users and the michael european service

Users and the MICHAEL European service

The MICHAEL Project is funded under the European Commission eTEN Programme

David DawsonMuseums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK

Users of MICHAEL• many different user communities

• education• cultural tourism• research• ‘co-ordination’

Cultural tourist• visiting Tuscany …

Toscana

Photo archive

Researcher• Associate Professor from Canada

Subjects

What will the EU Digital Library be?

• a common multilingual access point to Europe’s distributed• held in different places by different

organisations - digital cultural heritage, • all types of cultural material

• texts, audiovisual, museum objects, archival records etc

• targeted at delivering rapidly a critical mass of resources to the users.

Building blocks• The European Library (TEL) as a gateway

to the collective resources of national libraries across Europe

• The work ongoing in the Michael and Michael Plus projects in describing and linking digital collections of museums, libraries and archives from different Member States and providing access to these collections

European Digital Library

Collections

Items

MICHAEL TEL

MICHAEL and the European Digital Library

Thank you

david.dawson@mla.gov.uk