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An introduction to the MIMO project.
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Bringing European Musical
Instrument Museums’Collections Online
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ELEMENTS
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• Background to the MIMO project, its birth and chronology• Aims & Objectives of MIMO• Project Partners • Budget & Timescale• Main Outputs and Deliverables• The reason for MIMO and why it is necessary• The Work Packages and Description of Work• How we will do it, or who does what• What can you do to help and where you can watch our
developments (MIMO website)
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AIM
Single Access Point to Digital Content and information on key collections of
Musical Instruments held in European Museums
Harvested into EUROPEANA from home databases
Improved Multilingual Access via dictionaries
Controlled vocabularies and classification
EnglishDutchItalianFrenchGermanSwedish
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MIMO PARTNERS
• University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK (lead partner)• Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nürnberg, Deutschland• University of Leipzig, Museum für Musikinstrumente, Deutschland• Africamuseum, Tervuren, België• Associazione “Amici del Museo degli Strumenti Musicali” Firenze, Italia• Cité de la Musique, Paris, France• Musical Instrument Museum, Brussels, België• Università degli Studi di Firenze, Italia• Horniman Museum, London, UK• Siftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz Ethnologisches Museum, Berlin, Deutschland• The Stockholm Music Museum, Sverige
Associate Partners: • Musikmuseet, Copenhagen (Denmark) • Technisches Museum, Wien (Austria) • Pokrajinski Muzej, Ptuj (Slovenia)• Palais Lascaris-Musée de la Musique de Nice, (France)
The Consortium
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2 years / 24 months
(1 September 2009 to 31 August 2011)
3,231,998 Euros
(50% from E.C. eContentplus. Rest from partner contributions)
Timescale & Budget
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How Will It Work?
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Project activity is split into 6 work packages
1. Digitisation
2. OAI Harvesting, database development and EUROPEANA Interoperability
3. Thesauri and Classification
4. Project Management
5. Assessment and Evaluation
6. Dissemination
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WP1 – Digitisation
• 45,000 images
• 1,750 digital sound files
• 300 video clips
Need to develop standards
Establish methodology
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WP2 - OAI Harvesting, database development and EUROPEANA Interoperability
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Europeana
The aim of Europeana is to provide access to over 10 million digital items from Europe's rich cultural and scientific heritage by 2010.
• Images - paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects • Texts - books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers • Sounds - music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts • Videos - films, newsreels and TV broadcasts
Some of these are world famous, others are hidden treasures from Europe's
• museums and galleries • archives • libraries • audio-visual collections
Europeana was started by the European Commission in 2005 as part of the European Information Society i2010 Initiative, which aims to foster growth and jobs in the information society and media industries.
For more information see - http://version1.europeana.eu
WP3 - Thesauri and Classification
• Define a simplified model for classification
• The creation of an English and French hierarchic dictionary and a list of instruments’ names and synonyms.
• Translate English and French dictionaries into German, Italian, Dutch and Swedish.
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• WP4 - Project Management• WP5 - Assessment and Evaluation• WP6 - Dissemination
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www.mimo-project.eu
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watch this space…
