Impact and benefits Rossella Caffo, Project Manager Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali Warsaw, 19 May 2008.

Impact and benefitsRossella Caffo, Project Manager

Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali

Warsaw, 19 May 2008

Backgroung

Since the 1990s:• Across Europe, State and local authority programmes

invested in the digitisation of cultural collections from all cultural sectors, involving thousands of cultural institutions and private organisations.

• Member States worked together at European level to create the inventory of the European cultural collections (NRG and MINERVA network)

• They identified the need for a way of promoting access to the richness and diversity of our collections

Rossella Caffo, MIBACWarsaw, 19 May 2008

Connecting people to collections from museums, libraries, archives,

and cultural and scientific organisations across Europe

MICHAEL vision

Launching a European online service to enable

European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience

MICHAELMultilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe

• MICHAEL is one of the most relevant implementation projects in the field of digital cultural heritage

• Based on national investments (90%), amounting to more than 90ME

• Funded by EC in the frame of eTEN programme (10%)

National and EU investments

• A European online service offering quick and easy access to European cultural heritage

• Cross domain approach• Builds upon MINERVA results:

- Technical Guidelines for digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes

- Specifications for Inventories of Digital Cultural Content

MICHAEL and MINERVA


MICHAEL project:• Funded by the programme• Begun June 2004• Ministries of Culture in France and Italy• Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK with• Dédale, Amitié

and AJLSM, as technical partners

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Discovering collections

MICHAEL is a multilingual service based on surveys of digital cultural collections at national level

MICHAEL satisfies the need for promoting on-line access

to the richness and diversity of cultural collections.

MICHAEL is a European portal

giving access to national databases

through periodical harvesting


StandardsOpen source software platform

MINERVA recommendations and guidelines

Data model aligned to the Dublin Core metadata set and the emerging Dublin Core Collection Description Appl. Prof.

XML data base

Metadata harvesting through OAI-PMH


Achievements so far

• The European service MICHAEL Culture is on line at

http://www.michael-culture.org

• More than 7,000 digital collections corresponding to millions of digital objects!

Several national portals are on line and constantly updated and enriched with new data.FR http://www.michael-culture.fr IT http://michael-culture.it UK http://www.michael-culture.org.uk DE http://www.michael-portal.de FI http://www.michael-culture.fi …….

All other national portals of MICHAELplus partners + Bulgaria, Israel, Latvia, Slovakia are under testing and will be online soon

Achievements so far


http://www.michael-culture.fr/

http://michael-culture.it/

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

Cultural institutionscontributing to MICHAEL

• Ministries• Government and local agencies for

cultural heritage• Foundations• Research networks• Universities• Libraries• Archives• Museums

National surveys of digital collections reach thousands of cultural institutions at national, regional and local level.


Cross-domain approach

MICHAEL data model is suitable for describing digital collections belonging to every sector of cultural heritage and for recording related and context information:

– Institutions– Projects / programmes– Services / products– Physical collections

MICHAEL aimed since the beginning at giving integrated access to the whole European cultural heritage through the Internet


European Impact

Council Conclusions on the Digitisation and Online Accessibility of Cultural Material and Digital Preservation (2006/C 297/01)

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THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION […]THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION […]

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the work ongoing in the Michael and Michael Plusthe work ongoing in the Michael and Michael Plus

projects in describing and linking digital collections ofprojects in describing and linking digital collections of

museums, libraries and archives from different Membermuseums, libraries and archives from different Member

States and providing access to these collections…States and providing access to these collections…


National Impact

Integration with national programmes

FR: Integration with http://www.culture.fr, Collections portal (unique access point to the heritage data bases)

IT: Integration with the on-going Portal for the Italian Culture (http://www.culturaitalia.beniculturali.it)

UK: Linked initiatives• People’s Network Discover Service• 24 Hour Museum• Regional portals

and alsoGermany, Greece, Hungary, Estonia…

National impact

Involvement of cultural institutions

MICHAEL established a network of thousands of European cultural institutions:

• Large, medium and small• National, regional or local• Public and private• Every heritage sector (Museums, Libraries, Archives,

Catalogue and preservation offices, Education, Research institutes etc…)

Institutions and private organisations are now asking to contribute their data into MICHAEL

An example: MICHAEL-IT

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…)

Described so far in the system:Described so far in the system:

3444 digital collections3444 digital collections

1780 institutions1780 institutions

1950 services/products1950 services/products

1905 physical collections1905 physical collections

570 projects/programs570 projects/programs

MICHAEL-IT is an action line of the Italian Portal for Culture CulturaItalia


Coordination

• MiBAC

Cooperation

• Cooperation with the 20 Regions

• Cooperation with the Conference of the Rectors (CRUI)

• Agreement with the Ministry of the Education

Institutions involved

• More than 600 MiBAC cultural institutions (libraries, museums, archives, archaeological sites, preservation offices, central institutes)

• 20 Italian Regions: thousands of museums, libraries, archives

• Libraries and museums of the 77 Italian Universities

MICHAEL-IT organisational framework

Benefits

Benefits for ministries and local authoritiesMICHAEL proved to be a powerful tool for:• building a road-map of

digitisation of cultural heritage• planning digitisation initiatives and

monitoring digitisation programmes and

projects undertaken or funded by ministries

or local authorities• valorising results of digitisation

initiatives - integrating MICHAEL national instance into national aggregators

MICHAEL allows the discovery of digital resources

and fosters synergies between projects

Benefits for cultural institutions

Through MICHAEL a cultural institution can:• Reach wider audiences at national and international level• Inform users and promote access to their collections• Enhance their online profile and increase access to their collections• Manage collections and large groupings of objects• Plan further digitisation activities

Benefits


Benefits for the users

MICHAEL service allows users to access

information about digital cultural heritage coming from:

– all cultural sectors: archives, libraries, museums, heritage, audiovisual, landscape…

– cultural institutions of any kind: national, regional, local, large and small, public and private

on a multilingual basis, by subject, period, spatial coverage, by institution type or location, through full text search, etc…

Benefits


Benefits for Europeana

MICHAEL provides the European Digital Library with:– comprehensive, reliable and multilingual information – about thousands of digital collections from 20 countries– from all heritage sectors (archives, libraries, museums, monuments and archaeology…)

=> MICHAEL is the catalogue of Europeana

Benefits


MICHAEL beyond EC

CANADAISRAEL

South Eastern Europe

Contacts

Proposal of cooperation

Platform installation

Expression of interest

Cooperation with SEEDIRossella Caffo, MIBACWarsaw, 19 May 2008

Thanks for your attention !

Rossella CaffoMinistero per i beni e le attività culturali

[email protected]

http://www.michael-culture.org http://www.michael-europe.eu http://www.minervaeurope.org

mailto:[email protected]

Impact and benefits Rossella Caffo, Project Manager Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali Warsaw, 19 May 2008.

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