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The Michael/Michael+ Project is partly funded by the European Commission eTEN Programme

Antonella FresaTechnical Coordinator

MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus deploying MINERVA results

• 2 deployment projects

• Supported by eTEN

• Involving 14 EU countries

• Based on the metadata standard for cultural inventories developed by MINERVA

• Aimed to build a unique multilingual access point to the digital collections of museums, libraries and archives in Europe

• Total investment: ˜90 million €

MICHAEL actors and roles• Ministries of culture:

coordination and financing

• Central cultural institutes: standardisation and guidelines

• Technology providers: software implementation

• Regions and Universities: surveys and local coordination of the cataloguers

• The actual cultural institutions on the territory: museums, libraries and archives to provide content

Policy links• MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus

have strong policy links• The success of the initiative is

based on the actual political commitment at national and European levels

• Main targeted policy domains:– Culture & multilingualism– Education & training– Research & innovation– Tourism & economic

development

Vilnius, 4/10/2007 Michael / Michael Plus

MinervaEC

The project phase

R&D implementation full depl.

Catalogue des fonds culturels numérises (FR)

&

MINERVAMINERVA Plus

Michael PLUS

MICHAEL The new eContent Plus initiatives:

ATHENA, EDL-Local, etc.


MICHAEL Portals

http://www.michael-culture.org

Three national portals online since 2006France: http://www.michael-culture.frUK: http://www.michael-culture.org.ukItaly: http://www.michael-culture.it

MICHAELplus partners are registering the domains for the respective national MICHAEL portals according to the same pattern

MICHAEL European Portal launched in December 2006


MICHAEL Users

• many different user communities– education– cultural tourism– research– ‘co-ordination’– and computers …


MICHAEL European portal

• Launched December 2006

• Periodical harvesting of the published national instances

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


MICHAEL national portals

FR 1450 digital collections

500 institutions

250 services-products

IT 2588 digital collections

1396 institutions

1404 services/products

1520 physical collections

423 projects/programs

UK

766 digital collections

616 services

321 projects

306 institutions


Communication & Dissemination:international events

Four international conferences with high level political participation:

• Paris, 1 April 2005, with the participation of the French Minister for Culture

• Bristol, 16 November 2005, with the participation of the UK Minister for Arts

• Rome, 4-5 December 2006, with the participation of the Italian Minister for Culture and the EC INFSO Director General

• Berlin, 21-22 June 2007, under the aegis of the German Presidency of the EU


A large number of national initiatives in all the MICHAEL and MICHAELplus countries:

- Workshops

- Training sessions

- Other national and local initiatives

Communication & Dissemination:national events


The AISBL (Association international sans but lucratif) MICHAEL-Culture was created on July 2007 under the Belgian law

Founders: MCC (France), MiBAC (Italy), Amitié, Dédale

MLA (UK) and SPK (Germany) are about joining the Association

Sustainability


CoordinationAt the Ministerial level

Cooperation with other ministries and national and regional levels

• E.g. Ministry of education

• Regions

Institutions involved• Local branches of the ministry (archives, libraries, architecture and heritage,

museums, music, performing arts, theatre etc.)

• Institutions of all levels (national, regional, local)

• Universities

Organisational framework


MICHAELplus and further enlargement

The take-off of MICHAELplus gives evidence of MICHAEL success.

• 11 new countries involved• Further national investment for more than 55 million euros

More European countries are currently implementing the MICHAEL service on the basis of their own investment, without any EC funding:

• Bulgaria • Belgium Flemish Community • Estonia • Slovak Republic

Expression of interest by several other countries, both European and extraEuropean


Impact at international level: MICHAEL selected for IST

2006 and eGov 2007

MICHAEL was invited by the European Commission as a representative project on the occasion of:

- 4th Ministerial eGovernment Conference (Lisbon, 19-21 September 2007)

- IST 2006 (Helsinki, 23 November 2006)- Ministerial e-Inclusion Conference (Riga,

11-13 June 2006)- E-Government conference (Manchester, 25

November 2005)


Impact at national level: integration with national

programmesFR: Integration with http://www.culture.fr, Collections portal

(unique access point to the heritage data bases)

IT: Integration with the on-going Portal for the Italian Culture (http://www.culturaitalia.beniculturali.it)

UK: Linked initiatives• People’s Network Discover Service• 24 Hour Museum• Regional portals

and alsoGermany, Greece, Hungary, Estonia…


Impact at local level: involvement of cultural

institutionsMICHAEL established a network of thousands of European

cultural institutions:• Large, medium and small• National, regional or local• Public and private• Every heritage sector (Museums, Libraries, Archives,

Catalogue and preservation offices, Education, Research institutes etc…)

Institutions and private organisations are now asking to contribute their data into MICHAEL


Cross-domain approach

MICHAEL data model is suitable for describing digital collections belonging to every sector of cultural heritage and for recording related and context information:

– Institutions

– Projects / programmes

– Services / products

– Physical collections

MICHAEL aimed since the beginning at giving integrated access to the whole European cultural heritage through the Internet


Benefits for Ministries and Local authorities

MICHAEL proved to be a powerful tool for:• Building a road-map of what’s on in the field of the

digitisation of the cultural heritage• Planning and monitoring digitisation initiatives

undertaken or funded by ministries and other local authorities

MICHAEL allows the discovery of digitised resources and fosters synergies between projects


Through MICHAEL cultural institutions can:• Reach wider audiences at national and international level

(visibility)• Inform users about the collections they own and promote

access to them• Increase their online profile and promote their own

activities• Manage collections and large groupings of objects or data• Plan further digitisation activities basing on knowledge of

what’s available and possible synergies

Benefits forcultural institutions


MICHAEL service allows to search and browse from a single access point information on digital cultural heritage coming from:– every CH sectors: archives, libraries,

museums, heritage, audiovisual, landscape…– cultural institutions of any kind: national,

regional, local, large and small, public and private…

• on a multilingual basis• by subject, period, spatial coverage…• by institution type or location• through full text search• etc.

Benefits for final users


MICHAEL and

the EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARY


High level political profile

13 November 2006Bruxelles, Council of the Ministers of Culture

Adoption of the EC Recommandation “Digitisation and Online Accessibility of Cultural Material, and Digital Preservation”: to build the European Digital Library, two are the main building blocks:

• CENL and the service “The European Library” that provides access to the national libraries collections across Europe

• MICHAEL and the European portal of the digital collections


The European Digital Library aims to involve all Cultural Heritage sectors and the largest number of institutions (national and local, large and small).

MICHAEL can be the catalogue of the European Digital Library.

MICHAEL contribution to the European Digital

Library


MICHAEL contribution to the European Digital

Library

• Catalogue of the digital collections, Europe-wide, covering all the cultural sector

• Successful cooperative approach and working methods

• Network of thousands of European cultural institutions

• MICHAEL AISBL: organisational and legal structure (detailed presentation by Christophe Dessaux).


European Digital Library

Collections

Items

MICHAEL TEL

Diagram developedat TEL / MICHAELmeeting, Frankfurt,March 2006

National Library

collections

National LibrariesNational & Regional Museums, Audio-Visual, Archives and Libraries

MICHAEL and the European Digital Library


Thank you for your attention

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