Rossella CaffoMinistero per i beni e le attività culturali

Istituto centrale per il catalogo unico delle biblioteche italiane (ICCU)

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The Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian

Libraries (ICCU)

• is the national center which promotes and coordinates cataloguing and digitisation activities of the Italian libraries

• is a body of the Italian Ministry for cultural heritage and activities

• is responsible for guiding, producing, adapting and disseminating the standard rules for cataloguing and digitisation of the library heritage.

ICCU Departments and Activities

1. Administrative Service

2. Service for the cultural promotion

ICCU is structured in2 services and 6 departments

Projects:

• Internet Culturale • CulturaItalia • Europeana (Italian partic.) • World Digital Library (Italian partic.) • European projects•Google Books (Italian partic.)

1. Standards rules for cataloguing and digitisation

2. National Library Service (SBN)

3. Bibliographic information and activities, Registry of the Italian libraries

4. Digitisation and access to documents

5. Activities concerning bibliography, cataloguing and census of the ancient book

6. Census and management of the Italian bibliography of manuscripts

National projects

National Library Service – SBN http://www.sbn.it/

Internet Culturale http://www.internetculturale.it/

CulturaItalia http://www.culturaitalia.it/

SBN: the National Library ServiceThe National Library Service (SBN) is the

network of the Italian libraries providing services to libraries and to end-users.

SBN:• is a network promoted by the Italian Ministry for Cultural

Heritage and coordinated by ICCU• acts in cooperation with Regions and Universities• is based on the cooperation among libraries• provides services to libraries and end-users • gets over the fragmentation of the Italian Libraries

structure • OPAC SBN online since 1997

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SBN today

• 71 nodes– 4,500 libraries all over the country

– national, university, local and specialist

• Over 11 M bibliographic descriptions– authors: over 3 M

– holding locations: 55 M

• OPAC – over 30 M searches / 2010

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architecture

SBN services

• Union Catalogue (Index): for libraries (administrative and cataloguing purposes)

• OPAC: public interface of the UC for the final users

• InterLibrary Loan (ILL): compliant with ISO ILL (ISO 10160:1997)

• Access to digital objects: libraries can link their digital objects to the Union Catalogue through URI

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http://opac.sbn.it/

Searches in OPAC SBNACCESS to OPAC records

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5.000.000

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More than 30 M in 2009 and 2010. Many from abroad (especially USA)

SBN governance (1)

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SBN steering committee: partner representatives (chaired by the Culture Minister)

responsible for the SBN policy and strategy

SBN partners • Ministry for cultural heritage and activities (MiBAC)• Ministry of education, university and research (MIUR)• Ministry for public administration and innovation• Conference of the Italian Regions • Union of the Italian Provinces (UPI)• National Association of the Italian municipalities (ANCI)

SBN governance (2)

Responsible for:• guidelines and standards• evolution of the network• service development

SBN technical committee:• ICCU director• 1 representative of MiBAC-DG for libraries• 13 representatives appointed by the steering committee (policy makers, technicians, specialists)

SBN: technical features

• Open architecture based on common internet protocols:– TCP/IP, HTTP, XML/XSL, SOAP, JMS etc…

• Easy integration with other systems:– based on Java Platform 2 Enterprise Edition

• High performance and reliability– Unix platforms and Java multi-threaded

services– High performance relational DBMS (Oracle

RDBMS)

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SBN: functionalities

Web interface for central cataloguing functions:– authority files management;– quality control and revision (corrections,

elimination of duplicates)

and data exchange– import/export of bibliographic records

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SBN: shared cataloguing

SBN libraries work independently and integrate their work into a cooperative system based on a national network.

• SBN is an architecture for a cooperative library services network:– Central Union Catalogue (Index) at national level– Union Catalogues (Nodes) at regional and local levels

• The Union Catalogue uses structured data, not flat records (i.e. MARC format)

– records are registered only once and reused afterwards (captured)

– records can be improved through different levels of correction (levels of authority)

– modifications and updating are sent to all participating libraries

The SBN MARC protocol

The solution for the interoperability between the Union Catalogue (Index) and the LMSs is guaranteed by the SBN MARC protocol, based on 'request' (libraries => Index) and 'response' (Index =>libraries)

• The xsd schema is freely available (http://www.iccu.sbn.it/genera.jsp?id=147&l=it)

• It is based on international standards (UNICODE UTF-8, ISBD, etc.) and uses MARC semantic elements and an xml syntax

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SBN: offline services

• Import– Preparatory or executive elaboration– Documents, authority entries– Formats: UNIMARC, MARC21, SBN-MARC

• Export– Documents, authority entries– Formats: UNIMARC, MARC21, SBN-MARC

UNIMARC/MARC21 records SBN records

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IMPORT

EXPORT

Access to OPAC

OPAC is integrated in:• Internet Culturale, the portal of the

digital resources of the Italian libraries (www.internetculturale.it)

• CulturaItalia, the Italian culture portal (www.culturaitalia.it)

• The European Library, the portal of the European national libraries (www.theeuropeanlibrary.org)

Internet Culturale• IC is the portal of the Italian libraries; it provides access to the

heritage of public libraries and prestigious Italian cultural institutions.

• Thanks to IC, the user can search and browse both bibliographic information and digital collections

• IC offers digital and multimedia resources provided by the participating institutions to deepen specific topics, from literature to science, art, and music

The mission• It promotes knowledge, valorisation, and availability of the

heritage of the Italian libraries and cultural and research institutions

• IC can fulfil the requirements of users with different education, interests, and age; Internet Culturale is absolutely necessary for students and researchers

Data basesInternet Culturale allows integrated searches in 20 millions news

from:

• Opac SBN: 12 M bibliographic records• Manus (Census of the manuscripts held by the Italian libraries):

120,000 records• Edit16 (Census of the Italian printed editions from XVI century):

64,000 records• ReMI (Italian music network): 9,000 records from Archivio Ricordi• Digital library: 8 M files (jpg, mp3, text) from the digital

collections• Internet Culturale Multimedia content: virtual exhibitions, 3D

itineraries, cultural routes)• Historical catalogues (215 historical catalogues from 35

libraries): almost 7M (soon available)

From the homepage user can access the Digital library to search and retrieve information on manuscripts, printed volumes, audio files, photographs, engravings, drawings, and many other stuff on literature, arts and sciences. (8 millions of images)

Digital object visualisation: single page Author: Braun, Georg - Hogenberg, Frans

Title: De praecipuis, totius universi urbibus, liber secundusLocalisation: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana - Venice

Digital object visualisation: double page

Digital object visualisation: page list

Digital object visualisation: zoom

Internet Culturale in depthsThe ‘Explore’ item gives access to multimedia resources with in depth

content:

• Digital library – informative reports on the digital collections and access to the content

• Itineraries – focuses that merge cultural content with historical, geographical, and scientific ones on institutions, documents, digital objects

• Virtual exhibitions – online exhibitions of equivalent real exhibitions organised by libraries and cultural institutions

• 3D itineraries – literary, artistic, scientific, and musical events realised in 3D

• Authors and literary works – monographs on Italian writers, scientists and musicians and their works

Standards

• Bibliographic and digital databases in the MetaIndex are mapped to DC

• The Digital library database is realised with MAG (Metz compliant)

• Content providers transfer their data through OAI-MPH

• Metadata of the Digital Library are mapped to PICO towards CulturaItalia

MagTeca: a service for all

ICCU created in 2005 a digital repository (MagTeca) for all libraries and cultural institutions that create digital collections but don’t have an institutional digital repository.

MagTeca offers a free service for the management and preservation of metadata and low and medium resolution images.

MagTeca software was renewed in 2010 as well as

the hardware. Software can be distributed for free to cultural institutions.

CulturaItalia

On-line since April 2008CulturaItalia in Europeana: 1.652,000 sent through OAI-PMH

Interoperable with MICHAEL, the MiBAC and the Regions informative systems

National aggregator of museums, libraries, archives content:more than 2 M records inside!

Mission To make the digital cultural resources already existing available and searchable online To realise the interoperability of the Italian content and services

Mission and content

Each provider holds the rights on the digital objects shown through the portal and is responsible for their maintenance and update

Editorial content 27.000 news and articles to bring out the metadata and the digital resources harvested

Directory of cultural websites More than 5,200 selected websites

Multimedia450

Catalogue of metadataUp to now, beyond 2,000,000 records

Standards integrationICCU, in cooperation with the Central Institute for

cataloguing and documentation (ICCD) and the DG for Archives of the Italian Ministry,

is working for the harmonization of the metadata standards of the ALM sectors in a cross-domain perspective.

• MAG (conceived for the Italian libraries) is mapped into METS• PICO (the national cross-domain application profile) is based on

DC

OAI PMH is nowadays the most common way for the data

transmission among the MiBAC’s informative systems.

MuseiD-Italia

Musei

Regioniaggregatori

ATHENA Aggregatore Tematico

Università

Internet Culturale Aggregatore Tematico

Contenuti culturali italiani in

Europeana

Thank you!Rossella Caffo

rosa.caffo@beniculturali.it

DC-NET and INDICATE

Coordinatorhttp://www.indicate-project.org

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