‘european digital library’ (EDL)
Julie Verleyen
TEL-ME-MOR / M-CAST Seminar on Subject Access
Prague, 24 November 2006
Introduction
This presentation:
– Beginnings of roadmap
– What needs to be achieved
– Where we are
– Challenges and how to overcome them
– How to be funded
Beginnings - Development timeline
28 April 2005 - Six Heads of State and their respective Governments advocated the creation of a virtual European library, aiming to make Europe’s cultural and scientific record accessible for all.
7 July 2005 - Mr José Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, replied to the letter from 6 Heads of State and their respective Government's and welcomed the digital libraries initiative.
30 September 2005 – EC adopts a Communication “i2010: Digital Libraries”
27 February 2006 - EC adopts the Decision on setting up the High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries
24 August 2006 – EC recommendation on the digitisation and online accessibility of cultural material and digital preservation.
EC Recommendation 1/3
“A common multilingual access point would make it
possible to search Europe’s distributed […] digital
cultural heritage online.
Such an access point would increase its visibility
and underline common features.
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EC Recommendation 2/3
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The access point should build on existing initiatives such as The
European Library (TEL), in which Europe’s libraries already cooperate.
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EC Recommendation 3/3…..…
It should where possible closely associate private holders
of rights in cultural material and all interested
stakeholders. A strong commitment by the Member
states and cultural institutions to arrive at such an
access point should be encouraged.”
EU vision
Access Initially: Museums, Archives, Libraries
Then: other data / audio / visual repositories
Digitisation
Preservation
Centres of Competence
Centres of Competence
Towards a European Digital Library
End 2006 full collaboration among EU national libraries.
From 2007 collaboration to be expanded to archives, museums and other libraries.
By 2008 2,000,000 books, films, photographs, manuscripts,
and other cultural works accessible.
By 2010 at least 6,000,000 works accessible.
Towards a European Digital Library
End 2006 full collaboration among EU national libraries.
From 2007 collaboration to be expanded to archives and museums.
By 2008 2,000,000 books, films, photographs, manuscripts,
and other cultural works accessible.
By 2010 at least 6,000,000 works accessible.
Towards a European Digital Library
End 2006 full collaboration among EU national libraries.
From 2007 collaboration to be expanded to archives and museums.
By 2008 2,000,000 books, films, photographs, manuscripts,
and other cultural works accessible.
By 2010 at least 6,000,000 works accessible.
Towards a European Digital Library
End 2006 full collaboration among EU national libraries.
From 2007 collaboration to be expanded to archives and museums.
By 2008 2,000,000 books, films, photographs, manuscripts,
and other cultural works accessible.
By 2010 at least 6,000,000 works accessible.
Where we are now… 1/2
Access to digitised items of 23 libraries Remaining 9 EU libraries accessible by end
2007 Multilingual access in all partner libraries
languages Access using the protocols in situ in the
libraries = low barrier to entry for the stakeholder, but high barrier to usage by the user.
Moving towards OAI-PMH compliancy
Where we are now… 2/2
Development of a virtual User Board
Workshops on interoperability issues with
other eContentPlus projects eg.: Digmap –
November 27-28 in Vienna
CENL workshop on the European Digital
Library & possible organisational models.
2,000,000 digitised materials are now
accessible via The European Library
Challenges
Lack of content
Multilingualism – Automatic translation works best
with full text
Usability - Federated vs centralised search
Funding
Steps a European Digital Library
Project Brief outlining steps to create a user
friendly / multilingual / multi-institutional EDL
Review of funding at our disposal
Creation of project proposals
European Digital Library Office
EDLproject - 4 Main objectives
Integrating catalogues & collections of 9 target libraries into TEL Increase number & usability of resources for researchers
Extending the multi-lingual capacities of TEL portal Unicode compliance, multilingual subject access, authority files
Expand Marketing & Communication of TEL Online & Offline M&C Central and local M&C
First steps towards collaboration between TEL and non-libraries Archives & museums : interoperability, organisational, technical
EDLproject – Further tasks
Creation of a European Metadata Registry
Log file analysis to determine user need (DELOS)
Promotion of OAI-PMH
Feasibility of applying GIS tools in portal
TELplus - proposal
Adding and improving content:OCRing of previously digitised materialOAI PMH compatibilityAdds Bulgaria and Romania
Improve access and usability:Full text indexing & automatic mapping between
multilingual subject indexesStandardised integration of services e.g. searching in
thesauri, annotationUser Personalisation
EDLnet - proposal
Joint proposal led by KB & Eremo for CENL circa €1.3 MGovernance, Organisational Structure, a Roadmap
and eventually the Business Model
Prototypes of possible architectures, creating solutions for various interoperability issues of access, metadata schemas, language, search and display
Users for usability.
Run by a European Digital Library Office – in parallel with The European Library
Conclusion
Many obstacles and challenges ….
… but if we all join efforts, if we allow
flexibility in our collaboration to assume our
diversity, if we can find consensus on
standards …
… it might be possible to get there !
EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARY
Thank you
Julie Verleyen
Technical Project Manager
The European Library office
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