Istituto centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane

Acronym: ICCU

General Information

Identification Code: 342799729512-11

Website: http://www.iccu.sbn.it/opencms/opencms/it/

Entity Form: public

Registration Category: Other organisations, public or mixed entities

Registration Date: 1/8/2018

Last Update: 3/25/2024

Mission & Interests

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 (...)

Interests Represented: Does not represent commercial interests

Interests:

Culture
Digital economy and society
Education and training
Research and innovation
Trans-European Networks

Levels of Interest:

national
european

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: 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)

Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: viale Castro Pretorio, 105

Post Code: 00185

City: Rome

Country: ITALY

Phone:

Indic Phone: 39

Phone Number: 0649210425

EU Office

Address: viale Castro Pretorio, 105

Post Code: 00185

City: Rome

Country: ITALY

Phone:

Indic Phone: 39

Phone Number: 0649210425

Financial Data

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Funding Sources:

EU funding
Public funding

Contributions:

Amount: 0
Currency: €
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Buffer:
0: 104
1: 64
2: 60
3: 147
4: 158
5: 212
6: 182
7: 32
8: 86
9: 89
10: 218
11: 120

Total Budget: 3060188

Grants:

Source: H2020
Amount: 0
Currency: €
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Buffer:
0: 104
1: 64
2: 60
3: 147
4: 158
5: 212
6: 182
7: 32
8: 86
9: 89
10: 218
11: 118
Source: CEF
Amount: 0
Currency: €
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Buffer:
0: 104
1: 64
2: 60
3: 147
4: 158
5: 212
6: 182
7: 32
8: 86
9: 89
10: 218
11: 119