European strategies and actions for accessing cultural digital content: the Dynamic action plan and...

European strategies and actions for accessing cultural digital content: the Dynamic action plan and the MICHAEL

project

Rossella CaffoMinistero per i beni e le attività culturali

Rossella Caffo, 11 June 2006

Timeline1999: eEurope, to foster the development of the internet and the new

economy

2001: Lund: meeting of European experts of digitisation of the cultural

heritage Lund Principles and Action Plan National Representatives Group

(NRG) to implement the Lund Principles and Action Plan

2002: MINERVA, to support the NRG

2003: Charter of Parma, to strenghten the role of the NRG

2004: MINERVAplus, to extend the project to NAS

2004: MICHAEL, deployment of the MINERVA results

2005: Dynamic Action Plan, to update the Lund Action Plan

2006: MICHAELplus, to extend the project to other 11 countries

2006: MINERVA eC


MINERVA keywords

•Coordination among the Member States

•Common approach for archives, libraries, museums

•A shared platform made up of recommendations and guidelines


Political level: MINERVA guaranteed a close cooperation among the Member States, and between these and the European Commission.MINERVA intended to:– give visibility to national initiatives– promote the exchange of good practices– ensure the diffusion and awareness of community

policies and programmes at both national and local levels

Technical level: MINERVA elaborated a common European platform made up of shared recommendations and guidelines about standards related to digitisation and the quality of cultural Web sites.

How MINERVA worked


MINERVA ended in January 2006.

The results were higher than expected.


Acknowledgment

Viviane Reding, European commissioner for the Information Society, spoke about MINERVA as an extraordinary example to develop during next years (“Conference on future coordination of digitisation”, Luxembourg, June 2005).


MINERVA and the NRG

MINERVA gave support to the activities of the National Representatives Group in order to:

• elaborate the new Dynamic Action Plan that replace the previous Lund Action Plan

• support the official acknowledgment of the NRG


Products, publications and MINERVA results

• Handbook for quality in cultural Web sites• Cultural Website Quality Principles• Quality Principles for cultural Web sites: a

handbook • Museo&Web• Good practice handbook• Technical guidelines for digital cultural content

creation programmes • Cost reduction in digitisation guide• IPR guide• Survey on multilingualism• etc


MINERVA and the SE EuropeRegional Meeting on Digitisation of

Cultural Heritage (Ohrid, 17-20 marzo 2005), organised by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia, the UNESCO Venice Office-ROSTE, and the Italian Ministry on behalf of MINERVA.

Outcome:“Recommendations for coordination of

digitisation of cultural heritage in south-eastern Europe” (http://www.kultura.gov.mk/docs_pics/uzknm/document_ohrid_2005.pdf)

http://www.kultura.gov.mk/docs_pics/uzknm/document_ohrid_2005.pdf





The future


The new Dynamic Action Plan (DAP) is based on the results

achieved by the NRG, supported by MINERVA.

The DAP updates the Lund Action Plan and the Charter of

Parma.

http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/dap/dapversionxhtml.htm


General objectives

1. Providing strategic leadership in a dynamic and changing environment in which rapid technological and economical developments are taking place.

2. Strengthening co-ordinationand forging stronger links between Member States’ digitisation initiatives, EU networks and projects.

3. Continuing efforts in overcoming fragmentation and duplicationofdigitisation activities and maximising synergy.

4. Assessing and identifying appropriate models, funding and policy approaches to sustain development and long-term preservation strategies.

5. Promoting cultural and linguistic diversitythrough digital contentcreation.

6. Improving online accessto European cultural content.


Action areas

a. Users and contentb. Technologies for digitisationc. Sustainability of contentd. Digital preservatione. Monitoring progress

The NRG will organise working groups for each one of these areas.


The future of MINERVA

The extension of MINERVA, MINERVA eC has been approved.

Goals:• to implement the results

achieved by MINERVA• to support the NRG for the

implementation of the Dynamic Action Plan


AustriaBelgiumCzech RepublicEstoniaFinlandFranceGermanyGreeceHungaryIreland

ItalyLuxembourgMaltaPolandPortugalSlovak RepublicSloveniaSpainSwedenUK

20 Member States:

More than 150 cultural institutions involved

Partners

Coordinated by the Italian Ministry.


i2010 - A European Information Society for

growth and employment

The DAP is aligned with the the Communication of the European Commission named i2010.

i2010 highlighted the fundamental role of the coordination of the national policies of digitisation to create a European space of the cultural information.

i2010 reniew the eEurope strategy.http://europa.eu.int/information_society/eeurope/i2010/index_en.htm


The European Digital Library

i2010 put special emphasis on the digital libraries topic, and, in particular, to the realisation of the European Digital Library.

The EC aims at gathering by the end of 2006 the consensus of all the European national libraries; museums and archives will be included in a second time.

It is hoped that by the end of 2010 a European platform with more than 6 millions records from all the cultural sectors will exist.


MICHAEL e MICHAELplus

The good results achieved by MINERVA have been put into practice by MICHAEL and MICHAELplus.

The DAP recognised the fundamental role of MICHAEL and MICHAELplus for the creation of a European information space.


Strategic objective

MICHAEL and MICHAELplus aim at launching a European online service

to enable the European cultural heritage to be promoted a

worldwide audience.


The MICHAEL service will provide simple and quick access to the digital collections of museums, libraries and archives from different European countries.

– France, Italy, and UK (MICHAEL)

– other European countries (MICHAELplus)

There will be many uses for the MICHAEL service: education and research, creative industries, tourism etc.

MICHAEL is an essential stepping-stone towards the creation of a European cultural space on the Internet.

What the MICHAEL service does


A single point of access:

• the MICHAEL European portal will allow searches on all the national databases from a unique user interface

• searches will include full-text, geographical area, subject, period, institution responsible and more...

European services


MICHAEL and MICHAELplus build on:

• work by the MINERVA working groups on inventories, discovery of digitised content and multilingualism

• the technical platform of the French Catalogue des fonds culturels numérisés

MICHAEL takes also into account other MINERVA products like, the Technical Guidelines for digital content creation programmes, the data model for the description of digital cultural inventories, the French-Italian portal prototype, the 10 Quality Principles for cultural web sites.

Background


MINERVAplus MINERVA eC

R&D implementation full depl.

MICHAEL Plus

The project phases

MINERVA***

Catalogue des fonds culturels numérises (FR)

2002 …………………….....…. 06/2004 …...........… 06/2006 .. 06/2007… 05/2008

MICHAEL

NRG - DAP


MICHAEL:• An Open-Source project• Applies MINERVA reccommendations

and guidelines• Data model aligned to the Dublin Core

metadata set and the emerging Dublin Core Collection Description

• Enables metadata exchange in XML format through the OAI-PMH protocol

Standards


The MICHAEL platform


MICHAEL was born as a partnership between France, Italy and the UK:

• MiBAC (coordinator, Italy) • Ministère de la Culture et de la

Communication (France)• Museums, Libraries, Archives Council

(UK)• Amitié (Italy)• Dédale (France)• AJLSM (France)

The MICHAEL consortium


MICHAELplus started on 1° June.14 countries and 31 institutions.

The MICHAELplus consortium

• Malta• the Netherlands• Poland• Portugal• Spain• Sweden• UK

• Czech Republic• Finland• France• Germany• Greece• Italy• Hungary


Europe, expression of interest from:Belgium, Communauté FrançaiseAustria, Ministry of CultureRomania, Ministry of CultureSouth-Eastern region

International:Israel, The Jewish Agency for IsraelCHIN, Canada

Cooperation with other initiatives:TELDELOSBRICKS

Directions for the next enlargement


• Deployment projects• Funded by the eTen programme• Conclusion: MICHAEL May 2007 -

MICHAELplus May 2008• Based on national initiatives on

digitization and the creation of culture portals

Aligned with the NRG Dynamic Action Plan

MICHAEL and MICHAEplus basic

facts


• National funding (90%)• EC contribution (10%), only to fulfil the

integration of the national initiatives into the European infrastructure

MICHAEL and MICHAELplus:• National funding: 86 M€• EC funding: 8,6 M€

MICHAEL and MICHAELplus

financial issues


• The production module and data model have been implemented

• National instances of the MICHAEL platform are underway in France, Italy and the UK

• Training modules for the cataloguers are ongoing

• National systems are being populated with data

Achievements so far


National public interfaces

www.numerique.culture.fr

http://www.michael-culture.org.uk

http://www.michael-culture.it/

The European portal will be ready in November.


The content and the data provider

• Almost 1,800 digital collections described so far.

• From all sectors: archives, libraries, museums etc.

• Data from: local and national cultural institutions, regional data bank, digitisation projects, Ministry’s repository, etc.


Horizontal activities

• Sustainability: MICHAEL is working towards the creation of a self-substaining structure to assure the service once the eTen funding run out.

• Communication: web site, conferences, brochures and so on.


Thank you.

[email protected]

http://www.minervaeurope.orghttp://www.michael-culture.org

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