Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
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
1
Data providers:libraries, museums, archives
and audio-visual archives2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Aggregators(domain, national, etc.)
12
10
11
9
Service providers
13
Embedding data in subject services
Embedding data in services for libraries
Innovating for libraries
Europeana projects
Supporting new forms of scholarship
Horizon 2020
http://oceanliteracy.wp2oexploration.org/files/2013/04/ocean_lit_brochure_icon1.jpg
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
