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Digital libraries andculture portals
Rossella Caffo - MiBACCoordinator of the MICHAEL and MINERVA eC projects
March 27, 2007 Rossella Caffo
A digital library is…
…a space where digital collections, services and users meet.
All these elements contribute to the whole life-cycle of the creation, use and preservation of data, information and knowledge.
The culture portals can play a key role to give access to heterogeneous digital cultural information
and organise the knowledge
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Which kind of content?
The ongoing initiative of the European Digital Library will consider
not only the digitised material of the libraries
but the whole range of digital cultural objects hold by libraries, archives, museums, administration offices, research institutes, at local and national level.
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Structure
The European Digital Library should:
• have a distributed architecture
• be based on international standards and guidelines shared at European level
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The role of MINERVA and
MICHAELInteroperability among all the sectors of CH
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What MINERVA did…
The MINERVA network (www.minervaeurope.org) elaborated guidelines and recommendations shared by the EU Member States for the digitisation of the cultural heritage and its on line access.
Topics tackled:• Interoperability of the content• Quality of the cultural web sites• Cost reduction in digitisation• Multilingualism• IPR issues
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…and what is still doing
MINERVA eC started on 1° October 2006.It gathers the culture ministries of 20 EU countries.It will:• improve accessibility to and visibility of European
digital cultural resources;• support the development of the European Digital
Library for accessing cultural resources;• contribute to increasing interoperability between
existing networks;• facilitate the exploitation of cultural digital
resources, providing clear rules for their use and re-use, respecting and protecting the creators’ rights.
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Workplan
MinervaEC correlated its priorities to the Conclusions of the Council, in order to align the agenda of MinervaEC with TEL/EDL, MICHAEL/MICHAEL Plus and the other initiatives in the sector:
– to work towards the integration of libraries, museums and archives
– to address: IPR, interoperability and multilingualism
– to share good practices– to reinforce coordination within and between
MS – to contribute to the overview of progress
through the publication of the Minerva Annual Reports
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ActivitiesWorkshops and seminars on:• MINERVA tools for digitisation of cultural heritage• Quality of cultural websites
Handbooks, guidelines and studies:• IPR guidelines• Digitisation Guidelines• Study on user needs• Report on content interoperability• European directory of the websites regulatory framework• Map of the cultural heritage in Europe• Annual digitisation report• MINERVA award for "Best practice in cultural heritage websites"
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MINERVAfor the digital libraries
MINERVA eC is expected to contribute in stimulating decision makers and implementers in:
• carrying out their initiatives of content enrichment• creating the conditions to improve the quality of
content and services• enhancing interoperability and accessibility of digital
content
MICHAEL and MICHAEL plus are examples of the implementation of the MINERVA results.
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MICHAEL
1 year later
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MICHAEL andthe European Digital Library
13 November 2006Bruxelles, Council of the Ministers of CUlture
Adoption of the text “Digitisation and Online Accessibility of Cultural Material, and Digital Preservation”.Two are the main bricks to build up the European
Digital Library: • CENL and the service “The European Library” that gives access to
the digital content of the national libraries• MICHAEL and the European service that gives access to the digital
cultural collections of all sectors
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What MICHAEL is
MICHAEL is a multilingual service providing an
integrated and unique access to European
digital cultural collections on a cross
domain basis.
http://www.michael-culture.org/
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The MICHAEL service allows to search and browse digital cultural information coming from:
– all the CH sectors: archives, libraries, museums, heritage, audiovisual, landscape…
– all kind of cultural institution: national, regional, local, large and small, public and private…
The MICHAEL data model is thought for describing the digital collections of all fields and for the related information: institutions, projects or programmes, services or products and physical collections.
A cross-domain initiative
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Phase 2, MICHAELplus (2006-8):• Czech Republic• Finland• France• Germany• Greece• Hungary• Italy• Malta• the Netherlands• Poland• Portugal• Spain• Sweden• United Kingdom
Ministries and cultural institutions of 14 countries
Partners
Phase 1, MICHAEL (2004-7):
• Italy (coordinator)
• France
• United Kingdom
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• an open source software platform• MINERVA recommendations and guidelines• data model aligned to the Dublin Core metadata
set and the emerging Dublin Core Collection Level Description.
• XML data base• metadata harvesting through OAI-PMH
Standards
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A distributed architecture
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Activities
• Population of the national databases– description of the collections– migration of the existing data
• Creation of the national portals
• Creation of the European portal– metadata harvesting from the national
databases
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The European MICHAEL portal is on line at http://www.michael-culture.orgMore than 3,000 digital collections from FR, IT, UK inside!
The national systems are on line and constantly updated and enriched with new data.
FR http://www.michael-culture.fr or http://www.numerique.culture.fr
IT http://michael-culture.it UK http://www.michael-culture.org.uk
The achievements so far
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The survey of the digital collections in the participating countries:
• covers the whole territory(national and local cultural bodies)
• includes all the CH sectors(archives, libraries, museums, audiovisual, archeology, built heritage, landscape…)
• is integrated with the other national initiatives
(culture portals, national, regional, digitisation programmes etc.)
The ongoing work
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The AISBL “MICHAEL Culture” is under creation
according to the Belgian law to assure
the sustainability of the service and the updating of the data in a long term perspective
The promoters are:
MCC (France) and MiBAC (Italy)
All the countries that are partners of MICHAEL
are invited to join MICHAEL Culture
Sustainability
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The description of the digital collections is useful for:
• reaching wider audiences at national and international level
• promoting the cultural institutions• informing users about the collections that
they own and promoting the access to them• building a road-map of what’s on in the field
of the digitisation of the cultural heritage
Benefits forthe cultural institutions
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Describing the digital collections is useful for:
• increasing the online profile of an institution– the collection-description level is the most suitable level to
reach the information since the most used search engines often don’t reach the level of item-description in a data base.
• Managing the collections– The item-level descriptions are not replaceable, the
Collection Description is a useful way of managing large groupings of objects, mainly with large numbers of very small items or large volumes of data.
Other benefits
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MICHAEL gives the possibility to discover, access and browse the digital collections of the participating countries from a unique point of access.– on a multilingual basis– by subject, period, spatial coverage…– by institution type or location– through full text search– etc.
Services for the users
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• Increasing the number of the cultural institutions
• Involvement of the missing EU countries• Cooperation with non-EU countries• Cooperation with other initiatives and
projects: MINERVA eC, DELOS, Epoch, BRICKS, PrestoSpace, Multimatch
• Cooperation with CENL initiatives (Tel and EDLnet)
Enlargement
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MICHAEL involves all the Cultural Heritage sectors and the largest number of institutions (national and local, large and small)
MICHAEL can be considered as the registry of the European Digital Library
MICHAEL is a service for accessing
European digital cultural content
Contributions to the European Digital Library
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Thanks for your [email protected]
The MINERVA project web sitehttp://www.minervaeurope.org
The MICHAEL project web sitehttp://www.michael-culture.eu
The MICHAEL European portalhttp://www.michael-culture.org