Digital Library of Slovenia dlib.si

1. Digital Library of Sloveniawww.dlib.si mag. Zoran Krstulović, Deputy Director Tine Musek, IT Developer National and University Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia 5. SEEDI International Conference Digitization of cultural and scientific heritage Sarajevo, May 19-20, 2010

2. Overview Technical Developement

3. DIGITAL LIBRARY OF SLOVENIAwww.dlib.si

4. NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY LJUBLJANA

5. Mini search-box

6. Influences over dLib.si and its environment • 2005, March: The European Library • 2005, June: i2010 • 2005, November: digital library has published on webwww.dlib.si • 2006, December: strategy dLib.si • 2007, March: dLib won EEA developement grant • 2008, November: Europeana • 2009, September: dLib.si become national e-content aggregator

7. Starting points … • Dispersion of digital objects on the Web. • Repeated development of applications with identical functional uses (user’s interfaces, search tools, etc.). • Digitisation based on capacities of users or providers, not in line with standards. • Widespread use of web search services (Google etc.) for sources discovery instead of library catalogues . • Unsolved issues of permanent preservation of digital objects. • Knowledge acquiredin co-operation with projects under the auspices of the European Unionandin the common service of European national libraries.

8. What is www.dlib.si? • A web portal providing access to digitised knowledge and cultural treasures. Provides much easier access to the knowledge kept in libraries. • A tool for free searching of resources and ready access to the digital items. Intended for all web users, particularly useful for research work. • Offers a virtual collection from a wide range of disciplines.It combines different collections and provides uniform access to them. • Integrated search results, presented in digital form. • Contributes to Slovenia’s recognition and competitiveness in the European Union.

9. Vision The Digital Library of Slovenia will play an active role in building the national information society, library network and research community of the future through its collections, services and expertise. Developement strategy (November 2006)

10. Mission of the Digital Library of Slovenia • Building, development and management of digital collections, following user needs,existing legislation and standards, in co-operation with various strategic partners fromthe fields of culture, science, education and economy. • Provision of open and free access to digital content, including the development of tools to use it. • Promoting the digital library as infrastructure to education and research process,lifelong learning of the population, and a feature of democracywith unprecedentedaccess to digital information for all users, regardless of who they are and of locationthey wish to access the information from. • Long-term preservation of the national cultural heritage in digital form by maintainingand developing a trusted digital repository / digital archive.

11. Strategic goals implementation  • To improve accessibility to information resources and library services using modern communication channels. • To ensure long-term preservationof the digital cultural heritage belonging to Slovenian libraries. • To enable partnerships between and co-operation on equal terms with libraries, publishers and other organizations from the fields of culture, education and science. • To increase the presence of Slovenian culture and language on the network. • To increase the level of use of library information resources and services  the end of 2010   

12. … Scientific journals publishers

13. dlib.si by numbers • Scientific articles  15.489 articles • Other articles  248.609 articles • Serials  103 titles (110.721 issues) • Photographs, postcards, vedutas  9.915 items • Artworks  720 items • Books  1.050 volumes • Posters  6.087 items • Manuscripts  129 rokopisov • Maps  251 items • Sound recordings  65 titles • Printed music  1.065 titles • University degree works  793 volumes • Public financed project reports  368 reports

14. All in all: almost 400.000 items 35% cotributed by partners: public libraries and scientific journals publishers Ivan Cankar: Živeti! Torej ti je vseeno?« »Glej, Lucija — govoril bom prav počasi, zato da se ne zlažem.

15. dlib.si by numbers • Visitors (2007 – 2010, April)

19. Platform HP hosts for virtual servers HP blade servers HP EVA storage ~50TB HP XP storage ~100TB (fully redundant) Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 ASP.NET 3.5 Microsoft SQL 2008, Solr 1.4 on Tomcat 6.x Fedora on PostgreSQL

20. File formats Photo material: JPEG(2000) Maps/Vedutas: MrSID, Geo-TIFF Other visual materials: PDF, JPEG(2000) Multimedia: MPEG4, FLV, H.264, MP3, Sibelius Texts: PDF, plain text, HTML(?) 3D objects: PDF-3D, VRML Flash viewers! Goal: user friendliness!

21. dLib Application Profile Based on DublinCore extended Additional fields Flexible and Extensible (CO)MARC compatibility Easy export to ESE, TELAP, DC

22. How do objects get online?

23. What’s new in v2 • Facets • Search inside results • Tagging • Web services for external use • Windows 7/Vista widget(s) • Online administration • Metadata manipulation • CMS • User manipulation • ToDo: full-text editing

24. Thank you for your attention! zoran.krstulovic@nuk.uni-lj.si tine.musek@nuk.uni-lj.si