1st EUROPEAN LIBRARY SEMINAR, LJUBLJANA, JUNE 11-12.

1st EUROPEAN LIBRARY SEMINAR, LJUBLJANA, JUNE 11-12

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Aims:

• Interoperability across national boundaries

• Combining the digital, and other, resources of Europe‘s national libraries. Laying the groundwork to establish a pan-European service

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Funding

• European Commission 66 % = 1.2 million Euros

• Project partners 34 % = 600.000 Euros

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Project phase

The project phase is essentially a feasibility study, but

there is a commitment to take the findings forward to an

operational service soon after.

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Project participants = European National Libraries

• United Kingdom• Germany• Netherlands • Switzerland

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Project Participants =

European National Libraries (continued)• Portugal • Finland• Italy• Slovenia

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Project Participants (continued)• Conference of European National Librarians

(CENL)• Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico, Italy

(ICCU) (Italy), and• University of Northumbria (UNN) is involved

as a major contractor in Workpackage 2

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Project phase: 30 months

February 2001 – July 2003

Afterwards:

Development of an operational service by

the

project partners.

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The CENL member libraries are invited

• to monitor the progress of the project.

• to take the necessary steps to join the

eventual operational service.

• to make the required preparations for

joining this operational service as soon as

possible.

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The project is an ‘accompanying measure’

under the cultural heritage applications area

of Key Action 3 of the Information Societies

Technology research programme (IST).

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Work packages:

WP 1: Publisher relations

WP 2: Business plans and models

WP 3: Metadata development

WP 4: Interoperability testbeds

WP 5: Dissemination and use

WP 6: Management

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Work package 1 – Publisher relations

• Common approach on negotiating legal and voluntary deposit agreements with publishers.

• Establishing co-operative approaches to business, licensing and copyright matters.

Lead partner: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), The Netherlands

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Work package 2 – Business plans and models

• Development of business plans and

models

• Market research

• User surveys

Lead partner: The British Library (BL), United Kingdom

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Work package 3 – Metadata development

• Common standards and schemas for metadata to support wide-scale access to digital materials, off-line digital materials and non-digital materials.

• Concertation work on multilingual access • Model for a multilingual service.

Lead partner: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), The

Netherlands

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Work package 4 – Interoperability testbeds

• Search in distributed databases using Z39.50 / http + XML

• Access to publications • Multilingual features• Evaluation of performance

Lead partner: Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB), Germany

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Work package 5 – Dissemination and use

• Dissemination of the project objectives and results

• Exploitation of the results• Concertation

Lead partner: Die Deutsche Bibliothek (DDB), Germany

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Work package 6 – Project Management

• Management and Co-ordination • Control of Finances • Liaison with the European Commission

Lead partner:

The British Library (BL), United Kingdom

www.europeanlibrary.org

The Logo

• Functional, objective, elegant

• Contains the project name, slogan

and acronym

• Reflects the idea of a gate as being

the long-term goal of the project

Thank you!

Enjoy the

seminar