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Launching a European online service to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted
to a worldwide audience
Europe’s cultural heritage
• Digital content from museums, libraries and archives
• from across Europe • accessible in multiple languages• for people to use and enjoy
Investing in digitisation
Since the 1990s:• Across Europe State and local authority
programmes invested in the digitisation of cultural collections from across the sectors, involving thousands of cultural institutions and private organisations.
• Identified the need for a way of promoting access to the richness and diversity of our collections
Building a diverse digital offer
Revealing collections
• MINERVA WP3 work on inventories lead to– Specifications for inventories of digitised contentSpecifications for inventories of digitised content– Agreed by NRGAgreed by NRG– Based on international standards and main inventory Based on international standards and main inventory
projects across Europeprojects across Europe
Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés in France and the SDX platform
MICHAEL project - beginnings
MICHAEL project:• Funded by the eTEN programme• Began June 2004• France, Italy and the UK
– 33 m euros National investment in digitisation – 3.3 m euros from the EU
• Ministries of Culture in France and Italy• Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK with• Dédale, Amitié and AJLSM
MICHAEL Plus
• eTEN funding• Extends MICHAEL to 11
new countries• 32 partners• 24 months• Started 1st June 2006
MICHAEL Plus
• MICHAELplus partner countries: – the Czech Republic– Finland– Germany – Greece– Hungary– Malta– the Netherlands– Poland– Portugal– Spain– Sweden
MICHAEL Plus Partners Belgium: Menon Czech Republic: Ministerstvo Kultury Finland: Helsinki University UH.HUL Finland: Kansallisarkisto Finland: Museovirasto Germany: SPK Germany: Bundesarchiv Germany: Bayerische SB Germany: Deusche Nationalbibliothek Germany: Deutsches Museum Germany: Landesarchiv BW Germany: Senckenbergische Gesellsch. Greece: ICCS-NTUA Greece: Elliniko Ypourgeio Politismou Hungary: Nemzeti Kulturális Örökség
Minisztériuma Hungary: Informatikai és Hírközlési
Minisztérium
Hungary: Neumann Italy: IBACN Malta: Heritage Malta Malta: Across Limits Netherlands: Ministerie van
Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap Netherlands: Koninklijke Bibliotheek Poland: Ministerstwo WA Poland: ICIMSS Portugal: MC Segretaria-Geral Spain: Biblioteca Nacional de España Sweden: Uppsala University
UK: MLA France: MCC France: Dédale Italy: MiBAC Italy: Amitié
MICHAEL
• A common approach for digital cultural heritage inventories
• A tool for revealing digital collections • Supports multilingualism• Project’s website: http://www.michael-culture.org
A distributed platform
• Open source software• National instances with
national databases • Sharing metadata to
contribute to European services
http://www.michael-culture.org/technology.html
• Implementations in France, Italy and the UK
• National strategies for data collection underway
• Public interfaces now being launched!
• Implemention started in the 11 MICHAELplus countries
Progress
• Prototype of the European service to be launched at MICHAEL international conference (Rome, December 4th-5th 2006)
European Services
• Content will be harvested from each of the 14 partner countries
• A simple search interface
• Supports multiple languages
• Gives easy and quick access to content from trusted sources
New opportunities
• MICHAEL services will open up access to the digital cultural heritage for people– in their homes – in schools, colleges and universities– in public libraries and online centres
Diversity and accessCase studies
• Using MICHAEL a teacher will be able to – access a rich diversity of cultural heritage
resources from across Europe– use online resources in the curriculum– promote cultural diversity and– increase digital skills and competences of
children in the class
Diversity and accessCase studies
• Through MICHAEL a mother will be able to – plan a visit to a museum– finding offline resources – to enjoy with her child– promoting learning
Diversity and accessCase studies
• Using MICHAEL a tourist is able to – learn about places online– plan an itinerary for her holiday and– to learn more when she returns home