EPOCH - Roma 25th February 2008Rossella Caffo - MiBAC National and international initiatives of the...

EPOCH - Roma 25th February 2008 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC

National and international initiatives of the Italian Ministry of Culture

for the digitisation of cultural heritage

Rossella CaffoMinistero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali


Table of content

• The MINERVA network• MICHAEL• ATHENA • The Italian Culture Portal -

CulturaItalia


The Ministry’s effortsSince 2002 coordination of European projects:

MINERVA, MINERVAplus, MINERVAeC, MICHAEL, MICHAEL plus and Culturaitalia .

Objectives• promoting knowledge, valorisation and preservation

of the cultural digital resources;• fostering the on line accessibility;• encouraging the adoption of shared standards and

guidelines on digitisation;• developing services for the users;• contributing to the European Digital Library.


The MINERVA networkwww.minervaeurope.org


What MINERVA did…The MINERVA network (2002-2006) elaborated guidelines and

recommendations shared by the EU Member States for the digitisation of the cultural heritage and the on line accessibility.

Added value: bottom up approach, all cultural fields involved.

Products:• Good practices handbook• Digitisation guidelines• Quality tools for cultural web sites (handbooks, Museo&Web)• Cost reduction in digitisation handbook• Multilingualism report• IPR report• Progress Report


…and what it is still doingMINERVA eC started on 1° October 2006.It gathers the culture ministries of 20 EU countries.

MINERVA eC follows the same approach of the previous projects, MINERVA and MINERVAplus:

• tight coordination with the national digitisation policies;• implementation of the achieved results into new initiatives (e.g.,

MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus, MEDCULT, the Italian Culture Portal);• involvement of experts of all the cultural fields;• cooperation with other European thematic networks;• supporting the development of the European Digital Library for

accessing cultural resources;• monitoring progresses through the publication of an annual report.


ActivitiesWorkshops and seminars on:• MINERVA tools for digitisation of cultural heritage• Quality of cultural websites

Handbooks, guidelines and studies:• IPR guidelines• Digitisation Guidelines updating• Study on user needs of cultural web sites• Report on content interoperability• European directory of the websites regulatory

framework• Annual digitisation report


MINERVAeC WP4 –MINERVAeC WP4 – the working group on “Standard the working group on “Standard

for the 3Dfor the 3D””

Objects: • Identification of standard and guidelines for

designing, implementation, documentation , pubblication and communication of digital multimedial tridimensional materials

• Particular attention to the documentation of the process of digitisation and of the results .

• Census of the 3D implementations and identification of the good practices ( with different objects : didacting , researching , spreading etc.. and users target )

• Supporting the synergies and avoid duplication of efforts


MINERVAeC WP4 –MINERVAeC WP4 – the working group on the working group on “Standard for the 3D“Standard for the 3D””

Why?

- It is forseen an increase of the activities on 3D digitisation

- Low cost scanner 3D - SW open source for the treatment of 3D data- To provide guidelines to the Institutions - To plan training for the employees


MINERVAfor the digital libraries

MINERVA eC is expected to contribute in stimulating decision makers and implementers in:

• using international standards;• adopting the MINERVA guidleines, shared at

European level;• enhancing interoperability and accessibility

of digital content;• creating the conditions to improve the quality

of content and services.


MICHAELwww.michael-culture.eu

www.michael-culture.org


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/ MICHAEL is an example of the implementation of the

MINERVA results


Search and browse in:– all the cultural fields

archives, libraries, museums, audiovisual, landscape…

– all kind of cultural institutionsnational, regional, local, small and large,public and private…

The MICHAEL data model was suitably conceived to describe digital collections and the related information:institutions, projects or programmes, services or products, physical collections.

Cross domain approach


• Agreeing on a common approach for a digital cultural heritage registry in Europe

• Creating a single point of access to the European digital collections

• Implementing a distributed platform based on open source software

• Supporting multilingualism• Creating a European infrastructure to sustain

the service

• Adoption by all the European countries

Goals


• MICHAEl and MICHAEL plus are deployment projects• Funded by the eTen programme• From June 2004 to 2008• Based on national initiatives on digitization and the

creation of culture portals

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

the national initiatives into the European infrastructure

• MICHAEL and MICHAEL plus total budget: 90 M€

Basic facts


1 country> 1 national portal

Phase 1, MICHAEL (2004-7):

• Italy• France• United

Kingdom

PartnersPhase 2, MICHAELplus

(2006-8):• Belgium• Bulgaria• Czech Republic• Estonia• Finland• France• Germany• Greece• Hungary• Italy (coordinator)• Malta• the Netherlands• Poland• Portugal• Slovak Republic• Spain• Sweden• United Kingdom


• 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

Standard


The European MICHAEL portal is on line at http://www.michael-culture.orgMore than 5,000 digital collections from FR, IT, UK inside!The digital collections groups millions of records.

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

The national portals of DE, GR, NL, PL, PT are under construction.

The achievements so far


The registryof the European Digital Library


ATHENA


ATHENA ATHENA ( under negotiation ):

• will contribute to the creation of the European Digital Library on the basis of shared standards and with the function of service and content provider.

• will develop the work of MINERVA in the field of harmonization of digitisation standards and guidelines

• will be based on the experience achieved by MICHAEL and Culturaitalia within the implementation

• will continue in the direction of interoperability, semantic web and quality services for the final user.


ATHENA

• Coordinated by MiBAC • 22 european countries • more than 100 cultural Institutions • financed within eContentplus

The institutions involved will provide their contents in order to realize the prototype to the integrated access to hundreds of data base of different sectors of cultural heritage and belonging to different countries.

The main national projects and the MICHAEL systemwill be taken into consideration


ATHENA Main activities : • Mapping of description metadata schema • Mapping of controlled terminologies and thesaurus• Ontologies in the field of the description of the cultural heritage • Technical standards and protocols for the exchange of data • Integration of data in the structure of the BDE• Coordination of contents : a competence center in each country partner • Analysis of the problems related to copyright and possible solutions • Development of a prototype


The Italian Culture Portalwww.culturaitalia.it

(coming soon!)


CulturaItalia is an integrated point of access that valorises the Italian cultural heritage and facilitates the access to the resources.

It is an interdisciplinary tool that foreseen the involvement of all the CH sectors.

CulturaItalia is the Italian contribution to the European Digital Library.


Mission

• To communicate the various aspects of the Italian culture (heritage, landscape, cinema, music, literature etc.)

• To create a unique and integrated point of access for the Italian cultural heritage

• To bring out the digital cultural content and make it visible to a wide public

• To increase the production of digitised content

• To foster the development of services for tourism

• To contribute to the building process of the European Digital Library


Strategy1. Tight cooperation among:• the public and private sectors• museum, libraries, archives, preservation and administrative

offices• national, regional and local institutions• universities and other ministries

2. Integration with other initiatives and projects:• MICHAEL• MINERVA• National and local portals

CulturaItalia is based on the MINERVA and MICHAEL recommendations, guidelines, results.


According the most used international standards, CulturaItalia is based on:

• protocol for Metadata Harvesting - Open Archive Initiative (OAI-PMH)

• Dublin Core (DCMI) for the metadata description

• HTTP protocol for data transfer

• XML for data representation

Standards


Content

• Catalogue of metadata

• Editorial content

• Cultural web sites, selected and organised by the editorial staff


The metadata

CulturaItalia doesn’t duplicate the data.

CulturaItalia gathers metadata coming from different providers:

• ministry’s institutions• private institutions• local institutions• universities Each provider holds the rights of the digital objects

shown through the portal and is responsible for their maintenance and updating.


Application profileCulturaItalia organizes in a unique index (meta)data

harvested from many metadata repositories.

A specific AP based on Dublin Core has been adopted as metadata standard, as the most used internationally.

It describes the resources of all the CH.

The aim is to describe with metadata not only digital resources, but also tangible cultural heritage, people (artists, authors), institutions (museums, libraries, etc.).

Metadata describes the resources at item level.


CulturaItalia will increase its providers in progress.

The current work is:1. Define agreements with public or private

partners, invited to join the project2. Identify data-bases to be harvested3. Define the level of publication of data

through the portal

Work flow


4. If data are provided with DC metadata they can be harvested directly;

5. otherwise a mapping between PICO AP and the data model of the databases must be defined

6. The provider must install on its servers a OAI-PMH repository (MiBAC can provide “ready-to-use” technical solutions)

7. The provider must create a script to generate XML metadata record, exporting values from the data bases.

Work flow


Thank you for your attention !

Rossella [email protected] per i beni e le attività culturaliwww.minervaeurope.orgwww.michael-culture.euwww.culturaitalia.itwww.otebac.it

Contacts

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http://www.minervaeurope.org/

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