Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism: Greek cultural collections in national and european networks Katerina Moutogianni Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism Directorate of Informatics & Telecommunications
MICHAEL CULTURE (2006) - Greek online catalogue of digital collections - European online catalogue of digital collections ATHENA-EUROPEANA (2008) Coordination and support of Greek cultural institutions to provide digital items to Europeana Digital Collections of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism (2010) Online access to artefacts from Greek Public Museums
MICHAEL CULTURE European Network A result of MICHAEL : Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe (2006-2008) project The multilingual European portal www.michaelculture.org is an online catalogue of digital collections of museums, libraries and archives from 18 countries The Greek portal www.michael-culture.gr is an online catalogue of Greek cultural collections and one of the national portals that contribute to the EU portal
Currently 28 institutions Variety of digital content, different types of institutions Collections descriptions contributed by the institutions Open to new institutions and new digital collections
European portal homepage in Greek
European portal navigation and searching
About 10.000 digital collections are currently listed on the EU portal The network is still active through the MICHAEL CULTURE Association in 11 countries
ΑΤΗΕΝΑ Network - Europeana Best Practice Network: ATHENA: Access to cultural heritage networks across Europe (2008-2011) www.athenaeurope.org A cooperation of 22 countries for aggregating and providing digital items to Europeana, mainly from Museums and cultural archives
The initiative of the Ministry has been two-fold: To promote the digital collections of the Ministry s public museums, through the development of a national portal To collaborate with other cultural institutions and support them in publishing their collections to Europeana
Digital Collections of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism Online portal collections.culture.gr Launched in June 2010 Scientific documentation about artifacts from Greek public museums available online Essential for publishing content to Europeana Faceted filtering based on location (Museum), category, type, date Easy to use web interface provides edit and update functionality
Coordination of content from the Directorate of the National Archive of Monuments 34 participating museums 4500 prehistoric, classical and byzantine items Quality of content
Ongoing enrichment English translation Further development Digital curation opportunities to the Ministry s professionals Advanced search functionality Expand content from archaeological objects to include monuments and listed buildings, as well as the intangible heritage
Supporting cultural institutions through ATHENA ATHENA national events to inform institutions Training seminars for interested institutions Close collaboration with 16 institutions Support to institutions throughout the process
ATHENA workflow ATHENA content providers Select the content they wish to make available to Europeana Export metadata in XML files Import metadata to the ATHENA system Use the ATHENA tool to map their metadata to LIDO harvesting schema (www.lido-schema.org) The ΑΤΗΕΝΑ system transforms metadata from LIDO to ESE and makes them available to Europeana ATHENA is currently the biggest contributor to Europeana with a total of 3,8m items
Greek content providers of ATHENA Hellenic Ministry of Culture - Tourism Benaki Museum National Documentation Centre Historical Archive of the Aegean Ergani National Galllery - Alexandos Soutzos Museum National Research Foundation "Eleftherios K. Venizelos" Friends of Music Society, Music Library of Greece "Lilian Voudouri" Museum of the City of Athens - Vouros-Eutaxias Foundation National Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Cycladic Art Research Centre for the Study of Modern Greek History of the Academy Museum of Greek Folk Art Hellenic Maritime Museum National Theatre of Northern Greece Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation Centre of Technical Culture - Industrial Museum Ermoupolis *STUDIO - parallel circuit 50 0 439 417 0 348 340 158 160 276 300 50 50 0 0 430 0 200 1593 1585 1555 1500 1260 1086 1086 1030 1030 1499 3535 3444 3400 4234 4323 4500 0 500 1000 1500 2000 2500 3000 3500 4000 4500 5000 Ingested content Declared content
Difficulties Problems that made it difficult for institutions: Technical difficulties in exporting their metadata from their databases- often no technical support Content not accessible online Quality checks and improvements of the content and metadata Decision makers did not consider participation as a priority some reluctant to publish content
Next steps Continuation through the Linked Heritage project (2011-2013) Cooperation with network of Greek institutions Dissemination activities to raise awareness and motivate institutions Collaboration, training and support Increasing the content in the collections.culture.gr portal National aggregator in the longer term
Contact: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Tourism Directorate of Informatics & Telecommunications Katerina Moutogianni e-mail kmoutogianni@culture.gr, tel: 213 1322 343 Constantinos Chatzichristos (Director) e-mail cchatz@culture.gr, tel: 213 1322 124