Europeana Libraries: bringing library content to the researcher Susan Reilly (LIBER)

Twitter: @skreilly

QQML, Limerick, 25th May, 2012

What’s on?

• 4 networks and project

• The big idea

• Friends with benefits

• Back to the future

Four networks and a project

• Europeana Libraries is a 2-year project funded by the European Commission’s ICT-PSP programme

• Will add over 5 million digital objects to Europeana

• 19 research and university libraries are participating

• Coordinated by The European Library

• Mixture of content:

• 3,319,045 pages

• 598,130 books and theses

• 368,000 articles

• 848,078 images

• 1,200 film and video clips

• 34,000 mixed content objects

Four networks and a project

Network libraries: LIBER, CERL, CENLProject: Europeana Libraries The European Library: the library aggregator for EuropeanaEuropeana: Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual aggregator

430 research libraries

34 research libraries,

preservation of manuscripts

44 national libraries, owns

aggregator

The big Idea

Bring digital content from European

national and research libraries

to the researcher

The big idea

• Increasing amount of digital content in libraries

• Change in research behaviour, increase in cross disciplinary research

• Gap in provision of research infrastructure for the humanitiies

• Shrinking library budgets and more pressure to show ROI

The big idea

• All European cultural heritage available online by 2025 (Neelie Kroes)

• All public domain masterpieces available in Europena(Digital Agenda)

• Cost= 10 billion per year over the next 10 years (Collections Trust)

• Increase in Open Access and born digital content

• Growth in systematic collaboration

• More complex research

• Less time for research (occurs in bursts)

• Some barriers:• Lack of linking between archives• Lack of standadisation of online databases and archives• Difficulties in data linking arising from the lack of standardisation,

and the inconsistencies in quality, reliability, and functionality across different resources

The big idea

• Source the content

• Aggregate it

• Improve it

• Make it available in a meaningful way

• And……

do all this in a sustainable manner

The big idea

• A valuable resource for researchers with full-text search capabilities

• A robust network of national and research libraries

• An efficient sustainable aggregation model for research libraries across Europe

This means developing the framework for a library domain aggregation

service!!!!

Friends with benefits

• Efficiency

• Effectiveness

• Visibility

• Credibility

Friends with benefits

Friends with benefits

Friends with benefits

Friends with benefits

• Consultation & articulation of value

proposition

• Business Model

• Business Plan

Friends with benefits

• Enabling searching of bibliographic records of texts in hard copy and metadata for related digitised texts at the same time

• Offering OCR services for providers’ digital content to support full text searching in the portal

• Pushing the data out to other

academic / research services

• Providing access to universities’

own digital repositories…and more?

Back to the future

• More content

• More tools/services

• More innovation

• More contact with the

reseach community

Back to the future

• Service opened up to all research libraries

• New project for new innovation and service• Europeana Newspapers www.europeananewspapers.eu• Europeana Cloud