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The MICHAEL project in the UK, France and Italy. Kate Fernie, Richard Blandin and Giuliana De Francesco. About us. MLA is the English lead strategic agency for the museums, libraries and archives sector and UK government advisor on digitisation - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The MICHAEL project in the UK, France and
Italy
Kate Fernie, Richard Blandin and Giuliana De Francesco
About us• MLA is the English lead strategic agency for the
museums, libraries and archives sector and UK government advisor on digitisation
• MCC is the French government ministry responsible for preserving and developing the cultural inheritance. Its remit ranges from encouraging creation of works of art to promoting access to culture and includes galleries, museums and heritage sites
• MiBAC is the Italian government ministry responsible for preservation of and access to cultural heritage and for promotion and enhancement of cultural activities, performing arts and sport. Its remit includes state museums and galleries, archaeological sites, built heritage, libraries, archives and the intangible heritage.
MICHAEL
Launching a European online service to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted
to a worldwide audience
The beginnings
MICHAEL project:• Funded by the eTEN programme• 36 months to June 2007• France, Italy and the UK
– 33 m euros National investment in digitisation – 3.3 m euros from the EU
• 3 national agencies and– Dédale, AJLSM and Amitié
Investing in digitisation
Since the 1990s:• France - State and local authority programmes
involving hundreds of cultural institutions in digitising their collections.
• Italy - MiBAC, regional and local organisations have invested in the digitisation of cultural collections from across the sectors
• UK - funding from various sources - NOF, Digitise, Renaissance in the Regions, Designation Challenge Fund, RSLP, AHRB and others – enabling digitisation of collections by museums, libraries, archives
Building a diverse digital offer
Revealing collections
• In the UK the 1997 Treasures in Trust report called for a way of recognising the richness and diversity of our collections Cornucopia catalogue of physical collections held
by museums and public libraries
• Similar catalogues in France and Italy
Digital collections
Shared need for retrieval tools:• MINERVA work on Inventories France “Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés”
– SDX platform
Building blocks for MICHAEL
MICHAEL
• A common approach for digital cultural heritage inventories
• A tool for revealing national digital offer • Support for multilingualism
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
• Sharing expertise to prepare system and user documentation
• National strategies for data collection underway
• Public interfaces about to be launched!
Progress
MICHAEL in France
Key dates
2001 Creation of the Catalogue
of digital cultural collections
2004 Start of MICHAEL
2005 New version of the data base
and public interface
Some facts about the French catalogue
Records • 394 institutions• 956 collections• 134 services
User statistics 10-12,000 visits per month200-300,000 pages views per month
Institutions by type
Collections by type of institutions
Main type of digitized documents
Patrimoine numériquewww.numerique.culture.fr
New web sites
Place
Showcase
Professional space
News
Dossiers
MICHAEL in Italy
MiBAC is coordinating national activities and implementing the platform in partnership with CASPUR
No comprehensive inventory of digital collections A varied landscape:
– Several dispersed data bases online and offline describing institutions, digital and physical collections
– Several unpublished data based on local surveys and census
MICHAEL offers the opportunity to give unique public access to all this data
Sharing data
We will share data with ongoing initiatives including:• Internet Culturale
– Digital collections belonging to State libraries• Anagrafe delle biblioteche italiane
– 15,000 libraries• Anagrafe degli archivi
– 137 State Archives (SIAS)– Non-State archives (SIUSA)
Next steps
Migrating data from existing data bases• Archaeology DC survey (about 100 digital
collections belonging to Archaeology Offices)
Integrating MICHAEL into national initiatives underway
• National Archival Service (SAN) • Italian Culture Portal
– www.culturaitalia.it
Populating the system
Bringing together three separate domains:• regions, universities and ministry institutions
Tools: bilateral agreements and partnerships.– Survey existing inventories and digital collections all
over Italy– Enter new data into the MICHAEL system– Update data regularly
Italian Regions
Regions and MiBAC share responsibilities on preserving, cataloguing and enhancing the local heritage
• 10 Regions are submitting projects:– describing digital
collections belonging to cultural institutions on their territory from January 2006
• All 20 Regions will be involved later
CRUI is in charge of university libraries and museums census and provides expertise and support
Ministry of Education, University and Research will ensure dissemination of MICHAEL for educational purposes
Universities
77 public and private Universities with both museums and libraries
Ministry institutions
• 420 museums, monuments and archaeological sites
• 134 archives and sections• 47 libraries
Significant investments in digitisation over the last 10 years;
All digital collections funded by MiBAC will be described in MICHAEL by the end of 2006
MICHAEL in Italy
Technical Advisory Group• Made up of experts and professionals
from the three sectors involved• Currently dealing with:
– IT Manual for Collection Description– Public interface: functional requirements
and design– Terminology
MICHAEL-IT: Access
Public interface: a first draft
MICHAEL in the UK
Resource discovery?
MICHAEL in the UK
http://www.michael-culture.org.uk
Information services
• UK-wide database– Implementing standards and agreed vocabularies– Working with partners– Welsh language interface
• Multiple information services – UK-wide– Regional, subject specialist views– Libraries, archives, museums views – European services
MICHAEL in Europe
Content harvested from France, Italy and the UK
Support for multiple languages
Gives users easy and quick access to content from trusted sources
Future expansion...
Any questions?
http://www.michael-culture.org/