Overview & outlook for the European Digital Library. Olaf Janssen presenting during the CIPA/VAST...
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Olaf D. Janssen The European Library Office The Hague, The Netherlands The European (Digital) Librar - Overview and Outlook CIPA/VAST 3-11-06
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In this presentation Olaf Janssen - Project Manager at The European Library - outlines the history, organisational and technical foundations of The European Library, the collaborative platform and website of the 48 national libraries of Europe. He details the array of benefits of this joint service: - for its end-users : giving integrated access to national collections across Europe - for its member libraries - for knowledge sharing & developments of common standards across Europe - for political & strategical purposes (European Union funding & lobbying) - to enable future collaboration with other European cultural initiatives He explains how the Google Print Initiative sparked the creation of a European Digital Library (to be called Europeana) for safeguarding the European cultural heritage. The European Library is used as the organisational and technological model for building a successful Europeana. It has established many of the required ingredients. These include: - An operational technological platform - Common and open standards for metadata & access - Firm cooperative organisational framework Challenges that are yet to be tackled include - More partners: not only libraries, but also museums & archives are needed - Large amounts of digital content - Multi-lingual search & retrieval facilitie After outlining the strategic planning for Europeana for 2006-2010, Olaf concludes: * Common and open standards for access and interoperability are essential for a European Digital Library * The European Library is the forerunner * Building a European Digital Library is a much a political & social game as it is a technological * The willingness to collaborate is key!! I presented this at the CIPA/VAST 2006 Conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, on 03-11-2006
Transcript of Overview & outlook for the European Digital Library. Olaf Janssen presenting during the CIPA/VAST...
Olaf D. Janssen
The European Library Office
The Hague, The Netherlands
The European (Digital) Library
- Overview and Outlook
CIPA/VAST 3-11-06
1. The European Library
2. TEL-ME-MOR project
3. Towards a European Digital Library
4. Challenges to tackle
Structure of presentation
An online service by all European National Libraries to provide access to their catalogues & digital collections via one central, multi-lingual web interface (portal)
www.TheEeuropeanLibrary.org
Europe : 47 national libraries from 45 countries (CoE)
CENL = = Conference of European National Librarians
Mission of CENL: reinforce role of national libraries in Europe
What is The European Library?
www.TheEuropeanLibrary.org
The European Library Portalwww.TheEuropeanLibrary.org./com/.net./.eu
TheEuropeanLibrary.orgis live since 17 March 2005
Funded by the national libraries (not EU) , owned by CENL
Development + maintenance by European Library Office (KB in Netherlands – 8.5 FTE)
Catalogues & collections searchable (230+ collections), based on common open standards 1) for Metadata (DCX) and 2) for Access (OAI, Z39.50, SRU, FTP)
TEL focusses on access, not on digitisation or preservation
18 national libraries of : UK Finland France Germany Hungary
Italy Netherlands Portugal Slovenia Czech Republic
Switzerland Austria Serbia Croatia
Slovakia Estonia Latvia Denmark
Current status of TEL
For its users Give integrated access to national collections across Europe 1.5M digital objects and 45M metadata records Quality of trusted deep web resources
For its partner libraries International showcase for collections Combined political mass greater marketing and
negotiation power.
The European Library is a mechanism to extend collaboration (TELMEMOR, EDL)
What’s good about TEL?
1. The European Library
2. TEL-ME-MOR project
3. Towards a European Digital Library
4. Challenges to tackle
Structure of presentation
Extension of
with NL collections from 10 NMS of EU
100% Funded by European Union - 1.4M Euro
Project started 1st Feb 2005 – Will end Jan 2007
www.telmemor.net – 5 workpackages
10 national libraries of Slovakia Poland Cyprus
Estonia Latvia Lithuania
Czech Republic Poland Malta Slovenia
TEL-ME-MOR project – Fact sheet
1. New resources for users # collections in TEL before TEL-ME-MOR : 165 new collections added by TEL- ME- MOR : 51
2. Extension of network and collaboration open standards, development & sharing knowledge
3. Extended profile of The European Library Snowball effect future collaboration with other European cultural institutions
Towards a European Digital Library
TEL-ME-MOR – Benefits for TEL
1. The European Library
2. TEL-ME-MOR project
3. Towards a European Digital Library
4. Challenges to tackle
Structure of presentation
Towards a European Digital Library
EU : TEL is seen as a good starting point for a European Digital Library (libraries, museums, archives, AV)
The European Library already has: Operational technological platform (portal) Based on common open standards for metadata &
access Firm cooperative organisational framework (CENL)
PROBLEM: A successful European Digital Library also needs 1. More partners (museums, archives, AV) (!)2. More digital content (!!)3. Multilingual search & retrieval facilities (!!!)
Ingredients for a succesful EDL
1. The European Library
2. TEL-ME-MOR project
3. Towards a European Digital Library
4. Challenges to tackle
Structure of presentation
Challenges to tackle for EDL1. More partners, esp. museums, archives, AV
Beginning of 2008 : 35 national libraries searchable via TEL 300+ collections, 50-100M records
TEL is already collaborating with DELOS, MICHAEL, MINERVA, BRICKS et al.
2. More digital content
(Only 5-10% of content in TEL are digital objects)
Make sure that access to existing digital content is as complete as possible
Digitisation – Centres of Competence
3. Multilingual search & retrieval facilities
Prototyping in TEL portal of MACS, MSAC, CrissCross + VIAF
Biggest challenge of them all !!
Summary Common and open standards for access and
interoperability are essential for EDL
CENL, TEL and TEL-ME-MOR are catalysts for the creation of EDL
Building a EDL is a much a political & social game as it is a technological
Collaboration is key!!
A true multilingual EDL is still distant
