1. Rossella Caffo Ministero 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

2. 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

3. 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) 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)

4. 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

5. 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

6. World Digital Library Italian 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, Firenze Riccardiana library, Firenze State libraries of Lucca, Trieste, Macerata University libraries, of Genova, Padova, Napoli Monumento Nazionale library, Grottaferrata University library Alessandrina, Roma Casanatense library, Roma Storia Moderna e contemporanea library, Roma Risorgimento museum, Roma

7. SBN: the National Library Service www.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 7

8. 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 8

9. n8n8 n7n7 n6n6 n5n5 n4n4 n3n3 n2n2 n1n1 SBN nodes distribution and architecture

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

12. Internet Culturale www.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

13. EUROPEANA The European Portal DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE e-Infrastructure The European portal for accessing digital collections (MLA) NATIONAL & REGIONAL INITIATIVES Linked Heritage RECOMMENDATION S & 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 states National Digitisation Programmes ATHENA Past, present and future scenario

14. Thank you! Rossella Caffo rosa.caffo@beniculturali.it