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Progress towards the European Digital Library

Progress towards the European Digital Library. Information / Documentation Management and Cooperation among the Libraries in the Balkan Countries, Edirne, Turkey 5 June 2008 Rob Davies, Co-ordinator EDLocal.

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Progress towards the European Digital Library

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  1. Progress towards the European Digital Library Information / Documentation Management and Cooperation among the Libraries in the Balkan Countries, Edirne, Turkey 5 June 2008 Rob Davies, Co-ordinator EDLocal

  2. “For the users it is not important whether the sources of knowledge and experience are kept by archives, libraries or museums, but to get access to the sources they want, and to be able to use these sources across types of sources and sectors of institutions.”

  3. Flagship project of i2010 Single European Information Space for an open and competitive internal market for services Letter by six Heads of State and Government to the European Commission (2005) Advocated creation of a virtual European library Aiming to make Europe’s cultural and scientific records accessible to all Positive response from the Commission Outline strategy: Communication "i2010: Digital Libraries" Communication on ‘access to scientific information in the digital age’ (2007) Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI)http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.htm

  4. Focus of the DLI • Make Europe's rich and diverse cultural and scientific heritage easier and more interesting to use online • for work, leisure and/or study • books, films, maps, photographs, music, etc • Combine multicultural and multilingual environments with technological advances and new business models • Two strands: • Cultural heritage: • build a common European Digital Library • multilingual internet access point to cultural collections from all Member States • Scientific heritage: • ensure current and future access for research and innovation purposes .

  5. The European Library(TEL)http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/index.html • Collaborative platform and web service of 48 CENL national libraries • Managed by The European Library Office, National Library of The Netherlands • Free searching and digital objects • standardised metadata & multilingual access tools • TEL • TEL-ME-MOR (2005-2007) • catalogues and digital collections of 10 New Member States • EDL project (2006-2008) • 9 more national libraries • TELplus (2007-2009) • will add 22 million pages of multi-lingual full-text to TEL • usability & semantic interoperability issues • national collections of Bulgaria and Romania

  6. FUMAGABAhttp://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/organisation/cooperation/fumagaba/index.phpFUMAGABAhttp://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/organisation/cooperation/fumagaba/index.php • TEL project funded by the Swiss Development Agency (2008-9) • Includes the national library holdings of 10 eastern European countries (all CENL members). • Albania • Armenia • Azerbaijan • Bosnia and Herzegovina • Georgia • Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia • Moldova • Ukraine

  7. A structure for EDL? Museum A Archive A Library A Library X National Digital Library Film Archive 1 Film Archive 2 Film Archive 3 Archive X ACE EDL Museum X Film Archive X TEL Eurbica National Archive 1 NL 1 NL 2 NL 3 National Archive 2 MICHAEL National Archive 3

  8. Europeana.net www.europeana.eu/ • Thematic Network funded under eContentplus programme • 2-year project began in July 2007 (‘EDLNet’) • 90 representatives of heritage/knowledge organisations/ IT experts throughout Europe • Builds on TEL project management, technical expertise • Core team based in the national library of the Netherlands • EDL Foundation oversees the project

  9. The roadmap to a European Digital Library • End of 2006: full collaboration among EU National Libraries • From 2007 collaboration to be expanded to Archives, Museums and Audiovisual Archives • November 2007: EDL Foundation in place • major European associations of archives, audiovisual archives, museums and libraries as founders • 2,000,000 books, films, photographs, manuscripts, and other cultural works accessible by 2008 • At least 6,000,000 works by 2010

  10. EDL Foundation: aggregated distribution Cross Domain Foundation Information & dissemination flow Decision Channelling Associates e.g.: ministries, sponsoring private partners etc.

  11. Pan European Association Board of Participants

  12. New projects involving EDL Foundation eContentplus • EDLocal • European Film Gateway • Athena (Minerva group) • National Archives project • Arrow (rights) • New Europeana network (2008 call) EDLFoundation is partner in all of them, FP7 Cultural Heritage research programme

  13. EDLocal • Best Practice Network • Three years (starts 1 June) • Improve interoperability of digital content held by regional and local museums, libraries and archives • Over 20 million items identified as available initially • Europe wide network of regional repositories/ aggregations • Integrated Europeana prototype service including EDLocal content • Development of thematic areas

  14. Why should we do this? • Make local content available for harvesting through Europeana service • Make Europeana-branded content available to other service providers • tourism • education • family history • humanities research • publishing/media industries • through other search engines (e.g. Google) and services on the web

  15. European Digital Library Infrastructure

  16. Standards, tools and infrastructure • Establish easy processes for making content available • Implement Europeana specifications and tools • Harvesting metadata into Europeana index • OAI-PMH repositories and Europeana Metadata Application Profiles • OAI-PMH = Open Archiving Initiative – Protocol for Metadata Harvesting • And then….. • Object Modeling, Authorisation, Usage Logging, Accounting, Payment, Legal and Access Protection Issues (IPR / Rights / DRM), Advanced Semantic Interoperability, Name Authority Services,Multilingualism of Content, Preservation etc

  17. Open Archive Initiative

  18. Types of content • Items and collections of high cultural value (‘treasures’) held at local or regional level • Specific local collections held by libraries, museums and archives, local sound and film archives • Public records held by archives etc.

  19. EDLocal partners – analysis • EDL Foundation • 1 Ministry of Culture • 3 national libraries (as aggregators of local content) • 2 national museums • 3 national cultural agencies • 5 regional cultural authorities • 7 public libraries • 1 local museum • 1 research foundation • 1 regional digital library provider • 6 companies

  20. Partner roles • Co-ordinating partners from 27 countries • Work with technical partners to implement infrastructure and standards • install OAI-PMH repositories (Fedora, DSpace, Greenstone etc usually Open Source) • automated metadata conversion • convert vocabularies • Negotiate sensible aggregation arrangements • (e.g. with national libraries or cultural portals) • Promote digitisation at local/regional level • Hold a national meeting

  21. Funding for new countries to join Europeana? • eContentplus • What is Europe? • EU will use digital content if it is there, but won’t pay (yet) • CH Research programme • Any country with EU research agreement • National funding • Third party funding

  22. What might be done? • Become interoperable with Europeana • Adopt the EDL infrastructure • OAI-PMH repositories • Europeana metadata application profile • Decide on a sensible level of aggregation • Digitise • Set up a centre of competence on digitisation • Train people • Establish some priorities for digitisation • Work ‘cross domain’ • that is: work with archives, audio-visual archives, museums • Regional initiative? • national funding?

  23. Thank You!! Rob Davies Scientific Co-ordinator EDLocal rob.davies@mdrpartners.com

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