The successes of the Europeana Libraries projectProject Review, Den Haag, February

2013

Louise Edwards, The European Library(Project Coordinator 2011)

Alastair Dunning, The European Library (Project Coordinator 2012)

Europeana Libraries

• Some background

• The aims of the project• 1 – Ingesting content• 2 – Incorporating full text• 3 – Creating a sustainable library aggregator

• The next steps

•All deliverables available via project website at http://europeana-libraries.eu/

Existing European Library

portal harvesting via outmoded

technologies

Some background :

No European Library contact with Research Libraries(nor Europeana)

Some background :

No European Library contact with Research Libraries(nor Europeana)

Little interactions between acronyms – CERL, CENL, LIBER

Some background :

Europeana Libraries

January 2011 – December 2012

Coordinated by The European Library(the library aggregator for

Europeana)

25 partners

Europeana Libraries

WP1 Project management, coordination and monitoring (Mary Rowlatt, MDR Partners)

WP2 Modelling the library landscape (Martin Moyle, University College London)

WP3 Aggregating research library content for Europeana (Andreas Juffinger, The European Library)

Aggregation Steering Group (Marian Lefferts, CERL)

Europeana Libraries

WP4 Extending The European Library aggregation infrastructure (José Borbinha, Instituto Superior Tecnico)

WP5 Enhancing searchability of existing library content (Valentine Charles, The European Library)

WP6 Dissemination, communication and promotion (Aubéry Escande, The European Library)

The aims of the project

• 1. Bring to Europeana the digital collections of some of Europe’s leading research libraries from 11 countries

• 2. Be the first project to offer digital collections where the text will be fully searchable

• 3. Establish systems and processes capable of ingesting and indexing significant quantities of digitised material … The outcome will be an efficient and effective library-domain aggregator service for Europeana

Medieval Manuscripts fromOxford, Complutense (Madrid), Belgrade and Uppsala

Early Modern Books from Sibiu, Zurich and Vienna, amongst others.

Google Books Ghent, Oxford, Bavarian State Library, Complutense.

2m+ metadata records

DART Europe (Ph.D. Theses - 67,868 records)

Directory of Open Access Journals (915,013 records)

Provided links to 5.6m

different digital objects

19 providers have made metadata available for harvesting

Material from

over 75 research libraries included

25m pages of text adapted for incorporation into the new European Library portal

2.6m pages from Národní knihovna ČR

8.2m pages from Bibliothèque nationale de France

3m pages frm Biblioteca Nacional de España

Aggregates / Harvests Data

(REPOX)

Stores Data Centrally /Builds Index for TEL and Europeana/ Normalises & Enriches Data(UIM)

Customer and Process Management

(SugarCRM)

An effective library-domain aggregator service

An effective library-domain aggregator service

Now capable of processing 160 records / second (aim was 100 records a second) – entire TEL corpus processed in January 2013

Development of new The Europeana Library portal - http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/

"We are involved here in Switzerland with two national projects and that gives us some experience with collaboration but this – on a European level – is quite new for us. As a Swiss library, we have almost no possibilities to take part in European projects. We want to gain experience in technical workflows and it’s also very important for us that we have more visibility of our collections outside of Switzerland."

Dr. Urs Fischer, Chief Librarian of the Special Collections of the Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Shared governance and organisation between CENL, LIBER and CERL

Some broader results :

A technical infrastructure also requires a sustainable business model

The project Business Plan directs the future business model of The European Library

Some broader results :

The next steps

•Libraries remain the most important aggregator for Europeana (18% of records)

Research and national library connection forged at European level

Some broader results :

Europeana Libraries as a springboard for further projects – Europeana Cloud, Europeana Newspapers and Europeana Research platform

Closer working practices with ERICs – European Research Infrastructure Consortia, such as DARIAH and CLARIN

Research and national library connection forged at European level

“The launch of the new European Library website is an exciting event that represents another important development in the way researchers can gain access to digitised sources from Europe’s national and research libraries. The launch also holds a special significance for the National Library of Wales as we are named as a contributor to the European Library for the first time. As an institution we are proud to be able to extend access to some of our most important digital collections to the European stage”

Andrew Green, Chief Librarian, National Library of Wales

Images Credits

• Slide 3 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/brothermagneto/3801193167/

• Slide 4 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/terrycady/5827494144/

• Slide 5 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/rogersmith/2278856732/

• Slide 10 -  MS. Bodl. 579 - fol. 256rhttp://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/1000086012883

• Slide 11 - Aus Johann Jakob Wickhttp://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/2000082153224

• Slide 12 - Capitulatie, om te werven een Regiment Voetknechten ten dienste vande, http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/2000069565290

• Slide 13 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/bogdansuditu/2377844553/

• Slide 15 - Bradshaw's Map of Europe http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/2000000045453

• Slide 16 - Piers Plowman ('C' text) http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/1000086150263

• Slide 18,19 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/alastair-dunning/8458545820/

• Slide 21 - Mäandrierender Fluss und Häusergruppe, http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/1000096775016

• Slide 22 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/4556156477/

• Slide 23 - Coins showing Rose bis Feigeeblatter http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/1000086136818

• Slide 27 - Llangollen http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/record/1000093321560