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Inventories,
discovery of digitised content, multilingualism issues
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Coordinator:
Ministère
de la Culture et de la Communication (FR)
Objectives
The objectives
of this working group (corresponding to WP 3) is to identify and
share experiences, discuss issues and facilitate implementation
of common actions concerning:
- visibility
and accessibility of European cultural and scientific content
by setting up inventories of past, on-going and planned digitisation
projects based on national observatories;
- definition
of a sustainable technical infrastructure for coordinated discovery
of European digitised cultural and scientific content, including
a common set of metadata for description;
- analysis
of possible solutions to the technical and cultural constraints
deriving from multilingual problems;
- proposal
of a common platform (XML and open source) for accessing distributed
information in Europe, to be proposed for application at European
level.
Analysis of
the current situation:
- National
observatories of digitisation projects
- Relevant
indicators of digitisation projects
- Descriptive
vocabularies for digitisation projects
A common framework:
- As a decision-making
tool: European scoreboard
- As an orientation
means for scientists
- As a means
for disseminating good practices
- As a means
for valorising collections
Description
of work
The activities
of this workpackage will consist of the analysis of existing activities
in Member States, to identify national inventories of projects or
selected content. These inventories will be selected according to
quality standards, with the aim to organise test-beds in partner
countries, following a common methodology.
In fact, to make the digitised resources accessible, it is necessary
to define the technical components and standards for identifying
and harvesting eligible digitised content. This includes agreements
on metadata, on harvesting tools, and on aggregation and retrieval
services, with emphasis on public domain tools and on support for
multilingualism. The working group will analyse the state-of-the-art
of existing practices and studies on this aspect, combining European
experiences with similar activities carried out by UNESCO and other
international organisations. A prototype of a multilingual platform
for accessing catalogues of digital resources of involved countries
will be developed, adopting shareware and freeware software and
XML standard.
The final aims of the work package are the definition of a common
set of metadata for description and the adoption of a common multilingual
platform.
Methodology:
- National
observatories identification
- Analysis
of inventories
- Analysis
of experts work: existing networks
- Exchange
of experience and organisational issues
- Test-beds
- National
observatories
- Legitimacy
- Access to
information
- Acting capacity
- Disseminating
capacity
- Cross-domain
scope of action
Common objectives,
common understanding
- To share
experiences
- To ensure
cultural heritage interoperability
- To build
tools together (preservation, standards...)
6 months workplan
- Identification
of existing inventories:
- At national
level: relying on national observatories / partners
- At international
level (Unesco, Eblida...)
- Analysis
of existing inventories:
- Access
mode
- Metadata
and vocabularies in use
- Technical
parameters
- Multilingualism
issues:
The French
experience
- By the Department
of Research and Technology of the French ministry of culture and
communication
- Project
started in 2001, based on existing initiatives
- Currently
the catalogue contains:
- 250
files on organisations
- 500
files on collections
- Scope of
collection files:
- libraries,
archives, museums, public department on cultural heritage:
archeology, monuments...
Organisational
principles
- Distributed
data provision among institutions
- Distributed
responsabilities of data control
- One repository,
one web interface
- Cross-domain
catalogue (Libraries, museums, archives, monuments)
- Cross-institution
catalogue
- Collection
at national level of regional initiatives
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