EVA / MINERVA Jerusalem 2009, MICHAEL: One year later, Giuliana De Francesco

EVA/MINERVA Jerusalem Conference on Digitisation of Cultural Heritage - Jerusalem, Nov. 10-11, 2009

MICHAELOne year later

Giuliana De FrancescoMinistero per i beni e le attività culturali - [email protected]


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


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


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


18 +1 MICHAEL portals



www.michael-culture.org


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


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


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


Local coordination

Regional service Local service

National coordination

EuropeanCoordination

Nationalaggregator

Thematic service

International aggregator

Europeana


MICHAEL and Europeana


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


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


• 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)


• 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)


MICHAEL ItaliaMICHAEL Italia


Record

total published

Digital coll. 3869 3635

Service/product 2271 2111

Institution 1924 1746

Project 640 576

Physical coll. 2045 1925


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


Publicaccess


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


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


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


Thank you for your attention!

[email protected]

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

http://www.michael-culture.it/

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

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EVA / MINERVA Jerusalem 2009, MICHAEL: One year later, Giuliana De Francesco