Istituto centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane
Budget
€3,060,188
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
2
0.5 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
The Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and Bibliographic Information (ICCU) is an Institute of the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Activities, and Tourism (MiBACT); it manages the National Library Service, the union catalogue of over 6,000 Italian libraries, and is responsible for providing the standard rules and regulations for cataloguing and for digitization of CH. The institute offers also a storage service to libraries and museums. ICCU has a deep expertise in digitisation standards and guidelines and coordinates on behalf of the Ministry major digital cultural heritage projects at national level such as Internet Culturale, the portal of the digital resources of the Italian libraries, and CulturaItalia, the national aggregator for Europeana. At European level the expertise of ICCU’s staff is on the coordination of top level European initiatives in DCH, such as MINERVA -the series of 3 projects that run from 2002 to 2008 for the harmonizati (...)
EU Legislative Interests
EUROPEANA: ICCU manages the Italian National Aggregator, CulturaItalia DARIAH: ICCU is founding member of DARIAH-IT ICCU has coordinated inDICEs, Measuring the impact of DIgital CulturE (H2020-SC6-GOVERNANCE-2019) with the goal to empower policy-makers and decision-makers in the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) to fully understand the social and economic impact of digitisation in their sectors and address the need for innovative (re)use of cultural assets. It follows the Recommendation of 27 October 2011 on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation (2011/711/EU) it support the application of the The European Union Directive on the re-use of public sector information (PSI directive)
Interests Represented
Does not represent commercial interests
Member Of
IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) - https://www.ifla.org/ CERL - Consortium of European Research Libraries - https://www.cerl.org/
Organisation Members
MiC - Italian Ministry of Culture (https://www.cultura.it/)
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.