the michael project is funded under the european commission eten programme the multilingual...
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The MICHAEL Project is funded under the European Commission eTEN Programme
The multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in Europe
Strategic objective
Launching a European online service to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience
National investment in digitisation of the cultural heritage
National Representatives Group for Digitisation in Cultural Heritage
MINERVA project and its resources and methodologies
Technical platform of the French inventory project
Background
History
2001 eEurope Action PlanLund Principles - National Representatives GroupLaunch of the French catalogue des fonds culturels
numérisés
2002 Minerva Project, FP5-IST
2004 MinervaPLUS, new Member States, FP6-ISTJune: Michael project starts, France, Italy and the UKGoogle launches its digital library
2005 France launches the European Digital LibraryNRG publishes the Dynamic Action Plan
2006 June: MichaelPLUS extension to 11 new countries: Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and
Sweden
A common approach for digital cultural heritage inventories in Italy, France, the UK and beyond
Integrates national digitisation initiatives A distributed platform Open source software Supports multilingualism eTen match funding
enables European added value in the Michael project
Why Michael?
Services
Online European service to enable users to search the digital cultural heritage
Multilingual support National data capture and information services Interoperable information systems
Promoting collections held by small, medium and large institutions
Supporting cultural tourism, education, research
Supported by the eTen Programme Michael: 36 months (June 2004-May 2007)
MichaelPLUS: 24 months (June 2006-May 2008) National investment (90%)
Michael: 33 M€MichaelPLUS: 51 M€
eTEN (10%) Michael: 3,3 M€MichaelPLUS: 5,1 M€
Basic facts
Actors
The owners/providers/maintainers of the service are the Public Bodies partners of the Michael project
They will establish a legal entity to manage the service. Sustainability guaranteed by:- annual fees provided by the members- participation to EU projects- revenues from commercial users
Users include:- information service providers (e.g. publishers, tourism agencies, universities, libraries etc).- people interested in culture (students, researchers, citizens, tourists etc.)
Service will be accessible through the Internet
France: Working group of the "steering committee for the digitisation of cultural heritage",
which represents all departments of the Ministry of Culture, provides expertise, monitoring of the French catalogue and networking with French public cultural institutions (400 institutions recorded in the French catalogue)
Collaboration with Culture.fr portal Collaboration with the Ministry of Education
(libraries and documentation)
Italy: Joint development with the Italian Portal of Culture Agreements signed with 17 Regions and 77 Universities to include
their digital collections in the system Involvement of all the Department of the Ministry of Culture and
agreement with the Ministry of Education for using Michael in schools Participation of more than 600 cultural institutions in the project
Partnerships
UK: Michael also available through Regional portals, People’s Network
Discovery Service, UK Cultural Information Services English and Welsh languages Culture.Mondo
Partnerships
Data model, software platform and related documentation;
National instances localised
First version of the Trans-European service
Legal framework for IPR defined;
Communication and marketing plan set-up.
Current Status and Results
August 2006 Population of national instances in the three original countries (Michael);
Localisation of the service in the new eleven countries (MichaelPLUS).
December 2006
Population of national instances goes on in the new eleven countries (MichaelPLUS);
Michael public access interface ready for testing (Michael).
June 2007 Service available in France, Italy and UK and at European level;
International Association set-up (Michael).
Next Steps
www.michael-culture.org