Programme Name

ARSBNI

• Responsible body

Direzione Generale per i Beni Librari e gli Istituti Culturali

• Coordinating body

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze

• Others

• Contact

Giovanni Bergamin
Gianna Megli

• Web site

• Objectives and priorities

Covering the missing Italian titles (printed monograph from 1958 to 1984) by means of digitisation and enhancing bibliographic record by linking record with images of title pages etc

• Source of funding and budget

• The standards used/recommended

• Long term sustainability strategy

• For long term preservation and for the model of archive (OAIS) we are using the results of NEDLIB project http://www.konbib.nl/nedlib
• For administrative and structural metadata of the digital images we are using http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/metadata.html

• Exploitation plan

Apply at national level a model for sharing digitisation of collection

• Problems encountered

Lack of standards

• Comments

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

Policy for Libraries

• related programmes

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

EUROPE (deposit of electronic publications)

• Responsible body

Direzione Generale per i Beni Librari e gli Istituti Culturali

• Coordinating body

Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze

• Others

• Contact

Giovanni Bergamin

• Web site

http://www.bncf.firenze.sbn.it/progetti/Europe/index.html

• Objectives and priorities

• Source of funding and budget

• The standards used/recommended

• Long term sustainability strategy

For long term preservation and for the model of archive (OAIS) we are using the results of NEDLIB project http://www.konbib.nl/nedlib

• Exploitation plan

Using specific (and voluntary) agreement between publisher and Library we will form the basisof the future legislation about legal deposit of electronic publications as recommended by IFLA/UNESCO see Guidelines for legal deposit legislation in http://www.ifla.org/VII/sl/gnl/legaldepl.htm

• Problems encountered

Lack of standards

• Comments

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

• related programmes

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

CASTA/Imagines

• Responsible body

Direzione Generale per i Beni Librari e gli Istituti Culturali

• Coordinating body

ICCU - Istituto Centrale Catalogo Unico

• Others

• Contact

Gabriella Contardi

• Web site

• Objectives and priorities

Cataloguing, consulting graphic and cartographic materials

• Source of funding and budget

Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali (MBAC)

• The standards used/recommended

ISBD (NBM); ICONCLASS; UNIMARC; JPEG; TIFF

• Long term sustainability strategy

Diffusion of CASTA methodologic and software to other libraries and cultural Institution

• Exploitation plan

Connect CASTA database to the central SBN Index

• Problems encountered

some problems with import-export

• Comments

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

Policy for Libraries

• related programmes

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

SBN ON LINE

• Responsible body

Direzione Generale per i Beni Librari e gli Istituti Culturali

• Coordinating body

ICCU - Istituto Centrale Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche

• Others

• Contact

Donatella Roveri

• Web site

http://sbnonline.sbn.it

• Objectives and priorities

Interoperability; Virtual Catalogue search (catalogues of libraries, museums with images of works of art and archives; ILL services request

• Source of funding and budget

EU, DG XIII, IV Frameworks: ONE-2 PROJECT (OPAC Network in Europe, phase 2); Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali

• The standards used/recommended

Z 39.50: Bath profile for cross-domain searching; BIB-1, CIMI and Dublin Core attribute sets; Record Syntax: SUTRS, UNIMARC, USMARC, GRS.1, XML; Explain-Lite; Item Order (profile 2); ISO-ILL 10160-10161.

• Long term sustainability strategy

• Exploitation plan

• Problems encountered

• Comments

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

Policy for Libraries

• related programmes

ONE-2; TEL

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

DIGITISATION OF CARD CATALOGUES ON MICROFICHES

• Responsible body

Direzione Generale per i Beni Librari e gli Istituti Culturali

• Coordinating body

ICCU - Istituto Centrale Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche

• Others

• Contact

Dr. Gisella De Caro
Dr. Silvia Simonelli

• Web site

• Objectives and priorities

The aim of this project is to provide access to about 6 million of images, with their bibliographic description contained in 62 catalogues of 21 public libraries

• Source of funding and budget

Law n.662/1996: € 309.874,14

• The standards used/recommended

For images: TIFF
For text: HTML

• Long term sustainability strategy

• Exploitation plan

• Problems encountered

The main problem is to provide with an index manuscript records

• Comments

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

• related programmes

Italian Digital Library

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

TEL - The European Library

• Responsible body

The European Community

• Coordinating body

The British Library, United Kingdom (BL)

• Others

Biblioteca Nacional, Portugal (BN)
Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Firenze, Italy (BNCF)
Conference of European National Librarians (CENL)
Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Germany (DDB)
Helsingin Yliopiston Kirjasto, Finland (HUL)
Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico, Italy (ICCU)
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Netherlands (KB)
Narodna in Univerzitetna Knjiznica v Ljubljani, Slovenia (NUK)
Swiss National Library, Switzerland (SNL)

• Contact

Howard ShoemarkThe British Library

• Web site

http://www.europeanlibrary.org/

• Objectives and priorities

The main goal of The European Library project is to set up a co-operative framework which will lead to a system for access to the major National and other Institutions deposit collections

• Source of funding and budget

Funded by the European Commission as an accompanying measure under the cultural heritage applications area of Key Action 3 of the Information Society Technologies (IST) research programme

• The standards used/recommended

Dublin Core, DC-Lib, OAI, SRU

• Long term sustainability strategy

Sustainability Agency which consists of representatives of the TEL participants

• Exploitation plan

• Problems encountered

• Comments

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

• related programmes

Gabriel, Renardus, ONE-2 Bath profile, Z39.50, DCMI

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

RINASCIMENTO VIRTUALE PROJECT

• Responsible body

For Italy Direzione Generale per i Beni Librari e gli Istituti Culturali

• Coordinating body

For Italy: Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana (project coordinator) and ICCU (responsible of software development)

• Others

Universität Hamburg (project leader) + others

• Contact

Franca Arduini

• Web site

• Objectives and priorities

To create a multimedia inventory of greek palimpsests

• Source of funding and budget

UE (Cultura 2000 programme) + Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities

• The standards used/recommended

• Long term sustainability strategy

• Exploitation plan

• Problems encountered

• Comments

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

• related programmes

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

CENSUS OF ITALIAN 16TH CENTURY EDITIONS - EDIT 16

• Responsible body

ICCU - Istituto Centrale Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane e per le informazioni bibliografiche

• Coordinating body

• Others

• Contact

Dr.Claudia Leoncini

• Web site

http://edit16.iccu.sbn.it

• Objectives and priorities

EDIT 16 aims at documenting Italian books printed during the 16th century and at reviewing the countrywide heritage. At the present time it is receiving input from some 1200 Italian libraries.
Besides the titles, EDIT 16 also contains information about the authors, publishers, uniform titles, printers' devices.The project includes the digitisation of devices, title-page, colophon and some intersting pages off all editions in the database.

• Source of funding and budget

• The standards used/recommended

• Long term sustainability strategy

• Exploitation plan

• Problems encountered

Lack of personnel entirely devoted to the project. Serious problems to have at our disposal material for digitisation because it is allocated in the 1200 libraries cooperating with the Census.

• Comments

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

• related programmes

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

TESAURO

• Responsible body

Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica (MURST) Liguori Ed. Napoli

• Coordinating body

Biblioteca Angelica - Roma

• Others

• Contact

Prof. G. D'Angelo

• Web site

• Objectives and priorities

XVII Century edition print on demand service and work on demand ICR recognition, various services on ancient books.

• Source of funding and budget

Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca (60% circa)Private financing (Liguori Ed. 40% circa)

• The standards used/recommended

For electronic document from ancient books standard: Adobe, Pdf, Doc, E-book; for digitisation: Xerox technology and standard images files; for ICR recognition Inteligent system on neutral platform; for cataloguing: SBN standard

• Long term sustainability strategy

Network between libraries and publisher for products

• Exploitation plan

Market analysis plaine of by planning, e-commerce planning libraries and publisher

• Problems encountered

Market analysis plaine of by planning, e-commerce planning libraries and publisher

• Comments

The project is the first experience in Italy of structural and infrastructural between public libraries and private publishers

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

• related programmes

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

GEOWEB

• Responsible body

Direzione Generale per i Beni Librari e gli Istituti Culturali

• Coordinating body

Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venice

• Others

• Contact

Piero Falchetta

• Web site

geoweb.venezia.sbn.it/geoweb/gwindex.html

• Objectives and priorities

Digitisation and catalogation of ancient cartographic materials and graphics
images (geographic maps and printing): 16.000
texts: 25.000 pages

• Source of funding and budget

Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali MBAC

• The standards used/recommended

For catalogation: ISBD(CM) and rules for catalogation of graphics (Guida alla catalogazione della stampa, Roma, ICCU, 1986) cataloguing UNIMARC.

Technical guidelines for digitisation: high resolution TIFF-24 bits/colour images (250-300 d.p.i) medium-to-low resolution JPEG-24 bits/colour images for a quick Internet access.

The set of metadata referce mainly to Dublin Core

• Long term sustainability strategy

GeoWeb service gives access to about 16000 images, with their bibliographic description; 10000 new items will be added to GeoWeb within the end of the year 2002.

• Exploitation plan

GeoWeb is a free access site. free access to the medium-low resolution images; free availability only for local consultation to the high resolution images and selling on CD.

• Problems encountered

Technical: storage and distribution of high resolution images.

• Comments

GeoWeb will be improved with new functions and developments

• Figures and documents enclosed

Short description of GeoWeb Content.

• related policy

Policy for Libraries

• related programmes

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

Archivio Digitale della Musica Veneta (ADMV)

• Responsible body

Direzione Generale per i Beni Librari e gli Istituti Culturali

• Coordinating body

Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - Venezia Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino
Discoteca di Stato - Roma (MBAC)

• Others

• Contact

Dr. Maurizio Messina
Dr. Aurelio Aghemo
Dr. Livia Borghetti Marzulli

• Web site

http://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/admv.htm

• Objectives and priorities

Define and test a new integrated service for music information which will provide a multimedia access on the network to scores, music manuscripts and recorded sound through a common user interface.

In the first phase 27 volumes containing Vivaldi's manuscripts, and 65 volumes, containing manuscripts of Alessandro e Benedetto Marcello

The project is the first phase of the digitisation of Discoteca di Stato recorded sound collection (record and tapes) for preservation and access services

• Source of funding and budget

L.120/1996

L.662/1996

• The standards used/recommended

The set of metadata are under definition on the basis of the set defined by Library of Congress, RLG, NEDLIB

For recorded sound the model for technical metadata will be MPEG7

Cataloguing UNIMARC and Z39.50

For sound digital object:

Preservation copy: Files wave BWF 48kHz 24 bit, or 96 kHz 24 bit for special recordings

Users copy: MPEG3 and real audio

• Long term sustainability strategy

Migration of the files to new systems and carriers on the basis that all the systems are open and standard technologies (UNIX, format, etc)

• Exploitation plan

Under definition in the framework of Legge Ronchey

All the products and results will be available for the Italian libraries and sound archives

• Problems encountered

Serious lack of personnel - both in the technical and administrative area - in the institution to devote entirely to the project and to run it.

This situation has caused delay in the schedule of the project.

Copyright for the services on the network

• Comments

Very positive and fruitful relation with the University of Padova-Dipartimento di Elettronica ed Informatica- the department has produced the feasibility study of the project. The document is the result of a cooperation which involved both university experts and personnel of our institutions.

Discoteca di Stato has established a similar fruitful and positive cooperation with RAI (Italian national broadcasting company) for the design of the sound digital archive and services

A very positive and friutful distance working mjethodology amongst all the institutions involved

An interesting agreement of cooperation between the three instituions.

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

Policy for Libraries

• related programmes

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

CANDIDO

• Responsible body

Biblioteca Universitaria, Pisa

• Coordinating body

Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - Venezia Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino
Discoteca di Stato - Roma (MBAC)

• Others

• Contact

Alessandra Pesante

• Web site

http://www.cab.unipd.it/eventi/pisa.php3

• Objectives and priorities

Creation of a digital archive, complete with bibliographic records and images, of some ancient documents collections (mostly XVIII century literary serials). Duration: 30 months

• Source of funding and budget

• The standards used/recommended

Resolution: newspapers 200 dpi; 8 bit per pixel (256 livelli di grigio); others 300 dpi, RGB vero colore (24 bit per pixel)Compression: J-PEG

• Long term sustainability strategy

• Exploitation plan

• Problems encountered

• Comments

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

• related programmes

• additional information about on-going activity

RISK MAP OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

• Responsible body

MiBAC

• Coordinating body

ICR

• Others

• Contact

Giorgio Accardo, Alessandro Bianchi icr@arti.beniculturali.it

• Web site

http://www.icr.beniculturali.it

• Objectives and priorities

The Risk Map of cultural heritage is an initiative aimed to provide both the responsible for the protection of territory and the Central Administration with supporting instruments for scientific and administrative activities.

The Map collects the experience and the methodological approach of the 1975 Plan for the Programmed Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Umbria which was the first experiment of global evaluation of factors of decay extended to a whole territory and the validity of which was dramatically confirmed at the occasion of the earthquakes of Friuli (1976) and Irpinia (1980). This initiative, first outlined in the document "Per un carta del rischio del patrimonio culturale" ("For a Risk Map of Cultural Heritage") drawn up within 'Memorabilia' (1987), was eventually actuated with law 84/90. This law authorised the implementation of the initiative and charged the Central Institute of the Restauration with the scientific responsibility for its conduct.

The initiative consists in two activities:

- A permanent operational structure (the Central Hub, c/o S. Michele, Laboratory of Physics, ICR) for the managing of all information concerning the conservation of cultural heritage on a national scale;

-Survey of monument decay: an activity for an effective and timely evaluation of the condition of archaeological areas, monuments and works of art.

This system aims to harmonize the interoperability of data-bases of different nature, produced during the years, in particular by the ICR (see point 5 competence centres). Its similarities to the SIGEC system are evident but while the latter is oriented towards quantification and cataloguing of cultural heritage, the Risk Map points out its decay process and status of preservation. Anyway the two systems were created to be interoperable and will be integrated in a future System for the preservation and management of the cultural heritage.Between 1992 and 1996 MiBAC allocated about 14 M€ for the Risk Map, while other financial resources were made available for the period 1996-1997 (about 1.5 M€) and 2002 (about 3 M€).

• Source of funding and budget

Public funding

• The standards used/recommended

• Long term sustainability strategy

• Exploitation plan

• Problems encountered

• Comments

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

policy for cultural heritage preservation, cataloguing and restoration

• related programmes

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

SIGEC - SISTEMA INFORMATIVO GENERALE DEL CATALOGO (=INFORMATION NETWORK OF THE ARTISTIC, ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE)

• Responsible body

MiBAC

• Coordinating body

ICCD

• Others

• Contact

Erminia Sciacchitano
Elena Plances

• Web site

http://www.iccd.beniculturali.it

• Objectives and priorities

Online availability of Italian cultural assets catalogue, equipped with documentation, such as digital images and designs, multimedia documents, georeferenziati.

Available data bases will be those produced by MiBAC institutes, and by evry other subject dealing with cultural heritage cataloguing (Regioni, Enti locali, Istituzioni ecclesiastiche, Fondazioni e musei, Università).

• Source of funding and budget

Public funding

• Duration

• Sectors of content holders

• The standards used/recommended

XML

• Long term sustainability strategy

• Exploitation plan

• Problems encountered

• Comments

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

policy for cultural heritage preservation, cataloguing and restoration

• related programmes

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

S.I.T.A.P. - SISTEMA INFORMATIVO TERRITORIALE AMBIENTALE PAESAGGISTICO

• Responsible body

Direzione generale per i beni architettonici e il paesaggio

• Coordinating body

• Others

• Contact

Fabio Carapacchio

• Web site

• Objectives and priorities

GIS finalized to the preservation of the Italian landscape, based on the cartography produced by the Italian Geographical Military Institute and gathering information concerning administrative data, hydrography, climatic zones, bound heritage according the law etc.

The objective is to develop a system that supports and simplifies

• assets management
• decision making
• citizen information

The realization of the project is articulated in two phases:

• acquisition of geo-referenced data about landscape heritage (concluded)
• acquisition of geo-referenced data about architectural heritage (in progress)

• Source of funding and budget

Public funding

• The standards used/recommended

• Results and statistics

• Indicators for monitoring

• Impacts

• Long term sustainability strategy

• Exploitation plan

Remote online consultation

• Problems encountered

• Comments

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

Policy for cultural heritage preservation, cataloguing and restoration

Policy for architectural heritage and landscape

• related programmes

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

SITIA - SISTEMA INFORMATIVO TERRITORIALE INTEGRATO PER L'ARCHEOLOGIA

• Responsible body

Direzione Generale per i beni archeologici

• Coordinating body

Direzione Generale per i beni archeologici - Servizio II

• Others

Ministry of agricultural policies

Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities - Supervisory office for architectural heritage and landscape

Public administrations

• Contact

Adalberto Console

• Web site

http://www.archeologia.beniculturali.it

• Objectives and priorities

Application of new technologies to the representation and management of the archaeological real estate heritage, in order to prevent the risk of loss and plan financial and administrative initiatives.

Public administrations involved cooperate in sharing territorial data on common portions of the territory, based on uniform georeferencing and description mechanisms (metadata).

Territorial services, as well as administrative services will be developed, on three different operative levels, according to thedifferent profiles of the users:

Basic territorial services: constitution, updating and management of basic cartography; utility functions (navigation on the territory, management of different informative layers);

Specific territorial services: implementation, validation and updating of specific thematic layers for each different intervention area.

Administrative services: rationalization of administrative procedures, supply of technical and juridical support; data obtained at lower costs.

• Source of funding and budget

Annual budget € 2,000,000.00

Average duration: 5 years

• The standards used/recommended

• Results and statistics

• Indicators for monitoring

• Impacts

• Long term sustainability strategy

• Exploitation plan

• Problems encountered

• Comments

• Figures and documents enclosed

• related policy

Policy for cultural heritage preservation, cataloguing and restoration

Policy for archaeological heritage

• related programmes

• additional information about on-going activity

Programme Name

ARCHIVI - Sistema archivistico nazionale

• Responsible body

Direzione Generale per gli archivi

• Coordinating body

• Others

144 State Achives; 19 Archival Superintendencies

• Contact