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MICHAEL: a network of portals
promoting online access
to digital culture
Giuliana De Francesco
Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali
[email protected]
The third SEEDI International Conference:
Digitization of cultural and scientific heritage,
Cetinje, Montenegro, September 13-15, 2007
South-EasternIIIEuropean
Digitization
Initiative
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MICHAEL
Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe
Objective:
Launching a European
online service to enable
European cultural
heritage to be promoted
to a worldwide audience
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MICHAEL vision
Connecting people to collections
from museums, libraries, archives,
any cultural and scientific
organisation across Europe
St John’s College
Cambridge:
Manuscript
collection
Susan teaches music
in a primary school
Play burmese
musical
instruments online:
Museums Open
Learning Initiative
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MICHAEL vision
The MICHAEL vision (2003-4):
– To give visibility and make available the richness of
the European Cultural legacy
– To provide a single high level access point to the
whole European cultural and scientific heritage
through the Internet
– To allow access to all sectors of society, including the
young, the elderly, the disadvantaged, the educated,
the serious researcher and the ‘merely interested’;
MICHAEL project was seen as a first step to unlocking the
digital items held in databases from across Europe
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Cross domain approach
MICHAEL aimed since the beginning at bringing together
every cultural and scientific sector…
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Archives
Libraries
Museums
Heritage cataloguing and preservation offices
Audiovisual
Scientific heritage and research
Education…
… and scientific and cultural institutions of all kind and scale
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National
Regional
Local
Public and private
Large and small …
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The project
Funded by the eTen programme (deployment)
Spin-off of the MINERVA project. Based on:
• the work of the MINERVA working groups on Inventories,
discovery of digitised content and multilingualism (wp3),
Interoperability and service provision (wp4)
• the software platform of the French Catalogue des fonds
culturels numérisés
• MICHAEL (UK, FR, IT) started June 2004
• MICHAELplus (+ 11 countries) started June 2006
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The partnership
Ministries and national agencies, universities, cultural institutions,
technical support companies from 16 countries
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MICHAEL: 3 countries, 5 partners
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MICHAELplus: 14 countries, 38 partners
More European countries are currently implementing the
MICHAEL service on the basis of their own investment, without
any EC funding:
Bulgaria
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Belgium Flemish Community
Estonia
Slovak Republic
Total: 18 countries, more than 40 partners
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A single multilingual access point
to European digital cultural
collections
MICHAEL European portal launched December 2006
http://www.michael-culture.org/
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Three national portals online
http://www.michael-culture.fr/
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http://www.michael-culture.org.uk/
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http://www.michael-culture.it/
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MICHAEL national portals
1450 digital collections
FR
500 institutions
250 services-products
766 digital collections
UK
616 services
321 projects
306 institutions
2588 digital collections
IT
1396 institutions
1404 services/products
1520 physical collections
423 projects/programs
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More national portals underway
http://www.michael-culture.pl/
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http://www.michael-portal.de/
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http://www.michael-culture.gr/ http://www.michael-culture.nl/
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18 +1 MICHAEL portals
Phase 1,
MICHAEL
(2004-7):
Italy
France
United
Kingdom
Recently:
Phase 2,
MichaelPLUS
(2006-8):
 Czech Republic
 Finland
 Germany
 Greece
 Hungary
 Malta
 The Netherlands
 Spain
 Poland
 Portugal
 Sweden
 Bulgaria
Belgium Flemish Community
Estonia
Slovak Republic
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1 national database >
> 1 portal
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Digital collections
What is a digital collection?
Dublin Core definition:
“The term 'collection' can be applied to any
aggregation of physical or digital items”
A digital collection is an aggregation of digital items:
• collections of digital surrogates of physical items,
• collections of 'born-digital' items
• catalogues of such collections
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Digital collections
Contents of a digital collection might include:
• Aggregations of digital images, text, audio, video, 3D
objects, mixed media
• Databases
• Collections of web resources
• Internet directories and subject gateways
• Digital archives
• Digital inventories, catalogues, finding aids etc.
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International standards
Metadata for collection description
– RSLP, Dublin Core Collections AP
• MICHAEL data model is suitable for describing digital
collections belonging to every sector of cultural heritage
and for recording related and context information:
– Institutions (creator, owner, keeper, manager)
– Projects / programmes (funding)
– Services / products (giving access)
– Physical collections (represented full or in part)
• MICHAEL DM is an agreed international standard; a
MICHAEL-DC AP is available
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International standards
Terminologies
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ISO: Language (ISO 639); Spatial coverage (ISO 3166 Countries)
DCMI: Digital type (DCMI Type)
UNESCO thesaurus: Subject (UNESCO)
W3C/WAI: WAI (WAI/MICHAEL)
MINERVA and MICHAEL
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Digital format (MINERVA/MICHAEL)
Period (MICHAEL)
Institution type (MINERVA/MICHAEL)
Access type (MINERVA/MICHAEL)
Access conditions (MICHAEL)
Audience (MINERVA/MICHAEL)
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International standards
Technology
OAI Target
• XML records/databases
• OAI-PMH protocol for metadata harvesting
• National instances make XML metadata records
Returns
available through OAI-PMH
records
• The European service has no content
component of it own but is the sum of records
created and maintained by each constituent
country
• MICHAEL EU Service OAI repository retrieves
OAI
Harvester
metadata across the Internet from the national
PNDS
instances
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Request to
get the
metadata
records
International standards
Rights
MICHAEL metadata are made available to the public under a
Creative Commons ‘Attribution Non-commercial’ (by-nc)
licence.
• This means that everyone can copy, distribute and re-use the
metadata for non-commercial purposes, provided that the
source is mentioned
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Open source software
MICHAEL software platform consists of two modules
working together:
– A Production module (creation, editing, importing and
managing of records through web forms)
– A Publishing module (interface to allow user access
through web browser)
The platform is built on top of well known open source
components such as:
– Apache Cocoon
– eXist
– Xdepo:
– SDX, Apache Lucene search engine
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MICHAEL software is being published
open source on Sourceforge.net
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MICHAEL users
Many different user communities
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Education
Research
Cultural tourism
‘Co-ordination’
Creative industries
Cultural services
General public
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MICHAEL Users
utente
MICHAEL European portal
CONTENT
INTERNET
CONTENT
MICHAEL NATIONAL
INSTANCE
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http://www.michael-culture.org
UK
It
Fr
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Multilingual access
• Human translation of static pages and editorial
content
• All languages spoken in partner countries
• User may choose in which language to browse the
portal
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Multilingual access
Translation of
European standard
terminologies.
Local terminologies
are mapped into the
European ones
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Multilingual access
Free text fields in the
record’s original language
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Multilingual access
Automatic translation tool
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Multilingual access
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Multilingual access
Keywords appear in the language chosen
for browsing
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MICHAEL Culture AISBL
In order to guarantee the sustainability and evolution of the
service after the end of the project, MICHAEL partners
established (July 2007) an international not-for-profit
association under Belgian Law (AISBL), MICHAEL Culture
– Founder members: MCC; MiBAC; Dédale; Amitié
– Already joined: MLA; SPK
MICHAEL Culture aims at getting membership from all
countries willing to join the MICHAEL European Service
and to share its cross-domain vision
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MICHAEL project website
http://www.michael-culture.eu
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MICHAEL and the European
Digital Library
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The European Digital Library
EC Communication: i2010: Digital Libraries (30th
September 2005)
• a common multilingual access point to Europe’s
distributed digital cultural and scientific heritage
– all types of cultural material
• texts, audiovisual, museum objects, archival records etc
– held in different places by different organisations
– targeted at delivering rapidly a critical mass of resources
to the users
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The European Digital Library
Bruxelles, 13th November 2006
Ministerial conclusions on “Digitisation and Online
Accessibility of Cultural Material, and Digital Preservation”.
In order to build the European Digital Library, two are the
main building blocks:
• “The European Library” (TEL) as a gateway to the
collective resources of national libraries across Europe”
• MICHAEL-MICHAELplus and the work ongoing in
describing and linking digital collections of museums,
libraries and archives from different Member States and
providing access to these collections
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MICHAEL and the European
Digital Library
MICHAEL takes part to the process of building the
European digital library :
• MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus partners are participating in
EDLNet project (eContent+ / 2007-2009) and are leading the
workpackage on ‘human and political interoperability’
• MICHAEL / MICHAEL Plus has contributed to the
Interoperability Working Group set up by the Commission
• MICHAEL Culture AISBL is one of the founder members
(representing Ministries and cross-sector interests) of EDL
Foundation will be created in 2007 – supported by the
EDLNet project
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MICHAEL and the European
Digital Library
• MICHAEL provides a catalogue of the digital collections,
Europe-wide, covering all sectors
• MICHAEL locates digital collections from across Europe
that will be collected into the European Digital Library
• MICHAEL holds all the technical details needed to
enable machine-to-machine services
• MICHAEL holds details of interoperability protocols
supported by different databases
– Z39.50, OAI-PMH, Web Services
• MICHAEL holds details of terminologies used by different
databases
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MICHAEL and the European
Digital Library
MICHAEL established a comprehensive network of
thousands of European cultural and scientific
organisations:
• Large, medium and small
• National, regional or local
• Public and private
• Every scientific and cultural sector (Museums, Libraries,
Archives, Catalogue and preservation offices, Education,
Research institutes etc…)
The network successfully tested cooperative approach and
working methods
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MICHAEL and the
European Digital Library
Diagram
developed
at TEL /
MICHAEL
meeting,
Frankfurt,
March
2006
European Digital Library
Collections
MICHAEL
National
Library
collections
TEL
Items
National & Regional Museums, Audio-Visual, Archives and Libraries National Libraries
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Thank you for your kind attention!
Giuliana De Francesco
[email protected]
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