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Virtual Communities in Europe:Virtual Communities in Europe:

The European Library ApproachThe European Library Approach

Fleur StigterFleur Stigter

Bridging Worlds conference 2008

Bridging Worlds 2008

What is The Future of

Library Portals?

PESTLE

• Politics

• Economics

• Social

• Technology

• Legal

• Environment


Critical Success Factors

• meeting user needs

• finding a sustainable business model

• investing in ongoing innovation


1. Who, What, When.. 2. Pan-European

3. Different Cultures to Serve

4. Portal, Widgets, APIs

CENL < Council of Europe

Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, ”The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom

The European Library

Also known as TEL or Gabriel

Free, multilingual access to the combined resources of Europe’s national libraries

Owned by Conference of European National Librarians (CENL)

Vision: “Provision of equal access to promote world-wide understanding of the richness and diversity of European learning and culture.”


Some more backgrounds

Live since 2005

Roughly over 150 million bibliographic records

By the end of 2008 all members of CENL will have joined The European Library (42 - currently 34)


Pan-European


• In Membership, Content and Targeted audience…• Primary target group: (European) Librarians and

members of Academic societies

• A look at the organisational structure of The European Library, and methods used…

ContactsWorking Group

CENL

The European Library OFFICE

The European LibraryManagement Board

The European LibraryExecutive Group

EditorialWorking Group

LanguageWorking Group

TechnicalWorking Group

..

• National marketing by partner-libraries

• Metrics– Key Performance Indicators focusing on marketing &

overall performance– User studies, log file analysis…

• Office in The Hague creates overall marketing plan, coordinates and supports partners, and looks after the portal (technical, user-friendly…)


Communities, Widgets, API’s..

• No communities on the portal• But… we are developing additional services for librarians• Working more closely with a large group of library

professionals from all over the world • At this point: access to Handbook, Metadata Registry, and

Participation in our Linking Program

• Widgets… APIs…


APIs…

870 Faces put the mini library on their page, 43 are “Fans” of the applicationOwnership issues…

Source of dataUse of data supplied to other organisationsLegal jurisdictions

Another route = Providing content to Europeana


1. What, Who…

2. Audiences

3. Communities

Europeana

Integrates the 4 cultural heritage domains:

audio-visual collectionsarchivesmuseumslibraries

Comprises 85 partners representing:

all EU Member Statesrelated Commission-funded projects

An initiative of the European Commission

Based on v 1.5 The European Library


The Commission’s objectives

To create a public domain access point

To use digitised cultural and scientific heritage resources as input for a wide range of information products and services

To play a key role in the future growth of sectors such as learning and tourism

To inspire new creative enterprise and innovation

To promote understanding of European connections and the sense of a European identity


Audiences

• General user• School students• Teachers• University undergraduates• Graduate students, academics, scholars• Professional users


Added value of Europeana

….towards its users

• Brings together materials held in different types of institution• Mozart’s manuscripts, printed music, recordings, letters, objects, as well

as books, films and TV programmes about him• Brings together material held in different countries• Rubens’ paintings from Madrid, Brussels, London, Paris, Vienna,

Florence • Tracks the movement across Europe of trade, empires and ideas

…towards The European Library….


Site demo launched 1 Feb 08

Beta prototype launched June 08

Final prototype launched 20 November 08

Funding proposal to Commission to develop Version 1.0

Link to >6 million digital objects by 2010

When..When..

…?

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• Next..

– Application Programmable Interfaces (API’s)– Semantics – User generated content– Multilingual search results


In Sum…

Europeana is built upon The European Library but they are not the same!

An operational serviceEuropeana is not (yet)

A service of Conference European National Librarians (CENL) Europeana is European Commission funded

National Library ServiceEuropeana is a cross-domain service, involving over 100 partners (archives,

libraries, museums, audio-visual institutions, etc.)

The European Library is mainly targeted at librarians and members of the academic communityEuropeana focuses on a wide variety of user groups


How The European Library tries to serve society at large…

• Listening to and working with users• Cooperating with Partner Libraries• Different routes to connect with target groups…

Portal, partner in Europeana, and APIs


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