The MICHAEL Project is funded under the

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EVA 2005 Florence, 17th March 2005
Pier Giacomo Sola
The MICHAEL Project is funded under the  European
Commission eTEN Programme
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Strategic objective

• Launching a European online service to enable the
  European cultural heritage to be promoted to a
  worldwide audience

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The context

• Michael is a deployment project carried out
  within the framework of the eTEN Programme, run
  by the DG Information Society of the European
  Commission.

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The Partners
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Aims

• Integrating national digitisation initiatives
• Agreeing on a common approach for digital
  cultural heritage inventories in Italy, France
  and the UK
• Implementing a distributed platform based on open
  source software
• Supporting multi-lingualism
• Building the infrastructure for sustainability
• Supporting its adoption by other countries in
  Europe

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Activities

• Defining the architecture and data model
• Collecting digital cultural heritage data
• Communications and marketing
• Building the infrastructure to manage and support
  the system
• Designing the delivery system and pan-European
  services

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Basic facts

• 36 month project
• 1 June 2004 to 31 May 2007
• Project finance
• National investment in digitisation 33 MEuros
• EU Funding 3.3 MEuros
• Milestone 1 has been just completed, and the
  databases are going to be populated with data
  from the three countries

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Something more
URL http//www.michael-culture.org eMail AskM
ichael_at_amitie.it