Impact and benefits Rossella Caffo, Project Manager Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali Warsaw, 19 May 2008
Jan 19, 2016
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
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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
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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
MICHAEL
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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 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…
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
http://www.michael-culture.org http://www.michael-europe.eu http://www.minervaeurope.org