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MICHAEL and the Italian Culture Portal: a cooperation model among national, regional, and local institutions The MICHAEL Project is funded under the European Commission eTEN Programme Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Coordinator of the MICHAEL project
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MICHAEL and the Italian Culture Portal:a cooperation model among national,
regional, and local institutions
The MICHAEL Project is funded under the European Commission eTEN Programme
Rossella Caffo - MiBACCoordinator of the MICHAEL project
June 21, 2007 Rossella Caffo
Background
Under the impulse of MINERVA, MiBAC started up a wide range of digitisation initiatives.
MICHAEL
ITALIANCULTURE PORTAL
MEDCULT
National & EuropeanProjects
LOCAL PROJECTS
MINERVA
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What MICHAEL-IT is
MICHAEL-IT is a multilingual service
providing an integrated and unique access to Italian digital cultural
collections on a cross domain basis.
http://www.michael-culture.org/http://www.michael-culture.org/it/home
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The survey of the Italian digital collections:• covers the whole territory
(national and local cultural bodies)
• includes all the CH sectors(archives, libraries, museums, audiovisual, archeology, built heritage, landscape…)
What MICHAEL-IT does
2489 digital collections
1346 institutions
1356 services/products
1424 physical collections
410 projects/programs
MICHAEL-IT is one of the action lines of the Italian Culture Portal.
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The MICHAEL-IT actors
Coordination• MiBAC – DG for the technological innovation and
promotion (OTEBAC)
Cooperation with other ministries• Agreement with the Ministry of the Public Education
Institution involved• More than 600 MiBAC cultural institutions (libraries,
museums, archives, archaeological sites, preservation offices, central institutes)
• 20 Italian Regions: thousands museums, libraries, archives
• Libraries and museums of the 77 Italian universities
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Joining MICHAEL-IT
A communication campaign to join the MICHAEL service has been launched.
It is addressed to all the cultural institutions that whish to give more visibility to their digital collections.
These cultural institutions are invited to become associated members of the MICHAEL Culture Aisbl.
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What the Culture Portal is
The Italian Culture Portal - CulturaItalia is a unique, multilingual and integrated point of access to the Italian cultural heritage of all sectors.
CulturaItalia aggregates through the metadata the existing digital libraries in order to create the Digital Library of the Italian cultural heritage.
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Strategy1. Tight cooperation among:• the public and private sectors• museum, libraries, archives, preservation and
administrative offices• national, regional and local institutions• universities and other ministries
2. Integration with other initiatives and projects:• MICHAEL-IT• Regional portals• etc.
CulturaItalia is based on the MINERVA and MICHAEL recommendations, guidelines, results.
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Institutional actors:main agreements
The Regions
The Italian Ministry and all its institutes and offices
The 77 Italian Universities
The Ministry of University and Research
The library of the Senate
The Conference of the Italian bishops
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Other institutions: first agreements
Biennale di Venezia
BAICR
CINECA
EXIBART
FRATELLI ALINARI
INDIRE
ISTITUTO LUCE
QUERINI STAMPALIA
TECHE RAI
TOURING CLUB ITALIANO
The group of the metadata providers is constantly growing.
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Workplan 2007
July, involvement of all the Italian Regions
From July, loading of 500,000 records per month
September, launch of the communication campaign
December, official launch of CulturaItalia
End of 2007, 2,5 millions of records uploaded
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Content
1. Index of metadata
2. Editorial content
3. Selected and indexed cultural web sites
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The application profileCulturaItalia organizes in a unique index of (meta)data harvested from
repositories coming from different providers:• ministry’s institutions• private institutions• regions• universitiesEach provider holds the rights of the digital objects shown through the
portal and is responsible for their maintenance and updating.
A specific AP based on Dublin Core has been adopted as metadata standard, as the most used internationally.
It describes the digital and tangible resources of all the CH.
The metadata describe the resources at item level.
Through the harvesting of the metadata and the application profile, CulturaItalia aggregates the digital resources of the Italian digital libraries.
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The index
The index of the metadata is structured as a tree and gathers references to the digital and digitised “objects” of the Italian cultural heritage.
These objects are intended in a broad sense: work of art, monuments, digital images, audiovisual, events, web pages etc.
THE INDEX CAN BE CONSIDERED AS THE DIGITAL LIBRARY OF THE ITALIAN
CULTURAL HERITAGE
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Who - institutions
museumlibraries…
- peopleauthorsperformers…
What - tangible heritage
churchesarchaeological sites..
- events- digital resources…
Whereregions / districts / towns…
When - from geological eras to now
The index structure
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The campaign “Join CulturaItalia
will be launched in autumn, in
parallel with the MICHAEL one.
It is addressed to the public and
private cultural institutions that
whish to share their (meta)data.
Joining CulturaItalia
The main objective is to increase the metadata providers according to a cooperative model.
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The current work carried out by OTEBAC is:1. Define agreements with public or private
partners, invited to join the project2. Identify data-bases to be harvested3. Define the level of the data publication
through the portal
Work flow
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4. If data are provided with DC metadata they can be harvested directly;
5. otherwise a mapping between PICO AP and the data model of the databases must be defined
6. The provider must install on its servers a OAI-PMH repository (MiBAC can provide “ready-to-use” technical solutions)
7. The provider must create a script to generate XML metadata record, exporting values from the data bases.
Work flow
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MICHAEL-IT andthe Culture Portal’s connections
THE SAME ACTORSMICHAEL-IT set up a wide network on the whole
Italian territory that involves all the CH sectors (more than 600 Ministry’s cultural institutions, 20 Italian Regions, the libraries and museums of the 77 Italian universities, the Ministry of public education).
The Culture Portal benefited from the network set up for MICHAEL-IT.
The same offices and the same experts that carried out the census of the digital collections, contributed to the identification of those data bases gathered in MIHCAEL-IT that could provide their metadata to the Portal.
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MICHAEL-IT andthe Culture Portal’s connections
THE SAME STANDARDS• an open source software platform• MINERVA recommendations and
guidelines• data models aligned to the Dublin Core• metadata harvesting through OAI-PMH• a distributed architectureThe technical integration of both platforms is underway.
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MICHAEL describes the digital collections;the Culture Portal gives access to the digital
and digitised objects through their metadata. Both projects are integrated.
So…
…MICHAEL is the CATALOGUE,the Culture Portal the DIGITAL LIBRARY of the Italian cultural heritage.
MICHAEL and the Culture Portal:different goals
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Benefits for the smallcultural institutions
Thanks to MICHAEL-IT and the Culture Portal the small cultural institutions will:
• reach wider audiences at national and international level;
• increasing their online profile;• inform users about the collections and digital
objects they own and promoting the access to them.
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MICHAEL andthe European Digital Library
13 November 2006Bruxelles, Council of the Ministers of Culture
Adoption of the text “Digitisation and Online Accessibility of Cultural Material, and Digital Preservation” that says that, to build the European Digital Library, two are the main bricks:
• CENL and the service “The European Library” that provides access to the national libraries across Europe
• MICHAEL and the European portal of the digital collections
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In conclusionThanks to the use of international standards and
guidelines as well as open source software, MICHAEL-IT and the Italian Culture Portal can be considered as bricks of the European Digital Library.
They offer to the EuDL:• the catalogue and the index of the Italian digital
collections and resources• the involvement of the cultural institutions of all sectors
and levels (national, regional, local);• a centralised coordination.
MICHAEL-IT is the catalogue of the Digital Library of the Italian cultural heritage;MICHAEL-EU is the catalogue of the Digital Library of the European cultural
heritage.
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Thanks for your [email protected]
The MICHAEL project web sitehttp://www.michael-culture.eu
The MICHAEL European portalhttp://www.michael-culture.org
The Italian Culture Portalwww.culturaitalia.beniculturali.it
