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TEL-ME-MOR / M-CAST Seminar on Subject Access Prague, 24 November 2006 ‘european digital library’ (EDL) Julie Verleyen 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 Context: – Google Print – Digitisation – Preservation – Copyright Context 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. …..… EC Recommendation 2/3 …..… The access point should build on existing initiatives such as The European Library (TEL), in which Europe’s libraries already cooperate. …..… 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 Centres of Competence Preservation Centres of Competence From … www.TheEuropeanLibrary.org To … European Digital Library 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 Funding & planning Projects Live – TelMeMor – EDLproject In Proposal – TELplus – EDLnet EDLproject www.edlproject.eu 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 material OAI PMH compatibility Adds Bulgaria and Romania Improve access and usability: Full text indexing & automatic mapping between multilingual subject indexes Standardised integration of services e.g. searching in thesauri, annotation User Personalisation EDLnet - proposal Joint proposal led by KB & Eremo for CENL circa €1.3 M Governance, 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 [email protected] Technical Project Manager The European Library office