The multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in

The multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in Europe Pier Giacomo SOLA

Summary q q q The project background Objectives and basic facts The partnership Progress and next steps Quick technical overview

Strategic objective Launching a European online service to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Background q q 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 TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

History 2001 e. Europe Lund Principles National Representatives Group French Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés Apr. 2002 The Minerva Project Starts (FP 5 -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 (FP 6 -IST) Jun. 2004 Michael Project Starts (e. TEN) 2005 i 2010 Dynamic Action Plan Jun. 2006 Michael. PLUS extends the deployment to 14 EU countries (e. TEN) Oct. 2006 Minerva. EC starts (currently under negotiation e. Contentplus) TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

NRG and Minerva The National Representatives Group for digitisation: q A network of Ministries of Culture aiming to co-ordinate digitisation of cultural heritage at European level. q Includes the 25 EU member states + Bulgaria, Romania, Norway, Israel and Russia. Minerva was a EU-funded project supporting NRG activities Products: q Good Practice Handbook q Quality of cultural websites q Technical Guidelines q IPR Guidelines q National Global Reports TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Why Michael? Celebrating the richness, breadth and diversity of the European cultural heritage by promoting it to a world-wide audience through the Internet q q q 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 TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Services q q q 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 TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Basic facts q q Supported by the e. TEN Programme Michael: 36 months (June 2004 -May 2007) Michael. PLUS: 24 months (June 2006 -May 2008) National investment (90%) Michael: 33 M€ Michael. PLUS: 51 M€ e. TEN (10%) Michael: 3, 3 M€ Michael. PLUS: 5, 1 M€ Will create a legal entity to manage the service (sustainability) TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Michael Partners TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Interest created by Michael France: q 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) q Collaboration with Culture. fr portal q Official launch of MICHAEL in France, Paris, 1 st April 2005, with the French Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres q Collaboration with the Ministry of Education (libraries and documentation) Italy: q q q Joint development with the Italian Culture Portal Agreements signed with 17 Regions and 77 Universities to include their digital collections in the system Involvement of all the Departments of the Ministry of Culture agreement with the Ministry of Education for using Michael in schools Participation of more than 600 cultural institutions in the project TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Interest created by Michael UK: q q q MICHAEL also available through Regional portals, People’s Network Discovery Service, UK Cultural Information Services English and Welsh languages Culture. Mondo TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Michael. PLUS Partners 1. q q q q Menon (Belgium) MKCR (Czech Republic) UH. HUL (Finland) Finnarchives (Finland) Museovirasto, NBA (Finland) Dédale (France) MCC (France) SPK (Germany) Bundesarchiv (Germany) BSB (Germany) DDB (Germany) DMM (Germany) LABW (Germany) SNG (Germany) ICCS-NTUA (Greece) HMC (Greece) 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Mi. BAC (Italy) IBACN (Italy) Amitié (Italy) Neumann (Hungary) NKOM (Hungary) IHM (Hungary) Heritage Malta (Malta) KB (The Netherlands) MINOCW (The Netherlands) MSWA (Poland) ICIMSS (Poland) Secretaria-Geral do Ministério da Cultura, Portugal Biblioteca Nacional de España , Spain University of Uppsala - Department of Information Science, Sweden MLA (UK) TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Current Status and Results q Data model, software platform and related documentation q Localised National instances q First online version of the European service q Legal framework for IPR q Communication and marketing plan q Population of the national instances as a continuous on going process TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Next steps 1 st June 2006: MICHAEL Plus kick-off q q q June 2007 q q Localisation of the service in the new eleven countries Population of national instances Extension of the MICHAEL public access interface to the new countries Full service available in France, Italy and UK and at trans. European level Legal organisation set-up (MICHAEL) TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

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 TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Digital Collections Groups of electronic items, described as a whole Examples: q Museum, Library, Archives collections of born digital records q MLA collections of digitised records based on physical items q Library, museum and archival digital catalogues and inventories, even where these relate to physical collections q Internet directories and subject gateways q Web indexes q Collections of electronic text, images, datasets, sounds, software, other media or combinations of these TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Minerva model WP 3 Specifications for inventories of digitised content Programme Physical collection n Institution n access creates makes Project n n Digital Collection TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia n n Service / Product / 26

Michael data model q Model for resource discovery q Centred 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 q q XML schema publicly available online TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Technical platform Open source q q q SDX (implemented by the French Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés) Xdepo e. Xist Apache, Tomcat, Cocoon Java technologies TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Technical platform Two modules q Production module to catalogue q Publication module to access the collections XML data base Metadata harvesting q OAI-PMH protocol q MICHAEL format, Dublin Core simple TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Distributed architecture TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Surfing Michael http: //www. michael-culture. org. uk TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Surfing Michael TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Surfing Michael http: //www. michael-culture. org TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26

Thank you for your attention! TEL-ME-MOR Regional Expert Workshop 18 -19 May 2006, Ljubljana, Slovenia / 26