Articles by Rossella Caffo

The Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane (ICCU) is an Institute of the Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e il Turismo; it manages the National Library Service, the union catalogue of over 5,000 Italian libraries, and is responsible for providing the standard rules and regulations for cataloguing all types of materials ranging from manuscripts to multimedia documents and for digitization of CH. ICCU has extensive experience in digitization standards and guidelines and coordinates on behalf of the Ministry major digital cultural heritage projects at the national level such as Internet Culturale, the portal of the digital resources of the Italian libraries, and CulturaItalia, the national aggregator for Europeana. At the European level the expertise of ICCU’s staff is dedicated to the coordination of top level European initiatives in DCH, such as MINERVA, the series of 3 projects that ran from 2002 to 2008 for the harmonization of the policies in DCH, and more recently the projects for contributing content to Europeana like: ATHENA, Linked Heritage, ATHENA Plus. ICCU coordinated also projects to bring the CH on the wave of the e-Infrastructures: DC-NET project, INDICATE and DCH-RP that investigated other political and technical domains of the relation between the DCH sector and e-Infrastructures. ICCU is also partner in many European projects, such as PARTAGE and ARIADNE, a research infrastructure in Archaeology.