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http://www.michael-culture.org/ MICHAEL-culture.org - A Gateway for Collections Open Access through Open Source Technology How MICHAEL´s Technique Works Berlin - 22 June 2007 Christophe Dessaux - chef de la mission de la recherche et de la technologie - ministère de la culture et de la communication/DDAI

A European service built on national initiatives: 

A European service built on national initiatives A federation of national portals : national inventories of digitised collections, of services to access them and of institutions A European service giving a European vision of heritage thanks to a single multilingual trans-national search engine How does it work ?

National portals: 

National portals MICHAEL+ : Finland Germany Greece Hungary Malta Poland Portugal Republic Czech Spain Sweden The Nethelands Existing : Italy France United Kingdom

MICHAEL service : 

MICHAEL service INTERNET CONTENT MICHAEL NATIONAL PLATFORM MICHAEL NATIONAL PLATFORM MICHAEL NATIONAL PLATFORM

Interoperability: 

Interoperability Semantic interoperability Data standardisation multilingual policy Technical interoperability common software tools OAI-PMH harvesting Human and organisational interoperability creative commons AISBL Michael Culture

Semantic interoperability: 

Semantic interoperability A common model for standard data centred on the description of digital collections aligned with Dublin Core standard available in XML (XML schema) complemented with common terminology lists (ISO, Unesco, Dublin Core, Minerva standards…)

Semantic interoperability: 

Semantic interoperability A policy for multilingualism => at national level data in national language provision of translation for European user interface, field names and common terminology lists possible additional human translation : title, description provision of existing multilingual dictionaries

Semantic interoperability: 

Semantic interoperability A policy for multilingualism => at European level multilingual search : extending the query with multilingual dictionaries multilingual display : data is displayed in user’s language interface, controlled vocabulary fields are translated (multilingual terminology lists), free text fields in original language provision of automated translation on demand (free internet tools)

www.michael-culture.org: 

www.michael-culture.org

www.michael-culture.org: 

www.michael-culture.org R-U It Fr

www.michael-culture.org: 

www.michael-culture.org

www.michael-culture.org: 

www.michael-culture.org

Technical interoperability: 

Technical interoperability Common tools based on standard Open source software XDEPO : a production module for data management at national level, developed with an XML database (eXist) SDX : a platform for developing public interfaces to access the data, used for national portals and the European portal, developed with Apache/Cocoon Open Source (CeCill licence) - available on Sourceforge

Technical interoperability: 

Technical interoperability OAI PMH Open Archive Initiative protocol for metadata harvesting A standard protocol for harvesting data Used for the European portal to harvest national databases OAI standard data repository implemented in national portal, where data is provided both in Dublin Core and Michael formats European portal harvests national portals and also provides OAI repository and can be be harvested by other portals

A distributed architecture: 

NATIONAL PORTALS A distributed architecture ... OAI Harvesting repositories harvester

Integration to other portals(OAI): 

Integration to other portals (OAI)

Integration to other portals(OAI): 

Integration to other portals (OAI)

People’s Network Service: 

Range of content types enabled through technical interoperation and managed relationships People’s Network Service Other portal services

cultura.it: 

cultura.it

Organisational interoperability: 

Organisational interoperability Data provided under a “creative commons” licence allows re-use of data in other portals for non commercial purposes source (Michael project) has to be mentioned

Organisational interoperability: 

Organisational interoperability Association Michael Culture A structure to sustain the service and maintain the portal after the end of European funding An “association internationale sans but lucratif” created under Belgian law in June 2007 All national instances invited to join

Quality charter: 

Quality charter Semantic and technical requirements are part of the MICHAEL Quality Charter that is recognised by every Michael and Michael+ partner and has to be accepted by any new member of the portal (and in the association)

Next steps: 

Multilingual single acces point Collections Objects MICHAEL TEL European digital library Next steps

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