Integration of national strategies

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Culture OnLine, 5-7.6
Integration of national strategies for
Trans-European services Christophe Dessaux chef
de la mission Recherche Ministère de la culture
et de la communication
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National investement in digitisation since 1990s

• Across Europe, State and local authority
  programmes invested in the digitisation of
  cultural collections
• From all cultural sectors archives, libraries,
  museums, monuments, archaeology
• Involving thousands of cultural institutions and
  private organisations

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Digitisation in cultural institutions

• Inform users and promote access to their
  collections
• Reach wider audiences at national and
  international level
• Increase their online profile and promote
  activities
• Plan further digitisation activities

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Digitisation for the users

• Accessing to digital cultural heritage
• From all cultural sectors archives, libraries,
  museums, heritage, audiovisual, landscape
• From cultural institutions of any kind national,
  regional, local, large and small, public and
  private

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National strategies in digitisation

• Developping on line access to culture for the
  public
• Creating large groupings of objects with
  critical mass national or thematic
  aggregators
• Building a road-map of the field of
  digitisation of cultural heritage
• Planning and monitoring digitisation programmes
  at national level

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Patrimoine numérique, French Michael instance
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National strategies to provide acces

• An example of national strategy in France
• Portal Collections.fr is part of Culture.fr
• 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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Search Slovénie (Slovenia) ?
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Search Slovénie (Slovenia) ?
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Search Slovénie (Slovenia) ?
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Search Slovénie (Slovenia) ?
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Search Slovénie (Slovenia) ?
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Search Slovénie (Slovenia) ?
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Connecting cultural content in Europe

• Bridging together the diversity and the richness
  of European Culture
• Since early 2000, Member States supported by the
  European Commission worked together to create the
  conditions to bring together their digitised
  resources (Lund principles, 2001)
• In the National Representatives Group (NRG) and
  the best practice network MINERVA, they
  identified the need for a way of promoting access
  to the richness and diversity of our collections

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Michael project vision
Michael benefits to the access to culture at
national, European and international levels
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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 project

• 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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Michael European service

• MICHAEL fulfils the need for promoting on line
  access to the richness and diversity of cultural
  collections.
• Brings content together from each of the 20
  partner countries
• A European portal gives access to national
  databases with a simple interface designed for a
  European public
• Offers multilingual searchfunctionnalities

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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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Technical architecture

• A platform to perform national 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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Michael European service

• http//www.michael-culture.org

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Geographical search Slovenia
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Geographical search Slovenia
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Geographical search Slovenia
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Geographical search Slovenia
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Geographical search Slovenia
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Geographical search Slovenia
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Geographical search Slovenia
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Geographical search Slovenia
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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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Europeana The European Digital Library

• a flagship initiative
• - supported by the Commission
• i2010 strategy - recommendation Aug. 2006
• - and the Member states
• Council conclusions - Nov. 2006 to be updated
  Nov. 2008
• a common multilingual access point to Europes
  digitised cultural heritage (archives, libraries,
  museums, audio-visual)
• -gt prototype EUROPEANA under development by
  EDLnet project
• -gt access to 2 million objects in 2008, 6 million
  in 2010

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Europeana The European Digital Library

• Building on existing achievements in the field
  of access to digitised cultural heritage
  (Michael, TEL)
• The ongoing process of building the European
  digital library
• - EDLnet project (eContent / 2007-2009)
• - A foundation for the European Digital Library
  created in November 2007
• - new projects in eContent 2007 and 2008 calls

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Europeana The European Digital Library
Based on the diagram presented by E. Niggemann,
chair of EDL Foundation - MSEG - Luxembourg -
13/12/2007
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Europeana The European Digital Library

• A prototype under development to be launched in
  November 2008

http//www.europeana.eu/
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Conclusions

• 2008 a major step
• Users needs and expectations
• Interoperability
• Human and organisational interoperability
• have been tackled
• Sustainability remains an issue

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Thank you for your attention