1. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC National and international initiatives of the Italian Ministry of Culture for the digitisation of cultural heritage Rossella Caffo Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali

2. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Table of content The MINERVA network MICHAEL MEDCULT The Italian Culture Portal - CulturaItalia

3. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC The Ministrys efforts Since 2002 coordination of European projects: MINERVA, MINERVA plus, MINERVAeC, MICHAEL, MICHAEL plus, MEDCULT. 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.

4. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC The MINERVA network www.minervaeurope.org

5. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC 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

6. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC …and what it is still doing MINERVA 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.

7. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Activities Workshops 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 Map of the cultural heritage in Europe Annual digitisation report

8. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC MINERVA for 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.

9. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC MICHAEL www.michael-culture.eu www.michael-culture.org

10. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC 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

11. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC 1 country > 1 national portal Phase 1, MICHAEL (2004-7): Italy France United Kingdom Partners Phase 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

12. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Search and browse in: –all the cultural fields archives, libraries, museums, audiovisual, landscape… –all kind of cultural institutions national, 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

13. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC The European MICHAEL portal is on line at http://www.michael-culture.org More 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.frhttp://www.michael-culture.frhttp://www.numerique.culture.fr IT http://michael-culture.ithttp://michael-culture.it UK http://www.michael-culture.org.ukhttp://www.michael-culture.org.uk The national portals of DE, GR, NL, PL, PT are under construction. The achievements so far

14. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC The registry of the European Digital Library

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17. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC MEDCULT www.medcult.org

18. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC MEDCULT May 2005: MEDCULT project approved by UNESCO-IFAP for funding, to spread MINERVA products through Mediterranean Arab countries. December 2005: MEDCULT kick-off in Rome General scope: promoting information literacy, through capacity building particularly for information professionals In particular: To translate and diffuse among partners the MINERVA criteria for a quality web communication of the cultural heritage To organised workshops over the countries involved for experts of both cultural and education sectors To set up a replicable model of workshop

19. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali, MiBAC (ITALY, coordinator) Fondation Maison des Science de l'Homme, Coordinator of the STRABON network (FRANCE) Ministère de la culture, Centre Multimédia d'inventaire et de documentation du patrimoine (MOROCCO) CultNat, Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EGYPT) Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, Department of Antiquities (JORDAN) Partners

20. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Activities Translation into Arab of the Cultural web sites quality principles Translation into Arab of the publication Quality Principles for cultural Web sites, a handbook Application of Museo&Web, the kit for planning quality cultural web sites Workshops: –December 2005, kick off in Rome (Italy) –April 2006, Alexandria (Egypt) –May 2006, Rabat (Morocco) –December 2006, Amman (Jordan)

21. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC The Italian Culture Portal www.culturaitalia.it (coming soon!)

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23. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC 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.

24. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC 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

25. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Strategy 1. 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.

26. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC 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

27. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Content Catalogue of metadata Editorial content Cultural web sites, selected and organised by the editorial staff

28. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC The metadata CulturaItalia doesnt duplicate the data. CulturaItalia gathers metadata coming from different providers: ministrys 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.

29. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Application profile CulturaItalia 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.

30. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Browse the index: whowhat wherewhen

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34. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC CulturaItalia will increase its providers in progress. The current work is: 1.Define agreements with public or private partners, invited to join the project 2.Identify data-bases to be harvested 3.Define the level of publication of data through the portal Work flow

35. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC 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

36. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC MINERVAcoordination and standards MICHAELcatalogue of the digital European collections CulturaItaliaapplication of international standards and MINERVA and MICHAEL inputs MEDCULTcoordination action in the Mediterranean area http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/ Keywords

37. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Possible synergies towards the Mediterranean Digital Library UNESCOs World Digital Library project http://www.worlddigitallibrary.org/project/english/

38. Jerusalem, 21 November 2007 EVA-Jerusalem 2007 Rossella Caffo - MiBAC Rossella Caffo rcaffo@beniculturali.it Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali www.minervaeurope.org www.michael-culture.eu www.culturaitalia.it www.medcult.org www.otebac.it Contacts