Transcript www.minervaeurope.org

MICHAEL.
A service for accessing the
European digital cultural heritage.
Rossella Caffo
Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
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/
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
A cross-domain initiative
The MICHAEL service allows to search and
browse digital cultural information coming
from:
– all the cultural heritage sectors: archives,
libraries, museums, intangible heritage,
built heritage, audiovisual, landscape…
– all kind of cultural institution: national,
regional, local, large and small, public and
private…
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
Background
MICHAEL is a spin-off of the MINERVA project.
It is based on:
• the work of the MINERVA working groups on
inventories, discovery of digitised content
and multilingualism, interoperability and
service provision
• the technical platform of the French
Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
Goals
• Agreeing on a common approach for a digital cultural
heritage registry in Europe
• Creating a single point of access to the European
digital collections
• Implementing a distributed platform based on open
source software
• Supporting multilingualism
• Creating a European infrastructure to sustain the
service
• Adoption by all the European countries
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
Basic facts
•
•
•
•
MICHAEl and MICHAEL plus are deployment projects
Funded by the eTen programme
From June 2004 to 2008
Based on national initiatives on digitization and the
creation of culture portals
Funding
• National funding (90%)
• EC contribution (10%), only to fulfil the integration of
the national initiatives into the European
infrastructure
• MICHAEL and MICHAEL plus total budget: 90 M€
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
Partners
Phase 1,
MICHAEL
(2004-7):
• Italy
• France
• United
Kingdom
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
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
1 country
> 1 national portal
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Cultural institutions
in MICHAEL
Ministries
Government and regional agencies for cultural heritage
Foundations
Research networks
Universities
National libraries
National archives
National museums
The national surveys are reaching thousand of national, regional,
and local cultural institutions,
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
Standards
• 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
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
A distributed architecture
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
MICHAEL users
Many different user communities
– education
– cultural tourism
– research
– management
–…
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
The digital collection
according to MICHAEL
Definition based on international standards (Research Support
Libraries Programme-RSLP collection description and Dublin
Core): “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
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.
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
The data model
Entities of the data model:
• Institution
• Digital collection
• Physical collection
• Project - programme
• Services and products
Data model suitable for all kind of digital
collections coming from all the cultural
fields.
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
Activities
• Population of the national databases
– description of the collections
– migration of the existing data
• Implementation of the MICHAEL national
portals
• Increase of the European portal
– metadata harvesting from the national databases
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
The achievements so far
The European MICHAEL portal is on line at
http://www.michael-culture.org
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 other national portals are under construction.
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
The ongoing work
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.)
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
Italy
Coordination
MiBAC – DG for the technological innovation and promotion
Cooperation with other ministries
Agreement with the Ministry of Education
Institution involved
•
•
•
More than 600 MiBAC cultural institutions (libraries, museums, archives,
archaeological sites, preservation offices, central institutes)
20 Italian Regions: thousands museums, libraries, archives
Libraries and museums of the 77 Italian universities
Integration with the forthcoming
Italian Culture Portal (http://www.culturaitalia.it)
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
2762 digital collections
1475 institutions
1509 services/products
1627 physical collections
456 projects/programs
France
Coordination
Ministère de la culture et de la communication - Steering group for digitisation, with
• Working group with the DGs of the ministry (expertise and steering)
• Mission de la recherche et de la technologie (implementation of the data bases)
Cooperation with other ministries
•
Ministère de l’Education nationale (Direction Générale de l’enseignement supérieur - sousdirection des bibliothèques et de l'information scientifique)
Institutions involved
•
•
The ministerial working group works with all the braches of the ministry (archives, libraries
(archives, libraries, architecture and heritage, museums, music, performing arts, theatre
etc.)
Institutions of all levels (national, regional, local)
Integration with http://www.culture.fr and
the on-going project of unique access point
to the
data bases of the heritage
Jerusalem,
EVA Jerusalem 2007
20 November 2007
Rossella Caffo
United Kingdom
Coordination
MLA – Museums, Libraries, Archives Council
Institutions involved
• English regions: MLA South West, MLA London, MLA South East,
MLA East of England, MLA West Midlands, MLA East Midlands,
MLA Yorkshire, MLA North West, MLA North East
• Wales: CYMAL
• Scotland: Scottish Museums Council
• National museums, English Heritage, National Archives
• Cultural institutions of all levels (national, regional, local)
Linked initiatives
• People’s Network Discovery Service
• UK Cultural Information Services
• regional portals
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
The other countries
The other 15 countries that joined the network with
MICHAELplus
started the survey of the cultural digital collections
according to the organisational model set up in France,
Italy, and UK.
The national portals are under preparation.
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
MICHAEL and
multilingualism
UK
It
Fr
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
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
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
Multilingual access
Translation of
European
standard
terminologies.
Local
terminologies
are mapped
into the
European ones.
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
Benefits for
the cultural institutions
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
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
Sustainability
The AISBL “MICHAEL Culture” was
created according to the Belgian law.
It will assure the MICHAEL service in a
long term perspective.
Full members:
France (presidency), Italy (deputypresidency), Germany, United Kingdom.
Other European countries are joining the
AISBL as associated members.
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
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
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
MICHAEL and
the European Digital Library
13 November 2006
Brussels, Council of the Ministers of Culture
Adoption of the text “Digitisation and Online Accessibility
of Cultural Material, and Digital Preservation” that says
that, to build the European Digital Library, two are the
main bricks:
• CENL and the service “The European Library” that
provides access to the national libraries across Europe
• MICHAEL and the European portal of the digital
collections
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
MICHAEL for 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.
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
MICHAEL contribution to
the European Digital Library
• MICHAEL Culture AISBL, one of founder
members of the Foundation –
representing Ministries and crosssector interests
• MICHAEL Culture AISBL is participating
in EDLnet Thematic Network
(http://www.europeandigitallibrary.eu/edlnet/)
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
What does
this mean technically?
• MICHAEL locates digital collections from across
Europe that will be collected into the European
Digital Library
• MICHAEL was developed to be an ‘information
environment services registry’
• 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
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo
MICHAEL and
the European Digital Library
European Digital Library
Collections
MICHAEL
National
Library
collections
TEL
Items
National & Regional
Audio-Visual,
Jerusalem,
EVAMuseums,
Jerusalem
2007Archives and Libraries National Libraries
20 November 2007
Rossella Caffo
Diagram
developed
at TEL /
MICHAEL
meeting,
Frankfurt,
March
2006
Contacts
Rossella Caffo
[email protected]
Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali
www.michael-culture.eu (project)
www.michael-culture.org (portal)
Jerusalem,
20 November 2007
EVA Jerusalem 2007
Rossella Caffo