MICHAEL European portal: Links on interoperability and inventories

Legislation, standard, rules

European Interoperability Framework (EIF)
http://europa.eu.int/idabc/en/document/3473/5887
Unesco. Recommendation concerning the Promotion and Use of Multilingualism and Universal Access to Cyberspace
http://portal.unesco.org/ci/ev.php?URL_ID=13475&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201&reload=1071070423

Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
http://dublincore.org
Open forum engaged in the development of interoperable online metadata standards
Interoperability and service provision MINERVA Working group
http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure/workinggroups/servprov.htm
RSLP collection description schema:
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/rslp/schema/
UKOLN Metadata
http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata
Projects, resources, initiatives on metadata, by UKOLN, centre of expertise in digital information management

ICCU - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane
e per le Informazioni Bibliografiche. Laboratorio per il controllo bibliografico, Repertory of the digitised Italian cultural collections. Version 0.1 - 5.7.2004 [pdf 120Kb]
ICCU - Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle Biblioteche Italiane
e per le Informazioni Bibliografiche. Laboratorio per il controllo bibliografico, Repertorio delle collezioni culturali digitalizzate italiane. Version 0.1 - 5.7.2004 [pdf 119Kb]

Bodin, Céline, Website of the day: MICHAEL Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe, European Institute of Cultural Routes, 21 April 2007
- Français
- Italiano
Caffo, Rossella. La Biblioteca digitale: la strategia dell'Unione Europea e il servizio MICHAEL. "Bollettino AIB", 46 (2006), n. 4, p. 399-406.
Caffo, Rossella. La cooperazione per la digitalizzazione dei contenuti culturali. "Bollettino AIB", 44 (2004), n. 3, p. 381-386.
Antonella Fresa. MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe. Paper presented at EVA FLORENCE 2005 (.PDF 67kb)
Anna Christaki, Vassilis Tzouvaras, Antonella Fresa, Rosella Caffo, Pier Giacomo Sola, Stefanos Kollias. Achieving Interoperability in the MichaelPlus Project

European Digital Library Project
http://www.edlproject.eu/index.php
EDLproject is a Targeted Project funded by the European Commission under the eContentplus Programme, within the area of Cultural content and scientific/scholarly content. The project is working to integrate the bibliographic catalogues and digital collections of the National Libraries of Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain and Sweden, into The European Library