Europeana Libraries Business Plan

1. Europeana Libraries Business Plan Madrid, December 2012

2. Presentation outline • The project • The value proposition • The business plan 2013-2015

3. The long and winding road to the business plan Marian Lefferts, CERL Madrid, December 2012

4. The project • The value proposition • The business plan 2013-2015

5. 2-year project funded by the European Commission’s IST-PSP programme Will add over 5 million digital objects to Europeana 19 research and university libraries are participating A project coordinated by The European Library Supported by key international library associations: CENL(Conference of European National Librarians) CERL (Consortium of European Research Libraries) LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche) Europeana Libraries – some facts

6. Main aim • Bringing digital content from Europe’s national and research libraries to the researcher in a useful, easy way to facilitate research: • Data-driven research • Cross disciplinary • Special emphasis on social sciences and humanities research infrastructure • By developing a sustainable, credible, visible, efficient service for content providers

7. Challenges facing the project • Value proposition • Offering the European research libraries a tailor-made proposition • Business model • Sustainable aggregation and innovation model

8. Step-by-step approach • Develop Business Model and validate it • Develop Business Plan and validate it

9. Business Model • First undertook desk research • Then held stakeholder interviews • This fed into Scenario development. Four dimensions • Funding • Range of services to be offered • Ownership/responsibility • Scope/content acquisition

10. We arrived at: TEL Flat fee + Charge for add-ons Membership structure Public interface for academics Feeds Europeana plus… views on data, e.g. union catalogue Bib/cat and digital object metadata, for all materials (in an approp. electr. format) held @ libs Data openly available Data directly from libraries (= richest format) Data prepared by Content providers + Aggregation team

11. Validation • Feed back from reviewers (interviewed stakeholders) • Feed back from business planning group • Wider community • Coordination Group TEL • CERL EC meeting • LIBER Annual Conference (June 2011) • TEL Management Committee • LIBER Board • CERL Directors • Project Plenay in Belgrade (Nov 2011)

12. From Business Model to Business Plan • Business Planning Group prepared draft • Governance model for The European Library was agreed with LIBER and CERL (April 2012) • TEL office prepared Executive Summary and promotional materials based on the Business Plan • BP was put to TEL Management Committee and the TEL Board – after which the BP was refined • Second round of consultation with LIBER Board (Oct 2012) and CERL Directors (Oct 2012) • Some further refinements and final costings were added • Delivered to EU in November 2012

13. Europeana Libraries Business Plan. What is the value proposition for research libraries? Izaskun Lacunza, LIBER Madrid, December 2012

14. What’s on • The project • The value proposition • The business plan 2013-2015

15. Consultation proccess • What do European research libraries expect from The European Library? • Access to a wide range of quality content through a broad network of libraries • Getting libraries’ data into as many researcher channels as possible • Linking libraries’ data with other content in Europeana • Making it possible to re-use data and content • Getting the researcher as close as possible to the actual object

16. What does the BP offer to research libraries? • Widened access to libraries’ resources • Participating in new projects for research and development • Networking and knowledge sharing • Cost-effective aggregation • Data enrichment • Marketing of libraries

17. 1. Widened access • Single gateway to collections and data • 10 million digital objects, 200 million bibliographic records, 25 million pages full text • CCO metadata sets: • Available trough APIs • OAI-PMH • Linked open dataset • Maximizing exposure of content of libraries • Continuous improvement

18. 2. Participation in R&D projects • Bidding for projects with participating libraries: the way to innovate in The European Library framework • Coming: Europeana Cloud

19. 3. Networking and knowledge sharing • Participating libraries will access knowledge in: • Data enrichment • Clustering techniques • Full text indexing • Linked open data

20. 4. Cost effective aggregation • Complete service: • Data management • Indexing • Clustering • Distribution of data into multiple channels (i.e. Europeana) • Europeana Cloud: • First approach to the cloud as a cheaper infrastructure to store data and (some) content

21. 5. Data enrichment • De-duplication services • Enhanced discovery with external vocabularies • Handling data formats for several aggregators (i.e. Europeana) • Enriched data: • Search engine optimization • Reusable for libraries (cataloguing, etc.)

22. 6. Marketing of libraries • The European Library to showcase libraries and their collections

23. What’s on • The project • The value proposition • The business plan 2013-2015

24. The Strategy and Business Plan 2013-2015 Jill Cousins, The European Library Madrid, December 2012

25. Our business plan has 4 major sections • Background • Our experience and competencies • Environment in which we operate • The market we intend to serve • Vision and strategic priorities • Operations • How we will run the service • Finance, governance and performance

26. Background • Libraries led the way in founding Europeana • 1997 Gateway to Europe’s National Libraries (GABRIEL) • 2005 Launch of The European Library • 2007 Europeana pilot project, supported by CENL, CERL and LIBER • 2008- The European Library re-positions to support researchers in the humanities and social sciences • Large dataset of bibliographic records and metadata to libraries digital content • Alliances to support strategy e.g. LIBER and CERL, CLARIN and DARIAH • Data into virtual research environments e.g. CENDARI

27. Environment and market • Research and innovation are critical to future growth of Europe • €80 billion in Horizon 2020 programmes • Continuing increase of open access scholarly content, backed by governments and the European Commission • Market in humanities and social sciences is large • Nearly half of EU graduates • New forms of digital scholarship, facilitated by technology

28. Our vision • An expanded The European Library service of national and research libraries • The European Library as a core building block in the Europeana eco-system • Partnership with Europeana to deliver a new service, Europeana Research • Cross-domain platform to support research in the humanities and social sciences

29. Strategic priorities 2013-2015 • Ensure the sustainability of The European Library as a core service for national and research libraries • Provide high-value collections and services for users • Embed services in research and learning communities • Develop strategic partnerships

30. Priority 1: Sustainability • Membership of national and research libraries, with set of value-added services • Look after the special needs of non-EU/EFTA libraries • Shared, cloud-based infrastructure for Europeana partners, including The European Library • Support central structural funding for Europeana, as a benefit to libraries • New project funding opportunities

31. Priority 2: Collections and services • Largest possible dataset of Europe’s national and research libraries, with emphasis on open access scholarly content • Content strategy to support European research communities • New functionalities, tools and services to enable researchers to mine, analyse and manipulate data and content

32. Priority 3: Services to researchers • Develop and launch Europeana Research platform • Deepen understanding of digital research practices and how we support them • Distribute libraries metadata to support new types of research, using CC licences • Further develop API’s for data distribution into researcher workflows

33. Priority 4: Strategic partnerships • Build relationship with research infrastructure providers, DARIAH and CLARIN • Continue to strengthen partnership between CENL, LIBER and CERL • Through Europeana, develop relationships with other domains (museums, archives etc) to support research

34. Key outcomes by 2015 • Broad-based membership of national and research libraries • Scaled, cost-effective cloud infrastructure • Very large dataset of scholarly material to support digital research • Set of tools and services to interact with data and content • Set of linked open data to support research • Long-term partnership with key stakeholders in European research agenda

35. Operations • Core team of professionals based in The Hague • Employed by Europeana and share the same office space • The European Library is run by a Management Committee of representatives from CENL, LIBER and CERL • CENL is currently running elections for 6 representatives • LIBER representatives are Paul Ayris and Jeanette Frey • CERL representatives are Ulf Goranson and Raymond Berard

36. How do we fund the plan? • Commitment from both national and research libraries is vital • Core operational funding met by libraries • Shared fee model for national and research libraries • Research libraries pay €500—5000 • Discounts for consortia • Innovation trhough project funding • Project consortia based on TEL members

37. Your business plan needs you!

38. Thank you! marian.lefferts@cerl.org izaskun.lacunza@kb.nl jill.cousins@kb.nl