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

The European Library: future role and services to the research library community. Louise Edwards. www.theeuropeanlibrary.org. Overview. What is The European Library? What services does The European Library offer? Why not consider joining us?. What is The European Library?.

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

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  1. The European Library: future role and services to the research library community Louise Edwards www.theeuropeanlibrary.org

  2. Overview What is The European Library? What services does The European Library offer? Why not consider joining us?

  3. 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

  4. Our mission The European Library is the leading open data hub that collects, enriches and innovates with libraries’ data for the widest possible dissemination

  5. What does The European Library offer? Large-scale aggregation Infrastructure Experienced European project partner Data enrichment Linked open data Data and digital content of Europe’s libraries Data distribution

  6. Our data and content

  7. Creating a very large dataset • Over 200 million bibliographic records • 100s of collection descriptions • 22.5 million digitised objects • Millions of digitised text pages

  8. Bibliographic data

  9. Collection descriptions

  10. Growing full-text capabilities

  11. DART-Europe

  12. Adding values to libraries’data

  13. Enriching and linking data • VIAF • Geonames • ISNI • ISTC • Wikipedia • Subject headings (LCSH, Rameau, GWD)

  14. Establishing an open dataset

  15. Distributing data to support scholarship and libraries

  16. Making libraries’ data available

  17. Embedding data in research infrastructures

  18. Libraries aggregator for Europeana Data providers: libraries, museums, archives and audio-visual archives 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 9 Aggregators (domain, national, etc.) 11 13 12 Service providers

  19. Embedding data in subject services

  20. Embedding data in services for libraries

  21. Innovating for libraries

  22. Europeana projects

  23. Supporting new forms of scholarship

  24. Horizon 2020

  25. Libraries and Europe’s grand challenges http://oceanliteracy.wp2oexploration.org/files/2013/04/ocean_lit_brochure_icon1.jpg

  26. 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

  27. Owned and managed by libraries

  28. Thank you! For further information: info@theeuropeanlibrary.org Louise.edwards@theeuropeanlibrary.org www.theeuropeanlibrary.org

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