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

The multilingual catalogue of digital cultural heritage in Europe

Pier Giacomo SOLA

EVA Jerusalem 14-15 November 2006 2 / 23

Launching a European online service to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience

Strategic objective


Celebrating the richness, breadth and diversityof the European cultural heritage by promoting it

to a world-wide audience through the Internet

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

Why Michael?


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

Services


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€

Will create a legal entity to manage the service (sustainability)

Basic facts


Michael Partners


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)

MiBAC (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)

MichaelPLUS Partners


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

European Services going to start in its test phase (4 December)

Current Status and Results


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


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

Digital Collections


WP3 Specifications for inventories of digitised content

Minerva model

ProjectDigital

Collection

Institution

makes

Service /

Product

n

n

n

n

n

n

creates access

Programme

Physical collection


Model for resource discovery 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

XML schema publicly available online

Michael data model


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


Surfing Michael


Roma, 4 December 2006

Michael Conference

Please register at:

http://www.michael-culture.org

Presentation of the new public interface of the transnational service


The new web site


Thank you for your attention!

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