Rossella CaffoMinistero per i beni e le attività culturali

Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane (ICCU)

World Digital Library the Italian participation

Munich 14-15 November 2011

The Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian

Libraries (ICCU) • is the national center which promotes and

coordinates cataloguing and digitisation activities of the Italian libraries

• is a body of the Italian Ministry for cultural heritage and activities

• is in charge to coordinate and to manage important national systems: National Library Service, Internet Culturale, CulturaItalia

• is in charge to coordinate many European and international projects in the field of digital cultural content

ICCU Departments and Activities

1. Administrative Service

2. Service for the cultural promotion

ICCU is structured in2 services and 6 departments

Projects:

• Internet Culturale • CulturaItalia • Europeana (Italian partic.) • World Digital Library (Italian partic.) • European projects•Google Books (Italian partic.)

1. Standards rules for cataloguing and digitisation

2. National Library Service (SBN)

3. Registry of the Italian libraries (16.000)

4. Digitisation and access to documents

5. Cataloguing and census of the ancient book held by the Italian libraries (65.000)

6. Census of manuscripts held by the Italian libraries (60.000)

World Digital Library

ICCU, on behalf of the Directorate general for libraries,

has been coordinating since 2009

the participation of the Italian libraries

to the World Digital Library

working in close cooperation with

the Library of Congress

World Digital Library:Italian participation

Charter signed by the Director general: April 2010

Italian content in the WDL: 20 objects (manuscripts of Galilei, illuminated manuscripts, rare cartographic material)

from:National library Firenze, National library Napoli,

University libraries of Padova, Napoli, Sassari, Estense library Modena

World Digital LibraryItalian participation: new content

Already collected from many libraries, ready to be delivered soon:

about 100 objects, some of them regarding the First World War

From:Medicea Laurenziana library, FirenzeRiccardiana library, FirenzeState libraries of Lucca, Trieste, MacerataUniversity libraries, of Genova, Padova, NapoliMonumento Nazionale library, GrottaferrataUniversity library Alessandrina, RomaCasanatense library, RomaStoria Moderna e contemporanea library, RomaRisorgimento museum, Roma

SBN: the National Library Servicewww.sbn.it

The National Library Service (SBN) is the network of the Italian libraries providing services to libraries and to end-users.

SBN:• is a network promoted by the Italian Ministry for

Cultural Heritage and coordinated by ICCU• acts in cooperation with Regions and Universities• is based on the cooperation among libraries

• online since 1997

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SBN today

• 74 nodes– 4,500 libraries all over the country

– national, university, local and special

• Over 11 M bibliographic descriptions– authors: over 3 M

– holding locations: 55 M

• OPAC – over 30 M searches / 2010

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More than 30 M in 2009 and 2010. Many from abroad (especially USA)

Internet Culturalewww.internetculturale.it

Internet Culturale allows integrated searches in 20 millions news from:

• Opac SBN: 11 M bibliographic records• Manus (Census of the manuscripts held by the Italian libraries):

120,000 records• Edit16: (Census of the Italian printed editions from XVI century):

64,000 records• Music: 1,5 M digital files (scores and manuscripts) 130.000 sound

files• Digital library: 8 M files (jpg, mp3, text) from the digital

collections• Internet Culturale Multimedia content: virtual exhibitions, 3D

itineraries, cultural routes)• Historical catalogues (215 historical catalogues from 35

libraries): almost 7 M records

EUROPEANA The European Portal

DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE e-Infrastructure

The European portal for accessing digital collections (MLA)

NATIONAL & REGIONAL INITIATIVES

Linked Heritage

RECOMMENDATIONS & GUIDELINES

Network of experts (hundreds) from 27

European MS, Russia and Israel

2002 2005 2008 2009 2011 2014

European projects coordinated by the Italian ministry

Harmonization of EU Member statesNational Digitisation Programmes

ATHENA

Past, present and future scenario

Thank you!

Rossella Cafforosa.caffo@beniculturali.it