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Virtual Communities in Europe:Virtual Communities in Europe:
The European Library ApproachThe European Library Approach
Fleur StigterFleur Stigter
Bridging Worlds conference 2008
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What is The Future of
Library Portals?
PESTLE
• Politics
• Economics
• Social
• Technology
• Legal
• Environment
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Critical Success Factors
• meeting user needs
• finding a sustainable business model
• investing in ongoing innovation
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1. Who, What, When.. 2. Pan-European
3. Different Cultures to Serve
4. Portal, Widgets, APIs
CENL < Council of Europe
Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, ”The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom
The European Library
Also known as TEL or Gabriel
Free, multilingual access to the combined resources of Europe’s national libraries
Owned by Conference of European National Librarians (CENL)
Vision: “Provision of equal access to promote world-wide understanding of the richness and diversity of European learning and culture.”
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Some more backgrounds
Live since 2005
Roughly over 150 million bibliographic records
By the end of 2008 all members of CENL will have joined The European Library (42 - currently 34)
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Pan-European
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• In Membership, Content and Targeted audience…• Primary target group: (European) Librarians and
members of Academic societies
• A look at the organisational structure of The European Library, and methods used…
ContactsWorking Group
CENL
The European Library OFFICE
The European LibraryManagement Board
The European LibraryExecutive Group
EditorialWorking Group
LanguageWorking Group
TechnicalWorking Group
..
• National marketing by partner-libraries
• Metrics– Key Performance Indicators focusing on marketing &
overall performance– User studies, log file analysis…
• Office in The Hague creates overall marketing plan, coordinates and supports partners, and looks after the portal (technical, user-friendly…)
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Communities, Widgets, API’s..
• No communities on the portal• But… we are developing additional services for librarians• Working more closely with a large group of library
professionals from all over the world • At this point: access to Handbook, Metadata Registry, and
Participation in our Linking Program
• Widgets… APIs…
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APIs…
870 Faces put the mini library on their page, 43 are “Fans” of the applicationOwnership issues…
Source of dataUse of data supplied to other organisationsLegal jurisdictions
Another route = Providing content to Europeana
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1. What, Who…
2. Audiences
3. Communities
Europeana
Integrates the 4 cultural heritage domains:
audio-visual collectionsarchivesmuseumslibraries
Comprises 85 partners representing:
all EU Member Statesrelated Commission-funded projects
An initiative of the European Commission
Based on v 1.5 The European Library
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The Commission’s objectives
To create a public domain access point
To use digitised cultural and scientific heritage resources as input for a wide range of information products and services
To play a key role in the future growth of sectors such as learning and tourism
To inspire new creative enterprise and innovation
To promote understanding of European connections and the sense of a European identity
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Audiences
• General user• School students• Teachers• University undergraduates• Graduate students, academics, scholars• Professional users
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Added value of Europeana
….towards its users
• Brings together materials held in different types of institution• Mozart’s manuscripts, printed music, recordings, letters, objects, as well
as books, films and TV programmes about him• Brings together material held in different countries• Rubens’ paintings from Madrid, Brussels, London, Paris, Vienna,
Florence • Tracks the movement across Europe of trade, empires and ideas
…towards The European Library….
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Site demo launched 1 Feb 08
Beta prototype launched June 08
Final prototype launched 20 November 08
Funding proposal to Commission to develop Version 1.0
Link to >6 million digital objects by 2010
When..When..
…?
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• Next..
– Application Programmable Interfaces (API’s)– Semantics – User generated content– Multilingual search results
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In Sum…
Europeana is built upon The European Library but they are not the same!
An operational serviceEuropeana is not (yet)
A service of Conference European National Librarians (CENL) Europeana is European Commission funded
National Library ServiceEuropeana is a cross-domain service, involving over 100 partners (archives,
libraries, museums, audio-visual institutions, etc.)
The European Library is mainly targeted at librarians and members of the academic communityEuropeana focuses on a wide variety of user groups
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How The European Library tries to serve society at large…
• Listening to and working with users• Cooperating with Partner Libraries• Different routes to connect with target groups…
Portal, partner in Europeana, and APIs
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Thank youThank you