1. INDICATE final conference European cultural institutions and e-infrastructures: strategies and future perspectives Ankara, 15 October 2012 Rossella Caffo Istituto Centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane (ICCU) Director

2. MiBAC at glance ●1 general secretariat ●8 general directorates ●8 competence centers ●6 museum poles ●17 regional directorates ●100 local superintendences ●1,517 archives/libraries/museums/archaeological sites, monuments etc. ●About 20,000 personnel staff

3. Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries (ICCU) national center which promotes and coordinates cataloguing and digitisation activities of the Italian libraries body of the Italian Ministry for cultural heritage and activities responsible for guiding, producing, adapting and disseminating the standard rules for cataloguing and digitisation of the library heritage committed for the implementation of European digitisation projects (cross-domain approach)

4. ICCU Departments and Activities 1. Administrative Service 2. Service for the cultural promotion ICCU is structured in 2 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) 4.500 libraries 3. Bibliographic information and activities, Registry of the Italian libraries 4. Digitisation and access to documents 5. Activities concerning bibliography, cataloguing and census of the ancient book 6. Census and management of the Italian bibliography of manuscripts

5. National systems Internet Culturale http://www.internetculturale.it/ MuseiD-Italia http://www.culturaitalia.it/pico/museiditalia/index.html The digital strategy CulturaItalia http://www.culturaitalia.it/ SBN – National Library Service http://www.iccu.sbn.it/opencms/opencms/it/main/sbn/

6. SBN: the National Library Service 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 6

7. SBN today 80 nodes –4,500 libraries all over the country –national, university, local and special About 12 M bibliographic descriptions –authors: 3,5 M –holding locations: 60 M OPAC – over 32 M searches per year 7

8. 700,000 metadata 8 M digital files

9. Internet Culturale IC is the portal of the Italian libraries; it provides access to the heritage of public libraries and prestigious Italian cultural institutions Thanks to IC, the user can search and browse both bibliographic information and digital collections IC offers digital and multimedia resources provided by the participating institutions to deepen specific topics, from literature to science, art, and music The mission IC promotes knowledge, valorisation, and availability of the heritage of the Italian libraries and cultural and research institutions IC can fulfil the requirements of users with different education, interests, and age

10. MagTeca: a service for all Internet Culturale provides a repository service too. ICCU created in 2005 a digital repository (MagTeca) for all libraries and cultural institutions that create digital collections but don’t have an institutional digital repository. MagTeca offers a free service for the management and preservation of metadata and web resolution images. MagTeca software was renewed in 2010 as well as the hardware. Software can be distributed for free to cultural institutions.

11. MuseiD-Italia The project MuseiD-Italia is creating an integrated area in CulturaItalia portal where the users can search and compare works from the collections of several museums and find information about permanent and temporary exhibitions The project is funded by the Ministry for Public Administration and Innovation within the Strategic Plan e-Government 2012 It started in December 2009 and will end in December 2012 ICCU coordinates the project

12. MuseiD-Italia is… a national register of museums, monuments and archaeological parks interoperable with regional databases a digital library based on Fedora framework for the digital collections of museums a digitization campaign and recovery of existing digital objects of the most significant work of the heritage of Italian museums, to publish in the digital library more and better content contents from the museums in CulturaItalia new repositories OAI-PMH of cultural contents interoperable with CulturaItalia 30 projects involving all the Italian regions

13. MuseiD-Italia is… -30 projects in total (19 are organized on regional basis) -More than 360 museums participating in the projects -More than 130,000 digital objects (images and videos) in the digital library -More than 7,500 descriptions of museums and monuments in the national registry -More than 650,000 records (metadata via OAI-PMH) to be indexed in CulturaItalia

15. On-line since 2008 Weekly Newsletter Italian - english Editorials To discover cultural activities and partner CulturaItalia More than 3 M of metadata: from museums, photographs, libraries, archives, galleries, exhibits, monuments, videos, discs, etc. CulturaItalia Main Italian contributor for Europeana

16. ArtPast aggregator Museums Regions aggregator Universities CulturaItalia Goal Internet Culturale thematic aggregator National aggregator for Europeana Interoperability Aggregation Dissemination Service for users and stakeholeders

17. Digital preservation: Magazzini Digitali (Digital stacks) Managed by the National Libraries of Florence and Venice in cooperation with ICCU Objective: implementation of a system for the long term preservation of e-documents and e- books published in Italy in accordance with the national law on legal deposit www.depositolegale.it

18. JPI-CH The Joint Programming Initiative for Cultural Heritage (JPI-CH) is a concerted action to allow Member States to maximise and exploit at best their research efforts on CH (tangible, intangible, digital) MiBAC coordination Within JPI-CH Member States coordinate jointly the national research programmes in CH E-infrastructure projects on CH are tightly connected to JPI-CH http://www.jpi-culturalheritage.eu/

19. 19 ● Definition of strategic and scientific priorities to develop the Scientific Research Agenda on tangible, intangible, and digital cultural heritage ●Implementation of joint research activities ●Cooperation at regional and global levels ● Engagement of stakeholders through a communication plan to ensure the translation of research outputs into practice and policy Objectives

20. JPI CH members lAustria lBulgaria lEstonia lGermany lGreece lIsrael lLatvia lPortugal 8 Observers 17 Participants lItaly (Coordinator) lBelgium lCyprus lCzech Republic lDenmark lFrance lIreland lLithuania lThe Netherlands lNorway lPoland lRomania lSlovakia lSlovenia lSpain lSweden lUnited Kingdom A representative of European Commission shall attend the Governing Board meetings with an observer status.

21. Engagement and political commitment JPI-CH members are officially appointed by their respective Member States and Associated Countries. The logistic for JPI CH coordination is provided by Mibac JPI CH involves Ministries of Culture and Ministries of Research

22. JPI-CH takes into consideration the work of other initiatives especially dedicated to research in cultural heritage funded by the EC: ●NET-HERITAGE ensuring an overview of cultural heritage research throughout Europe; ●DC-NET developing and strengthening coordination in the sector of digital heritage ●INDICATE reinforcing cooperation among the Mediterranean countries ●DCH-RP creating a European roadmap for digital preservation EU resources

23. 1 October 2011 – 30 September 2014 JHEP concerted action in support of JPI-CH

24. Reinforce cooperation with advanced economies (USA, Japan) Mediterranean Countries BRIC countries NGOs and International organizations (under MiBAC’s leadership) JHEP WP4 Extending partnership and cooperation

25. DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE e-INFRASTRUCTURE DATA MODEL & SERVICES 2002 2005 2009 2012 2014 NATIONAL & REGIONAL INITIATIVES EUROPEANA RECOMMENDATIONS & GUIDELINES E-INFRASTRUCTURES for the citizens for the researchers DCH- RP ATHENA Plus

26. 1.High quality information technology management, to ensure trust, availability, reliability, long term safety of content, security, preservation and sustainability; 2.Access facilities to the final users (the researchers) who will search into the DCH e-Infrastructure for their research and to the cultural institutions that will deliver their data to the DCH e-Infrastructure; 3.Interoperability among existing cultural heritage repositories and of cultural heritage data with research data. The needs of the DCH sector

27. To focus on the use of existing e-infrastructures as a channel for delivery, access and preservation of digital cultural heritage data Storage, computing, connectivity together with authentication, authorisation and accounting mechanisms offered by the e-infrastructures can well serve the needs of the sector To establish factual cooperation among three sectors (the research, the cultural heritage and the e- infrastructures) that are not used to work together DCH and the e-Infrastructures

28. 1.DC-NET: joint activities plan for DCH e-infrastructure implementation 2.INDICATE: Mediterranean cooperation, use case studies, pilots, policy harmonisation 3.DCH-RP: developing and validating a Roadmap for digital preservation Three integrated projects Priorities and progamming Support and demonstration DCH-RP Roadmap for preservation

29. DC-NET (2012-2012) A Network for the European Research Area: Programme Owners and Programme Managers in the cultural sector To establish an operative dialogue between cultural heritage and e- Infrastructures communities in Europe Results: DCH priority list Long-term preservation Persistent identifiers Interoperability and Aggregation Advanced search Data resource set-up User authentication and access control IPR and digital rights management Joint study on preservation Joint Activity Plan www.dc-net.org

30. INDICATE (2010-2012) – a concrete approach 1.Pilots and case studies as demonstrators of the processes relevant to establishing cultural initiatives on the e-Infrastructure platforms 2.Coordination of policy regarding the use of e- Infrastructures for digital cultural heritage in countries all around the Mediterranean 3.Dissemination and contribution to the establishment of the DCH Community www.indicate-project.org

31. Pilots and case studies Pilots Semantic Search pilot e-Collaborative Digital Archives Case studies Long Term Preservation (Ankara workshop) Virtual exhibitions (Amman workshop) Geo-coded Digital Cultural Content (Ljubljana workshop)

32. MiBAC and the Mediterranean region (2005-2006) Funded by UNESCO IFAP Aims: –dissemination across the Arabic mother tongue countries (Egypt, Morocco, Jordan) of the MINERVA guidelines and tools about quality of cultural websites; –improve the awareness of the importance of assuring reliability, transparency, and accessibility to an even wider public of the cultural and educational contents provided through the web

33. Publications

34. DCH-RP (2012-2014): a roadmap for preservation in DCH To harmonise data storage and preservation policies in the DCH sector at European level To design a roadmap for preservation as the first instance of the Open Science Infrastructure for DCH in 2020 To progress with the dialogue among DCH institutions, e- Infrastructures, research and private organisations (DC-NET and INDICATE) To identify the most suitable models for the governance, maintenance and sustainability of such integrated infrastructure for digital preservation of cultural content Approach: –Preservation Roadmap –Case Studies and Best Practice –Proofs of concept

35. The vision DC-NET, INDICATE and DCH-RP are part of a wider process, which started 10 years ago among cultural institutions This process entered in a new phase joining the research e- infrastructures Time is ready to start working towards an Open Science Infrastructure for Digital Cultural Heritage in Horizon 2020 Joint Programming Support and demonstrations Roadmaps DCH-RP

36. Thank you. Rossella Caffo Istituto Centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane Director rosa.caffo@beniculturali.it rosa.caffo@beniculturali.it MiBAC welcomes you in the JPI-CH!