Same material used by various systems Contributory model of content creation Contributory model of content creation When content creators are users / end-users When content creators are users / end-users

8. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE8 National Representative Group for Digitisation of Cultural & Scientific Heritage 14 Ministries of Culture 14 Ministries of Culture Supported by Presidencies + EC Supported by Presidencies + EC Lund principles Lund principles Meeting every 6 months Meeting every 6 months

9. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE9 National status reports XML-formatted descriptions? Building up services for accessing various collections –Networks of knowledge –Collaboration of institutions / sectors –Coordination of activities Need for contextualisation = adding value to content by using it in various contexts (ie. Italian Network of the cultural Tourism)

10. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE10 Status reports - Cross-searching Experiences with DC (ie. SBN-Online) Experiences with DC (ie. SBN-Online) Attempts to adapt DC (ie. NL) Attempts to adapt DC (ie. NL) Need for a qualification of DC for common access to cultural collections? Need for a qualification of DC for common access to cultural collections? Need for mapping terminologies (ie. issues of ICCU) Need for mapping terminologies (ie. issues of ICCU)

11. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE11 Status reports - Accessing collections Item-level access to cross-domain collections Item-level access to cross-domain collections Distributed content Distributed content Heterogeneous collections (ie. Semantic Web portal for Finnish museums) Heterogeneous collections (ie. Semantic Web portal for Finnish museums) OAI-PMH development strategies (ie. Germany, Netherlands, France) OAI-PMH development strategies (ie. Germany, Netherlands, France)

12. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE12 Minerva project Quality of cultural Web sites Quality of cultural Web sites Good practices Good practices Benchmarking Benchmarking Interoperability & services Interoperability & services Inventories of digitisation initiatives Inventories of digitisation initiatives IPR IPR Multilingualism issues Multilingualism issues

13. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE13 Minerva - Interoperability Standards in use : technical + documentary + vocabularies Standards in use : technical + documentary + vocabularies Orientations : structural metadata? Orientations : structural metadata? Protocols : Z39.50, OAI-PMH, SOAP / Web services? Protocols : Z39.50, OAI-PMH, SOAP / Web services? Access points, metadata mapping & terminology : a DC-Culture? Access points, metadata mapping & terminology : a DC-Culture? => A test-bed for inventories?

14. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE14 Main issues to deal with Need is for : re-usability + access to distributed content + intermediary processing Need is for : re-usability + access to distributed content + intermediary processing Which information is suitable? Full library descriptions? Directory of institutions? Directory of events? Which information is suitable? Full library descriptions? Directory of institutions? Directory of events? Organisational issue : data update? data maintenance?… Organisational issue : data update? data maintenance?… To be supported by semantic (+ organisational ?) standardisation To be supported by semantic (+ organisational ?) standardisation

15. RELAIS CULTURE EUROPE15 References Eeurope digitisation Eeurope digitisationhttp://www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult/home.html Research & Technology Department – French Ministry of Culture Research & Technology Department – French Ministry of Culturehttp://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/mrt/ Muriel Foulonneau Muriel Foulonneaumfoulonneau@relais-culture-europe.org