From Policy Guidelines to Real Life: Building of the National Digital Library of Finland

CIDOC CRM Workshop 28.1.2010

Minna KarvonenMinistry of Education

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Government Resolution on the Objectives of the National Information Society Policy 2007−2011

Information Society Action Plan 2007–2011

•National Digital Library project

Relating other areas:•Science and research infrastructures•On-line availability of public content and services •Open learning environments

National Information Society Strategy 2007-2015

National Information Society Policy in Finland

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Digital Libraries Initiative of the European Union

• The Digital Libraries iIitiative is part of the European Community's i2010 strategy for the Digital Economy

• It focuses on two areas: cultural heritage and scientific information:

› 2006: Council Conclusions on the Digitisation and Online Accessibility of Cultural Material, and Digital Preservation

› 2007: Council Conclusions on scientific information in the digital age: access, dissemination and preservation

› 2008: Council Conclusions of 20 November 2008 on the European digital library EUROPEANA

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National Digital Library of Finland 2008−2011National Digital Library means:

• a common public interface for the information resources of libraries, archives and museums (in operation in 2011)

• digitisation of the most essential cultural heritage materials of libraries, archives and museums

• development of a long-term preservation solution for electronic cultural heritage materials (a detailed plan in 2010)

• increasing competence

• National Digital Library will work as an aggregator for the European Digital Library Europeana.

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National Digital

Library – 700 libraries, museums

& archivesNational Archives+ provincial archives =

National Archive Service

National Board of Antiquities/National Museum of Finland

Finnish National Gallery

Finnish Museum of Natural History

Regional museums

Regional art museums

National specialised museums

Other museums

Public libraries

Special libraries

National Library of Finland

Municipal archives, other public administration

archives and other archives

National audio-visual archive

Libraries in educational nstitutions

Libraries in higher education institutions

Government-subsidized and other private archives

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Monitoring group / chaired by the Ministry of Education

Steering group / chaired by the Ministry of Education

Availability section / chaired by the National

Library

Technical expert group / chaired by the National Library

Long-term preservation section /

chaired by the National Archives

Working groupsWorking groups

Working groups Working groupsWorking groups

National Digital Library: 70 people from 35 organisations

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User

inte

rface

Present state and

challenges

Digi-arkistot (julkaisu-arkistot, Digitalia)

MetaLib

Meta

search

SFXlinking resolve

r

(journal articles and

ebooks)

Back e

nd

Owned resources Licensed e-resourcesLicensed e-resources

Other systems

i.e. Learning environ-ments

Museums and

Archives

Digital Archives

and Instit.

Archives

Local Library

Systems

Library Portal

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Solution: New System Architecture andPublic Interface

• Separating user interface from back end systems

• Hiding back end systems from users

• A common Public Interface will replace current user interfaces (library systems, portals, institutional archives, DPS…)

• The public interface is one installation for many institutions (many views)

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What is there for users?

• Users do not need to know: • organisations or

• collections

• Users can:› Reach all services they need

› Reach different kind of collections

› Customize the service to their liking

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And more...

• Organisations can tailor the interface to meet their users' needs

• The idea is to bring the service to users' working environments (such as e-science and learning environments) and to social networking forums

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Content

• Users will have access to: › Public domain material available for all

› Material with restricted / authorised use:

› Licensed material (e.g. scientific journals, e-books)

› Material with restricted display and use (e.g. archive material)

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Public interface: searchable content in 2011

o 50 million database references

o 2 million pages of newspapers

o 2 million pages of archive material

o hundreds of thousands photographs and museum objects

o licenced material: 300 000 e-books, 20 000 e-journals

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Europeana – the access point to Europe's digital cultural heritage & National Digital Libraries

Europeana

National Digital Libraries: e.g.BAM, Culture.fr, Culturaitalia,

CIDEC, National Digital Library of Finland

Sectoral & Cross Sectoral Portals: Athena, Apenet, EFG, STERNA etc.

Individual services of libraries, archives and museums

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NL 1 NL 2 NL 3

EDL

National Digital Library

ACE

Film Archive X

Eurbica National Archive 1

MICHAELCENL

Museum X

Archive X

National Archive 2

Film Archive 1

Film Archive 2

Film Archive 3

National Archive 3

Library X

Museum A Archive A Library A

FIAT

Television Archive

1

Television Archive

n

IASA

Sound Archive

1

Sound Archive

n

ICOM Europe

Museum 1

Museum 2

The European Library

VideoActive

ATHENA

APEnet

EFGACE

Culture.fr

CulturaItalia

BAM

National Digital Libray Fnland

EuropeanaLocal

Trebleclef

PrestoPrime

IMPACT

BHLMIMO

EuropeanaConnect

Judaeica

EuropeanaTravel

EUScreen

STERNA

ARROW

The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009The Europeana Universe of Projects 2009

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Benefits of the National Digital Library Project

• improves availability of electronic information resources and makes their use easier

• strengthens cooperation across organisational and sectoral borders

• reduces overlapping expenses from digitisation and management, distribution and preservation of electronic material

• improves interoperability, manageability and efficiency of processes

• preserves the potential of cultural heritage material far into the future

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What is needed to make this all happen?

o national guidelines

o national coordination mechanisms & governance

o common procedures and standards

o resources – 16 million € for 2008 - 2011

o sustainability

o content

o good will, continuous interaction & capacity to change

www.kdk2011.fi

For further information:

www.kdk2011.fi/en

Minna KarvonenSecretary GeneralNational Digital LibraryMinistry of Educationminna.karvonen@minedu.fi