Transcript John Van Oudenaren - World Digital Library Project Site

Annual Partner Meeting
Washington, DC
November 18, 2013
John Van Oudenaren
The Library of Congress
WDL Project Director
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Technical Developments
Partners
Content
Capacity Building
Users and User Engagement
• Process Improvements
– Online content submission process
– Dropbox
– Partner review
• User Interface (UI) Improvements
– Browse and search results page
– Viewer/page turner
– Gallery View
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9,560 items
402,048 images
2,972 items added in the past year (45% growth)
Items contributed by 37 partner institutions in 20
countries
• 103 institutions in 50 countries currently
represented on the WDL
• Long-term content goals and selection criteria are
under discussion
• 178 partners in 80 countries
(added 11 partners and three countries: Yemen, Kenya,
Vietnam)
• Three new national library partners:
National Library of Kenya
National Library of Vietnam
Slovak National Library
• Réseau francophone numérique (RFN)
• Capacity building challenge
Current partners
Prospective partners
• Digital Conversion Centers
– Egypt
– Iraq
– Uganda
• Arab Peninsula Regional Group, Qatar National
Library Doha Workshop, June 2013
• Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library Training Visit,
September-October 2013
(Data for Library of Congress FY 2013)
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Visits: 4,296,206
Page views: 23,316,314
Downloads: 305,906
ReadSpeaker Usage: 170,312
Top countries by number of visits:
Spain, Brazil, Mexico, United States, China,
Argentina, Germany, United Kingdom,
Portugal, Colombia, France, Russian Federation
• Spain, Brazil, Mexico, and United States account 48
percent of total visits
• Usage in Spanish-speaking countries declined in relative
and absolute terms; most other countries/languages
continued to grow
• Large gap between Spanish, English, Portuguese and
the other four languages
• Arabic is growing, and now ranks fourth, ahead of
Chinese, French, and Russian
• Page views per visit seems to be increasing, particularly
in recent months
Visit Duration
Visits (%)
Page Views (%)
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31-60 seconds
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61-180 seconds
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181-600 seconds
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601-1800 seconds
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