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BNE-Telefónica: Strategic Partner Agreement

BNE-Telefónica: Strategic Partner Agreement. José Luis Bueren Gómez-Acebo December 6th, 2011. Index. 01 Flash information about the BNE 02 The Biblioteca Digital Hispánica 03 The Agreement with Telefónica 04 Conclusions. 2. General information about the BNE.

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BNE-Telefónica: Strategic Partner Agreement

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  1. BNE-Telefónica: Strategic Partner Agreement José Luis Bueren Gómez-Acebo December 6th, 2011

  2. Index 01 Flash information about the BNE 02 The Biblioteca Digital Hispánica • 03 The Agreement with Telefónica • 04 Conclusions 2

  3. General information about the BNE • Created in 1711 as Royal Public Library • Becomes the National Library in 1836 • Emblematic Headquarters building at the heart of Madrid since 1893 • Legal Deposit since 1957 • Autonomous institution since 1991 • Second building complex in Alcalá de Henares opens in 1992 (six storage towers, one deserved by robots + usual services to users) 3

  4. The BNE in figures • Over 26 million pieces of which some 9 million are books • More than 60% are stored in the Alcalá de Henares building • A monthly average of 20 tons of new entries through Legal Deposit • More than 400.000 new monographers per year • Close to one million new items per year 4

  5. Special collections • More than 30.000 manuscripts • 1.600 medieval codex • 3.100 incunabula • 19.000 pictures • Around 600.000 engravings • 1.000.000 photographs • 700 manuscript maps • 15.000 XIV-XIXth century maps • 505.000 muscial scores • 100.000 videos • More than 600.000 sound records 5

  6. The Biblioteca Digital Hispánica • Launched in January 2008 with 10.000 items • Currently has around 55.000 titles • It supports OAI-PMH • Image format : TIFF, JPG and PDF using DigiTool software, with SOLR search engine • Metadata: Marc21, DC, METS, ESE. • Different selection criteria for the content • The whole BDH is accessible in TEL, Europeana and Hispana • January 2011 > Integration of the historical press application • 14.000.000 digital images. 6

  7. The portal: functionalities • Simple and advanced search. • Full text search (OCR). • Collection browsing. • Facets. • Multilingual. • Sound records reproduction. • 2.0 Functionalities: • Share in Facebook and Twitter, comments, votes, send by email, other user have seen, new document alerts, federated search in external sources (Hispana, Europeana), implementing BDH in other webs… 7

  8. Strategic partner agreement • Signed in 2008 as a result of successful launching (visits, downloading and media coverage) • 10.000.000 euros contribution: • Scope: 200.000 works / 25.000.000 digital images by the end of 2012. • Conditions: • Telefónica can deduct this contribution from Corporate Tax • The logo of Telefónica must appear in the Digital Library Portal and Telefónica’s sponsorship has to be mentioned in any communication of the Library regarding the mass digitisation project • Exclusivity of this agreement in terms of other telecommunication companies which could be considered as competitors of Telefónica • Promotional activities 10

  9. Special benefits for the BNE • The main benefit for the Library is the funding of the mass digitisation activities • The BNE is the only owner of the digital images (both access and master copies) • It is unique responsible for the digitised content and for the technical specifications • Quality of the content and of the process is assured as long as it is done under the Library’s criteria and needs • Access to the digital objects depends only of the BNE • Expertise of Telefónica + administrative management 11

  10. Work done • Around 50.000 titles digitised: manuscripts, XVI-XXth century books, musical scores, historic press, maps, photographs, engravings. • Around 15.000.000 digitised pages. • Promotion: Interactive Quijote – Interactive Leonardo. • We can focus on many other activities. 12

  11. Work to be done 13

  12. Conclusions • Great success: number of users, quality/quantity of the work, experience acquired, relationship with Telefónica: • 1.400.000 documents downloaded in 2010. • Necessity of assuring funding. • What have we learnt? • The importance of planning: 25.000.000/200.000 = 125 • Impact in the Library processes > all the Services are implied in this project > more than 30.000 pages/day digitized. • Institutional support. • Long term preservation. • Take advantage of others expertise. • Access and visibility. 14

  13. Thanks! Pº de Recoletos 20 -22 28071 Madrid EspañaT +34 915 807 7775 www.bne.es http://bdh.bne.es 15 15

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