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Goals and outcomes
Goals
The goals of the overall project can be listed as follows:
- To make available to the European citizen the richness of the European
Cultural legacy.
- To allow access to all sectors of society, including the young,
the elderly, the disabled, the disadvantaged, the educated, the serious
researcher and the ‘merely interested’.
- To implement this:
- by coordinating and integrating national cultural heritage
initiatives,
- by agreeing and implementing common standards and technical
models,
- by identifying best practice and competence centres,
- by cross-fertilisation and learning from one another’s
mistakes,
- by benchmarking and monitoring progress across the member states
- by implementing common technical platforms
- by establishing real, useful services on these platforms,
- using the Internet, Broadband, the web and related technologies.
- To achieve the goals set out in the Lund
Action Plan, many of which are addressed in the previous point.
- To address the terms of reference of the NRG
and the objectives of the MINERVA
project, which themselves are a step towards the fulfilment
of the Lund Action Plan
Objectives
- A European cultural heritage inventory, available to all and providing
access to a trans-European range of cultural heritage resources.
- A growing number of national inventories using a common meta-data,
data model, set of services and based on a common technical platform,
localized as necessary.
- Sustainable management format for the project going forward (based
on an EEIG)
- Endorsement and implementation at a national government level,
in order to underpin further funding as required.
- A methodology and procedure, coupled with a flexible technical
platform, which makes it easy to add new national instances of MICHAEL,
thus growing the content and user bases.
Expected Outcomes
The expected outcomes of the MICHAEL project are closely aligned
with strategic, operational and pan-Action-Line objectives of eTen.
They include the following:
- Added value to Europe’s cultural heritage resources
- Interconnected and interoperable national initiatives
- Improved access to public resources
- A reinforcement and extension of the national cultural initiatives,
by adding a trans-European dimension.
- Facilitation of study, life-long learning, eLearning, distance
education
- Encouragement of cultural tourism
- Major facility for education and recreation, available to all
and so addressing social inclusion and geographical peripherality,
economic and social cohesion and a level playing field for all.
- A goldmine of cultural material for exploitation and re-use by
creative SMEs, by artists, designers, textile engineers and many
other sectors. The creative focus particularly suits SMEs, often
in remote parts of the EU.
- A growing number of national cultural portals, which can interoperate
with one another and which comply with the identified best practice
set of international standards for meta-data, data models, etc.
Technical Results
The technical results of the MICHAEL project can be listed as follows:
- National inventories on a common meta-data model, data model,
multilingual thesaurus and service model
- National portals running on a common open source technical platform,
localized as necessary
- Pan-national inventory portal
- Sustainable, flexible extensible model based on XML technologies
- Open source solution built on Apache Tomcat, Cocoon, XtoGen, etc.
- Methodology and model which is easy to deploy and replicate in
additional countries.
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