1. Warsaw 19 May 2008Rossella Caffo - MiBAC ATHENA Access to cultural heritage networks across Europe Museums towards Europeana Rossella Caffo Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali rcaffo@beniculturali.it

2. Warsaw 19 May 2008Rossella Caffo - MiBAC The project ATHENA is a Network of best practices within the eContentPlus Programme, taking its origins from the existing MINERVA and MICHAEL networks Coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, now is under negotiation

3. Warsaw 19 May 2008Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Participants MiBAC – Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali Packed - PACKED vzw RMAH - Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis CL-BAS - Централна Библиотека на Българската Академия на науките - Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of sciences CyI - Cyprus Institute NM - Narodni Muzeum Cross - Cross Czech a.s. Devo – Devoteam Group SPK - Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz BSZ - Bibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-Württemberg EVKM - Eesti Vabariigi Kultuuriministeerium NBA - Museovirasto Michael - Michael Culture AISBL Dedale – Association Dédale ICCS-NTUA - Erevnitiko Panepistimiako Institouto Epikoinonion & Ypologiston - Ethniko Metsovio Polytechnio (Institute of Communication and Computer Systems-National Technical University of Athens) UP - Panepistemion Patron - University of Patras PIM - Petőfi Irodalmi Múzeum MR - Magyar Rádió Zrt. CIMEC - Institutul de Memorie Cultural ă Amitie – Amitié srl MCESR - Ministère de la Culture, de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche KIS - valsts aģentūra "Kultūras informācijas sistēmas" SRA - Stichting Rijksmuseum Amsterdam ICIMSS - Stowarzyszenie Miedzynarodowe Centrum Zarzadzania Informacja LTU -Luleå tekniska universitet MKRS - Ministrstvo za Kulturo Republike Slovenije MKSR - Ministerstvo kultúry SR Cordia - Cordia a.s MLA - Museums, Libraries and Archives Council EDL - Stichting European Digital Library MCC - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication HMC - Hellenic Ministry of Culture MAKASH - Advancing CMC Applications in Education, Culture and Science HM - Heritage Malta 22 countries IT – BE – BG – CY – CZ – DE – EE – FI – FR – GR HU – IL - RO – LU – LV – MT – NL – PL – SE – SI – SK - UK

4. Warsaw 19 May 2008Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Goals  To reinforce, support and encourage the participation of museums and other institutions coming from the sectors of cultural heritage not fully involved yet in the EDL  To contribute to the integration of the different sectors of cultural heritage, in cooperation with other projects more directly focused on libraries and archives, with the overall objective to merge all these different contributions in the EDL  To facilitate access to digital contents belonging to European museums

5. Warsaw 19 May 2008Rossella Caffo - MiBAC ATHENA  will contribute to the creation of the European Digital Library on the basis of shared standards  will develop the work of MINERVA in the field of harmonization of digitisation standards and guidelines  will be based on the experience achieved by EDLnet, MICHAEL and the national portals (like CulturaItalia, Culture.fr, etc.)  will continue in the direction of interoperability, semantic web and quality services for the final user Goals

6. Warsaw 19 May 2008Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Goals ATHENA  will survey and look for the most advanced technologies suitable for museums and will experiment their integration into current services  will establish the conditions for more museums and cultural institutions to join the ATHENA network  will collect, analyse and compare cataloguing standards, metadata schemata and terminologies adopted in the partner countries ATHENA WILL NOT  Research for new technologies  Digitise new content  Develop new standards

7. Warsaw 19 May 2008Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Main activities  Mapping of description metadata schema  Mapping of controlled terminologies and thesaurus  Ontologies in the field of the description of cultural heritage  Technical standards and protocols for the exchange of data  Integration of data in the structure of the European Digital Library  Coordination of contents: a competence centre in each country partner  Analysis of the problems related to copyright and possible solutions  Development of a prototype

8. Warsaw 19 May 2008Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Expected outputs A set of scalable tools, recommendations and guidelines, agreed by partners and easily applicable, focusing on:  Multilingualism and semantics  Metadata and thesauri  Data structures  IPR issues They will be used by museums  to support internal digitisation activities  to facilitate the integration of their digital content into the EDL

9. Warsaw 19 May 2008Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Results Any museum and other cultural institution wishing to share its data and get visibility through EUROPEANA will be able to:  create its own content using international standards  use the existing description and cataloguing standards, and map them into domain-specific and/or Dublin Core applications profiles  use the existing terminologies and thesauri, publish them using SKOS and achieve semantic interoperability with EDL  register their own content and service and make them visible at international level using existing registries (like MICHAEL)

10. Warsaw 19 May 2008Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Strategic collaboration Strategic partnership will be constructed with other projects, like:  EDLNet, expected to provide the “house” where to deliver the Athena results  MICHAEL, the registry of digital cultural collections in Europe  MinervaEC, with its set of guidelines and handbooks  MultiMatch, one of the most challenging research project on technologies supporting multilingualism for digital libraries  EDLocal, a proposal submitted and approved in the same Call for Proposals of Athena, supporting the participation of small cultural institutions to Europeana Special attention will be paid to national and international professional associations of cultural operators in order to merge the top-down approach due to the composition of the network with a bottom-up fertilisation process

11. Warsaw 19 May 2008Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Working Packages 1.Project management, monitoring and evaluation 2.Awareness and dissemination: enlarging the network and promoting the service 3.Identifying standards and developing recommendations 4.Integration of existing data structure into the EDL 5.Coordination of contents 6.Analysis of IPR issues and definition of possible solutions 7.Development of plug-ins to be integrated within the European Digital Library

12. Warsaw 19 May 2008Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Thank you for your attention ! Rossella Caffo Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali rcaffo@beniculturali.it