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Digital libraries and
culture portals
Rossella Caffo - MiBAC
Coordinator of the MICHAEL and MINERVA eC projects
A digital library is…
…a space where digital collections, services
and users meet.
All these elements contribute to the whole lifecycle of the creation, use and preservation of
data, information and knowledge.
The culture portals can play a key role to give access to
heterogeneous digital cultural information
and organise the knowledge
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Which kind of content?
The ongoing initiative of the European
Digital Library will consider
not only the digitised material of the
libraries
but the whole range of digital cultural
objects hold by libraries, archives,
museums, administration offices,
research institutes, at local and
national level.
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Structure
The European Digital Library should:
• have a distributed architecture
• be based on international
standards and guidelines shared at
European level
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The role of
MINERVA and
MICHAEL
Interoperability among all the sectors of CH
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What MINERVA did…
The MINERVA network (www.minervaeurope.org)
elaborated guidelines and recommendations shared by
the EU Member States for the digitisation of the cultural
heritage and its on line access.
Topics tackled:
• Interoperability of the content
• Quality of the cultural web sites
• Cost reduction in digitisation
• Multilingualism
• IPR issues
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…and what is still doing
MINERVA eC started on 1° October 2006.
It gathers the culture ministries of 20 EU countries.
It will:
• improve accessibility to and visibility of European
digital cultural resources;
• support the development of the European Digital
Library for accessing cultural resources;
• contribute to increasing interoperability between
existing networks;
• facilitate the exploitation of cultural digital
resources, providing clear rules for their use and reuse, respecting and protecting the creators’ rights.
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Workplan
MinervaEC correlated its priorities to the
Conclusions of the Council, in order to align the
agenda of MinervaEC with TEL/EDL,
MICHAEL/MICHAEL Plus and the other
initiatives in the sector:
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to work towards the integration of libraries,
museums and archives
to address: IPR, interoperability and
multilingualism
to share good practices
to reinforce coordination within and between
MS
to contribute to the overview of progress
through the publication of the Minerva Annual
Reports
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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
• Study on user needs
• Report on content interoperability
• European directory of the websites regulatory framework
• Map of the cultural heritage in Europe
• Annual digitisation report
• MINERVA award for "Best practice in cultural heritage websites"
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MINERVA
for the digital libraries
MINERVA eC is expected to contribute in stimulating
decision makers and implementers in:
• carrying out their initiatives of content enrichment
• creating the conditions to improve the quality of
content and services
• enhancing interoperability and accessibility of digital
content
MICHAEL and MICHAEL plus are examples of the
implementation of the MINERVA results.
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MICHAEL
1 year later
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MICHAEL and
the European Digital Library
13 November 2006
Bruxelles, Council of the Ministers of CUlture
Adoption of the text “Digitisation and Online
Accessibility of Cultural Material, and Digital
Preservation”.
Two are the main bricks to build up the European
Digital Library:
• CENL and the service “The European Library” that gives access to
the digital content of the national libraries
• MICHAEL and the European service that gives access to the digital
cultural collections of all sectors
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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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A cross-domain initiative
The MICHAEL service allows to search and browse
digital cultural information coming from:
– all the CH sectors: archives, libraries, museums,
heritage, audiovisual, landscape…
– all kind of cultural institution: national, regional,
local, large and small, public and private…
The MICHAEL data model is thought for describing the
digital collections of all fields and for the related
information:
institutions, projects or programmes, services or
products and physical collections.
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Partners
Ministries and cultural institutions of 14 countries
Phase 1, MICHAEL (2004-7):
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Italy (coordinator)
France
United Kingdom
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Phase 2, MICHAELplus (2006-8):
• Czech Republic
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Greece
• Hungary
• Italy
• Malta
• the Netherlands
• Poland
• Portugal
• Spain
• Sweden
• United Kingdom
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Standards
• an 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
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A distributed architecture
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Activities
• Population of the national databases
– description of the collections
– migration of the existing data
• Creation of the national portals
• Creation of the European portal
– metadata harvesting from the national
databases
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The achievements so far
The European MICHAEL portal is on line at
http://www.michael-culture.org
More than 3,000 digital collections from FR, IT, UK inside!
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
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The ongoing work
The survey of the digital collections in
the participating countries:
• covers the whole territory
(national and local cultural bodies)
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includes all the CH sectors
(archives, libraries, museums, audiovisual,
archeology, built heritage, landscape…)
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is integrated with the other national
initiatives
(culture portals, national, regional, digitisation
programmes etc.)
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Sustainability
The AISBL “MICHAEL Culture” is under creation
according to the Belgian law to assure
the sustainability of the service and the updating of the
data in a long term perspective
The promoters are:
MCC (France) and MiBAC (Italy)
All the countries that are partners of MICHAEL
are invited to join MICHAEL Culture
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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
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Other benefits
Describing the digital collections is useful for:
• increasing the online profile of an institution
– the collection-description level is the most suitable level to
reach the information since the most used search engines
often don’t reach the level of item-description in a data base.
• Managing the collections
– The item-level descriptions are not replaceable, the
Collection Description is a useful way of managing large
groupings of objects, mainly with large numbers of very small
items or large volumes of data.
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Services for the users
MICHAEL gives the possibility to discover,
access and browse the digital collections of
the participating countries from a unique
point of access.
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on a multilingual basis
by subject, period, spatial coverage…
by institution type or location
through full text search
etc.
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Enlargement
• Increasing the number of the cultural
institutions
• Involvement of the missing EU countries
• Cooperation with non-EU countries
• Cooperation with other initiatives and
projects: MINERVA eC, DELOS, Epoch, BRICKS,
PrestoSpace, Multimatch
• Cooperation with CENL initiatives (Tel and
EDLnet)
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Contributions to the
European Digital Library
MICHAEL involves all the Cultural Heritage
sectors and the largest number of institutions
(national and local, large and small)
MICHAEL can be considered as the registry
of the European Digital Library
MICHAEL is a service for accessing
European digital cultural content
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Thanks for your attention
[email protected]
The MINERVA project web site
http://www.minervaeurope.org
The MICHAEL project web site
http://www.michael-culture.eu
The MICHAEL European portal
http://www.michael-culture.org
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