1. EVA 2005 Florence, 17th March 2005 Pier Giacomo Sola
The MICHAEL Project is funded under the 
European Commission eTEN Programme

2. Strategic objective
Launching a European online service to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience

3. 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.

4. The Partners

5. 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

6. 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

7. 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

8. Something more URL: http://www.michael-culture.org
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