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London - 23 May 2008  MICHAEL Perspectives on
cultural sector resource discovery 
Michael in Europe
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Vision
Michael benefits to the access to culture at
national, European and international levels
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National investmentsin Digitisation

• Since the 1990s
• Across Europe, State and local authority
  programmes invested in the digitisation of
  cultural collections from all cultural sectors,
  involving thousands of cultural institutions and
  private organisations.
• Member States supported by the European
  Commission worked together to create the
  conditions to bring together their digitised
  resources NRG and best practice network MINERVA
  
• They identified the need for a way of promoting
  access to the richness and diversity of our
  collections

Bridging a diverse digital offer
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MICHAEL

• MICHAEL project
• Funded by the eTEN programme
• Beginning in June 2004
• Ministries of Culture in France and Italy
• Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK with
• Dédale, Amitié as technical partners
• AJLSM, technology provider

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MICHAEL

• MICHAEL extends MICHAEL to 17 new countries
• Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic,
  Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary,
  Latvia, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal,
  Slovakia, Spain, Sweden
• more than 30 partners
• 2006-2008

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Revealing Collections

• MICHAEL fulfils the need for promoting on line
  access
• to the richness and diversity of cultural
  collections.
• A European portal giving
• access to national databases
• through periodical harvesting
• Multilingual access

http//www.michael-culture.org
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Technical architecture

• National inventories of digital cultural
  collections
• A platform to perform inventories (Xdepo) and
  reveal them online (SDX) in a distributed
  architecture
• Based on standards
• - a common data model (XML/DC)
• - multilingual vocabularies
• - Open Source
• - OAI PMH

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National Portals
1370 digital collections 510 institutions 210
services-products
FR UK IT DE ...
766 digital collections 306 institutions 616
services
2720 digital collections 1120 institutions 1440
services/products
digital collections 1500
institutions services/products
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Michael in the heart of national strategies

• Benefits for ministries and local authorities
• MICHAEL proved to be a powerful tool for
• Building a road-map of the field of digitisation
  of cultural heritage
• Planning and monitoring digitisation programmes
  undertaken or funded by ministries or local
  authorities
• valorising to the public their digitisationinitia
  tives - integrating MICHAEL national instance in
  national aggregators
• MICHAEL allows the discovery of digitised
  resources
• and fosters synergies between projects

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Michael in the heart of national strategies

• Benefits for cultural institutions
• Through MICHAEL cultural institutions can
• Reach wider audiences at national and
  international level
• Inform users and promote access to their
  collections
• Increase their online profile and promote
  activities
• Manage collections and large groupings of
  objects
• Plan further digitisation activities

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Michael in the heart of national strategies

• Benefits for the users
• MICHAEL service allows to access information
• on digital cultural heritage coming from
• all cultural sectors archives, libraries,
  museums, heritage, audiovisual, landscape
• cultural institutions of any kind national,
  regional, local, large and small, public and
  private

on a multilingual basis, by subject, period,
spatial coverage, by institution type or
location, through full text search
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Michael in the heart of national strategies
Common access to heritage an example of
national strategy Portal Collections.fr is part
of Culture.fr It gives unified to more than 30
heritage resources and databases created by
French ministry of culture, major cultural
institutions and local authorities from all
sectors (archives, libraries, museums, museums,
archaeology) Item level 3 million descriptions,
2 million digitised objects directly available -
national digitisation plan Collection level
French Michael instance (1.370 collections from
more than 500 institutions), archives databases
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Patrimoine numérique French national instance
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Michael European service
http//www.michael-culture.org Brings content
together from each of the 20 partner
countries A simple interface designed
forEuropean public Offers multilingual
searchfunctionnalities
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A European cross-domain network
MICHAEL Culture association was created in July
2007 under the Belgian law AISBL (Association
internationale sans but lucratif) to ensure
MICHAEL sustainability MICHAEL Culture
association members are mainly cross-domain
organisations (State agencies, ministries) from
all over Europe
MICHAEL Culture association is part of the EDLnet
project and is a founding member of the EDL
Foundation
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Michael in the heart of European strategies
What is the European Digital Library ? -gt a
flagship initiative - supported by the
Commission ( i2010 strategy - recommendation Aug.
2006) - and the Member states (council
conclusions - Nov. 2006) -gt a common multilingual
access point to Europes digitised cultural
heritage (archives, libraries, museums,
audio-visual) -gt prototype EUROPEANA under
development by EDLnet project to be launched in
Nov. 2008 -gt access to 2 million objects in 2008,
6 million in 2010 http//www.europeana.eu/
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Michael in the heart of European strategies
Involvement in the European Digital Library
process MICHAEL Culture has been recognised as
one of the major stakeholders in the field of
access to digitised cultural heritage It
participates to the ongoing process of building
the European digital library - EDLnet project
(eContent / 2007-2009), as a Member -
Participation as a Founder and member of the
executive committee of the foundation for the
European Digital Library (created November
2007) - new projects in eContent 2007 and 2008
call (ATHENA)
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Europeana network
Based on the diagram presented by E. Niggemann,
chair of EDL Foundation - MSEG - Luxembourg -
13/12/2007
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Michael in the heart of European strategies

• Benefits for the European Digital Library (1/2)
• MICHAEL feeds the European Digital Library with
• comprehensive, reliable and multilingual
  information
• about digital collections from 20 countries in
  Europe
• from all heritage sectors (archives, libraries,
  museums, monuments and archaeology)
• gt the catalogue of Europeana

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Michael in the heart of European strategies
Benefits for the European Digital Library (2/2)

• MICHAEL feeds the European Digital Library with
• easily integrated material based on a common
  datamodel, multilingual vocabularies and
  havestable through an OAI repository
• gt collection level in complement to item level
  in Europeana
• a cross-domain network of public organisations
  represented through a single body (Michael
  Culture association)
• gt stakeholder commitment

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Find digital resources created by museums,
libraries and archives in Europe http//www.michae
l-culture.org