Alastair Dunning, Breaking the waves, The European Library
1. Breaking the Waves
Alastair Dunning
(The European Library / Europeana)
Discovery Summit
London, Feb 2013
@alastairdunning
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6. “There is a tsunami of data that is crashing onto
the beaches of the civilized world. This is a tidal
wave of unrelated, growing data formed in bits
and bytes, coming in an unorganized,
uncontrolled, incoherent cacophony of foam….
we see graphic designers and government
officials, all getting their shoes wet and slowly
submerging in the dense trough of stuff…. they
walk stupidly into the water, smiling—a false
smile of confidence and control. The tsunami is a
wall of data—data produced at a greater and
greater speed … in amounts that double, it
seems, with each sunset ....
10. Europeana - Europe’s cultural heritage portal
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26m (Feb 2013) metadata
records from 2,200 European
galleries, museums, archives and
libraries
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Books, newspapers, journals,
letters, diaries, archival papers...
Paintings, maps, drawings,
photographs… Music, spoken
word, radio broadcasts…
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Only links to digitised content
31 languages
Started in 2007
Based in National Library of
Netherlands
11. The European Library (TEL)
Europe’s library aggregator
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Centrally indexes 115m
bibliographic records, plus 16m
digital links
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48 National Libraries of Europe
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Started in 1990s - ‘Mother’ of
Europeana. Now aggregates
content for Europeana
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Also hosted in National Library
of Netherlands
Plus 19 research libraries
Links to digitised content and
bibliographic records at
libraries
24. The European Library to
release
>115m bibliographic
records to be released as
CC0 this year (2013)
API and Linked Data
to be published this
year (2013) as well
Working with RLUK
to release members’
metadata as linked
data
