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MICHAEL. A service for accessing the European digital cultural heritage. Rossella Caffo Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali. What MICHAEL is. MICHAEL is a multilingual service providing an integrated and unique access to European digital cultural collections on a cross domain basis. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Jerusalem,20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007Rossella Caffo
MICHAEL.
A service for accessing the European digital cultural heritage.
Rossella CaffoMinistero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Jerusalem,20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007Rossella Caffo
What MICHAEL is
MICHAEL is a multilingual service providing an
integrated and unique access to European
digital cultural collections on a cross
domain basis.
http://www.michael-culture.org/
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The MICHAEL service allows to search and browse digital cultural information coming from:
– all the cultural heritage sectors: archives, libraries, museums, intangible heritage, built heritage, audiovisual, landscape…
– all kind of cultural institution: national, regional, local, large and small, public and private…
A cross-domain initiative
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MICHAEL is a spin-off of the MINERVA project.
It is based on:• the work of the MINERVA working groups on
inventories, discovery of digitised content and multilingualism, interoperability and service provision
• the technical platform of the French Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés
Background
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• Agreeing on a common approach for a digital cultural heritage registry in Europe
• Creating a single point of access to the European digital collections
• Implementing a distributed platform based on open source software
• Supporting multilingualism• Creating a European infrastructure to sustain the
service
• Adoption by all the European countries
Goals
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• MICHAEl and MICHAEL plus are deployment projects• Funded by the eTen programme• From June 2004 to 2008• Based on national initiatives on digitization and the
creation of culture portals
Funding• National funding (90%)• EC contribution (10%), only to fulfil the integration of the
national initiatives into the European infrastructure• MICHAEL and MICHAEL plus total budget: 90 M€
Basic facts
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1 country> 1 national portal
Phase 1, MICHAEL (2004-7):
• Italy• France• United
Kingdom
PartnersPhase 2, MICHAELplus
(2006-8):• Belgium• Bulgaria• Czech Republic• Estonia• Finland• France• Germany• Greece• Hungary• Italy (coordinator)• Malta• the Netherlands• Poland• Portugal• Slovak Republic• Spain• Sweden• United Kingdom
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Cultural institutionsin MICHAEL
• Ministries• Government and regional agencies for cultural heritage• Foundations• Research networks• Universities• National libraries, local libraries• National archives, local archives• National museums, local museums• Sound and audiovisual archives
The national surveys are reaching thousand of national, regional, and local cultural institutions,
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• open source software platform
• MINERVA recommendations and guidelines
• data model aligned to the Dublin Core metadata set and the emerging Dublin Core Collection Level Description
• XML data base
• metadata harvesting through OAI-PMH
Standards
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A distributed architecture
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MICHAEL users
Many different user communities– education– cultural tourism– research– management– …
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The digital collectionaccording to MICHAEL
Definition based on international standards (Research Support Libraries Programme-RSLP collection description and Dublin Core): “A digital collection is an aggregation of digital items”– collections of digital surrogates of physical items– collections of 'born-digital' items– catalogues of such collections
Contents of a digital collection might include:• aggregations of digital images, text, audio, video, 3D objects, mixed
media• databases• collections of web resources• Internet directories and subject gateways• digital archives• digital inventories, catalogues, finding aids etc.
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Entities of the data model:• Institution• Digital collection• Physical collection• Project - programme• Services and products
Data model suitable for all kind of digital collections coming from all the cultural fields.
The data model
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Activities
• Population of the national databases– description of the collections– migration of the existing data
• Implementation of the MICHAEL national portals
• Increase of the European portal– metadata harvesting from the national databases
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The European MICHAEL portal is on line at http://www.michael-culture.orgMore than 5,000 digital collections from FR, IT, UK inside!The digital collections groups millions of records.
The national systems are on line and constantly updated and enriched with new data.
FR http://www.michael-culture.fr or http://www.numerique.culture.fr
IT http://michael-culture.it UK http://www.michael-culture.org.uk
The national portals of DE, GR, NL, PL, PT are under construction.
The achievements so far
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The survey of the digital collections in the participating countries:
• covers the whole territory(national and local cultural bodies)
• includes all the CH sectors(archives, libraries, museums, audiovisual, archeology, built heritage, landscape…)
• is integrated with the other national initiatives(culture portals, national, regional, digitisation programmes etc.)
The ongoing work
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CoordinationMiBAC – DG for the technological innovation and promotion
Cooperation with other ministriesAgreement with the Ministry of Education
Institution involved• More than 600 MiBAC cultural institutions (libraries, museums, archives,
archaeological sites, preservation offices, central institutes)• 20 Italian Regions: thousands museums, libraries, archives• Libraries and museums of the 77 Italian universities
Integration with the forthcomingItalian Culture Portal (http://www.culturaitalia.it)
2762 digital collections
1475 institutions
1509 services/products
1627 physical collections
456 projects/programs
Italy
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CoordinationMinistère de la culture et de la communication - Steering group for digitisation, with • Working group with the DGs of the ministry (expertise and steering)• Mission de la recherche et de la technologie (implementation of the data bases)
Cooperation with other ministries • Ministère de l’Education nationale (Direction Générale de l’enseignement supérieur - sous-
direction des bibliothèques et de l'information scientifique)
Institutions involved• The ministerial working group works with all the braches of the ministry (archives, libraries
(archives, libraries, architecture and heritage, museums, music, performing arts, theatre etc.)• Institutions of all levels (national, regional, local)
Integration with http://www.culture.fr and
the on-going project of unique access point
to the data bases of the heritage
France
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CoordinationMLA – Museums, Libraries, Archives Council
Institutions involved• English regions: MLA South West, MLA London, MLA South East,
MLA East of England, MLA West Midlands, MLA East Midlands, MLA Yorkshire, MLA North West, MLA North East
• Wales: CYMAL • Scotland: Scottish Museums Council• National museums, English Heritage, National Archives• Cultural institutions of all levels (national, regional, local)
Linked initiatives• People’s Network Discovery Service• UK Cultural Information Services• regional portals
United Kingdom
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The other 15 countries that joined the network with MICHAELplus
started the survey of the cultural digital collections
according to the organisational model set up in France, Italy, and UK.
The national portals are under preparation.
The other countries
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UK
It
Fr
MICHAEL and multilingualism
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• Human translation of static pages and editorial content
• All languages spoken in partner countries
• User may choose in which language to browse the portal
Multilingual access
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Translation of European standard terminologies.
Local terminologies are mapped into the European ones.
Multilingual access
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The description of the digital collections is useful for:
• reaching wider audiences at national and international level
• promoting the cultural institutions• informing users about the collections that they
own and promoting the access to them• building a road-map of what’s on in the field of
the digitisation of the cultural heritage
Benefits forthe cultural institutions
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The AISBL “MICHAEL Culture” was created according to the Belgian law.
It will assure the MICHAEL service in a long term perspective.
Full members:France (presidency), Italy (deputy-
presidency), Germany, United Kingdom.Other European countries are joining the
AISBL as associated members.
Sustainability
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The EuropeanDigital Library
EC Communication: i2010: Digital Libraries (30th September 2005)
• a common multilingual access point to Europe’s distributed digital cultural and scientific heritage– all types of cultural material
• texts, audiovisual, museum objects, archival records etc
– held in different places by different organisations
– targeted at delivering rapidly a critical mass of resources to the users
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MICHAEL andthe European Digital Library
13 November 2006
Brussels, Council of the Ministers of Culture
Adoption of the text “Digitisation and Online Accessibility of Cultural Material, and Digital Preservation” that says that, to build the European Digital Library, two are the main bricks:
• CENL and the service “The European Library” that provides access to the national libraries across Europe
• MICHAEL and the European portal of the digital collections
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MICHAEL for the European Digital Library
MICHAEL established a comprehensive network of thousands of European cultural and scientific organisations:
• Large, medium and small• National, regional or local• Public and private• Every scientific and cultural sector (Museums,
Libraries, Archives, Catalogue and preservation offices, Education, Research institutes etc…)The network successfully tested cooperative approach and working methods.
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MICHAEL contribution to the European Digital Library
• MICHAEL Culture AISBL, one of founder members of the Foundation – representing Ministries and cross-sector interests
• MICHAEL Culture AISBL is participating in EDLnet Thematic Network (http://www.europeandigitallibrary.eu/edlnet/)
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What doesthis mean technically?
• MICHAEL locates digital collections from across Europe that will be collected into the European Digital Library
• MICHAEL was developed to be an ‘information environment services registry’
• MICHAEL holds details of interoperability protocols supported by different databases– Z39.50, OAI-PMH, Web Services
• MICHAEL holds details of terminologies used by different databases
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European Digital Library
Collections
Items
MICHAEL TEL
MICHAEL andthe European Digital Library
Diagram developedat TEL / MICHAELmeeting, Frankfurt,March 2006
National Library
collections
National LibrariesNational & Regional Museums, Audio-Visual, Archives and Libraries
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Rossella [email protected] per i beni e le attività culturali
www.michael-culture.eu (project)www.michael-culture.org (portal)
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