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Rossella Caffo Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane (ICCU) DC-NET and INDICATE.

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1 Rossella Caffo Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane (ICCU) DC-NET and INDICATE Workshop 2001-2011, ten years of networking for digital cultural heritage Beijing, 26th May 2011 Central Library of the Peking University

2 EUROPEANA The European Portal DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE e-Infrastructure DATA MODEL, ORGANISATION, GOVERNANCE NATIONAL & REGIONAL INITIATIVES Linked Heritage RECOMMENDATIONS & GUIDELINES 2002 2005 2008 2009 2011 2014 Lund Action Plan Brussels Quality Framework National Digitisation Programmes ATHENA Past, present and future scenario

3 The MINERVA network in 3 projects MINERVAplus FP6 From 2004 until 2006 14 EU countries + Russia and Israel MINERVA Funded by the EC IST 5th FP From 2002 until 2005 7 EU countries MINERVAeC Thematic network supported by eContentplus From 2006 until 2008 21 EU countries www.minervaeurope.org

4 What is the MINERVA network European recommendations and guidelines on: Digitisation project management, Interoperability, Quality, Accessibility and Usability of resources, IPR, Inventories and Multilingualism, Good practices and competence centres Network of policy makers and professionals from cultural ministries and national institutions All member States plus Russia and Israel harmonising the digitisation of cultural content across Europe, avoiding fragmentation, minimising duplication, enabling long-term accessibility, promoting quality CORE CONCERN OUTCOMES PEOPLE PARTNERS

5 Cross-domain approach (ALM) Sharing good practices across Europe Network of hundreds of experts Tight liaison with the national digitisation programmes Coordination among and within member States Monitoring progress Promotion of digitisation standards MINERVA Keywords

6  Good practices in digitisation  Cost reduction  Multilingualism  Quality, accessibility, usability  Technical Guidelines  Progress report on digitisation  Museo & Web  … Available on www.minervaeurope.org MINERVA publications MINERVA – MINERVA Plus – MINERVA EC

7 Connecting people to collections from museums, libraries, archives, and cultural and scientific organisations across Europe MICHAEL Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe

8 20 partners 20 databases and national portals MICHAEL 2004-2008 MICHAELplus 2006-2008

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10 1 network, 20 nodes  20 national different portals with the same approach  Contributing data to the European portal MICHAEL Culture  Sharing of the software platform and standards  National and local campaigns for the census and cataloguing of the digital collections  Tight work with cultural institutions of every sector and national regional and local level

11 INTERNET CONTENT MICHAEL European service CONTENT MICHAEL NATIONAL INSTANCE Structure

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14 Open standards  Open source software platform  Data model aligned to the Dublin Core metadata set and the emerging Dublin Core Collection Description Appl. Profile  XML data base  Metadata harvesting through OAI-PMH  Terminologies based on international standards  (ISO, UNESCO, Dublin Core, W3C…)  The records are published under Creative Commons ‘Attribution Non-commercial’ licence

15 Sustainability and benefits at national level MICHAEL is embedded into the national digitisation strategies. The service offers useful tools:  Monitoring of the results of the public funding  Road-map for planning new initiatives  A complete global vision of the digitisation and access services  Selection of content and partners for the national aggregators

16 Sustainability of the European service The MICHAEL Culture international Association: a European cross-domain network AISBL - Association internationale sans but lucratif under the Belgian law – Member of the Europeana Foundation Board Members: institutions of every sector from all over Europe (ministries, public agencies, cultural institutions)

17 A network of good practices financed by the eContentplus programme A 30 month project (2008-2011) coordinated by MiBAC A result of the MINERVA project ATHENA involved: 20 EU Member States, Israel, Russia and Azerbaijian 130 museums and other important cultural institutions in Europe ATHENA Access to cultural heritage networks across Europe www.athenaeurope.org

18 Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Malta The Netherlands Poland Romania Russia Slovak Republic Slovenia United Kingdom Europeana The network

19 The mission Encourage museums and other cultural institutions to share their cultural content with Europeana, supporting them in this process European museums have different approaches in: Cataloguing Digitisation Metadata standard use

20 Results: LIDO (XML harvesting schema) http://www.lido-schema.org  LIDO = Light Information [for] Describing Objects  Uses the conceptual reference model CIDOC (CRM)  Includes elements for visualization, indexing and multilingualism  Aligned with the Getty CDWA Lite and Spectrum standards  Reacher compare to ESE (Europeana Semantic Elements) Formalised at international level in December 2010 in Beijing at the CIDOC International Conference

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22 Other results PERSISTENT IDENTIFIERS (PID)  What they are, why to use them, how  Typologies and uses  Survey  Recommendations for institutions  Booklet GIS: GUIDELINES FOR GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION  What they are, why to use them, how  Typologies and uses  Use cases with digital cultural content  Booklet

23 ATHENA THESAURUS  Experiment conceived as collection of terms from controlled vocabularies  Expressed in SKOS format  Mapping to it of other terminologies  Guidelines for skosification of thesauri  Benchmarking of skosificactions software  ATHENA-WIKI Other results

24 STEP BY STEP IPR GUIDE A museum wanting to publish its images may face legal problems The IPR guide proposes solutions to identify these problems Other results

25 ATHENA Journal 1: Think culture 2: Open gates instead closed doors 3: Collections development http://www.uic.edu/htbin/cgiwrap/ bin/ ojs/index.php/UC/issue/view/318 Other results

26 Other results: virtual exhibition

27 Linked Heritage Best Practice Network Started on 1/4/2011 To contribute large quantities of new content to Europeana – cross domain To prepare for the enhancement of the quality of both new and existing Europeana content To demonstrate improved search, retrieval and use of Europeana content For the first time, the public sector participate together with the private sector to provide content to Europeana

28 Main objectives 1.First and most important focus: to provide 3 million new content to Europeana 2.Five key areas of development and innovation: a)The use of linked data b)Persistent identifiers c)Metadata and standards (particularly for non-library sources) d)Multilingual and cross-domain combination of terminologies e)Engagement with the private sector (ONIX mapping)

29 Thank you! Rossella Caffo rosa.caffo@beniculturali.it DC-NET and INDICATE Coordinator www.minervaeurope.org www.michae-culture.org www.athenaeurope.org www.linkedheritage.eu


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