Digital Library of Slovenia

www.dlib.si

mag. Zoran Krstulović, Deputy DirectorTine Musek, IT Developer

National and University Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia

5. SEEDI International ConferenceDigitization of cultural and scientific heritage

Sarajevo, May 19-20, 2010

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Overview

Technical Developement

DIGITAL LIBRARY OF SLOVENIAwww.dlib.si

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NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY LJUBLJANA

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Mini search-box

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Influences over dLib.si and its environment• 2005, March: The European Library• 2005, June: i2010• 2005, November: digital library has published on

web www.dlib.si• 2006, December: strategy dLib.si• 2007, March: dLib won EEA developement grant• 2008, November: Europeana• 2009, September: dLib.si become

national e-content aggregator6

Starting points …• Dispersion of digital objects on the Web.• Repeated development of applications with identical

functional uses (user’s interfaces, search tools, etc.).• Digitisation based on capacities of users or providers,

not in line with standards.• Widespread use of web search services (Google etc.) for

sources discovery instead of library catalogues .• Unsolved issues of permanent preservation of digital

objects.• Knowledge acquired in co-operation with projects under

the auspices of the European Union and in the common service of European national libraries.

What is www.dlib.si?• A web portal providing access to digitised knowledge and

cultural treasures. Provides much easier access to the knowledge kept in libraries.

• A tool for free searching of resources and ready access to the digital items. Intended for all web users, particularly useful for research work.

• Offers a virtual collection from a wide range of disciplines. It combines different collections and provides uniform access to them.

• Integrated search results, presented in digital form.• Contributes to Slovenia’s recognition and competitiveness

in the European Union.

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Developement strategy (November 2006)

Vision• The Digital Library of

Slovenia will play an active role in building the national information society, library network and research community of the future through its collections, services and expertise.

Mission of the Digital Library of Slovenia• Building, development and management of digital

collections, following user needs, existing legislation and standards, in co-operation with various strategic partners from the fields of culture, science, education and economy.

• Provision of open and free access to digital content, including the development of tools to use it.

• Promoting the digital library as infrastructure to education and research process, lifelong learning of the population, and a feature of democracy with unprecedented access to digital information for all users, regardless of who they are and of location they wish to access the information from.

• Long-term preservation of the national cultural heritage in digital form by maintaining and developing a trusted digital repository / digital archive.

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Strategic goals implementation• To improve accessibility to information resources and library

services using modern communication channels.• To ensure long-term preservation of the digital cultural

heritage belonging to Slovenian libraries.• To enable partnerships between and co-operation on equal

terms with libraries, publishers and other organizations from the fields of culture, education and science.

• To increase the presence of Slovenian culture and language on the network.

• To increase the level of use of library information resources and services

the end of 2010

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dlib.si by numbers• Scientific articles 15.489 articles• Other articles 248.609 articles• Serials 103 titles (110.721 issues)• Photographs, postcards, vedutas 9.915 items• Artworks 720 items• Books 1.050 volumes• Posters 6.087 items• Manuscripts 129 rokopisov• Maps 251 items• Sound recordings 65 titles• Printed music 1.065 titles• University degree works 793 volumes• Public financed project reports 368 reports

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All in all: almost 400.000 items

35% cotributed by partners: public libraries and scientific journals publishers

Ivan Cankar: Živeti!Torej ti je vseeno?«

»Glej, Lucija — govoril bom prav počasi, zato da se ne zlažem.

dlib.si by numbers• Visitors (2007 – 2010, April)

Platform• HP hosts for virtual servers• HP blade servers• HP EVA storage ~50TB• HP XP storage ~100TB (fully redundant)• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64• ASP.NET 3.5• Microsoft SQL 2008, Solr 1.4 on Tomcat 6.x• Fedora on PostgreSQL

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File formats• Photo material: JPEG(2000)• Maps/Vedutas: MrSID, Geo-TIFF• Other visual materials: PDF, JPEG(2000)• Multimedia: MPEG4, FLV, H.264, MP3, Sibelius• Texts: PDF, plain text, HTML(?)• 3D objects: PDF-3D, VRML• Flash viewers!

• Goal: user friendliness!20

dLib Application Profile• Based on DublinCore extended• Additional fields• Flexible and Extensible• (CO)MARC compatibility• Easy export to ESE, TELAP, DC

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How do objects get online?

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What’s new in v2• Facets• Search inside results• Tagging• Web services for external use• Windows 7/Vista widget(s)• Online administration

– Metadata manipulation– CMS– User manipulation

• ToDo: full-text editing23

Thank you for your attention!

zoran.krstulovic@nuk.uni-lj.sitine.musek@nuk.uni-lj.si

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