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Kate FernieKate Fernie
MLA
MLA is the national development agency for museums, libraries and archives
– advises government on policy and priorities for the sector– provides strategic leadership– acts as a powerful advocate– develops capacity– promotes innovation and change.
MICHAEL project
Launching a European online service to enable the digital cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience
http://www.michael-culture.org/index.html
• 36 month project– 1 June 2004 to 31 May 2007
• Consortium – 3 National organisations in Italy, France, UK – 2 technical partners in Italy and France– I technical sub-contractor in France
• Funded by the eTen programme– supports deployment of services– contributes 10% of national investment in
digitisation
Basic Facts
• Big investment inBig investment in digitisation across Europe• Need to support resource discovery for
• Public and professional users• Funding bodies
• Need to build services• Cross domain• Across administrative regions
Why?
• Agreeing a common approach for digital cultural heritage inventories
• Implementing a distributed platform based on open source software
• Supporting multi-lingualism• Building the infrastructure for sustainability
Project aims
MICHAEL builds on:
• work by the MINERVA working groups on inventories, discovery of digitised content and multilingualism
• Work by UKOLN on RSLP, DC & MINERVA
• The technical platform of the French Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés
Background
Technical platform
• Developed for French inventory– XML database & SDX platform +– Apache cocoon, Java +
OAI PMH Open Source software
Standards
• RSLP:– Developed a metadata schema for recording
collections for the funding programme
• MINERVA:– Inventories of digitisation projects EU wide– Based on the RSLP schema
MICHAEL data model
DCMI Collections– international standardisation
MINERVA model
Project Digital Collections
Institution
makes
Service /
Product
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creates access
Programme Physical collection
Model of content creation
MICHAEL model
Model for resource discovery• Five entities:
– Digital collections– Services/products – Institutions– Projects and/or programmes– Physical collections
What is a digital collection?
A grouping of electronic items. Collections may be real or virtual, permanent or temporary and of any size. Catalogues, indexes and finding–aids are also types of collection. Some examples:
• The Gutenberg Project (a collection of digital text files of out-of-copyright monographs available for downloading)
• Tate Gallery Image Collection (a collection of digitised images)
• RDN subject gateway (a subject-based virtual collection of internet resources)
Digital collection• Identifier• Title, Description• Language• Digital format, digital type• Size, accrual• Legal status• Access control• Subject, period, culture,
spatial coverage, famous people/place/event/item
• Illustrations• Relations to services,
physical collections, institutions or projects
What is a service/ product?
A service (or product) is a point of access to a digital collection. It may consist of an online or an offline service or it may consist of a packaged product that presents all or part of one or more collections. Some examples:
• a web-site that provides access to a database• an application that enables users to select and order
copies from a collection on demand• an electronic learning resource• a machine-to-machine service
Service/Product
• Identifier• Title, description• Language, audience• Maintenance• Legal status• Access type• Accessibility, WAI, access
conditions• Access location, location
descriptor• Technical requirements,
technical-description, protocol• Relations to institutions, digital
collections
The UK picture
• UK context– Projects and programmes past and present– Common Information Environment Group – Sharing results– Developing virtual services
The Big Picture
Range of content types enabled through technical interoperation and managed relationships
People’s Network Service
Discovery
EnquiryReadingPeople’s Network Website
MICHAELCornucopia
Sense of Place resources
Referencematerial
eLearningCommunity Information
eGovernmentLibrary
Catalogues
Other portal services
a set of public-facing services, collaboratively developed by public libraries to support people’s online needs
Making it work
• Supporting content creation• Sharing and harvesting metadata Encouraging projects to use MICHAEL /
Cornucopia Mappings of MICHAEL model
• RSLP• JISC IESR• IEEE(Lom)
ProjectInstitution
(Agent)
DigitalCollection
owns
Institution(Location)
administers
collects
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is-derived-from
Serviceis-made-available-by
administers
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is-part-of
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PhysicalCollection
Programme
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collects
RSLP mapping
Differences:
• Projects
• Institutions both agents and locations
• Service/products add:– Details to support human access to electronic
services (audience, accessibility, language)– Details to support machine-to-machine access
to electronic services (protocol +)
IESR mapping
JISC Information Environment Service Registry is designed to be a machine-oriented application
• Some MICHAEL service/products are outside its scope
• Output format (now added)• iesr:interface property:
– Z39.50 target provides a Zeerex description– SOAP-based service provides a WSDL description– SRW/U service properties provides both a Zeerex
description and a WSDL description
IEEE (Lom)
Next step!
• Issues:– Specific terminology (Curriculum Online)– Can we reuse the metadata?
And then there’s Europe….
European picture
Multilingual terminology
• Language• Digital type• Digital format• Spatial coverage (Country etc)• Period• Subject• Institution type• Project status• Access type• Access conditions• Audience• WAI• Protocol
Expansion!• MICHAEL+ is currently
under evaluation:– Hungary, Greece,
Finland, Germany, Czech Republic, Malta, the Netherlands and Poland
• LIGHT project underway:– Regional inventories in
Portugal, Denmark, Greece, Hungary and Italy
