Presentada en "FESABID, XII Jornada Española de Documentación". 26 de mayo de 2011. Málaga

1. The Spanish BNE project with Telefónica
The Spanish BNE project with Telefonica
Glòria Pérez-Salmerón, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Malága 27th May 2011

2. Summary
01 About the National Library of Spain
02 The Telefónica Project
03 Institutional changes
04 Conclusions
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3. About the National Library of Spain
Biblioteca Nacional de España
Biblioteca Nacional de España
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4. Flash information of the BNE
Created in 1711 as Royal Public Library
Becomes the National Library in 1836
Emblematic Headquarters building at the heart of
Madrid since 1893
Legal Deposit since 1957
Autonomous institution since 1991
Second building complex in Alcalá de Henares
opens in 1992 (six storage towers, one equipped by
robots + usual services to users)
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5. The BNE in figures...
Over 28 million pieces of which some 9 million are
books
More than 60% are stored in the Alcalá de Henares
building
A monthly average of 20 tons of new entries
through Legal Deposit
More than 400.000 new monographs per year
Close to one million new items per year
Annual budget for new acquisitions of heritage
pieces and electronic resources (3 million €)
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6. The Biblioteca Digital Hispánica
Launched in January 2008 with 10.000 items
currently has over 43.000 items
Diversity of supports of the patrimonial collections
It supports OAI/PMH
Image format : TIFF, JPG and PDF using DigiTool
software, with the SOLR search engine
Different selection criteria for the content
Target audience: research and studies on ‘Hispanic’
culture and its promotion worldwide
The whole BDH is accessible in TEL and Europeana
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7. The Telefonica project
The Telefónica Project
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8. Strategic partner agreement with Telefónica
Large scale digitisation projects
Signed in January 2008 as a result of successful
launching (visits, downloading and media coverage)
The 5-year agreement amounts to a contribution of
10 million euros + technical assessment
Scope: to have 200.000 works representing around
25.000.000 digital images by the end of 2012
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9. Both sides of the agreement
The main benefit for the Library is the funding of the
mass digitisation activities
Telefónica can deduct this contribution from
Corporate Tax
The logo of Telefónica must appear in the Digital
Library Portal and Telefónica’s sponsorship has to
be mentioned in any communication of the Library
regarding the mass digitisation project
Exclusivity of this agreement in terms of other
telecommunication companies which could be
considered as competitors of Telefónica
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10. Special benefits for the BNE
The BNE is the only owner of the digital images
(both access and master copies)
It is unique responsible for the digitised content and
for the technical specifications
Quality of the content and of the process is assured
as long as it is done under the Library’s criteria and
needs
Access to the digital objects depends only of the
BNE
The BNE respect for copyright law, only works that
are undoubtedly under public domain
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11. Others related projects
Two other projects related to the Public Private
Partnership in the digital environment:
ENCLAVE, an agreement with Spanish editors to
offer digital content under copyright through the
Digital Library of the BNE
A print on demand service (POD). This service is
under a non-exclusive agreement with a print on-
demand company: Bubok
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12. Institutional changes
Biblioteca Nacional de España, Alcalá de Henares Building
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13. Cooperation BNE/Telefónica
The project is being coordinated in cooperation
between the BNE and Telefónica
The works are developed in the Library facilities and
the BNE is responsible for the procedures, technical
and quality aspects with the assistance of experts from
Telefónica
Telefónica carries out the administrative management
with the agreement of the Library
The BNE informs Telefónica of the different activities
that are going to take place. There has been a very
good understanding between the BNE and Telefónica
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14. Impact in the Library procedures
The massive digitisation process has had a great impact
on the Library procedures:
The effort to have thousands of pages digitized
every day (27.000) has been very important and
has affected most of the Services of the Library
In the process, and in order to guarantee the quality
of the Digital Library, specialists select the books,
catalogue them and repair them if necessary
The infrastructure of the Digital Library Department
has grown as the digital collection increased
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15. Conclusions
Biblioteca Nacional de España
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16. The future
Looking for a long-term sustainability guarantee
Dependence of external funding
Agreement with Telefónica ends in December 2012
New ways to ensure funding
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17. Final considerations
Importance of Public Private Partnership
Cooperation without losing any kind of ownership
Best quality standards and procedures
Clarification of responsibilities
Adaptation of the Library processes to the new reality
Ensure the long-term sustainability of the model
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18. Glòria Pérez-Salmerón
Biblioteca Nacional de España
directora@bne.es
www.bne.es
http://bdh.bne.es/bnesearch/
http://bdh.bne.es www.facebook.com/bne
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