Giuliana De Francesco, MiBAC Kate Fernie, MLA MICHAEL services EVA 2008 Florence: Electronic Images and the Visual Arts MICHAEL –MINERVA Workshop, April 18 th 2008

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MICHAEL Launching a European online service to enable European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe

Launching a European online service to enable European cultural heritage to be promoted to a worldwide audience

Connecting people to collections from museums, libraries, archives, and cultural and scientific organisations across Europe Susan teaches music in a primary school St John’s College Cambridge: Manuscript collection Play burmese musical instruments online: Museums Open Learning Initiative MICHAEL vision

Discovery Offering ways to help users find the wealth of content that is available from cultural institutions

Offering ways to help users find the wealth of content that is available from cultural institutions

MICHAEL approach A catalogue of digital collections Finding aid to improve discovery Cross domain approach Museums, libraries, archives, audio-visual archives, heritage offices, universities and other institutions are contributing descriptions of their collections

A catalogue of digital collections

Finding aid to improve discovery

Cross domain approach

MICHAEL service Our users can: Search the catalogue of digital collections and online services and Discover the wealth of content from across the domain – museums, libraries and archives http://www.michael-culture.org/

Our users can:

Search the catalogue of digital collections and online services and

Discover the wealth of content from across the domain – museums, libraries and archives

Search and discovery

Free text search

Terminology-based browsing: by audience

Filtering: free text

Advanced search

Advanced search

Terminology-based browsing: digital type

Filtering: access type

Building the MICHAEL service

MICHAEL builds on results from the MINERVA project and its work on inventories, multilingualism and interoperability : Technical Guidelines for digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes Specifications for Inventories of Digital Cultural Content Deploying results from MINERVA

MICHAEL builds on results from the MINERVA project and its work on inventories, multilingualism and interoperability :

Technical Guidelines for digital Cultural Content Creation Programmes

Specifications for Inventories of Digital Cultural Content

MINERVA inventories model The digitisation process Project Digital Collections Institution makes Service / Product n n n n n n creates access Programme Physical collection

Physical collection

MICHAEL Data Model The MICHAEL data model is suitable for describing digital collections belonging to all cultural heritage sectors and recording related contextual information: Institutions (creator, owner, keeper, manager) Projects / programmes (funding) Services / products (giving access) Physical collections (represented full or in part) Describes both the collection and its context

The MICHAEL data model is suitable for describing digital collections belonging to all cultural heritage sectors and recording related contextual information:

Institutions (creator, owner, keeper, manager)

Projects / programmes (funding)

Services / products (giving access)

Physical collections (represented full or in part)

International standards MICHAEL metadata for collection description is based on: RSLP Dublin Core Collection application profile and is Very close to NISO collection description specification

MICHAEL metadata for collection description is based on:

RSLP

Dublin Core Collection application profile

and is

Very close to NISO collection description specification

http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/michael/michael-eu/dcap / MICHAEL EU Dublin Core AP

Controlled terminologies The terminologies implemented in MICHAEL include: ISO: Language (ISO 639); Spatial coverage ( ISO 3166 Countries ) DCMI: Digital type (DCMI Type) UNESCO thesaurus: Subject (UNESCO) W3C/WAI: WAI (WAI/MICHAEL) MINERVA and MICHAEL Digital format (MINERVA/MICHAEL) Period (MICHAEL) Institution type (MINERVA/MICHAEL) Access type (MINERVA/MICHAEL) Access conditions (MICHAEL) Audience (MINERVA/MICHAEL) Support: Content creation and consistency of the description Browsing and retrieval in the public interface Multilingualism in the European portal Semantic interoperability with other services

The terminologies implemented in MICHAEL include:

ISO: Language (ISO 639); Spatial coverage ( ISO 3166 Countries )

DCMI: Digital type (DCMI Type)

UNESCO thesaurus: Subject (UNESCO)

W3C/WAI: WAI (WAI/MICHAEL)

MINERVA and MICHAEL

Digital format (MINERVA/MICHAEL)

Period (MICHAEL)

Institution type (MINERVA/MICHAEL)

Access type (MINERVA/MICHAEL)

Access conditions (MICHAEL)

Audience (MINERVA/MICHAEL)

Support:

Content creation and consistency of the description

Browsing and retrieval in the public interface

Multilingualism in the European portal

Semantic interoperability with other services

MICHAEL metadata records are made available to the public under the Creative Commons ‘Attribution Non-commercial’ (by-nc) standard licence. This means that: It is possible to copy, distribute and reuse information provided that the source is mentioned and that the purpose is non-commercial Rights

MICHAEL metadata records are made available to the public under the Creative Commons ‘Attribution Non-commercial’ (by-nc) standard licence. This means that:

It is possible to copy, distribute and reuse information provided that the source is mentioned and that the purpose is non-commercial

XML format for data representation OAI-PMH for metadata harvesting – the MICHAEL European service doesn’t have content of its own but harvests records created in the national databases by the partner countries via OAI-PMH Technical standards

XML format for data representation

OAI-PMH for metadata harvesting – the MICHAEL European service doesn’t have content of its own but harvests records created in the national databases by the partner countries via OAI-PMH

Open source software The MICHAEL platform is based on open source software components Apache Cocoon, Tomcat and Lucene; Exist XML database management system; SDX search engine; Xdepo environment MICHAEL software platform itself is available on Sourceforge under open source licence Java based for ease of deployment

The MICHAEL platform is based on open source software components

Apache Cocoon, Tomcat and Lucene; Exist XML database management system; SDX search engine; Xdepo environment

MICHAEL software platform itself is available on Sourceforge under open source licence

Java based for ease of deployment

National databases contributing data to the European service

Where next? Taking MICHAEL to users….

Taking MICHAEL to users….

Meet some of our users Students and young people Retired people Tourists Wheelchair users Museum curators Teachers General public

Students and young people

Retired people

Tourists

Wheelchair users

Museum curators

Teachers

General public

Susan Green’s story teaches music in a primary school studies art history is the wife of a railway enthusiast enjoys visiting cultural sites at weekends and on holiday

teaches music in a primary school

studies art history

is the wife of a railway enthusiast

enjoys visiting cultural sites at weekends and on holiday

User Needs Susan uses MICHAEL to satisfy a range of interests finding content from local, regional and national institutions St John’s College Cambridge: Manuscript collection

Discovery using MICHAEL Susan is able to find innovative content for teaching, exciting archives from less known sources and more. Play burmese musical instruments online: Museums Open Learning Initiative

Routes to MICHAEL content INTERNET INSTANCE MICHAEL NATIONAL MICHAEL NATIONAL MICHAEL NATIONAL INSTANCE INSTANCE CONTENT CONTENT utente MICHAEL European service CONTENT CONTENT

UK It Fr Results from many countries

Browsing by terminologies Translation of the terminology lists means that users can browse in the language of their choice

Translation of key words Keywords are automatically translated into the user’s preferred language

Free text Free text is presented in the original language of the record and, where it has been manually translated, in any alternate languages

Translation tools The service offers users the option of translating pages using automatic translation tools

Users MICHAEL services help users to assess the relevance and select a range of exciting content from across Europe Demand from teaching

MICHAEL services help users to assess the relevance and select a range of exciting content from across Europe

BETT – education technology show Annual event for computing in education attended by 28,000 teachers, lecturers and policy-makers. In London but attended by teachers from Europe MLA stand promoting MICHAEL and culture content Great interest!

Annual event for computing in education attended by 28,000 teachers, lecturers and policy-makers.

In London but attended by teachers from Europe

MLA stand promoting MICHAEL and culture content

Great interest!

Attended by Education ministries, policy makers, teachers using ICT in the classroom

eLearning awards MICHAEL award for eLearning (Culture) 2006 award was won by Projekt 45 - Zur 60jährigen Wiederkehr des Kriegsendes 1945, Evangelische Schule Frohnau, Berlin 2007 award was won by Karatoula Ilias Primary School for ‘From classroom to museum. A dedication to Ancient Olympia’: http://dim-karat.ilei.sch.gr/olympia/english/english.htm .

MICHAEL award for eLearning (Culture)

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