Going digital at the National Library of Portugal
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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
http://www.google.pt