Cultural Heritage Projects Bundesamtsgebäude Wien, June 30, 2000 Cultural Heritage Projects: Renardus Dr. Heike Neuroth Lower Saxony State and University Library Göttingen, Germany (SUB)

Cultural Heritage Projects, General Renardus is funded through the Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme 'Promoting a User-friendly Information Society'. This is a major theme of the European Union's 5th Framework Programme. European project with 12 partners from Finland, Denmark, Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands, France and Germany Project started in January 2000 Duration: 30 months (until June 2002)

Cultural Heritage Projects, Project Partners Coordinator: –Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands) Participants: –Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library of France) –Center for Scientific Computing, Finland (CSC) –Die Deutsche Bibliothek, Germany (DDB) –Finnish Virtual Library Project, Jyväskylä University Library, Finland (JyU) –Institute for Learning and Research Technology, Univ. of Bristol, UK (ILRT) –NetLab, Lund University, Sweden (NetLab)

Cultural Heritage Projects, Project Partners cont. Participants: –Lower Saxony State and University Library, Göttingen, Germany (SUB) –Technical Knowledge Centre and Library of Denmark (DTV) –UK Office for Library and Information Networking, University of Bath, UK (UKOLN) –Viikki Science Library, University of Helsinki, Finland (ALUH) –Zentralstelle für Agrardokumentation und -information, Germany (ZADI)

Cultural Heritage Projects, Subject Gateways DEF fagportal (project status) DutchESS: Dutch Electronic Subject Service FVL: The Finnish Virtual Library Les Signets: Collection of Internet Resources RDN: Resource Discovery Network (EEVL, SOSIG, OMNI etc.) SSG-FI: MathGuide, Geo-Guide, History Guide, Anglistik Guide NOVAGate: Libraries of Nordic Agricultural & Veterinary Univ. DAINet: German Agricultural Information System EELS: Engineering Electronic Library, Sweden Document Server DEPOSIT: Deposit of German Online Dissertations

Cultural Heritage Projects, Subject Gateways: Definition Quality controlled Subject Gateways and Resource Discovery Broker Systems, target audience is predominantly higher education and academic research communities across Europe: –Selection and collection development –Selection and collection development (human intellectual effort, certain policy with regard to collection development, documented selection criteria) –Collection management –Collection management (maintaining or improving the level of quality of the collection, certain policy with regard to maintenance) –Resource description –Resource description (all selected resources are described according to a fixed and documented metadata set, metadata are structured in well- defined semantic fields to enable structured searching) –Subject classification –Subject classification (all resources are indexed according to a subject classification scheme in order to enable subject browsing)

Cultural Heritage Projects, Goals to improve access to existing academic subject gateway services in Europe to develop a 'broker' service that will allow integrated searching and browsing of distributed resource collections to develop models for sharing metadata, agreement on technical solutions and other standards  developing a pilot system for a fully-functional service

Cultural Heritage Projects, Work Packages (WP1) The project is structured into a number of 'areas' of work or 'work packages‘: WP1: Functional model - UKOLN –will develop the architecture that will underpin the Renardus system –will provide the functional and data model specifi- cations of the broker system (together with WP 6) and produce a scoping document for the pilot service

Cultural Heritage Projects, Work Packages (WP2, WP3) WP2: Design and implementation WP2: Design and implementation - DTV –will build the Renardus pilot system (will be based on the architectural model specified in WP1 and on the data model and data flow specified in WP6) WP3: Organisational infrastructureWP3: Organisational infrastructure - KB –will develop organisational structures (e.g. roles and responsibiltities of the participants, tasks and procedures relating the service etc.) for the management of the Renardus service and for collaboration between the participants (will include the requirements and rules for participation)

Cultural Heritage Projects, Work Packages (WP4) WP4: Service provisionWP4: Service provision - KB –will set up a test-bed environment, based on the pilot system, in order to permit beta-testing by partners (WP2), evaluation by end users (WP5), verification by extension with other gateways (WP5), and experiments for data sharing and multi-linguality (WP7) –will provide a full documentation of the service

Cultural Heritage Projects, Work Packages (WP5) WP5: Verification and evaluationWP5: Verification and evaluation - JyU –will evaluate the pilot broker system by user group –verification of the generic model and the pilot system by extending it to at least one other gateway service –further verification of procedures for the management, maintenance and the availability of the service

Cultural Heritage Projects, Work Packages (WP6) WP6: Data model and data flowWP6: Data model and data flow - SUB –will facilitate data exchange and the cross-searching of metadata –will develop a strategy for building consistent views on scientific and cultural resource collections across Europe –will then develop a data model and data flow for the broker system that is coherent with the functional/ architectural model of WP1 and the technical standards specifications from WP2

Cultural Heritage Projects, Work Packages (WP7) WP7: Data interoperabilityWP7: Data interoperability - SUB – the extent of data-interoperability achieved during the project duration is necessarily restricted, but the data model developed by WP6 furnishes the basic framework within which further work on data- interoperability can be carried out. WP7 is taking this work one step further. It will focus on two main issues: metadata sharing and multi-linguality

Cultural Heritage Projects, Work Packages (WP8) WP8: Business issuesWP8: Business issues - UKOLN –will review the business issues which may impact architectural and design issues –will review business models of subject gateway activity amongst Renardus partners –and will survey the sustainability of a central broker service approach, results will feed into the Technical Implementation Plan

Cultural Heritage Projects, Work Packages (WP9) WP9: Dissemination and supportWP9: Dissemination and support - ILRT –to disseminate information about the project, its objectives, the collaborative approach and the results –to promote the use of the broker service by end users –and to enrol new participant services for the Renardus broker at the end of the project –will support project partners as participants in Renardus by disseminating clear guidelines and requirements documents

Cultural Heritage Projects, Work Packages (WP10) WP10: Project managementWP10: Project management - KB –will ensure that the project meets its objectives within budget and scheduled time limits –to this end it will monitor progress made, track deliverables and report back to the consortium –will also report to the EU (is responsibe for management and progress reports, costs statements and the final project report to the EU)