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Giuliana De Francesco, MiBAC
Kate Fernie, MLA
MICHAEL services
EVA 2008 Florence: Electronic Images and the Visual ArtsMICHAEL –MINERVA Workshop, April 18th 2008
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http://www.michael-culture.org/
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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
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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
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Discovery
Offering ways to help users find the wealth of content that is available
from cultural institutions
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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
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MICHAEL serviceOur 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/
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Search and discovery
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Terminology-based browsing: by audience
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Terminology-based browsing: digital type
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Building the MICHAEL service
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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
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MINERVA inventories model
ProjectDigital
CollectionsInstitution
makes
Service /
Product
n
n
n
n
n
n
creates access
Programme Physical collection
The digitisation process
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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
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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
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http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/michael/michael-eu/dcap/
MICHAEL EU Dublin Core AP
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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
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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
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• 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
OAI Target
OAIHarvester
PNDS
Request to get the
metadata records
Returns records
OAI Target
OAIHarvester
PNDS
Request to get the
metadata records
Returns records
Technical standards
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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
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National databases contributing data to the European service
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Where next?
Taking MICHAEL to users….
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Meet some of our users
• Students and young people• Retired people• Tourists• Wheelchair users• Museum curators• Teachers• General public
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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
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Susan uses MICHAEL to satisfy a range of interests finding content from local, regional and national institutions
User Needs
St John’s College Cambridge: Manuscript collection
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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
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INTERNET
CONTENT CONTENT
utente
INSTANCE
MICHAEL European service
CONTENT
CONTENT
MICHAEL NATIONAL MICHAEL NATIONALMICHAEL NATIONAL
INSTANCE INSTANCE
Routes to MICHAEL content
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UK
It
Fr
Results from many countries
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Browsing by terminologies
Translation of the terminology lists means that users can browse in the language of their choice
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Translation of key words
Keywords are automatically translated into the user’s preferred language
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Free text
Free text is presented in the original language of the record and, where it has been manually translated, in any alternate languages
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Translation tools
The service offers users the option of translating pages using automatic translation tools
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Users
• MICHAEL services help users to assess the relevance and select a range of exciting content from across Europe
Demand from teaching
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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!
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Attended by Education ministries, policy makers, teachers using ICT in the classroom
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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.
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http://www.michael-culture.org
Any questions?