GOOD PRACTICE FORM FOR NOMINATIONS

We propose to start the activity of the workgroup on 'good practice' proposing an initial set of some main areas where to put the nominations. In particular we think to start with the basic issue of digitisation itself.
Each project can be 'nominated' for more than one area, following your evaluation of the most important features contained in the example.

AREAS for nominations of 'good practice' for on-going projects on digitisation:
1.	Preservation of physical objects via digitisation and electronic surrogates.
2.	High quality of the digitisation process.
3.	Metadata and Thesaurus.
4.	Usability of project results.
5.	Management of the process and workflow
6.	Accessibility including copyright issues and web sites

For each project please specify:

Area of 'good practice' where you like to nominate your project (you can put more than only one area): 
High quality of the digitisation process.
Metadata and Thesaurus.
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•	Name: Information Network dei Beni Culturali

•	Responsible body and/or any specific : 
•	ICCD
Co-ordinating body/mechanism:
ICCD

•	Contact person:
Marco Lattanzi

•	Web site:
www.iccd.beniculturali.it

•	Description of the project, objectives and priorities: 
This “industrialisation” of an implementation of a homogeneous database access system within the framework of a European project ( the “Aquarelle” project) will allow the users to consult on the network a high number of databases inaccessible until now.
The project uses standards adopted by international cultural heritage operators, like ISO Z39.50, with the Zeta Suite (Finsiel), and the CIMI (computer Interchange of Museum Information), BIB (Bibliographic), DC (Dublin Core) and GILS (Global Information Locator Service) profiles. The implementation
Of a standard access system will allow the user to co-relate different typologies of data distributed over the network which are structurally inhomogeneous in content (catalographic, bibliographic and archivistic) and structure. 
The project aims at.
•	Making available on the network the catalogues of::
ICCD, with contain about 1.000.000 cards and 450.000 images; constant implementation is underway; the region Lombardia, the region Friuli Venezia Giulia, the Region of Emilia Romagna, the Region of Marche, the Superintendence for Artistic and Historic heritage of Firenze and Pistoia, the Superintendence for Enviropnment, Architectonic, Artistic and Historic heritage of Pisa, CEI, the Commune of Rome,
 to build the first network nucleus of historical-artistic heritage.
•	Enabling Internet users to:
Carry out simple and/or advanced research on single catalographic databases, on several catalographic databases of the same type (works of art or bibliographic or archivistic works, etc.) with multiprofile accesses; obtain different layers of information presentation, textual or multimedial, diversified on the basis defined user profiles and in accordance with the reference models; of access the “folders”, hyper-textual structural documents, connected even to catalographic information.

•	The main technical features for what you consider the project a 'good practice' example:
ICCD has decided to develop a homogeneous access system to databases connected on the network, using technological platform conformant to reference models based on interconnection and interoperability standards. The target is to create, through new technologies, geographically distributed database networks available to all users as one unique enormous source of information. The user may send requests to one single service centre, which will in turn distribute the requests to all the databases of the network, collect the respective answers, and present them to the users in a homogeneous way. The network users must be freed from the necessity to get connected every time to all sites, and to learn for each of them the synthesis of query and the structural semantics of the data.

•	Long term sustainability strategy:

•	Accessibility by users via local network or Internet (describe modalities and IPR issue from a technical point of view):
Web accessible

•	Problems encountered :

Comments: 

Figures and documents enclosed:

I agree this information could be published/

                            X  Yes
                               No

Organisation & person completing the questionnaire

•	Formal name of organisation: Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione - Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali

•	Type of organisation: public

•	Field of action:	Archive / Library / Museum / Foundation / others ….
Scheduling standards and documentation on Cultural Italian heritage

•	Address: Rome, via di San Michele 18 - Italy

•	Name of director: Arch. Maria Luisa Polichetti

•	Name and role of person completing the questionnaire: Matilde Amaturo

•	Tel: 0039/06/585521

•	Fax: 0039/06/58332313

•	Web site: www.iccd.beniculturali.it

•	E-mail: amaturo@iccd.beniculturali.it

•	Date: 24/04/2002