The multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in Europe
Antonella FresaAntonella FresaMICHAEL Technical Coordinator
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Contents
The project backgroundThe project background Objectives and basic factsObjectives and basic facts The partnershipThe partnership Progress and next stepsProgress and next steps Quick technical overviewQuick technical overview
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Reference calendar
2001 eEuropeLund PrinciplesNational Representatives GroupFrench Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés
Apr. 2002 The MINERVA Project Starts (FP5-IST)
A set of metadata for inventories of digital cultural content is agreed among the MINERVA partners
Feb. 2004 MINERVA-Plus extends its activities to the new Member States (FP6-IST)
Jun. 2004 MICHAEL Project Starts (eTEN)
2005 i2010Dynamic Action Plan
Jun. 2006 MICHAEL-Plus extends the deployment to 14 EU countries (eTEN)
Oct./Nov. 2006 MINERVA-EC will start (currently under negotiation eContent+)
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NRG and Minerva
The National Representatives Group for digitisation: A network of Ministries of Culture aiming to co-ordinate
digitisation of cultural heritage at European level. Includes the 25 EU member states + Bulgaria, Romania,
Norway, Israel and Russia.
MINERVA was an EU-funded project supporting NRG activities
Products: Good Practice Handbook Quality of cultural websites Technical Guidelines IPR Guidelines National Global Reports
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Celebrating the richness, breadth and diversity of the European cultural heritage by promoting it to a world-wide audience through the Internet
MICHAEL Objectives
A common approach for digital cultural heritage inventories in Italy, France, the UK and beyond
Integrates national digitisation initiatives A distributed platform to provide access digital
cultural collections Open source software Supports multilingualism
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Supported by the eTEN Programme 36 months (June 2004-May 2007) + 12 months MICHAELplus (starting in June 2006 till
May 2008) Based on national investment in digitisation of the
cultural heritage National investment (90%), eTEN (10%) MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus together: more than 90
million euros of total investment
Will create a legal entity to manage the service (sustainability)
Basic facts
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Michael Partners
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Coordinator: MiBAC (Italy) Neumann (Hungary) NKOM (Hungary) ICCS-NTUA (Greece) HMC (Greece) UH.HUL (Finland) Finnarchives (Finland) Museovirasto, NBA (Finland) SPK (Germany) Bundesarchiv (Germany) BSB (Germany) DDB (Germany) DMM (Germany) LABW (Germany) SNG (Germany)
MICHAELplus Partners
MKCR (Czech Republic) Heritage Malta (Malta) KB (The Netherlands) MINOCW (The Netherlands) MLA (UK) Dédale (France) MCC (France) IBACN (Italy) Amitié (Italy) MNII (Poland) IHM (Hungary) Menon (Belgium) ICIMSS (Poland)
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Czech Republic Finland Germany Greece Hungary Malta the Netherlands Poland Portugal Spain Sweden
MICHAEL and MICHAELplus
Deployment of the MICHAEL service to 14 countries in Europe:
Italy France UK
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Data model, software platform and related documentation
Localised National instances
First online version of the European service
Legal framework for IPR
Communication and marketing plan
Population of the national instances as a continuous on going process
Progress
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Next steps
1st June 2006: MICHAEL Plus kick-off
Localisation of the service in the new eleven countries
Population of national instances Extension of the MICHAEL public access interface to
the new countries
June 2007 Full service available in France, Italy and UK and at
trans-European level Legal organisation set-up (MICHAEL)
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France: Steering committee for the digitisation of cultural heritage (all departments of the
MCC) networking with French public cultural institutions (400 institutions recorded in the French catalogue)
Collaboration with Culture.fr portal Official launch of MICHAEL in France, Paris, 1st April 2005, with the participation of
the French Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres Italy: Joint development with the Italian Culture Portal Agreements with 17 Regions and 77 Universities to describe their digital
collections in the system Official launch of MICHAEL in Italy, Rome, 22nd April 2005, with the participation of
the Director General Antonia Recchia of the Italian Ministry of Culture
UK: MICHAEL also available through Regional portals, People’s Network
Discovery Service, UK Cultural Information Services English and Welsh languages Official launch of MICHAEL in the UK, Bristol, 15th November 2005, with the
participation of the English Minister David Lammy
Interest around MICHAEL
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Digital Collections
Definition of “Collection” by Dublin Core Metadata Initiative WG on Collection Description:
Any aggregation of physical or digital items.
Collections of physical items, collections of digital surrogates of physical items, collections of 'born-digital' items and catalogues of such collections
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Digital Collections
Groups of electronic items, described as a whole
Examples: Museum, Library, Archives collections of born digital records MLA collections of digitised records based on physical items Library, museum and archival digital catalogues and inventories,
even where these relate to physical collections Internet directories and subject gateways Web indexes Collections of electronic text, images, datasets, sounds, software,
other media or combinations of these
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MINERVA model
WP3 Specifications for inventories of digitised content
Project Digital Collections
Institution
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Service /
Product
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creates access
Programme
Physical collection
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MICHAEL data model
Model for resource discovery Centered on digital collection description Based on work by Research Support Libraries
Programme, the French Catalogue des Fonds Culturels Numérisés and MINERVA metadata standards
Aligned to the Dublin Core metadata set and the emerging Dublin Core Collection Level Description
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MICHAEL data model
Based on the Relations among five Entities Digital collection Service/product Institution Project/programme Physical collection
XML schema publicly available online
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Open source
SDX (implemented by the French Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés)
Xdepo eXist Apache, Tomcat, Cocoon Java technologies
Technical platform
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Two modules Production module to
catalogue Publication module to
access the collections
XML data base
Metadata harvesting OAI-PMH protocol MICHAEL format, Dublin
Core simple
Technical platform
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Distributed architecture
Access
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Access
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