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María Luisa Martínez-Conde Subdirectorate General for Library Co-ordination

Digital Libraries in Spain: Policies and Initiatives of the Ministry of Culture. María Luisa Martínez-Conde Subdirectorate General for Library Co-ordination. SG for Library Coordination. The main Spanish administrative body concerned with library issues Activities include:

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María Luisa Martínez-Conde Subdirectorate General for Library Co-ordination

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  1. Digital Libraries in Spain: Policies and Initiatives of the Ministry of Culture María Luisa Martínez-Conde Subdirectorate General for Library Co-ordination EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  2. SG for Library Coordination • The mainSpanish administrative body concerned with library issues • Activities include: • Promotion of cooperation between Spanish libraries. • Description, preservation and dissemination of Spanish bibliographic heritage. EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  3. SG for Library Coordination:Ongoing Projects • Virtual Library of Historical Newspapers • Virtual Library of Bibliographic Heritage • LDAP Directory and Harvester of Digital Resources EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  4. SG for Library Coordination:Ongoing Projects:Objectives • Preserve Spanish Bibliographic Heritage; • Give users direct access to contents; • Coordinate Spanish digitization projects; • Contribute to Europeana EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  5. Virtual Libraries: antecedents • Union Catalog of Bibliographic Heritage (1986-) http://ccpb.mcu.es • It describes 831.767 editions and 2.259.278 holdings from 729 libraries EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  6. Virtual Library of Historical Newspapers (2003-) http://prensahistorica.mcu.es • 4.300.000 pages from more than 2000 titles from 47 of libraries of all type all over Spain • unique collections • from a broad chronological period: 1777 to late 20th century • public domain + agreements with publishers EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  7. EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  8. Virtual Library of Bibliographic Heritage (2006-) http://bvpb.mcu.es • 730.414 pages • 2533 manuscripts and rare and old-printed books from 15 libraries • 2008: 1500 new titles, 300.000 pages and other bibliographic materials (engravings and maps) • public domain EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  9. EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  10. Virtual Libraries of the Ministry of Culture: standards • MARC XML, Dublin Core / ISO 15836, METS, METSRigths, MADS, MODS • METS provides a format for encapsulating or ingesting preservation metadata: PREMIS, based on ISO 14721/OAIS • METS/ALTO (newspapers) • 256 grayscale (newspapers) and 16.7 Mcolors JPEG images. TIFF 6.0 security copies EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  11. OAI/PMH repositories SRU/SRW servers Digital Libraries of the Ministry of Culture: standards EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  12. Multilingual access • authority file for multilingual headings: Basque, Castillian, Catalan, Galician, Valencian and English • updated online by means of fields for equivalent headings of MARC21 format for authority data : 7XX • records are downloaded from the National Library, Regional Libraries and the Library of Congress EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  13. EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  14. Directory and Harvester of Digital Resources (2005) http://roai.mcu.es • Objectives • Facilitate the digitization projects coordination • Avoid duplicates • Standards • Dublin Core • OAI/PMH EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  15. Directory and Harvester of Digital Resources • Figures: • March 2006: • 55 digitization projects • 25 OAI-PMH repositories • access to near 120.000 digital resources • June 2008: • 196 digitization projects • 55 OAI-PMH repositories • access to more than 300.000 digital resources EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  16. Directory and Harvester of Digital Resources: new version (2008) • formats added: • MARC XML http://www.loc.gov/marc/marcxml.html • EAD http://www.loc.gov/ead/ • ePrints http://www.eprints.org EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  17. EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  18. EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  19. Broadening the project (2007-) • Work programme and call for proposals for funding digitization projects • 2M euros / year • Above-mentioned metadata must be adopted • OAI-PMH compliant repository must be implemented EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  20. Broadening the project • Expected results (1st call for proposals) • Over 4M pages from 32 libraries will be digitized • Regional libraries (10) • University libraries (12) • School libraries (2) • Private cultural institutions (8) • 22 OAI-PMH compliant repositories will be implemented EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  21. 2008-2009 objectives • Large-scale OCR for newspapers • Records generation according METS/ALTO • PDFs (prototype in VLBH) ISO/DIS 32000 • Indexing PDFs and PDF/A generation • Jhove validation and PREMIS generation for ingesting in OAIS EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  22. 2009-2010 objectives • Capitalize on the multilingual headings by means of cooperative projects • Implement the DRIVER guidelines • Define a Spanish metadata profile EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

  23. Mid-term objectives • Funded digital objects metadata will be integrated in virtual libraries of the MC via METS. • SRU/OAI synergyes will be enhanced. • OAIS/ISO 14721 preservation repository will be implemented. EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, 2008

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