Going digital at the National Library of Portugal

Birth and development of a Portuguese digital library

EUROLIS Conference 2009 London, 29th October 2009

Helena Patrício

1. Historical overview

2. Strategic goals 2007-2010

3. Digital collection

4. Funcionalities and services

5. Integration with other access services

1. Historical overview

2. Strategic goals 2007-2010

3. Digital collection

4. Funcionalities and services

5. Integration with other access services

1. Historical overview

1998

Content digitised for celebration events and special exibitions

2002NLP launched the National

Digital Library project

2007Full organizational and services

integration within the NLP

Thematic and celebration websites

Quality improvement of services

EU funding

IT innovation and experimentation

Content creation and management in the NLP

Organizational integration

1. Historical overview

2. Strategic goals 2007-2010

3. Digital collection

4. Funcionalities and services

5. Integration with other access services

2. Strategic goals 2007-2010

2.1 To foster the digital collection growth

2.2 To strenghten digitisation capabilities

a) Revision of processes, procedures and workflows

b) Renewal of the production and storage infrastructure

2.3 To improve the service for public access to digital content

a) Articulation between different NLP information systems

b) Provision of new services

2.4 To develop new services for institutional coordination / cooperation

2. Strategic goals 2007-20102.1 To foster the digital collection growth

Online content

Online images

41%

59%

2007-2009 (1st semester) 2002-2006

Online content Items Images

2002-2006 8.987 362.313

2007-2009 (1st semester) 1.302 250.725

TOTAL 10.289 613.038

2. Strategic goals 2007-20102.1 To foster the digital collection growth

Content ready to make available online in 2009

Already digitised Items Images

Old Portuguese books 766 159.181

Newspapers 48 296.955

TOTAL 814 456.136

Being digitised Images

Fernando Pessoa personal papers 54.000

Old Portuguese books 33.000

Internal activities (user requests, exibitions, publishing)

30.000

TOTAL 117.000

2. Strategic goals 2007-20102.1 To foster the digital collection growth

Total images online - Preview

20%

43%

9%

28%

2007-2009 (1st semester)

2009 digitised

2009 being digitised

2002-2006

2. Strategic goals 2007-2010

2.2 To strengthen capabilities for digitisation projects

a) Revision of processes, procedures and workflows

• Formalization of digital content selection policies

• Review of processes and methods for digitisation activities

• Specification of guidelines, models and technical requirements for image capture, metadata and online presentation.

• Fitting software tools to new requirements and workflows

b) Production and storage infrastructure renewal

• Acquisition of 5 bookscanners

• Network capacity improvement

• Acquisition of digital archiving system (SAN 36 TB)

2. Strategic goals 2007-2010

2.3 To improve the service for public access to digital content

a) Articulation between different NLP information systems

NLP catalogue; Portuguese Contemporary Culture Archive; Digital Library

Renewal of the National Digital Library website

• New design and content reorganisation

• Web accessibility requirements compliance

• New functionalities

2. Strategic goals 2007-20102.3 To improve the service for public access to digital content

b) Provision of new services

• EOD - eBooks on Demand

http://books2ebooks.eu/media/flash/short/en/index.html Wherever you see this button, you can order eBooks directly from the

online catalogue of a library.

Just search the catalogue and select the book you need. A user friendly interface will guide you through the ordering process.

You will receive a confirmation e-mail and you will be able to track your order at your personal tracing site.

2. Strategic goals 2007-20102.3 To improve the service for public access to digital content

b) Provision of new services• EOD - eBooks on Demand

Once the book has been digitised and is ready for downloading you will have several payment options. The most convenient option is to use your credit card and pay via a secure transaction mode. After your payment has been received, you will be able to download the eBook.

• Audio and text content for visually impaired

2. Strategic goals 2007-20102.4 To develop new services for institutional coordination / cooperation

a) The NLP digital collection is fully available through Europeana

b) Creation of a National Registry for Digitised Works (RNOD)

Registration of digitised collections, documents or digitisation projects, in order to:

• Avoid duplication efforts

• Agregate data to Europeana

• Share guidelines and technical requirements for digitisation projects

1. Historical overview

2. Strategic goals 2007-2010

3. Digital collection

4. Funcionalities and services

5. Integration with other access services

3. Digital collection

Type of resources

Iconography: 4.907 documents; Cartography: 1.347 documents; Textual documents 1.245 items.

Type of digitised documents

16%1%

18%

65%

Textual material Scores

Cartographic material Iconographic material

3. Digital collection

Publication dateXVIII-XX Centrury: 87% XVII Centrury: 11% XVI Century: 2%.

Documents by publication date

2%11%

23%

38%

26%

Séc. XVI Séc. XVII Séc. XVIII Séc. XIX Séc. XX

3. Digital collection

Publication languagePortuguese (50%) ; Latin (11%)

Foreign languages: French (19%), English (11%), Spanish (3%), Italian (3%), German (2%).

Language of digitised documents

51%11%

19%

3%3%11%2%

por

eng

fre

spa

ita

lat

ger

3. Digital collection

Subject areasFine Arts (35%); History/Geography (35%); Social Sciences (12%); Apllied and Natural Sciences (11%); Literature/Linguistics (4%); Religion/Theology (1%).

Main subject areas

12%3%

8%

35% 4%

35%

2%0%1%

Gener.

Filo.Psic.

Rel./Teol.

Ciênc. Soc

Ciênc. Nat.

Ciênc. Aplic.

Arte

Ling./Lit.

Hist./Geogr.

1. Historical overview

2. Strategic goals 2007-2010

3. Digital collection

4. Funcionalities and services

5. Integration with other access services

4. Functionalities and services

4.1 Searching

4.2 Browsing

4.3 Documents display

4.4 Special documents

a) Dictionaries and enciclopaedias

b) Newspapers

4. Functionalities and services

4.1 Searching

Catalogue search

All the collection

or

by document type

Example search the music collection

Example search the music collection

4. Functionalities and services

4.2 Browsing

Latest additions

and

Index browsing

All the collection

or

by document type

List of results with thumbnails and bibliographic data

Example: author index, Pedro Nunes

List of results with thumbnails and bibliographic data

Example: year of publication index, 1803

4. Functionalities and services

4.3 Document display

JPEG e PDF digital copies

4. Functionalities and services4.3 Document display

Navigation within the document:

Physical struture: page and bottons

Logical structure: contents

Other functionalities:

Zoom

Image segmentation (maps)

Link to the bibliographic record

Print (PDF)

POD – Print on demand (coming soon)

4. Functionalities and services

4.4 Special documents

a) Dictionaries and enciclopaedias:

Alphabetical navigation

Search by term entries

b) Newspapers:

Calendar navigation

Issue display

Reference works browsing and searching

Newspapers browsing

1. Historical overview

2. Strategic goals 2007-2010

3. Digital collection

4. Funcionalities and services

5. Integration with other access services

5. Integration with other access services

PORBASE – Portuguese union catalogue

http://porbase.bnportugal.pt

TEL – The European Library

http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/

Europeana

http://www.europeana.eu

Google

http://www.google.pt

Thank you!

Helena Patrício

hpatricio@bnportugal.pt

EUROLIS Conference 2009 London, 29th October 2009