First DIGMAP Workshop National Library of Portugal Lisbon, 7 December 2007

1. MinervaEC and MICHAEL: coordinating digitisation in Europe and deploying new services First DIGMAP Workshop National Library of Portugal Lisbon, 7 December 2007

2. Minerva and MICHAEL: the projects phases R&D initial deploym. full depl. Catalogue des fonds culturels numérises (FR) and the Italian-French prototype MICHAEL MICHAEL Plus Athena eEurope …………….. i2010 ……………….. European Digital Library MINERVA, MINERVA Plus, MinervaEC, … 2002 ………............. 06/2004 …...........… 05/2006 .. ………… 05/2008

3. MinervaEC

4. MinervaEC: the project Thematic Network Supported under eContentplus Started on 1st October 2006 Duration: 2 years Coordinated by the Italian Ministry of Culture 22 EU countries More than 150 cultural institutions from all over Europe In continuation with Minerva and Minerva Plus (2002-2006)

5. Beneficiaries of the actions of the project: public and private organisations and institutions that create, collect or own digital content; private citizens, interested in receiving quality contents, reliable and directly responding to their interests; universities and schools, which wants to use cultural contents for educational purposes in a legal and safe environment; small and large enterprises interested in (re)using digital cultural content. MinervaEC targets

6. The MinervaEC approach follows the steps of the MINERVA and MINERVA Plus projects: a tight liaison with the national digitisation policies the implementation of the results achieved into new initiatives (e.g. MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus) the involvement of experts from all the cultural institutions (museums, libraries, archives etc.) the cooperation with the other networks (EDLnet, EPOCH, DELOS, etc.) and projects (DIGMAP, Multimatch, EDL Project, etc.) MinervaEC approach

7. MinervaEC: 2 Annual Reports: 2006, 2007 Map of the cultural heritage sector in Europe IPR guidelines Study on the user needs Technical guidelines v.2 Directory of the European legislation v.2 Minerva publications • MINERVA and MINERVA Plus: • 4 Annual Reports: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 • Good Practices Handbook • Good quality cultural websites • Cost reduction in digitisation • Multilingual websites and thesauri • Technical Guidelines v.1 • Directory of the European legislation v.1

8. National workshops in each partner country to promoter MINERVA and to illustrate its tools and publications: Brussels, 24/4/2007 Santiago de Compostela, 11/5/2007 Poprad, 2/10/2007 Vilnius, 4/10/2007 Tallin, 18-19/10/2007 Riga, 30/10/2007 Bratislava, 12-13/11/2007 Jerusalem, 20-21/11/2007 …….. 2008 ….. MinervaEC national workshops

9. National workshops: the last two events in Latvia and Slovakia Riga, 30/10/2007: 114 participants Column Hall of the Museum of Riga History and Navigation Armands Magone, Director of State Agency “Culture Information Systems” Demänovská dolina - Jasná, Slovak Republic, 2/10/2007: 120 participants Hans Petschar, Austrian National Library The plan of the MinervaEC National Workshops in 2008 is under definition in this period, in agreement with the national partners.

10. Plenary meetings in cooperation with the EU Presidencies: Helsinki, 12 October 2006 Berlin, 23 February 2007 Ljubljana, 5-6 June 2008 France, September 2008 (final event) Working groups meetings: Rome, 5/12/2006 Berlin, 20/6/2007 MinervaEC project meetings

11. MinervaEC is aligned with: i2010 strategy for a European Information Society for growth and employment, the EC Recommendation on digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation, and the Council Conclusions. Within this framwork, it clearly contributes to the creation of the European digital library. MinervaEC andthe European digital library

12. MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus

13. MICHAEL and MICHAEL Plus deploying MINERVA results • 2 deployment projects • Supported by eTEN • Involving 20 EU countries • Based on the metadata standard for cultural inventories developed by MINERVA • Aimed to build a unique multilingual access point to the digital collections of museums, libraries and archives in Europe • Total investment: ˜90 million €

14. Celebrating the richness, breadth and diversity of the European cultural heritage by promoting it to a worldwide audience thorugh the Internet MICHAEL objective

15. many different user communities education cultural tourism research ‘co-ordination’ and computers … MICHAEL Users

16. Cross-domain approach MICHAEL data model is suitable for describing digital collections belonging to every sector of cultural heritage and for recording related and context information: Institutions Projects / programmes Services / products Physical collections MICHAEL aimed since the beginning at giving integrated access to the whole European cultural heritage through the Internet

17. MICHAEL European portal Launched December 2006 Periodical harvesting of the published national instances http://www.michael-culture.org/

18. MICHAEL national portals FR 1450 digital collections 500 institutions 250 services-products 766 digital collections 616 services 321 projects 306 institutions UK 2588 digital collections 1396 institutions 1404 services/products 1520 physical collections 423 projects/programs IT

19. MICHAEL-Culture AISBL (Association international sans but lucratif) was created on July 2007 under the Belgian law Current members: MCC (France), MiBAC (Italy), MLA (UK) SPK (Germany) plus Amitié and Dédale MICHAEL AISBL

20. Organisational framework • Coordination at ministerial level • Cooperation with other ministries and national and regional levels • E.g. Ministry of education • Regions • Cultural Institutions involved • Local branches of the ministry (archives, libraries, architecture and heritage, museums, music, performing arts, theatre etc.) • Institutions of all levels (national, regional, local) • Universities

21. MICHAEL andthe European Digital Library High level political profile 13 November 2006 - Bruxelles, Council of the Ministers of Culture Adoption of the EC Recommandation “Digitisation and Online Accessibility of Cultural Material, and Digital Preservation”: to build the European Digital Library, two are the main building blocks: CENL and the service “The European Library” that provides access to the national libraries collections across Europe MICHAEL and the European portal of the digital collections

22. MICHAEL contribution to the European Digital Library Catalogue of the digital collections, Europe-wide, covering all the cultural sector Successful cooperative approach and working methods Network of thousands of European cultural institutions MICHAEL AISBL: a successful example of organisational and legal structure

23. MICHAEL and the European Digital Library Diagram developedat TEL / MICHAELmeeting, Frankfurt,March 2006 European Digital Library MICHAEL TEL National Library collections Collections Items National & Regional Museums, Audio-Visual, Archives and Libraries National Libraries

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