Michael contribution to national and European strategies EVA Florence - 18 April 2008 MINERVA and MICHAEL fostering access to digital cultural and scientific heritage: the prospects for the future
Feb 25, 2016
Michael contribution to national and European strategies
EVA Florence - 18 April 2008
MINERVA and MICHAEL fostering access to digital cultural and scientific heritage: the prospects for the future
Enabling Michael service and network to be maintained and
developed at national, European and
international levels
Vision
National investmentsin Digitisation
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 conditions to bring together their digitised resources : NRG and best practice network MINERVA
• They identified the need for a way of promoting access to the richness and diversity of our collections
Bridging a diverse digital offer
MICHAEL project:• Funded by the eTEN programme• Beginning in June 2004• Ministries of Culture in France and Italy• Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK with• Dédale, Amitié
and AJLSM, as technical partners
MICHAEL
MICHAEL+ extends MICHAEL to 17 new countries: • Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic,
Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden
• more than 30 partners
Today
Revealing Collections
MICHAEL fulfils the need for promoting on line access to the richness and diversity of cultural collections.
A European portal giving access to national databasesthrough periodical harvesting
The MICHAEL Service
A common approach for digital cultural heritage inventories
A tool for revealing digital collections
Supports multilingualism
http://www.michael-culture.org
A distributed platform
Open source software
National instances with national databases
Sharing metadata to contribute to European services
FR
UK
IT
etc
1370 digital collections510 institutions210 services-products
2720 digital collections1120 institutions1440 services/products1520 physical collections423 projects/programs
766 digital collections616 services321 projects306 institutions
National Portals
Michael in the heart of national strategies
Benefits for ministries and local authoritiesMICHAEL proved to be a powerful tool for:• Building a road-map of the field of
digitisation of cultural heritage• Planning and monitoring digitisation
programmes undertaken or funded by ministries or local authorities
• valorising to the public their digitisationinitiatives - integrating MICHAEL national instance in national aggregators
MICHAEL allows the discovery of digitised resources and fosters synergies between projects
Benefits for cultural institutions
Through MICHAEL cultural institutions can:• Reach wider audiences at national and international level• Inform users and promote access to their collections• Increase their online profile and promote activities• Manage collections and large
groupings of objects• Plan further digitisation activities
Michael in the heart of national strategies
Benefits for the users
MICHAEL service allows to access information on 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
Michael in the heart of national strategies
Common access to heritage : an example of national strategy Portal Collections.fr is part of Culture.frIt gives unified to more than 30 heritage resources and
databases created by French ministry of culture, major cultural institutions and local authorities from all sectors (archives, libraries, museums, museums, archaeology)
Item level : 3 million descriptions, 2 million digitised objects directly available - national digitisation plan
Collection level : French Michael instance (1.370 collections from more than 500 institutions), archives databases...
Michael in the heart of national strategies
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European serviceMichael
Content harvested from each of the 20 partner countries
A simple search interface
Gives easy and quick access to organised content from trusted sources
Supports multiple languages
A European cross-domain network
MICHAEL Culture association was created in July 2007 under the Belgian law : AISBL (Association internationale
sans but lucratif) to ensure MICHAEL sustainability
MICHAEL Culture association members are mainly cross-domain organisations (State agencies, ministries) from all over Europe
MICHAEL Culture association is part of the EDLnet project and is a founding member of the EDL Foundation
What is the European Digital Library ?-> a “flagship initiative” - supported by the Commission( i2010 strategy - recommendation Aug. 2006)- and the Member states (council conclusions - Nov. 2006)-> a common multilingual access point to Europe’s digitised cultural heritage (archives, libraries, museums, audio-visual)-> prototype EUROPEANA under development by EDLnet project to be launched in Nov. 2008-> access to 2 million objects in 2008, 6 million in 2010
http://www.europeana.eu/
Michael in the heart of European strategies
Involvement in the European Digital Library process
MICHAEL Culture has been recognised as one of the major stakeholders in the field of access to digitised cultural heritage
It participates to the ongoing process of building the European digital library :
- EDLnet project (eContent+ / 2007-2009), as a Member
- Participation as a Founder and member of the executive committee of the “foundation for the European Digital Library” : (created November 2007)
Michael in the heart of European strategies
Europeana network
Based on the diagram presented by E. Niggemann, chair of EDL Foundation - MSEG - Luxembourg - 13/12/2007
Europeana
National Aggregator
ACE
Film Archive X
Eurbica National
Archive 1
MICHAEL
TEL
NL 1 NL 2 NL 3
Museum X
Archive X
National Archive 2
Film Archive 1National Archive 3
Library X
Museum A Archive A Library A
National cross-domain organisation 2
National cross-domain organisation 1
Film Archive 2
Benefits for the European Digital Library (1/2)
MICHAEL feeds the European Digital Library with :– comprehensive, reliable and multilingual information – about digital collections from 20 countries in Europe – from all heritage sectors (archives, libraries, museums, monuments and archaeology…)
=> the “catalogue” of Europeana
Michael in the heart of European strategies
MICHAEL feeds the European Digital Library with :– easily integrated material based on a common datamodel, multilingual vocabularies and havestable through an OAI repository :
=> collection level in complement to item level in Europeana
– a cross-domain network of public organisations represented through a single body (Michael Culture association) :
=> stakeholder commitment
Michael in the heart of European strategies
Benefits for the European Digital Library (2/2)
Find digital resources created by museums, libraries and archives in Europe
http://www.michael-culture.org