Istituto centrale per il Catalogo Unico delle biblioteche italiane
Acronym: ICCU
General Information
Identification Code: 342799729512-11
Website: [object Object]
Entity Form: public
Registration Category: Other organisations, public or mixed entities
Registration Date: 1/8/2018
Last Update: 3/25/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0
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: [object Object]
EU Office
Address: viale Castro Pretorio, 105
Post Code: 00185
City: Rome
Country: ITALY
Phone: [object Object]
Financial Data
New Organisation: false
Closed Year: [object Object]
Current Year: [object Object]
Membership Information
Members10 Percent: 0
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 2
Members: 2
Members F T E: 1.5
Structure
Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: MiC - Italian Ministry of Culture (https://www.beniculturali.it/)
Organisation Members: No member of any association we are a pubblic body