Project Review, Den Haag, February 2013 Presentation by: Louise Edwards, The European Library (Project Coordinator 2011) Alastair Dunning, The European Library (Project Coordinator 2012)

1. The successes of
Europeana Libraries
Project Review, Den Haag, February 2013
Louise Edwards, The European Library
(Project Coordinator 2011)
Alastair Dunning, The European Library
(Project Coordinator 2012)

2. Europeana Libraries
• Some background
• The aims of the project
• 1 – Ingesting content
• 2 – Incorporating full text
• 3 – Creating a sustainable library aggregator
• The next steps

3. Existing European Library
portal harvesting via
outmoded technologies

4. No European Library contactwith Research Libraries(nor Europeana)

5. Europeana Libraries
January 2011 –
December 2012
Coordinated by The
European Library
(the library aggregator for
Europeana)
19 partners

6. Europeana Libraries
WP1 Project management, coordination
and monitoring (Mary Rowlatt, MDR
Partners)
WP2 Modelling the library landscape
(Martin Moyle, University College London)
WP3 Aggregating research library
content for Europeana (Andreas Juffinger,
The European Library)

7. Europeana Libraries
WP4 Extending The European Library
aggregation infrastructure (José
Borbinha, Instituto Superior Tecnico)
WP5 Enhancing searchability of existing
library content (Valentine Charles, The
European Library)
WP6 Dissemination, communication and
promotion (Aubéry Escande, The
European Library)

8. The aims of the project
1. Bring to Europeana the digital collections of some of
Europe’s leading research libraries from 11 countries
2. Be the first project to offer digital collections where the text
will be fully searchable
3. Establish systems and processes capable of ingesting and
indexing significant quantities of digitised material … The
outcome will be an efficient and effective library-domain
aggregator service for Europeana

9. Medieval
Manuscripts
from
Oxford,
Complutense
(Madrid),
Belgrade and
Uppsala

10. Early Modern Books
from Sibiu, Zurich
and Vienna,
amongst others.

11. Google Books
Ghent, Oxford,
Bavarian State
Library, Ghent.
2m+ metadata
records

12. DART Europe
(Ph.D. Theses
- 67,868
records)
Directory of
Open Access
Journals
(915,013
records)

13. Provided links to 5.6m
different digital objects

14. 19
providers have
made
metadata
available for
harvesting
Material from
over 75
research
libraries
included

15. 25mpages of
text adapted for
incorporation into
the new European
Library portal

16. 2.6m
pages from
Národní
knihovna ČR
8.2m
pages from
Bibliothèque
nationale de
France
3mpages
frm Biblioteca
Nacional de
España

17. Aggregates /
Harvests Data
(REPOX)
Stores Data
Centrally /
Builds Index
for TEL and
Europeana/
Normalises &
Enriches Data
(UIM)
Customer and
Process
Management
(SugarCRM)
An effective
library-
domain
aggregator
service

18. Need evidence
facts on tech
infrastructure
…

19. "We are involved here in Switzerland with two
national projects and that gives us some experience
with collaboration but this – on a European level – is
quite new for us. As a Swiss library, we have
almost no possibilities to take part in
European projects. We want to gain experience in
technical workflows and it’s also very important for us
that we have more visibility of our collections
outside of Switzerland."
Dr. Urs Fischer, Chief Librarian of the Special
Collections of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich

20. Shared governance and organisation between
CENL, LIBER and CERL

21. A technical
infrastructure also
requires a sustainable
business model
The project Business
Plan directs the future
business model of
The European Library

22. The next steps
•Libraries remain the most important aggregator
for Europeana

23. Some
evidence on
TEL as
research
focussed …
some stats on
users ?

24. Research and
national library
connection
forged at
European level

25. Europeana Libraries as a springboard for further
project – Europeana Cloud and Europeana
Newspapers

26. Research and
national library
connection
forged at
European level
“The launch of the new European Library website is
an exciting event that represents another important
development in the way researchers can gain access
to digitised sources from Europe’s national and
research libraries. The launch also holds a special
significance for the National Library of Wales as we
are named as a contributor to the European Library
for the first time. As an institution we are proud to be
able to extend access to some of our most important
digital collections to the European stage”
Andrew Green, Chief Librarian,
National Library of Wales

27. Credits
• MS. Bodl. 579 - fol. 256r
• http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/1000086012883
• Aus Johann Jakob Wick
http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/2000082153224
• http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/2000068370247
• http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/2000000045453
• http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/1000086150263
• http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/1000096775016
• http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/1000086136818?
query=coins
• http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/1000093321560