EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, María Luisa Martínez-Conde Subdirectorate General for Library Co-ordination Digital Libraries in Spain: Policies and Initiatives of the Ministry of Culture

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, SG for Library Coordination  The main Spanish administrative body concerned with library issues  Activities include:  Promotion of cooperation between Spanish libraries.  Description, preservation and dissemination of Spanish bibliographic heritage.

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, SG for Library Coordination: Ongoing Projects  Virtual Library of Historical Newspapers  Virtual Library of Bibliographic Heritage  LDAP Directory and Harvester of Digital Resources

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, SG for Library Coordination: Ongoing Projects: Objectives  Preserve Spanish Bibliographic Heritage;  Give users direct access to contents;  Coordinate Spanish digitization projects;  Contribute to Europeana

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, Virtual Libraries: antecedents  Union Catalog of Bibliographic Heritage (1986-)  It describes editions and holdings from 729 libraries

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, Virtual Library of Historical Newspapers (2003-)  pages from more than 2000 titles from 47 of libraries of all type all over Spain  unique collections  from a broad chronological period: 1777 to late 20th century  public domain + agreements with publishers

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27,

8 Virtual Library of Bibliographic Heritage (2006-)  pages  2533 manuscripts and rare and old-printed books from 15 libraries  2008: 1500 new titles, pages and other bibliographic materials (engravings and maps)  public domain

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27,

10 Virtual Libraries of the Ministry of Culture: standards  MARC XML, Dublin Core / ISO 15836, METS, METSRigths, MADS, MODS  METS provides a format for encapsulating or ingesting preservation metadata: PREMIS, based on ISO 14721/OAIS  METS/ALTO (newspapers)  256 grayscale (newspapers) and 16.7 Mcolors JPEG images. TIFF 6.0 security copies

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, Digital Libraries of the Ministry of Culture: standards  OAI/PMH repositories  SRU/SRW servers

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, Multilingual access  authority file for multilingual headings: Basque, Castillian, Catalan, Galician, Valencian and English  updated online by means of fields for equivalent headings of MARC21 format for authority data : 7XX  records are downloaded from the National Library, Regional Libraries and the Library of Congress

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27,

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, Directory and Harvester of Digital Resources (2005)  Objectives  Facilitate the digitization projects coordination  Avoid duplicates  Standards  Dublin Core  OAI/PMH

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, Directory and Harvester of Digital Resources  Figures:  March 2006:  55 digitization projects  25 OAI-PMH repositories  access to near digital resources  June 2008:  196 digitization projects  55 OAI-PMH repositories  access to more than digital resources

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, Directory and Harvester of Digital Resources: new version (2008)  formats added:  MARC XML  EAD  ePrints

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27,

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27,

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, Broadening the project (2007-)  Work programme and call for proposals for funding digitization projects  2M euros / year  Above-mentioned metadata must be adopted  OAI-PMH compliant repository must be implemented

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, Broadening the project  Expected results (1st call for proposals)  Over 4M pages from 32 libraries will be digitized  Regional libraries (10)  University libraries (12)  School libraries (2)  Private cultural institutions (8)  22 OAI-PMH compliant repositories will be implemented

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, objectives  Large-scale OCR for newspapers  Records generation according METS/ALTO  PDFs (prototype in VLBH) ISO/DIS  Indexing PDFs and PDF/A generation  Jhove validation and PREMIS generation for ingesting in OAIS

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, objectives Capitalize on the multilingual headings by means of cooperative projects Implement the DRIVER guidelines Define a Spanish metadata profile

EDLocal kick off meeting June 26-27, Mid-term objectives  Funded digital objects metadata will be integrated in virtual libraries of the MC via METS.  SRU/OAI synergyes will be enhanced.  OAIS/ISO preservation repository will be implemented.