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Going digital at the National Library of Portugal

Going digital at the National Library of Portugal. Birth and development of a Portuguese digital library. Helena Patrício. EUROLIS Conference 2009 London, 29th October 2009. Historical overview Strategic goals 2007-2010 Digital collection Funcionalities and services

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Going digital at the National Library of Portugal

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  1. Going digital at the National Library of Portugal Birth and development of a Portuguese digital library Helena Patrício EUROLIS Conference 2009 London, 29th October 2009

  2. Historical overview Strategic goals 2007-2010 Digital collection Funcionalities and services Integration with other access services

  3. Historical overview Strategic goals 2007-2010 Digital collection Funcionalities and services Integration with other access services

  4. Thematic and celebration websites Quality improvement of services EU funding IT innovation and experimentation Historical overview Content creation and management in the NLP Organizational integration

  5. Historical overview Strategic goals 2007-2010 Digital collection Funcionalities and services Integration with other access services

  6. 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010 2.1 To foster the digital collection growth 2.2 To strenghten digitisation capabilities a) Revision of processes, procedures and workflows b) Renewal of the production and storage infrastructure 2.3 To improve the service for public access to digital content a) Articulation between different NLP information systems b) Provision of new services 2.4 To develop new services for institutional coordination / cooperation

  7. 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010 2.1 To foster the digital collection growth Online content

  8. 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010 2.1 To foster the digital collection growth Content ready to make availableonline in 2009

  9. 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010 2.1 To foster the digital collection growth

  10. 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010 2.2 To strengthen capabilities for digitisation projects Revision of processes, procedures and workflows Formalization of digital content selection policies Review of processes and methods for digitisation activities Specification of guidelines, models and technical requirements for image capture, metadata and online presentation. Fitting software tools to new requirements and workflows b) Production and storage infrastructure renewal Acquisition of 5 bookscanners Network capacity improvement Acquisition of digital archiving system (SAN 36 TB)

  11. 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010 2.3 To improve the service for public access to digital content Articulation between different NLP information systems NLP catalogue; Portuguese Contemporary Culture Archive; Digital Library Renewal of the National Digital Library website New design and content reorganisation Web accessibility requirements compliance New functionalities

  12. 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010 2.3 To improve the service for public access to digital content Provision of new services EOD - eBooks on Demand http://books2ebooks.eu/media/flash/short/en/index.html Wherever you see this button, you can order eBooks directly from the online catalogue of a library. Just search the catalogue and select the book you need. A user friendly interface will guide you through the ordering process. You will receive a confirmation e-mail and you will be able to track your order at your personal tracing site.

  13. 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010 2.3 To improve the service for public access to digital content Provision of new services EOD - eBooks on Demand Once the book has been digitised and is ready for downloading you will have several payment options. The most convenient option is to use your credit card and pay via a secure transaction mode. After your payment has been received, you will be able to download the eBook. Audio and text content for visually impaired

  14. 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010 2.4 To develop new services for institutional coordination / cooperation The NLP digital collection is fully available through Europeana Creation of a National Registry for Digitised Works (RNOD) Registration of digitised collections, documents or digitisation projects, in order to: Avoid duplication efforts Agregate data to Europeana Share guidelines and technical requirements for digitisation projects

  15. Historical overview Strategic goals 2007-2010 Digital collection Funcionalities and services Integration with other access services

  16. 3. Digital collection Type of resources Iconography: 4.907 documents; Cartography: 1.347 documents; Textual documents 1.245 items.

  17. 3. Digital collection Publication date XVIII-XX Centrury: 87% XVII Centrury: 11% XVI Century: 2%.

  18. 3. Digital collection Publication language Portuguese (50%) ; Latin (11%) Foreign languages: French (19%), English (11%), Spanish (3%), Italian (3%), German (2%).

  19. 3. Digital collection Subject areas Fine Arts (35%); History/Geography (35%); Social Sciences (12%); Apllied and Natural Sciences (11%); Literature/Linguistics (4%); Religion/Theology (1%).

  20. Historical overview Strategic goals 2007-2010 Digital collection Funcionalities and services Integration with other access services

  21. 4. Functionalities and services 4.1 Searching 4.2 Browsing 4.3 Documents display 4.4 Special documents a) Dictionaries and enciclopaedias b) Newspapers

  22. 4. Functionalities and services 4.1 Searching Catalogue search All the collection or by document type

  23. Example search the music collection

  24. Example search the music collection

  25. 4. Functionalities and services 4.2 Browsing Latest additions and Index browsing All the collection or by document type

  26. List of results with thumbnails and bibliographic data Example: author index, Pedro Nunes

  27. List of results with thumbnails and bibliographic data Example: year of publication index, 1803

  28. 4. Functionalities and services 4.3 Document display JPEG e PDF digital copies

  29. 4. Functionalities and services 4.3 Document display Navigation within the document: Physical struture: page and bottons Logical structure: contents Other functionalities: Zoom Image segmentation (maps) Link to the bibliographic record Print (PDF) POD – Print on demand (coming soon)

  30. 4. Functionalities and services 4.4 Special documents a) Dictionaries and enciclopaedias: Alphabetical navigation Search by term entries b) Newspapers: Calendar navigation Issue display

  31. Reference works browsing and searching

  32. Newspapers browsing

  33. Historical overview Strategic goals 2007-2010 Digital collection Funcionalities and services Integration with other access services

  34. 5. Integration with other access services PORBASE – Portuguese union catalogue http://porbase.bnportugal.pt TEL – The European Library http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/ Europeana http://www.europeana.eu Google http://www.google.pt

  35. Thank you! Helena Patrício hpatricio@bnportugal.pt EUROLIS Conference 2009 London, 29th October 2009

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