[Yulpub] Multilingual catalog of European digital collections

[Suzanne Lorimer]

New Database/Online Catalog: MICHAEL, A Multilingual Online
   Catalogue

   "At a conference today in Bristol the Museums, Libraries and
   Archives Council (MLA) launched MICHAEL, the multilingual online
   catalogue which aims to provide quick and simple access to the
   digital collections of museums, libraries and archives from European
   countries. In future, students and researchers will be able to
   discover information about European digital collections that might
   previously have been difficult to find. The services will also
   support cultural tourism, the creative industries and other
   interests...Work on Michael began in 2004 to create an open source
   database for recording digital collections, that can be accessed
   through websites in many different languages. Work is continuing on
   cataloguing the rich digital collections in the UK, and a European
   portal of digital collections from Italy, France and the UK will be
   launched in 2006. As the project moves forwards, new partners will
   join the project from Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece,
   Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands and Poland By 2007, the MICHAEL
   portal will be available in at least 12 European languages and give
   access to digital collections across Europe."

See the official press release at < 
http://www.mla.gov.uk/news/press_article.asp?articleid=874 >

-Sue

Suzanne Lorimer
Coordinator of Research Services
Research Services and Collections Department
226 Sterling Memorial Library, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240
130 Wall Street
New Haven, CT  06520-8240
(phone) 203-432-8371  (fax) 203-432-8527