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“Europeana Libraries” Project: Fostering Digitization Across Europe

“Europeana Libraries” Project: Fostering Digitization Across Europe. The Sixth SEEDI Conference Digitization of Cultural and Scientific Heritage Zagreb, Croatia, 18-20 May 2011. Adam Sofronijevi c, Jelena Mitrovic University of Belgrade University library “Svetozar Markovic” Serbia.

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“Europeana Libraries” Project: Fostering Digitization Across Europe

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  1. “Europeana Libraries” Project: Fostering Digitization Across Europe The Sixth SEEDI Conference Digitization of Cultural and Scientific Heritage Zagreb, Croatia, 18-20 May 2011 Adam Sofronijevic, Jelena Mitrovic University of Belgrade University library “Svetozar Markovic” Serbia

  2. 2-year project (Jan 2011 – Jan 2013) funded by the European Commission’s IST-PSP programme • Creating the library aggregator for Europeana • Adding 5 million digital objects from research libraries to Europeana • 19 research and University libraries are participating • A project coordinated by Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The national library of The Netherlands )

  3. Libraries providing content Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, DE Universitea Lucien Blaga din Sibiu, RO Országgyűlés Hivatala, HU Universitätsbibliothek Bern, CH Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, BE Tartu Ulikool, EE Trinity College Dublin, IE University of Belgrade, RS Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, UK Universität Wien, AT Wellcome Library, UK Universiteit Gent, BE Lunds Universitet, SE University College London, UK Uppsala Universitet, SE University of Oxford, UK Biblioteca Academiei Române, RO Zentralbibliothek Zürich, CH Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ES

  4. The European Library: Catalogues and digital content from 48 European national libraries Europeana: links to 15 million digital objects texts, sounds, images and video digital items from research libraries

  5. Supported by key European library associations: • CENL(Conference of European National Librarians) • CERL (Consortium of European Research Libraries) • LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche)

  6. How much and what sort of content? • 3,319,045 pages • 598,130 books and theses • 368,000 articles • 848,078 images • 1,200 film and video clips • 34,000 mixed content objects

  7. University library “Svetozar Markovic” • The only partner from a non-EU country and the SE region of Europe • Involved in all important aspects of the project

  8. University library “Svetozar Markovic” • Adding two important collections (160.000 pages of old and rare books from the Ottoman collection and collection on Alexander the Great) • Creating a new metadata model – EDM (Europeana Data Model)

  9. University library “Svetozar Markovic” • More visibility and accessibility to collections of university and research libraries from Western Balkan countries • Opportunity to gain valuable experiences and share them with other librarians from the region • Creating the aggregator for university and research libraries of Western Balkan countries

  10. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION! sofronijevic@unilib.bg.ac.rs mitrovic@unilib.bg.rs

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