Europeana Libraries Business Plan Madrid, December 2012.

Europeana Libraries Business Plan

Madrid, December 2012

Presentation outline

• The project

• The value proposition

• The business plan 2013-2015

The long and winding road to the business plan

Marian Lefferts, CERL

Madrid, December 2012

• The project

• The value proposition

• The business plan 2013-2015

Europeana Libraries – some facts

• 2-year project funded by the European Commission’s IST-PSP programme

• Will add over 5 million digital objects to Europeana

• 19 research and university libraries are participating

• A project coordinated by The European Library

• Supported by key international library associations:

• CENL (Conference of European National Librarians)

• CERL (Consortium of European Research Libraries)

• LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche)

Main aim

• Bringing digital content from Europe’s national and research libraries to the researcher in a useful, easy way to facilitate research:

• Data-driven research

• Cross disciplinary

• Special emphasis on social sciences and humanities research infrastructure

• By developing a sustainable, credible, visible, efficient service for content providers

Challenges facing the project

• Value proposition• Offering the European research libraries a tailor-made proposition

• Business model• Sustainable aggregation and innovation model

Step-by-step approach

• Develop Business Model and validate it

• Develop Business Plan and validate it

Business Model

• First undertook desk research

• Then held stakeholder interviews

• This fed into Scenario development. Four dimensions• Funding• Range of services to be offered• Ownership/responsibility• Scope/content acquisition

We arrived at:

Membership structureTEL

Flat fee +Charge for add-ons

Feeds Europeanaplus…

views on data, e.g. union catalogue

Public interface for academics

Data openly available Bib/cat and

digital object metadata,for all materials (in an

approp. electr. format) held @ libs

Data directlyfrom libraries(= richest

format)

Data prepared byContent providers +Aggregation team

Validation

• Feed back from reviewers (interviewed stakeholders)

• Feed back from business planning group

• Wider community• Coordination Group TEL• CERL EC meeting• LIBER Annual Conference (June 2011)• TEL Management Committee• LIBER Board• CERL Directors• Project Plenay in Belgrade (Nov 2011)

From Business Model to Business Plan

• Business Planning Group prepared draft• Governance model for The European Library was agreed

with LIBER and CERL (April 2012)• TEL office prepared Executive Summary and promotional

materials based on the Business Plan• BP was put to TEL Management Committee and the TEL

Board – after which the BP was refined• Second round of consultation with LIBER Board (Oct 2012)

and CERL Directors (Oct 2012)• Some further refinements and final costings were added• Delivered to EU in November 2012

Europeana Libraries Business Plan. What is the value proposition for research libraries?Izaskun Lacunza, LIBER

Madrid, December 2012

What’s on

• The project

• The value proposition

• The business plan 2013-2015

Consultation proccess

• What do European research libraries expect from The European Library?

• Access to a wide range of quality content through a broad network of libraries

• Getting libraries’ data into as many researcher channels as possible

• Linking libraries’ data with other content in Europeana• Making it possible to re-use data and content• Getting the researcher as close as possible to the actual object

What does the BP offer to research libraries?

1. Widened access to libraries’ resources

2. Participating in new projects for research and development

3. Networking and knowledge sharing

4. Cost-effective aggregation

5. Data enrichment

6. Marketing of libraries

1. Widened access

• Single gateway to collections and data

• 10 million digital objects, 200 million bibliographic records, 25 million pages full text

• CCO metadata sets:• Available trough APIs• OAI-PMH• Linked open dataset

• Maximizing exposure of content of libraries

• Continuous improvement

2. Participation in R&D projects

• Bidding for projects with participating libraries: the way to innovate in The European Library framework

• Coming: Europeana Cloud

3. Networking and knowledge sharing

• Participating libraries will access knowledge in:• Data enrichment• Clustering techniques• Full text indexing • Linked open data

4. Cost effective aggregation

• Complete service:• Data management• Indexing• Clustering• Distribution of data into multiple channels (i.e. Europeana)

• Europeana Cloud:• First approach to the cloud as a cheaper infrastructure to store

data and (some) content

5. Data enrichment

• De-duplication services

• Enhanced discovery with external vocabularies

• Handling data formats for several aggregators (i.e. Europeana)

• Enriched data: • Search engine optimization• Reusable for libraries (cataloguing, etc.)

6. Marketing of libraries

• The European Library to showcase libraries and their collections

What’s on

• The project

• The value proposition

• The business plan 2013-2015

The Strategy and Business Plan 2013-2015

Jill Cousins, The European Library

Madrid, December 2012

Our business plan has 4 major sections

1. Background • Our experience and competencies• Environment in which we operate• The market we intend to serve

2. Vision and strategic priorities

3. Operations• How we will run the service

4. Finance, governance and performance

Background

• Libraries led the way in founding Europeana• 1997 Gateway to Europe’s National Libraries (GABRIEL)• 2005 Launch of The European Library• 2007 Europeana pilot project, supported by CENL, CERL and

LIBER

• 2008- The European Library re-positions to support researchers in the humanities and social sciences

• Large dataset of bibliographic records and metadata to libraries digital content

• Alliances to support strategy e.g. LIBER and CERL, CLARIN and DARIAH

• Data into virtual research environments e.g. CENDARI

Environment and market

• Research and innovation are critical to future growth of Europe

• €80 billion in Horizon 2020 programmes

• Continuing increase of open access scholarly content, backed by governments and the European Commission

• Market in humanities and social sciences is large• Nearly half of EU graduates

• New forms of digital scholarship, facilitated by technology

Our vision

• An expanded The European Library service of national and research libraries

• The European Library as a core building block in the Europeana eco-system

• Partnership with Europeana to deliver a new service, Europeana Research

• Cross-domain platform to support research in the humanities and social sciences

Strategic priorities 2013-2015

1. Ensure the sustainability of The European Library as a core service for national and research libraries

2. Provide high-value collections and services for users

3. Embed services in research and learning communities

4. Develop strategic partnerships

Priority 1: Sustainability

• Membership of national and research libraries, with set of value-added services

• Look after the special needs of non-EU/EFTA libraries

• Shared, cloud-based infrastructure for Europeana partners, including The European Library

• Support central structural funding for Europeana, as a benefit to libraries

• New project funding opportunities

Priority 2: Collections and services

• Largest possible dataset of Europe’s national and research libraries, with emphasis on open access scholarly content

• Content strategy to support European research communities

• New functionalities, tools and services to enable researchers to mine, analyse and manipulate data and content

Priority 3: Services to researchers

• Develop and launch Europeana Research platform

• Deepen understanding of digital research practices and how we support them

• Distribute libraries metadata to support new types of research, using CC licences

• Further develop API’s for data distribution into researcher workflows

Priority 4: Strategic partnerships

• Build relationship with research infrastructure providers, DARIAH and CLARIN

• Continue to strengthen partnership between CENL, LIBER and CERL

• Through Europeana, develop relationships with other domains (museums, archives etc) to support research

Key outcomes by 2015

• Broad-based membership of national and research libraries

• Scaled, cost-effective cloud infrastructure

• Very large dataset of scholarly material to support digital research

• Set of tools and services to interact with data and content

• Set of linked open data to support research

• Long-term partnership with key stakeholders in European research agenda

Operations

• Core team of professionals based in The Hague

• Employed by Europeana and share the same office space

• The European Library is run by a Management Committee of representatives from CENL, LIBER and CERL

• CENL is currently running elections for 6 representatives• LIBER representatives are Paul Ayris and Jeanette Frey• CERL representatives are Ulf Goranson and Raymond Berard

How do we fund the plan?

• Commitment from both national and research libraries is vital

• Core operational funding met by libraries• Shared fee model for national and research libraries• Research libraries pay €500—5000• Discounts for consortia

• Innovation trhough project funding• Project consortia based on TEL members

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