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National and international initiatives of
the Italian Ministry of Culture
for the digitisation of cultural heritage
Rossella Caffo
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
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Table of content
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The MINERVA network
MICHAEL
MEDCULT
The Italian Culture Portal CulturaItalia
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The Ministry’s efforts
Since 2002 coordination of European projects:
MINERVA, MINERVA plus, MINERVAeC, MICHAEL,
MICHAEL plus, MEDCULT.
Objectives
• promoting knowledge, valorisation and preservation
of the cultural digital resources;
• fostering the on line accessibility;
• encouraging the adoption of shared standards and
guidelines on digitisation;
• developing services for the users;
• contributing to the European Digital Library.
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The MINERVA network
www.minervaeurope.org
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What MINERVA did…
The MINERVA network (2002-2006) elaborated guidelines and
recommendations shared by the EU Member States for the
digitisation of the cultural heritage and the on line accessibility.
Added value: bottom up approach, all cultural fields involved.
Products:
• Good practices handbook
• Digitisation guidelines
• Quality tools for cultural web sites (handbooks, Museo&Web)
• Cost reduction in digitisation handbook
• Multilingualism report
• IPR report
• Progress Report
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…and what it is still doing
MINERVA eC started on 1° October 2006.
It gathers the culture ministries of 20 EU countries.
MINERVA eC follows the same approach of the previous projects,
MINERVA and MINERVAplus:
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tight coordination with the national digitisation policies;
implementation of the achieved results into new initiatives (e.g.,
MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus, MEDCULT, the Italian Culture Portal);
involvement of experts of all the cultural fields;
cooperation with other European thematic networks;
supporting the development of the European Digital Library for
accessing cultural resources;
monitoring progresses through the publication of an annual report.
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Activities
Workshops and seminars on:
• MINERVA tools for digitisation of cultural heritage
• Quality of cultural websites
Handbooks, guidelines and studies:
• IPR guidelines
• Digitisation Guidelines updating
• Study on user needs of cultural web sites
• Report on content interoperability
• European directory of the websites regulatory
framework
• Map of the cultural heritage in Europe
• Annual digitisation report
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MINERVA
for the digital libraries
MINERVA eC is expected to contribute in
stimulating decision makers and
implementers in:
• using international standards;
• adopting the MINERVA guidleines, shared at
European level;
• enhancing interoperability and accessibility
of digital content;
• creating the conditions to improve the
quality of content and services.
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MICHAEL
www.michael-culture.eu
www.michael-culture.org
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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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MICHAEL is an example of
the implementation of the
MINERVA results
Phase 1,
MICHAEL
(2004-7):
• Italy
• France
• United
Kingdom
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Phase 2, MICHAELplus
(2006-8):
• Belgium
• Bulgaria
• Czech Republic
• Estonia
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Italy (coordinator)
• Malta
• the Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Slovak Republic
• Spain
• Sweden
• United Kingdom
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Partners
1 country
> 1 national portal
Cross domain approach
Search and browse in:
– all the cultural fields
archives, libraries, museums, audiovisual,
landscape…
– all kind of cultural institutions
national, regional, local, small and large,public and
private…
The MICHAEL data model was suitably conceived to
describe digital collections and the related
information:
institutions, projects or programmes, services or
products, physical collections.
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The achievements so far
The European MICHAEL portal is on line at
http://www.michael-culture.org
More than 5,000 digital collections from FR, IT, UK inside!
The digital collections groups millions of records.
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 national portals of DE, GR, NL, PL, PT are under construction.
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The registry
2007
ofEVA-Jerusalem
the
European
Digital Library
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MEDCULT
www.medcult.org
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MEDCULT
May 2005:
MEDCULT project approved by UNESCO-IFAP for funding, to spread
MINERVA products through Mediterranean Arab countries.
December 2005:
MEDCULT kick-off in Rome
General scope:
promoting information literacy, through capacity building particularly for information
professionals
In particular:
• To translate and diffuse among partners the MINERVA criteria for a quality web
communication of the cultural heritage
• To organised workshops over the countries involved for experts of both cultural
and education sectors
• To set up a replicable model of workshop
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Partners
• Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, MiBAC (ITALY,
coordinator)
• Fondation Maison des Science de l'Homme, Coordinator of the
STRABON network (FRANCE)
• Ministère de la culture, Centre Multimédia d'inventaire et de
documentation du patrimoine (MOROCCO)
• CultNat, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EGYPT)
• Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Department of Antiquities
(JORDAN)
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Activities
• Translation into Arab of the Cultural web sites
quality principles
• Translation into Arab of the publication “Quality
Principles for cultural Web sites, a handbook”
• Application of Museo&Web, the kit for planning
quality cultural web sites
• Workshops:
– December 2005, kick off in Rome (Italy)
– April 2006, Alexandria (Egypt)
– May 2006, Rabat (Morocco)
– December 2006, Amman (Jordan)
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The Italian Culture Portal
www.culturaitalia.it
(coming soon!)
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CulturaItalia is an integrated point of access
that valorises the Italian cultural heritage and
facilitates the access to the resources.
It is an interdisciplinary tool that foreseen the
involvement of all the CH sectors.
CulturaItalia is the Italian contribution to the
European Digital Library.
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Mission
• To communicate the various aspects of the Italian
culture (heritage, landscape, cinema, music,
literature etc.)
• To create a unique and integrated point of access
for the Italian cultural heritage
• To bring out the digital cultural content and make it
visible to a wide public
• To increase the production of digitised content
• To foster the development of services for tourism
• To contribute to the building process of the
European Digital Library
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Strategy
1. Tight cooperation among:
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the public and private sectors
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museum, libraries, archives, preservation and administrative
offices
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national, regional and local institutions
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universities and other ministries
2. Integration with other initiatives and projects:
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National and local portals
CulturaItalia is based on the MINERVA and MICHAEL
recommendations, guidelines, results.
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Standards
According the most used international
standards, CulturaItalia is based on:
• protocol for Metadata Harvesting Open Archive Initiative (OAI-PMH)
• Dublin Core (DCMI) for the metadata
description
• HTTP protocol for data transfer
• XML for data representation
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Content
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Catalogue of metadata
Editorial content
Cultural web sites, selected
and organised by the editorial
staff
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The metadata
CulturaItalia doesn’t duplicate the data.
CulturaItalia gathers metadata coming from different
providers:
• ministry’s institutions
• private institutions
• local institutions
• universities
Each provider holds the rights of the digital objects
shown through the portal and is responsible for
their maintenance and updating.
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Application profile
CulturaItalia organizes in a unique index (meta)data
harvested from many metadata repositories.
A specific AP based on Dublin Core has been adopted
as metadata standard, as the most used
internationally.
It describes the resources of all the CH.
The aim is to describe with metadata not only digital
resources, but also tangible cultural heritage, people
(artists, authors), institutions (museums, libraries,
etc.).
Metadata describes the resources at item level.
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Browse the index:
who
what
where when
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Work flow
CulturaItalia will increase its providers in
progress.
The current work is:
1. Define agreements with public or private
partners, invited to join the project
2. Identify data-bases to be harvested
3. Define the level of publication of data
through the portal
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Work flow
4. If data are provided with DC metadata they
can be harvested directly;
5. otherwise a mapping between PICO AP and
the data model of the databases must be
defined
6. The provider must install on its servers a
OAI-PMH repository (MiBAC can provide
“ready-to-use” technical solutions)
7. The provider must create a script to
generate XML metadata record, exporting
values from the data bases.
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Keywords
MINERVA
coordination and standards
MICHAEL
catalogue of the digital
European collections
CulturaItalia
application of international
standards and MINERVA and
MICHAEL inputs
coordination action
in the Mediterranean area
MEDCULT
http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/
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Possible synergies towards the
Mediterranean Digital Library
UNESCO’s World Digital Library project
http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/
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Contacts
Rossella Caffo
[email protected]
Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali
www.minervaeurope.org
www.michael-culture.eu
www.culturaitalia.it
www.medcult.org
www.otebac.it
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