Christophe DESSAUX Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication Association MICHAEL Culture

Cross-domain collaboration: archives, libraries, museums, audiovisual institutions Christophe DESSAUX Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication Association MICHAEL Culture Improving Access to European Cultural Heritage 15 October 2009

Frédéric Chopin?

Frédéric Chopin? Europeana Aggregators Round Table 14 October 2009

Frédéric Chopin?

Cross-domain collaboration : Connecting cultural content in Europe Bridging together the diversity and the richness of European Culture and delivering it to the general public Since early 2000, Member States supported by the European Commission worked together to create the conditions to bring together their digitised resources (Lund principles, 2001) In the National Representatives Group (NRG) and the best practice network MINERVA, they identified the need for a way of promoting access to the richness and diversity of our collections This process was reinforced by a strong political commitment since 2006

European content in global networks Coordination mechanisms for digitisation programmes The lund principles April 2001 Optimise the value and develop shared visions of European content, by developing criteria and a framework for an EU collaboration plan for digital cultural and scientific content, together with an appropriate implementation means (Charter, MoU etc). [ ] Improve quality/usability of content, promote unified access for citizens and increase awareness of long-term preservation issues, through developing agreements on interoperability standards; guidelines for digital preservation and content longevity; and coherent models and good practices for rights and asset management together with the development of associated eculture business models.

The MINERVA network www.minervaeurope.org

Minerva/Minerva Plus/ Minerva EC (2002-2008) It gathered the culture ministries of 20 EU countries. sustained by more than 150 cultural institutions. Activities aligned with the Commission s activities for the development of the European Digital Library Action lines: Integration among the various sectors: libraries, museums, archives; Thematics of intellectual property rights, interoperability and multilingualism; Sharing good practices in digitisation; Coordination inside and among Member States; Monitoring progresses

MINERVA outputs The MINERVA network (2002-2008) elaborated guidelines and recommendations shared by the EU Member States for the digitisation of cultural heritage and online accessibility. OUTPUTS : http://www.minervaeurope.org Good practices handbook Digitisation guidelines Quality tools for cultural web sites Cost reduction in digitisation handbook Multilingualism report IPR guidelines Study on user needs of cultural websites and portals Annual digitisation report...

Minerva achievements MINERVA has contributed in stimulating decision makers and implementers: to use international standards to adopt guidelines, shared at European level to enhance interoperability and accessibility of digital content to create the conditions to improve the quality of content and services It gathered Ministries and governing bodies of all Member States and created a network of hundreds of experts from all over the Member States

http://www.michael-culture.org More than 10,000 digital collections The digital collections group millions of records.

A European inventory of digitised collections MICHAEL /MICHAEL+ (2004-8) Belgium Bulgaria Czech Republic Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Italy (coordinator) Malta the Netherlands Poland Portugal Slovak Republic Spain Sweden United Kingdom MICHAEL Culture Association (2007 ->) Created in November 2007 to ensure the sustainability of Michael and to gather Michael partners One national portal for each Member State +1 European portal

Cultural institutions represented in MICHAEL Ministries Government and local heritage agencies Foundations Research Networks Universities Libraries Archives Museums National surveys of digital collections reach thousands of cultural institutions spread over the territory, at a national, regional and local level. Sustained by Michael Culture Association

A reinforced political commitment since 2005 April 2005 : Letter from six EU Head of Government to the Commission promoting the creation a European digital library 2006 : Commission recommendation on Digitisation and Online Accessibility of cultural material 2006 : Council Conclusions on the Digitisation and Online Accessibility of Cultural Material, and Digital Preservation (Finnish Presidency) 2007 : European Parliament resolution on i2010: towards a European digital library 2008 : Council conclusions on the European digital library EUROPEANA (French presidency) 2009 : Discussion in the Council (27 November 2009 Swedish presidency)

The European Digital Library Galaxy Library X Museum A Archive A Library A National Aggregator Archive X MICHAEL Europeana Museum X TE L NL 1 NL 2 NL 3 National crossdomain organisation 1 National crossdomain organisation 2 Film Archive X Eurbica AC E Film Archive 1 National Archive 3 Film Archive 2 Based on the diagram presented by E. Niggemann, chair of EDL Foundation - MSEG - Luxembourg - 13/12/2007 National Archive 1 National Archive 2

Europeana The European Digital Library

Frédéric Chopin?

Connecting cultural content in Europe Cross-domain collaboration : How to make it happen at national level?

Council conclusions of 20 November 2008 on the European digital library EUROPEANA - actively pursue in a sustained manner the implementation of their national strategies and targets [ ] - promote synergies between them and between the various institutions involved in the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material [ ], in order to enrich the supply of digital cultural material, - continue their support, in the context of their national strategies, for the incorporation of digital cultural material in EUROPEANA, particularly by the promotion of interoperability standards, the setting-up or improvement of portals incorporating national content and, where appropriate, by the definition of European themes for the choice of such material, while respecting the priorities of the cultural institutions involved in the project,

Cross-domain collaboration : how to make it happen? The example of the French national strategy a national digitisation plan for all domains run by the Ministry of Culture and Communication

A national strategy in the European framework Digitisation is one of the priorities defined in the action plan of the Ministry of Culture and Communication : - As a major gateway to culture - As an instrument for the transmission of knowledge and the democratisation of culture November 2008 : European Council conclusions on the European digital library EUROPEANA state that each Member State has to implement a mass digitisation policy in order to contribute to Europeana, single European access point to cultural heritage

Four priority objectives To increase significatively the offer of digital cultural content available On-line To support the development of coordinated networks and develop local partnerships To develop On-line access for innovating uses and services To increase national and European access

To increase significatively the offer of digital cultural content available On-line National priorities for digitisation of content : - 6 national thematic programmes - territories, persons, French and languages of France, art and archeology, architecture, contemporary creation -> legibility for the public, -> coherence and -> critical mass

To support the development of coordinated networks and develop local partnerships 1/2 programmes are structured at national level : - Bibliothèque nationale de France : Gallica (books) - INA : Archives pour tous (audio-visual) -National digitisation plan : Archives, libraries, museums, theatres, cinematheques, cultural associations

To support the development of coordinated networks and develop local partnerships 2/2 -a national digitisation plan cross-domain («archives, libraries, museums, monuments and archaeology» ) - monitored by the Ministry with a horizontal steering committee that gathers all sectorial directorates - an annual call for projects for cultural institutions aims at developing a structured digital offer : thematic approach regardless of domain or format, creation of network of content and institutions, identification of national thematic portals

Thematic area : heritage - genealogy - civil and military history : slavery, WW1 and WW2 - local history - 3D historical monuments - French and languages of France - Cinema

Portail «généalogie»

Portail «sources de l esclavage» http://www.archives-esclavage.culture.gouv.fr/

Projet local : Archives orales de la Sarthe http://www.fonds-sonores-archives.sarthe.com

3D Monuments http://www.map.archi.fr/3d-monuments

Portail «Français / langues de France» http://www.corpusdelaparole.culture.fr/

Patrimoine du cinéma http://www.laternamagica.fr/ Cinémathèque française

Thematic area : contemporary creation - Contemporary music - Circus and street arts - World music - Orchestras - Dance - Design - Experimental cinema and video art

Portail «musique contemporaine» http://www.musiquecontemporaine.fr/

Portail «rue et cirque» http://www.rueetcirque.fr/

Portail «musiques du monde» http://www.spectaclesdumonde.fr/

Portail «vie des orchestres» http://www.vie-des-orchestres.fr/

Mémoire vivante du ballet Preljocaj http://www.idocpreljocaj.org/

Portail du design

To develop On-line access innovating uses and services for - Mobile access to content - Geoservices and geolocalisation - 3D digitisation : virtual reality - Personnalisation - Web 2.0 -> a new call for projects for «innovative cultural digital services» launched this year by the Ministry

To increase national and Europeana access - National Aggregator Collections.fr on Culture.fr - Contribute to EUROPEANA

Portal Collections.fr on Culture.fr Gives unified to more than 30 heritage resources and databases created by French ministry of culture, major cultural institutions and local authorities from all sectors (archives, libraries, museums, museums, archaeology) Item level : 3 million descriptions, 2 million digitised objects directly available - national digitisation plan Collection level : French Michael instance (1.370 collections from more than 500 institutions), archives databases

Portail Collections http://www.culture.fr

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Introduction Across Europe, State and local authority programmes invested in the digitisation of cultural collections From all cultural sectors : archives, libraries, museums, monuments, archaeology Involving thousands of cultural institutions and private organisations

Conclusions 2008 : a major step Users needs and expectations Interoperability Human and organisational interoperability have been tackled Sustainability remains an issue