Transcript TELBP04122012

Europeana Libraries Business Plan
Madrid, December 2012
Presentation outline
• The project
• The value proposition
• The business plan 2013-2015
The long and winding road to the
business plan
Marian Lefferts, CERL
Madrid, December 2012
• The project
• The value proposition
• The business plan 2013-2015
Europeana Libraries – some facts
• 2-year project funded by the
European Commission’s IST-PSP
programme
• Will add over 5 million digital
objects to Europeana
• 19 research and university
libraries are participating
• A project coordinated by The
European Library
• Supported by key international
library associations:
• CENL (Conference of European
National Librarians)
• CERL (Consortium of European
Research Libraries)
• LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques
Européennes de Recherche)
Main aim
• Bringing digital content from Europe’s national and research
libraries to the researcher in a useful, easy way to facilitate
research:
• Data-driven research
• Cross disciplinary
• Special emphasis on social sciences and humanities
research infrastructure
• By developing a sustainable, credible, visible, efficient
service for content providers
Challenges facing the project
• Value proposition
• Offering the European research libraries a tailor-made proposition
• Business model
• Sustainable aggregation and innovation model
Step-by-step approach
• Develop Business Model and validate it
• Develop Business Plan and validate it
Business Model
• First undertook desk research
• Then held stakeholder interviews
• This fed into Scenario development. Four dimensions
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Funding
Range of services to be offered
Ownership/responsibility
Scope/content acquisition
We arrived at:
Flat fee +
Charge for add-ons
TEL
Membership structure
Public interface for academics
Bib/cat and
digital object metadata,
for all materials (in an
approp. electr. format)
held @ libs
Feeds Europeana views on data, e.g. union catalogue
plus…
Data openly available
Data directly
from libraries
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format)
Data prepared by
Content providers +
Aggregation team
Validation
• Feed back from reviewers (interviewed stakeholders)
• Feed back from business planning group
• Wider community
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Coordination Group TEL
CERL EC meeting
LIBER Annual Conference (June 2011)
TEL Management Committee
LIBER Board
CERL Directors
Project Plenay in Belgrade (Nov 2011)
From Business Model to Business Plan
• Business Planning Group prepared draft
• Governance model for The European Library was agreed
with LIBER and CERL (April 2012)
• TEL office prepared Executive Summary and promotional
materials based on the Business Plan
• BP was put to TEL Management Committee and the TEL
Board – after which the BP was refined
• Second round of consultation with LIBER Board (Oct 2012)
and CERL Directors (Oct 2012)
• Some further refinements and final costings were added
• Delivered to EU in November 2012
Europeana Libraries Business Plan.
What is the value proposition for
research libraries?
Izaskun Lacunza, LIBER
Madrid, December 2012
What’s on
• The project
• The value proposition
• The business plan 2013-2015
Consultation proccess
• What do European research libraries expect from The
European Library?
• Access to a wide range of quality content through a broad
network of libraries
• Getting libraries’ data into as many researcher channels as
possible
• Linking libraries’ data with other content in Europeana
• Making it possible to re-use data and content
• Getting the researcher as close as possible to the actual object
What does the BP offer to research libraries?
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Widened access to libraries’ resources
Participating in new projects for research and development
Networking and knowledge sharing
Cost-effective aggregation
Data enrichment
Marketing of libraries
1. Widened access
• Single gateway to collections and data
• 10 million digital objects, 200 million bibliographic records,
25 million pages full text
• CCO metadata sets:
• Available trough APIs
• OAI-PMH
• Linked open dataset
• Maximizing exposure of content of libraries
• Continuous improvement
2. Participation in R&D projects
• Bidding for projects with participating libraries: the way to
innovate in The European Library framework
• Coming: Europeana Cloud
3. Networking and knowledge sharing
• Participating libraries will access knowledge in:
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Data enrichment
Clustering techniques
Full text indexing
Linked open data
4. Cost effective aggregation
• Complete service:
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Data management
Indexing
Clustering
Distribution of data into multiple channels (i.e. Europeana)
• Europeana Cloud:
• First approach to the cloud as a cheaper infrastructure to store
data and (some) content
5. Data enrichment
• De-duplication services
• Enhanced discovery with external vocabularies
• Handling data formats for several aggregators (i.e.
Europeana)
• Enriched data:
• Search engine optimization
• Reusable for libraries (cataloguing, etc.)
6. Marketing of libraries
• The European Library to showcase libraries and their
collections
What’s on
• The project
• The value proposition
• The business plan 2013-2015
The Strategy and Business Plan
2013-2015
Jill Cousins, The European Library
Madrid, December 2012
Our business plan has 4 major sections
1. Background
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Our experience and competencies
Environment in which we operate
The market we intend to serve
2. Vision and strategic priorities
3. Operations
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How we will run the service
4. Finance, governance and performance
Background
• Libraries led the way in founding Europeana
• 1997 Gateway to Europe’s National Libraries (GABRIEL)
• 2005 Launch of The European Library
• 2007 Europeana pilot project, supported by CENL, CERL and
LIBER
• 2008- The European Library re-positions to support
researchers in the humanities and social sciences
• Large dataset of bibliographic records and metadata to libraries
digital content
• Alliances to support strategy e.g. LIBER and CERL, CLARIN and
DARIAH
• Data into virtual research environments e.g. CENDARI
Environment and market
• Research and innovation are critical to future growth of
Europe
• €80 billion in Horizon 2020 programmes
• Continuing increase of open access scholarly content,
backed by governments and the European Commission
• Market in humanities and social sciences is large
• Nearly half of EU graduates
• New forms of digital scholarship, facilitated by technology
Our vision
• An expanded The European Library service of national and
research libraries
• The European Library as a core building block in the Europeana
eco-system
• Partnership with Europeana to deliver a new service,
Europeana Research
• Cross-domain platform to support research in the humanities and
social sciences
Strategic priorities 2013-2015
1. Ensure the sustainability of The European Library as a
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core service for national and research libraries
Provide high-value collections and services for users
Embed services in research and learning communities
Develop strategic partnerships
Priority 1: Sustainability
• Membership of national and research libraries, with set of
value-added services
• Look after the special needs of non-EU/EFTA libraries
• Shared, cloud-based infrastructure for Europeana partners,
including The European Library
• Support central structural funding for Europeana, as a
benefit to libraries
• New project funding opportunities
Priority 2: Collections and services
• Largest possible dataset of Europe’s national and research
libraries, with emphasis on open access scholarly content
• Content strategy to support European research communities
• New functionalities, tools and services to enable researchers
to mine, analyse and manipulate data and content
Priority 3: Services to researchers
• Develop and launch Europeana Research platform
• Deepen understanding of digital research practices and how
we support them
• Distribute libraries metadata to support new types of
research, using CC licences
• Further develop API’s for data distribution into researcher
workflows
Priority 4: Strategic partnerships
• Build relationship with research infrastructure providers,
DARIAH and CLARIN
• Continue to strengthen partnership between CENL, LIBER
and CERL
• Through Europeana, develop relationships with other
domains (museums, archives etc) to support research
Key outcomes by 2015
• Broad-based membership of national and research libraries
• Scaled, cost-effective cloud infrastructure
• Very large dataset of scholarly material to support digital
research
• Set of tools and services to interact with data and content
• Set of linked open data to support research
• Long-term partnership with key stakeholders in European
research agenda
Operations
• Core team of professionals based in The Hague
• Employed by Europeana and share the same office space
• The European Library is run by a Management Committee of
representatives from CENL, LIBER and CERL
• CENL is currently running elections for 6 representatives
• LIBER representatives are Paul Ayris and Jeanette Frey
• CERL representatives are Ulf Goranson and Raymond Berard
How do we fund the plan?
• Commitment from both national and research libraries is vital
• Core operational funding met by libraries
• Shared fee model for national and research libraries
• Research libraries pay €500—5000
• Discounts for consortia
• Innovation trhough project funding
• Project consortia based on TEL members
Your business plan needs you!
Thank you!
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