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http://www.michael-culture.org/ Maria Śliwińska, ICIMSS (Wisła November 9th 2006 Vision Launching a European online service (A European Culture Portal) to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience Europe’s cultural heritage • Digital content from museums, libraries, archives, galleries and other sources • 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 countries: – – – – – – – – – – – the Czech Republic Finland Germany Greece Hungary Malta the Netherlands Poland Portugal Spain Sweden MICHAEL Plus Partners 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 Spraw WiA 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 TECHNOLOGY USED • A production module allows• A publication module users to create, modify, import provides an intuitive and manage records that interface to enable enddescribe aspects of the digital users to search with their cultural heritage. All of these Web browser. This functions are available using a module uses an XML standard Web browser. Data search and display is stored using a powerful and engine, which can be flexible XML database, which customized to allow is based institutions to adapt the on the MICHAEL data model. interface to meet their particular needs. http://www.michael-culture.org/technology.html TECHNOLOGY USED • Open source software • eXIST an XML database • Apache Cocoon: an XML management system. infrastructure for complex Web The database can be applications. Cocoon provides accessed by different services such as a robust standard protocols, such catching mechanism, XSLT as WebDAV, XMLRPC transformations, a server-side and the xmldb protocol scripting environment and a flexible environment for directly from a Cocoon building Web forms, used for environment. data creation and modification; http://www.michael-culture.org/technology.html TECHNOLOGY USED • Xdepo: a Cocoon environment to manage data stored in an XML database using Web forms. Xdepo provides the link between Cocoon, eXist and the Web browser for the MICHAEL platform production module Using Java technologies, the MICHAEL platform can be deployed on wide variety of systems. http://www.michael-culture.org/technology.html • SDX: a search engine for large collections of XML documents. Based on the stable and largely used Apache Lucene search engine, SDX provides an easy tool to use API to build search and display services for XML documents, in a Cocoon environment. 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