CulturaItalia provides organizational and technical support to help cultural organizations prepare metadata for their digital collections. There are three ways for content providers to participate: database ingestion through an OAI-PMH repository, press releases, or by contacting CulturaItalia directly. The nine step process includes defining the database structure, formalizing a participation agreement, creating an official mapping document between the database and portal, installing an OAI-PMH repository, extracting and verifying data, harvesting metadata, and setting update timeframes. CulturaItalia assists with all technical aspects to help content providers successfully share their collections.

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How CulturaItalia supports cultural organization to prepare metadata
Organizational and Technical support for content providers
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THREE WAYS OF PARTICIPATION FOR CONTENT PROVIDER
THREE WAYS TO JOIN THE
PORTAL
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PRESS RELEASES LET US KNOW
DATABASE INGESTION TROUGH
OAI-PMH REPOSITORY

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PAGE JOIN THE PORTAL
http://www.culturaitalia.it/pico/Aderisci/en/index.html
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PAGE JOIN THE PORTAL
http://www.culturaitalia.it/pico/Aderisci/en/index.html
Participation in CulturaItalia in nine
steps
1. Presentation of the database
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2 Formalisation of th participation agreement
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3. Agreement upon and publishing of the official mapping document
4. Installation and configuration of the Repository OAI-PMH
5. Extraction of the data and filling of the repository
6. Verification of th quality of the metadata
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7. Harvesting of the metadata
8. Verification of the quality of the metadata uploaded onto
CulturaItalia
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9 Setting the timeframe for any necessary data updates
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HAVE WE ALL THE INFORMATION THAT WE NEED?
WHO - WHAT - WHERE -
WHEN
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DEFINITION OF WORK STRUCTURE
http://www.culturaitalia.it/pico/Aderisci/en/index.html
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1 PRESENTATION OF THE DATABASE
THE QUESTIONNAIRE: AN ESSENTIAL
TOOL
TYPE OF DIGITAL OBJECTS
THE CONTENT 6
PROVIDER
DOWNLOAD EXISTENCE OF
METADATA STANDARD
AND COMPILE
THE
QUESTIONNAIRE;
GIVE A COPY
OF DATABASE
STRUCTURE EXISTENCE OF A PLATFORM WHERE IS
OAI-PMH INSTALLED THE DATABASE
REPOSITORY

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DEFINITION OF WORK STRUCTURE
http://www.culturaitalia.it/pico/Aderisci/en/index.html
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2 FORMALISATION OF THE PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT
DEFINE DATA EXPORT TO
EUROPEANA
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THE CONTENT
PROVIDER DEFINE THE SCIENTIFIC
AND AND TECHNICAL
CULTURAITALIA CONTACT
SIGN THE
AGREEMENT
DEFINE THE DATA DEFINE THE LEGAL ISSUES
THAT WILL BE
SHOWED

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HAVE WE ALL THE INFORMATION THAT WE NEED?
WHO - WHAT - WHERE -
WHEN
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PEOPLE
CONTACT DATABASE STRUCTURE
TYPE OF PLATFORM
TECHNICAL TYPE OF OBJECT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
OPERATIVE SYSTEM
CONTACT ENCODING SCHEMA
OK IT'S ALL OK WE ARE READY TO START
OK! OK WE HOPE

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3. OFFICIAL MAPPING DOCUMENT
DB STRUCTURE FINAL CHECK
SCIENTIFIC RESPONSIBLE
Content provider - CulturaItalia
MAPPING
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DB AND PICO AP
INFORMATION
LEVEL
SCIENTIFIC CONTACT SCIENTIFIC CONTACT
Content provider - CulturaItalia CulturaItalia
(Guaranteed mininum level of
information)

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3. OFFICIAL MAPPING DOCUMENT
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4. INSTALLATION AND CONFIGURATION
OF THE OAI-PMH REPOSITORY
DB AND
DB PLATFORM
OAI – PMH REPOSITORY
INSTALLED AND CONFIGURED
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CHOICE OF SOFTARE TO IMPLEMENT OAI-PMH REPOSITORY
http://www.culturaitalia.it/pico/FootMenu/documentazione/it/index.html
TECHINCAL CONTACT TECHINICAL CONTACT
CulturaItalia Content provider

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5. EXTRACTION OF THE DATA
AND FILLING OF THE REPOSITORY
DATABASE 12
MAPPING DOCUMENT
ADAPTER

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5. EXTRACTION OF THE DATA
AND FILLING OF THE REPOSITORY
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6. VERIFICATION OF QUALITY OF THE METADATA
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6. VERIFICATION OF QUALITY OF THE METADATA
TOOL USED TO VERIFY
THE METADATA REPOSITORY
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SCIENTIFIC Contact TECHINCAL Contact
CulturaItalia Content provider

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LAST THREE POINTS
7. Harvesting of the metadata
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8 Verification of the quality of the metadata uploaded onto
CulturaItalia
9. Setting the timeframe for any necessary data updates
QUALITY OF
HARVESTING SETTING
METADATA 16
OF METADATA TIMEFRAME
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THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
A. Davide Madonna
antoniodavide.madonna@beniculturali.it
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