Digital Library of Slovenia mag. Zoran Krstulović, Deputy Director Tine Musek, IT Developer National and University Library, Ljubljana, Slovenia 5. SEEDI International Conference Digitization of cultural and scientific heritage Sarajevo, May 19-20, 2010

Overview Technical Developement

DIGITAL LIBRARY OF SLOVENIA 3

NATIONAL AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY LJUBLJANA 4

Mini search-box

Influences over dLib.si and its environment 2005, March: The European Library 2005, June: i , November: digital library has published on web , December: strategy dLib.si 2007, March: dLib won EEA developement grant 2008, November: Europeana 2009, September: dLib.si become national e-content aggregator 6

Starting points … Dispersion of digital objects on the Web. Repeated development of applications with identical functional uses (user’s interfaces, search tools, etc.). Digitisation based on capacities of users or providers, not in line with standards. Widespread use of web search services (Google etc.) for sources discovery instead of library catalogues. Unsolved issues of permanent preservation of digital objects. Knowledge acquired in co-operation with projects under the auspices of the European Union and in the common service of European national libraries.

What is A web portal providing access to digitised knowledge and cultural treasures. Provides much easier access to the knowledge kept in libraries. A tool for free searching of resources and ready access to the digital items. Intended for all web users, particularly useful for research work. Offers a virtual collection from a wide range of disciplines. It combines different collections and provides uniform access to them. Integrated search results, presented in digital form. Contributes to Slovenia’s recognition and competitiveness in the European Union.

Developement strategy (November 2006) Vision The Digital Library of Slovenia will play an active role in building the national information society, library network and research community of the future through its collections, services and expertise.

Mission of the Digital Library of Slovenia Building, development and management of digital collections, following user needs, existing legislation and standards, in co- operation with various strategic partners from the fields of culture, science, education and economy. Provision of open and free access to digital content, including the development of tools to use it. Promoting the digital library as infrastructure to education and research process, lifelong learning of the population, and a feature of democracy with unprecedented access to digital information for all users, regardless of who they are and of location they wish to access the information from. Long-term preservation of the national cultural heritage in digital form by maintaining and developing a trusted digital repository / digital archive

Strategic goals implementation To improve accessibility to information resources and library services using modern communication channels. To ensure long-term preservation of the digital cultural heritage belonging to Slovenian libraries. To enable partnerships between and co-operation on equal terms with libraries, publishers and other organizations from the fields of culture, education and science. To increase the presence of Slovenian culture and language on the network. To increase the level of use of library information resources and services  the end of 2010

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dlib.si by numbers Scientific articles  articles Other articles  articles Serials  103 titles ( issues) Photographs, postcards, vedutas  items Artworks  720 items Books  volumes Posters  items Manuscripts  129 rokopisov Maps  251 items Sound recordings  65 titles Printed music  titles University degree works  793 volumes Public financed project reports  368 reports 13

14 All in all: almost items 35% cotributed by partners: public libraries and scientific journals publishers Ivan Cankar: Živeti! Torej ti je vseeno?« »Glej, Lucija — govoril bom prav počasi, zato da se ne zlažem.

dlib.si by numbers Visitors (2007 – 2010, April)

Platform HP hosts for virtual servers HP blade servers HP EVA storage ~50TB HP XP storage ~100TB (fully redundant) Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 ASP.NET 3.5 Microsoft SQL 2008, Solr 1.4 on Tomcat 6.x Fedora on PostgreSQL 19

File formats Photo material: JPEG(2000) Maps/Vedutas: MrSID, Geo-TIFF Other visual materials: PDF, JPEG(2000) Multimedia: MPEG4, FLV, H.264, MP3, Sibelius Texts: PDF, plain text, HTML(?) 3D objects: PDF-3D, VRML Flash viewers! Goal: user friendliness! 20

dLib Application Profile Based on DublinCore extended Additional fields Flexible and Extensible (CO)MARC compatibility Easy export to ESE, TELAP, DC 21

How do objects get online? 22 TestingConversionReviewPublishingArchiving

What’s new in v2 Facets Search inside results Tagging Web services for external use Windows 7/Vista widget(s) Online administration –Metadata manipulation –CMS –User manipulation ToDo: full-text editing 23

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