Users and the MICHAEL European service
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Users and the MICHAEL European service
The MICHAEL Project is funded under the European Commission eTEN Programme
David DawsonMuseums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK
Users of MICHAEL• many different user communities
• education• cultural tourism• research• ‘co-ordination’
Cultural tourist• visiting Tuscany …
Toscana
Photo archive
Researcher• Associate Professor from Canada
Subjects
What will the EU Digital Library be?
• a common multilingual access point to Europe’s distributed• held in different places by different
organisations - digital cultural heritage, • all types of cultural material
• texts, audiovisual, museum objects, archival records etc
• targeted at delivering rapidly a critical mass of resources to the users.
Building blocks• The European Library (TEL) as a gateway
to the collective resources of national libraries across Europe
• The work ongoing in the Michael and Michael Plus projects in describing and linking digital collections of museums, libraries and archives from different Member States and providing access to these collections
European Digital Library
Collections
Items
MICHAEL TEL
MICHAEL and the European Digital Library
Thank you