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Il servizio europeo MICHAEL: la storia, gli standard, esempi di navigazione nel portaleTRANSCRIPT
Giuliana De Francesco, MiBAC
Kate Fernie, MLA
MICHAEL services
EVA 2008 Florence: Electronic Images and the Visual ArtsMICHAEL –MINERVA Workshop, April 18th 2008
http://www.michael-culture.org/
MICHAEL
Launching a European online service to enable
European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience
Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe
Connecting people to collections from museums, libraries, archives,
and cultural and scientific organisations across Europe
Susan teaches music in a primary school
St John’s College Cambridge: Manuscript collection
Play burmese musical
instruments online: Museums Open
Learning Initiative
MICHAEL vision
Discovery
Offering ways to help users find the wealth of content that is available
from cultural institutions
MICHAEL approach
• A catalogue of digital collections– Finding aid to improve discovery
• Cross domain approach
Museums, libraries, archives, audio-visual archives, heritage offices, universities and
other institutions are contributing descriptions of their collections
MICHAEL serviceOur users can:• Search the catalogue of digital collections
and online services and • Discover the wealth of content from across
the domain – museums, libraries and archives
http://www.michael-culture.org/
Search and discovery
Free text search
Terminology-based browsing: by audience
Filtering: free text
Advanced search
Advanced search
Terminology-based browsing: digital type
Filtering: access type
Building the MICHAEL service
MICHAEL builds on results from the MINERVA project and its work on inventories, multilingualism and interoperability :- Technical Guidelines for digital Cultural Content Creation
Programmes- Specifications for Inventories of Digital Cultural Content
Deploying results from MINERVA
MINERVA inventories model
ProjectDigital
CollectionsInstitution
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Service /
Product
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creates access
Programme Physical collection
The digitisation process
MICHAEL Data Model
• The MICHAEL data model is suitable for describing digital collections belonging to all cultural heritage sectors and recording related contextual information: – Institutions (creator, owner, keeper, manager)– Projects / programmes (funding)– Services / products (giving access)– Physical collections (represented full or in part)
Describes both the collection and its context
International standards
MICHAEL metadata for collection description is based on:– RSLP
– Dublin Core Collection application profile
and is– Very close to NISO collection description
specification
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/michael/michael-eu/dcap/
MICHAEL EU Dublin Core AP
Controlled terminologies
The terminologies implemented in MICHAEL include:
• ISO: Language (ISO 639); Spatial coverage (ISO 3166 Countries)
• DCMI: Digital type (DCMI Type)• UNESCO thesaurus: Subject (UNESCO)• W3C/WAI: WAI (WAI/MICHAEL)• MINERVA and MICHAEL
– Digital format (MINERVA/MICHAEL)– Period (MICHAEL)– Institution type (MINERVA/MICHAEL)– Access type (MINERVA/MICHAEL)– Access conditions (MICHAEL)– Audience (MINERVA/MICHAEL)
Support:• Content creation and consistency of the description• Browsing and retrieval in the public interface• Multilingualism in the European portal• Semantic interoperability with other services
MICHAEL metadata records are made available to the public under the Creative Commons ‘Attribution Non-commercial’ (by-nc) standard licence. This means that:
• It is possible to copy, distribute and reuse information provided that the source is mentioned and that the purpose is non-commercial
Rights
• XML format for data representation
• OAI-PMH for metadata harvesting – the MICHAEL European service doesn’t have content of its own but harvests records created in the national databases by the partner countries via OAI-PMH
OAI Target
OAIHarvester
PNDS
Request to get the
metadata records
Returns records
OAI Target
OAIHarvester
PNDS
Request to get the
metadata records
Returns records
Technical standards
Open source software
The MICHAEL platform is based on open source software components
• Apache Cocoon, Tomcat and Lucene; Exist XML database management system; SDX search engine; Xdepo environment
• MICHAEL software platform itself is available on Sourceforge under open source licence
• Java based for ease of deployment
National databases contributing data to the European service
Where next?
Taking MICHAEL to users….
Meet some of our users
• Students and young people• Retired people• Tourists• Wheelchair users• Museum curators• Teachers• General public
Susan Green’s story
• teaches music in a primary school
• studies art history
• is the wife of a railway enthusiast
• enjoys visiting cultural sites at weekends and on holiday
Susan uses MICHAEL to satisfy a range of interests finding content from local, regional and national institutions
User Needs
St John’s College Cambridge: Manuscript collection
Discovery
using MICHAEL Susan is able to find innovative content for teaching, exciting archives from less known sources and more.
Play burmese musical instruments online: Museums Open Learning Initiative
INTERNET
CONTENT CONTENT
utente
INSTANCE
MICHAEL European service
CONTENT
CONTENT
MICHAEL NATIONAL MICHAEL NATIONALMICHAEL NATIONAL
INSTANCE INSTANCE
Routes to MICHAEL content
UK
It
Fr
Results from many countries
Browsing by terminologies
Translation of the terminology lists means that users can browse in the language of their choice
Translation of key words
Keywords are automatically translated into the user’s preferred language
Free text
Free text is presented in the original language of the record and, where it has been manually translated, in any alternate languages
Translation tools
The service offers users the option of translating pages using automatic translation tools
Users
• MICHAEL services help users to assess the relevance and select a range of exciting content from across Europe
Demand from teaching
BETT – education technology show
• Annual event for computing in education attended by 28,000 teachers, lecturers and policy-makers.
• In London but attended by teachers from Europe
• MLA stand promoting MICHAEL and culture content
• Great interest!
Attended by Education ministries, policy makers, teachers using ICT in the classroom
eLearning awards
• MICHAEL award for eLearning (Culture)
2006 award was won by Projekt 45 - Zur 60jährigen Wiederkehr des Kriegsendes 1945, Evangelische Schule Frohnau, Berlin
2007 award was won by Karatoula Ilias Primary School for ‘From classroom to museum. A dedication to Ancient Olympia’: http://dim-karat.ilei.sch.gr/olympia/english/english.htm.
http://www.michael-culture.org
Any questions?