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Users and the MICHAEL European service. David Dawson Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK. The MICHAEL Project is funded under the European Commission eTEN Programme. Users of MICHAEL. many different user communities education cultural tourism research ‘co-ordination’.
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Users and the MICHAEL European service David Dawson Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, UK The MICHAEL Project is funded under the European Commission eTEN Programme
Users of MICHAEL • many different user communities • education • cultural tourism • research • ‘co-ordination’
Cultural tourist • visiting Tuscany …
Researcher • Associate Professor from Canada
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
MICHAEL and the European Digital Library European Digital Library MICHAEL TEL Collections Items
Thank you david.dawson@mla.gov.uk