Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum The vision and goals of the Norwgian digital library The vision The Norwegian Digital Library shall give everyone easy access to information and knowledge. Goal The Norwegian digital library is being designed to overcome technical, commercial and administrative barriers to make it possible for users to exploit quality assured information now available in many places, by many owners and suppliers. NDL shall also help make more content available in digital form, for more users.

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum Organization Steering board Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority Department of Stategy and planning Programme Committee NDL Project manager/team

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum Programme administration Carol Van Nuys – Project manager Anett Kolstad – Senior adviser Karianne A. Aam – Adviser Team NDL

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum Programme Committee Leikny Haga Indergaard, Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority Roger Jøsevold, The National Library Jan Erik Røed, The University Library in Oslo (Norwegian Council for Higher Education) Else Margrethe Bredland, Agder University College (Norwegian Council for Higher Education) Lars Hansen Juvik, Nordland county library Liv Sæteren, Oslo public library Helge Salvesen, The Norwegian Library Association Petter Søholt, Trøndelag Folk Museum Nils Johan Stoa, The National Archival Services of Norway

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum Programme Areas Technical framework Digitization Portals Licence agreements User services

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum Some of our activities Technical framework: – NDL Framework Project Portals Licence agreements – Working group for licensing Digitization – Working group for digitization User services – NORA – The Joint Library Card Project – Ask the Library – The Norwegian Architecture Portal

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum NDL Framework Project Working groups: – System architecture and infrastructure – Metadata – Searching – Document production and delivery – Authorization and authorization Creating an agreement on a set of standards

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum Why is a framework important?

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum Portals Searching portals Subject portals Subject specific portals

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum The Joint Library Card Project The system vendors and the National Library Received funding from Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority Project period: 2004 Testing of clients and server: 2005 Launch: October 2005 The main aim of the project is to develop a joint library card for personal library users in Norway. A national borrower database will be established in order to achieve this aim

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum Goals for Ask the Library – Biblioteksvar (Ask the Library) is a digital reference service whereby patrons can communicate with library personnel via chat, SMS or /web form. – Our goal is to build and run a national digital reference service. The project is the first of its kind in Norway, both in regard to the combined technologies in a single interface, and the fact that so many institutions cooperate to provide a single digital service. – By participating in the project, each individual library or institution pledges their work time without economic compensation. The pay-back comes in the form of an increased expertise in reference work. In addition to giving personnel new experiences in the form of digital reference, especially chat, participating institutions have found that participation gives them new insight into the traditional, "in person" reference work. The result is that more and more personnel are actively using electronic resources in their reference work. (From

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum The Norwegian Architecture Portal The goal is to provide digital access to architectural digital and non-digital sources. The project aimes to do so through knowledge sharing and systematic collection of architectural resources.

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum Tilgjengelig - Digitization and access to Henrik Ibsen and his writing A project funded by the Ministry of Education and Research A collaboration with participants from the national library, utdanning.no, the eStandard project and the Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority. The target groups are teachers, educaters and students Digital learning resources as a case

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum NORA – Norwegian Open Research Archives The project’s goal is to create a coordinated and strong development of open institutional archives in Norway.

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum NDL working group for licensing The group will try to show how the Norwegian libraries more efficiently can organize and expand their license agreements. A survey has been conducted, on how the license agreements are today and how the libraries would like them to be.

Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum NDL working group for digitization Having a focus on digitizing of material from the sectors of archives, libraries and museums is important in the process of open and democratic access to digital material.