MICHAEL (portal)

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MICHAEL stands for Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe (multilingual inventory for European cultural assets). This portal offers quick and easy access to a large number of digital collections in archives , libraries , museums and other institutions that preserve cultural assets in Europe.

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MICHAEL is a kind of digital library . Digital or digitized collections of cultural property are cataloged here. Each digital collection is described in detail and contains information about the time the objects were created, the space to which the collection relates and the link to the digital collection itself. In addition, important people and events documented by the collection are named. Each description of the collection is also tagged with multilingual subject terms, which allows a multilingual thematic search.

There are already three national MICHAEL portals in France, Great Britain and Italy. The joint European MICHAEL portal has also been online since 2007 and is currently still based on data from the first three national portals. Its multilingual offering enables users to find digital collections from archives, libraries, museums and other cultural institutions in France, Great Britain and Italy. The national portals of the new project partners are still under construction.

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The MICHAEL project has been funded by the European Commission's eTEN program since 2004 . Three partners participated in the first phase of the project: France, Great Britain and Italy. Since June 2006, eleven other European countries have joined the project: the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Malta, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden.

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