the multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in europe antonella fresa michael technical...

The multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in Europe

Antonella FresaAntonella FresaMICHAEL Technical Coordinator

Antonella Fresa TEL-ME-MOR Workshop 8-9 May 2006, Budapest, Hungary

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


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+)


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


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


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


Michael Partners


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)


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


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


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)


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


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


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


MINERVA model

WP3 Specifications for inventories of digitised content

Project Digital Collections

Institution

makes

Service /

Product

n

n

n

n

n

n

creates access

Programme

Physical collection


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


MICHAEL data model

Based on the Relations among five Entities Digital collection Service/product Institution Project/programme Physical collection

XML schema publicly available online


Open source

SDX (implemented by the French Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés)

Xdepo eXist Apache, Tomcat, Cocoon Java technologies

Technical platform


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


Distributed architecture

Access

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


Access


http://www.michael-culture.org

MICHAEL website


Thank you!Thank you!

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