The European Library: future role and services to the research library community Louise Edwards

The European Library: future role and services to the research library community

www.theeuropeanlibrary.org

Louise Edwards

Overview

What is The European Library?

What services does The European Library offer?

Why not consider joining us?

What is The European Library?

Project started 1996, full operational service from 2005

Membership of national and research libraries of 47 Council of Europe states

Owned and managed by member libraries

Our mission

The European Library is the leadingopen data hub that collects, enriches

and innovates with libraries’ datafor the widest possible dissemination

What does The European Library offer?

Experienced European project partner

Large-scale aggregation

Infrastructure

Data and digital contentof Europe’s libraries

Data distribution

Data enrichment Linked open

data

Our data and content

Creating a very large dataset

Over 200 million bibliographic records

100s of collection descriptions

22.5 million digitised objects

Millions of digitised text pages

Bibliographic data

Collection descriptions

Growing full-text capabilities

DART-Europe

Adding values to libraries’data

Enriching and linking data

VIAF Geonames ISNI ISTC Wikipedia Subject headings

(LCSH, Rameau, GWD)

Establishing an open dataset

Distributing data to support scholarship and libraries

Making libraries’ data available

Embedding data in research infrastructures

Libraries aggregator for Europeana

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Data providers:libraries, museums, archives

and audio-visual archives2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Aggregators(domain, national, etc.)

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Service providers

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Embedding data in subject services

Embedding data in services for libraries

Innovating for libraries

Europeana projects

Supporting new forms of scholarship

Horizon 2020

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Libraries and Europe’s grand challenges

Why not join us?

Very low entry fees Fees based on economic and library

indicators Open to libraries in all 47 Council of

Europe states Discounts for consortia

Owned and managed by libraries

Thank you!

www.theeuropeanlibrary.org

For further information:info@theeuropeanlibrary.org

Louise.edwards@theeuropeanlibrary.org