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MICHAELOne year later

Giuliana De FrancescoMinistero per i beni e le attività culturali - ICCUdefrancesco@beniculturali.it

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MICHAEL

Launching a European online service to enable European

cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide

audience

(2004)

Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe

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Connecting people to collections from museums, libraries, archives,

and cultural and scientific organisations across Europe

MICHAEL vision

• Thousands of institutions• Millions of digital items

• Collection level description• Cross domain approach

• Offering ways to help users • find the wealth of content that is available from cultural institutions• assess the relevance and select a range of content

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Two projects funded by the eTEN programme:

• MICHAEL (2004): France, Italy and the UK

• MICHAEL+ (2006): Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden

• More countries joined without EU funding: Bulgaria, Latvia, Israel

• MICHAEL Culture Association (AISBL)

Projects

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18 +1 MICHAEL portals

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www.michael-culture.org

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http://www.michael-culture.se http://www.michael-culture.fi http://www.michael-culture.cl.bas.bg http://www.michael-culture.pl http://www.michael-culture.fr

http://www.michael-culture.hu

http://www.michael-portal.de http://www.michael-culture.org.uk

http://www.michael-culture.kul.ee http://www.michael-culture.es

http://www.michael-culture.cz

http://www.michael-culture.nl http://www.michael-culture.gr

http://www.michael-culture.it

http://www.michael-culture.org.il

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• 18 months after the end of the project, most instances are still active and willing to continue further, some are in stand-by

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Other routes to MICHAEL content: Interoperability

Users can also find our records outside the MICHAEL national and European services....

.... OAI-PMH and CC licences enables reuse in other information services

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Local coordination

Regional service Local service

National coordination

EuropeanCoordination

Nationalaggregator

Thematic service

International aggregator

Europeana

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MICHAEL and Europeana

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MICHAEL Culture association: A European cross-domain network

• MICHAEL Culture association was established in July 2007

• AISBL (Association internationale sans but lucratif)

under Belgian law

• Members are from all over Europe

• Partner of all main projects establishing Europeana

• Member of EDL foundation

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MICHAEL offers to Europeana: • Comprehensive, reliable and multilingual information

• From all sectors (archives, libraries, museums, monuments, archaeology…)

• Collection level information to complement item descriptions

• Contextual information for Europeana users

• Stakeholder commitment: a cross-domain network of public organisations represented through a single body

MICHAEL Europeana

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• Mapping of MICHAEL Data Model into ESE (Europeana Semantic Elements) Data will be harvested via OAI-PMH

• ESE is the only metadata set used by Europeana until July 2010

• Common cross-domain metadata schema for heterogeneous data

• XML format for data ingestion (harvest, map, normalise, index)

• Dublin Core elements + 10 Europeana elements

• Not to capture full semantics of provider’s data (Not domain specific)

• Implementation of a more sophisticated object model will be prototyped from July 2010 to prepare its integration in the second release

MICHAEL Europeana (Rhine, 2010)

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• An ingestion test is planned in the framework of the ATHENA project, whose aim is to have a richer and more contextualised set of data harvested by the next release of Europeana

MICHAEL Europeana (Danube, 2011)

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MICHAEL ItaliaMICHAEL Italia

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Record

total published

Digital coll. 3869 3635

Service/product 2271 2111

Institution 1924 1746

Project 640 576

Physical coll. 2045 1925

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Organisation

• MiBAC coordinating– Mobilizing every MiBAC sector and office

• State archives (about 130)• State libraries (almost 50)• Hundreds of museums, heritage offices etc. covered at

regional level through MiBAC Regional Directorates

• Cooperation agreements with:– Regions (~ 20)– Universities (77, coordinated through CRUI)

• Support: – training, helpdesk, mailing list, etc

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Publicaccess

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Benefits

Ministries, local government:• Monitoring funding results, advancement of

programmes and the whole of the digital heritage

• Promotion of the achievements at national and international level

• Planning of complementary and coordinated digitisation initiatives

• Some Italian regions decided to invest in MICHAEL and support it financially

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Cultural institutions:

• Visibility, outreach to wider audiences

• Increase of access to online services

• Sinergies, networking and interactions

• Increase of the quality of digitisation projects

• Many institutions take care of having their descriptions updated

Benefits

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Users:

• Direct and simple access to a critical mass of cultural content and information:

– From every CH sector

– Produced by cultural and scientific organisations of any kind and size

– Clear and understandable

– Context information

– Reuse

• Users ask for information and candidate collections to be described

Benefits

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Thank you for your attention!

defrancesco@beniculturali.it

http://www.michael-culture.org.il

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