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Europeana & World Digital library

Europeana & World Digital library. Blanka Vorlíčková E-mail: bvorlickova@gmail.com. Giving an acces to cultural heritage on the web. From 1990s effords to provide digital preservation and wide online access to the world cultural heritage – to „save“ it and to give an access to it

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Europeana & World Digital library

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  1. Europeana & World Digital library Blanka Vorlíčková E-mail: bvorlickova@gmail.com

  2. Giving an acces to cultural heritage on the web • From 1990s effords to provide digital preservation and wide online access to the world cultural heritage – to „save“ it and to give an access to it •  digitization, searching in creating digital libraries and reliable repositories, sufficient technologies for providing online digital content and technologies for safeguarding of digital content, harmonization, standards

  3. „Cultural heritage“? • Goal: to preserve the digitized content and born-digital content – „documentary heritage“ for future generations • UNESCO (Memory of the World Programme 1994  World Digital Library, E-Heritage 2002,), Library of Congress (The American Memory Programme 1994), European Union Comission (effords lead up to European Digital Library 2000)

  4. Today´s estate is still not good enough • Europe still didn´t arrive to a massive digitization • Google Books Project • ….

  5. European Digital Library Europeana • „European digital library, museum, archive“ • www.europeana.eu • Launched - 2008 November 20th. • Relaunched - 2009 January • Achievement of efforts of European Union Commision from year 2000

  6. A little bit of history… • From year 2000 EU Commision encourages member states to digitize and give an online access to the european cultural heritage - projects - consultations, workshops, tutorials - financial support - co-ordination for improving cooperation and harmonisation over the Europe

  7. A little bit of history…i2010:DLI • Information Society Initiative i2010 – economical growth, information society and media industries • i2010: Digital Library Initiative - 2005 EU Commision started preparation of European Digital Library (Google Books project) . 2006 August 24th - Recommendation on digitization and digital preservation . Encouraging of the member states to enhance their digitization efforts to give an access to their considerable collections Experience from The European Library

  8. Europeana – Gate to european cultural heritage • February 2008 - prototype of Europeana presented to the European Parliament • 2008 November 20th. – ceremonious launching by the European Commissioner for Information Society and Media Viviane Reding and José Manuel Barosso, President of EU Commission - access to 2.000.000 units (mostly digitized) (now 5.000.000, 6.000.000 units should be in 2010)

  9. Europeana – Gate to european cultural heritage • An access to materials from european national archives, national and university libraries, institutions which hold audiovisual materials, music archives, museum and galeries • Digital copies of art objects, maps, fotographies, museum objects, books, periodicals, letters and diares, archive materials, music records and spoken word form phonographic cylinders and magnetic tapes, radio and TV broadcastings, movies

  10. Participating institutions • European digital library network EDLnet – 100 institutions – content providers, technical partners • Prototype – meeting of 160 experts from all the Europe – archivists, librarians, curators, websites developers, IT experts, lawyers, directors…

  11. The main goals • The aim of Europeana is: • Providing access to Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage though a cross-domain on multilingual portal • Stimulating initiatives to bring together existing digital content • Supporting digitisation of Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage • Co-operating in the delivery and sustainability of the joint portal - see epochs, movements, art styles, trends of society in a european point of view how they passed across the Europe without regard to the fact where the material is hold, comfortably from your PC (mostly for info than for studiing)

  12. Portal into the european depositories • Portal to the sources in original institutions x WDL • 5.000.000 items but not all are well accesible • Not primarly digitization, but needs to start massiv digitization(example of CR) • Now β-version, 2010 full running

  13. Background • eContentplus programme • Overseeing - European Digital Library Foundation • core team is based in the national library of the Netherlands, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek • Development - Digital Lifecycle Management Forum, European Commision on Preservation and Access, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, University of Ljubljana, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Berlin School of Library and Information Sciences) • Funding – European Union Commissio

  14. Europeana and Czech Republic • Already a member of TEL • Czech National Library does everything for the best participation on the project

  15. Technical standards • Dublin Core Metadata • OAI-PMH • URI to source institution • Possible user customized enviroment – tag the content, disscusion forums, add own experience • Timeline

  16. ?Future Europeana? • 2009-2010 – 69 milion euro for digitization activities and digital libraries development form EU Commission • 50 milion euro for improving access to the european cultural heritage • Is it enough…? (digitization of „only“ 5.mil. works from the european libraries collections would cost 225 mil. euro) • There are not only the money… • Problems of access – we must not allow a „black hole“ of 20th. century in our digital libraries - it´s needed free access ! what brings more problems

  17. World Digital Library • Released 2009 April 21nd. (five months after Europeana) • UNESCO and Library of Congress • Aims: • Promote international and intercultural understanding • Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet • Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences • Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries

  18. Background • July 2005 – James H. Bilington, librarian of LC proposes the idea to UNESCO National Comission • Basic idea: „to create an Internet-based, easily-accessible collection of the world's cultural riches that would highlight the achievements of all countries and cultures, promoting cross-cultural awareness and understanding“ •  Directorate for Communication and Information to work with the Library of Congress to develop the project of WDL

  19. December 2006 - UNESCO and the Library of Congress convened an Experts Meeting to discuss the project • Results: a need of more systematic digitization and help to the developing countries • working groups to develop guidelines for the project • Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the National Library of Brazil, the National Library and Archives of Egypt, the National Library of Russia, and the Russian State Library commited on developing and contributing content to a WDL prototype

  20. Prototype of WDL • IFLA, UNESCO and other institutions • presented at the UNESCO General Conference in 2007 • decision to develop a public, freely-accessible version of the WDL • launched on 2009 April 21st. – more than 25 institutions from member states of UNESCO – 1.170 digitized significant items

  21. Partners • Museums, archives, libraries – 26 institutions from 19 countires of Asia, Africa, America and Europe • Multilanguage interface • Digital copies of manuscripts, maps, rare prints, music and film records, photographies, architectonic plans

  22. Europeana and WDL – cooperation or rivality? • Jill Cousins, Director of Europeana: cooperation is possible, nothing concrete for now yet • James Billington: nobody will prevent to any institution participate with both projects, each institution can decide what will provide in which project. Essencial for us is to establish a reliable standards, not quantity but quality • Gallica BNF cooperates with both of them

  23. Comparation • WDL – better quality, more informations, in the own system • Europeana – aims to have the largest quantity • WDL – all the world X Europeana – Europe • Access – Europeana – problems but efford to solve the problems, WDL – for now almost „older“ materials • Timeline • Good for education

  24. Europeana • World Digital Library

  25. Some questions? Thank You for Your attention

  26. Adresses mentioned in the course: UNESCO – E-Heritage Project http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=24267&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html UNESCO – Memory of the World http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1538&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html World Digital Library http://www.wdl.org/ The Library of Congress American Memory http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Europeana http://www.europeana.eu

  27. European Digital Library Foundation http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html  i2010: Digital Library Initiative http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm The European Library http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Czech centre of digitization – Czech National Library http://www.digit.nkp.cz/ Manuscriptorium Czech project - The largest digital library for manuscripts in Europe http://www.manuscriptorium.com/Site/ENG/default_eng.asp Czech National Digital Library http://www.ndk.cz/project/view?set_language=en

  28. Links to some of cultural heritage systems: George Washington Manuscripts at the University of Pittsburgh http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=gwletters&page=index Albert Einstein Archives http://albert-einstein.org/ Japanese Ex-libris Stamps http://www.ndl.go.jp/zoshoin/e/index_e.html Historic Cities http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/historic_cities.html The Gertrude Beel Project http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk Stalinka – Digital Library of Staliniana http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=stalinka Chartres – Cathedral of Notre-Damme http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=chartres&page=index

  29. Links to some of cultural heritage systems: Images of England http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk William Blake Archive http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/ Abdul Hamid II Collection http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/ahiiquery.html Web gallery of art http://gallery.euroweb.hu/welcome.html Axis-For information on visual artists, Axis database http://www.axisartists.org.uk/axisdb/online.htm Gutenberg Digital http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/eframes/index.htm  Galileo´s Manuscripts http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Galileo_Prototype/main.htm To see some more: look on Digicol UNESCO/IFLAhttp://www.unesco.org/webworld/digicol/ Or on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_library_projects

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