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Promoting International and Intercultural Understanding: World Digital Library John Van Oudenaren, Director Scholarly & Educational Programs

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Program Description and Goals World Digital Library

The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.

The principal objectives of the WDL are to: - Promote international and intercultural understanding - Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet - Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences - Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries.

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Content World Digital Library

Formats Books Manuscripts Prints and Photographs Maps and Atlases Journals Newspapers Films Sound Recordings

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Content World Digital Library

Sources

Library of Congress 47.0 percent Digitized at institutions funded by LC/WDL 18.3 percent Content contributed by other partner institutions 34.7 percent

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טעמים ומסורה , עם ניקוד" כתר דמשק"חומש : כתר דמשק (Damascus Bible), ca. 1260, National Library of Israel www.wdl.org/11364

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Khoi Groups, ca. 1700-1740, National Library of South Africa www.wdl.org/11274

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たいしよくわん (Taishokan), ca. 1600-1699, National Diet Library, www.wdl.org/11384

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Liu Wentai, 本草品汇精要, (Collection of the essential medical herbs of materia medica), 1505, National Library of China, www.wdl.org/13513

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Christine de Pisan, Le Livre de la Cité des dames, ca. 1405, National Library of France, www.wdl.org/4391

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Felipe Bauzá, Plano de la Ciudad de Baracoa, 1831, National Library of Cuba “José Martí”, www.wdl.org/15393

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John C.H. Grabill, Red Cloud and American Horse, the Two Most Noted Chiefs Now Living, 1891, Library of Congress, www.wdl.org/7139

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Technical Characteristics World Digital Library

14,509 items

101,563 item-level records with item descriptions

1,569,459 media files (20.3 terabytes)

321,849,417 deep zoom image tiles (2.4 terabytes)

1,093,685 downloadable files (PDF and PNG) 5,491,381 HTML5 pages (101,563 item detail pages and 5,389,818 viewer pages) 244,233 searchable content pages

33.5 million words of translated metadata

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Partnerships and Collaborations World Digital Library

WDL Charter signatories: 194 institutions in 81 countries Content contributing partners: 134 institutions in 59 countries Governance Structure Executive Council

UNESCO National Library of China Library of Congress National Library of France Bibliotheca Alexandrina National Library of Brazil Qatar National Library

Annual Meeting of All Partners

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The Partners - National Libraries (46) Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage National Library of Albania National Library and National Archives of Andorra National Library of Armenia National Library of Argentina Austrian National Library National Library of Belarus National Library of Brazil National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina National Library of Bulgaria National Library of Chile National Library of China National Library of Colombia National Library of Cuba "José Martí“ The Royal Library, Denmark

National Library and Archives of Egypt Bibliothèque nationale de France National and University Library “St Kliment Ohridski” – Skopje (FYROM) National Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran Iraqi National Library and Archives National Library of Israel National Central Library of Florence National Library of Jamaica National Diet Library (Japan) National Library of Kazakhstan National Library of Korea National Library of Latvia National Library of the Netherlands National Library of Norway

National Library of Peru National Library of Portugal Qatar National Library National Library of Romania National Library of Russia Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library Russian State Library National Library of Serbia Slovak National Library National Library of South Africa National Library of Spain National Library of Sweden National Library of Uganda V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine The British Library Library of Congress National Library of Viet Nam

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Partnerships- Other Content Contributing Partners (Partial List)

The Library Company of Philadelphia Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries Bavarian State Library National Library and Archives of Quebec Columbus Memorial Library, Organization of American States Bibliotheca Alexandrina John Carter Brown Library National Library of Catalonia Wellcome Library U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Walters Art Museum United Nations Office at Geneva Library Yale University Library Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Mali University Library in Bratislava Medicea Laurenziana Library, Florence

Hill Museum & Manuscript Library The American University in Cairo Rare Books and Special Collections Library University of Pretoria Library Museum Plantin-Moretus/Print Room, Antwerp Syriac-Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo The Bolshoi St. Petersburg State Circus - Museum of Circus Art Greek-Catholic Diocese of Aleppo Municipal Library Intronati, Siena Riccardiana Library of Florence National Archives of Haiti Complutense University of Madrid Folger Shakespeare Library National Institute of Anthropology and History INAH The Newberry Library Saxon State and University Library, Dresden The Municipal Library of Porto Uppsala University Library

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WDL’s Partners Around the World

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Services World Digital Library

Multilingualism

Functionality

Curation

Performance

Capacity Building

Virtual Repatriation

Preservation of At-Risk Content

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Services World Digital Library

Multilingualism Interface languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish “Equivalent user experience” in each language Content in 132 languages

Functionality Responsive design List, Gallery, and Map Display Faceted browsing: Place, Date, Format, Subject, Language of Item, Contributing Institution Full-text search in seven languages (Almost) universal downloads Deep zoom capability Text-to-Voice Conversion Back links to Contributing Partners

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Services World Digital Library

Curation

Content selection

Item-level descriptions

Consistent metadata set for each item

Curator videos

Timelines, thematic essays, interactive maps

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Services World Digital Library

Performance Content Delivery Network (Akamai)

Amazon Web Services

Capacity Building WDL-funded digitization centers in:

Baghdad, Iraq; Cairo, Egypt; Kampala, Uganda

Arab Peninsula Regional Group (sponsored by Qatar National Library)

Online resources and training seminars and meetings

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Capacity Building World Digital Library

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Endagaano ya Bunyoro eya 1955 (The Bunyoro Agreement), 1955, National Library of Uganda, www.wdl.org/403

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,1924, Iraqi National Library and Archives ,(Layla) لیلىwww.wdl.org/3056

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Abu al-Munā Ibn Abī Nasr Ibn Hafāż, منھاج الدكان ودستور االعیان (On Keeping Shop: A Guidebook for Preparing Orders), 1260, National Library and Archives of Egypt, www.wdl.org/2838

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Services World Digital Library

Virtual Repatriation Mesoamerican codices

Chinese rare books

Carnegie Corporation of New York Afghanistan project Preservation of At-Risk Content

Christian manuscripts in the Middle East

Historical heritage of Uganda

Timbuktu manuscripts

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ܐܘܢܓܠܝܘܢ ܕܛܛܪܐ ܝܢܐ̈ܩܪ ܦܘܪܫ (Gospel Lectionary), 1588, Syriac-Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo, www.wdl.org/7068

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Users and Usage (2015) World Digital Library

Total visits to www.wdl.org 8,185,301 Total page views 32,607,066

Top countries by number of users:

China United States Brazil Mexico Spain France Russian Federation United Kingdom Germany Canada

Argentina Colombia Italy Saudi Arabia Japan Algeria Egypt Portugal Hong Kong Singapore

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Users and Usage (2015) World Digital Library

Usage by language interface (percentage of page views)

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Users and Usage (2015)

Time Spent on Site Per Visit (percentage of visits)

17.5% of users spending 5 minutes or more 10.7% of users spending 10 minutes or more

Downloads: 963,000 ReadSpeaker Activations: 242,473 Internet pages linking to WDL: 4.3 million inbound links

Time Percentage

Less than 1 minute 60.0

1- 5 minutes 22.5

5-10 minutes 6.8

10-30 minutes 8.0

30-60 minutes 1.9

1 hour or more 0.8

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Codex Colombino: # 1 on Google search

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Sustainability World Digital Library

Technical: No real issues (WDL under the Library of Congress “umbrella”)

Financial: An ongoing challenge Annual budget: $2 million minimum

Total spending to date on WDL (2006-2016): $21 million

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Future Directions and Challenges World Digital Library

Medium Term Challenges

Fundraising and financial sustainability Building and maintaining an audience in an ever-fragmenting digital universe

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Future Directions and Challenges

Long-term strategic goals Participation

- Recruit at least one partner – preferably the national library and/or national archives – in all 193 UN/UNESCO member states

Content - Expand the site to 50,000-100,000 selected items so as to provide broad coverage of all time periods, languages, countries and cultures

Usage - Increase usage to target level of 30,000 per day - Increase Number 1 (and Number 1-5) rankings on Google and other search engines - Introduce a Hindi interface to begin reaching large populations in South Asia

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Future Directions and Challenges

Do vastly more (in cooperation with partners) in the areas of:

- Virtual repatriation

- Capacity building

- Preservation of and access to at-risk content

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Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin, Selectarum Stirpium Americanarum Historia, 1763, National Library of Colombia, www.wdl.org/8982

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Thereza Christina Maria Collection, ca. 1870, National Library of Brazil, www.wdl.org/76

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Firdawsī, شاھنامھ بایسنقري (The Book of Kings), 1430, Library and Archives of the Islamic Republic of Iran, www.wdl.org/10610

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Alonso de Santa Cruz, Islario general de todas las islas del mundo, ca. 1539, National Library of Spain, www.wdl.org/10090

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ʻAbd Allāh Khān Bahādur Fīrūz, رسالة في الخیول[َفَرس نامھ[ (The book of horses), circa 1628-1658, Qatar National Library, www.wdl.org/10668

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World Digital Library Dr. John Van Oudenaren Director, Scholarly and Educational Programs, National and International Outreach Email: jvou@loc.gov URL: www.wdl.org