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http://www.michael-culture.org/
Vision
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 content
– Agreed by NRG
– Based on international standards and main inventory
projects 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
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the Czech Republic
Finland
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Malta
the Netherlands
Poland
Portugal
Spain
Sweden
MICHAEL Plus Partners
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Belgium: Menon
 Hungary: Neumann
Czech Republic: Ministerstvo Kultury  Italy: IBACN
Finland: Helsinki University UH.HUL
 Malta: Heritage Malta
Finland: Kansallisarkisto
 Malta: Across Limits
Finland: Museovirasto
 Netherlands: Ministerie van
Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap
Germany: SPK
 Netherlands: Koninklijke Bibliotheek
Germany: Bundesarchiv
 Poland: Ministerstwo WA
Germany: Bayerische SB
Germany: Deusche Nationalbibliothek  Poland: ICIMSS
 Portugal: MC Segretaria-Geral
Germany: Deutsches Museum
 Spain: Biblioteca Nacional de España
Germany: Landesarchiv BW
 Sweden: Uppsala University
Germany: Senckenbergische Gesellsch.
Greece: ICCS-NTUA
 UK: MLA
Greece: Elliniko Ypourgeio Politismou  France: MCC
Hungary: Nemzeti Kulturális Örökség  France: Dédale
Minisztériuma
 Italy: MiBAC
 Hungary: Informatikai és Hírközlési
 Italy: Amitié
Minisztérium
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
Progress
• 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
• Prototype of the European service to be launched at
MICHAEL international conference (Rome, December 4th5th 2006)
MICHAEL
International Conference
“Museums,
Libraries
and
Archives
Online” Rome,
December
4th-5th
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 access
Case 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 access
Case 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 access
Case 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