Annual Partner Meeting Alexandria, Egypt November 5, 2015 John Van Oudenaren The Library of Congress WDL Project Director

Technical Developments Content Partners Capacity Building Users and User Engagement

Features : larger reference images a larger search box set against the background of archival world maps new sections for featured items, featured partners, and highlights a map display option for search and browse results to accompany the list and gallery views revamped browse options for place, time, topic, type of item (format), contributing institution, language (of the content/document) an updated item-detail page with many new features, e.g., an inset map showing location of the item and an option to show nearby items a more prominently displayed “View this item on the partner’s site” located just below the reference image on the item-detail page, intended to send more traffic back to partner institutions upgraded audio and video display timelines, interactive maps, and thematic sections updated and revised “About” and “Help” sections.

Timelines and interactive maps: ◦Chinese Books, Manuscripts, Maps, and Prints ◦Illuminated Manuscripts from Europe ◦United States History ◦World History ◦Imperial Russia Thematic section: ◦“Arabic and Islamic Science and Its Influence on the Western Scientific Tradition,” launched with the support of the Qatar National Library

Translation experiment Partner dashboard Collection statistics page Institutional page template API page Slack application for content review

12,465 items 623,465 images Items contributed by 31 partner institutions in 23 countries in the last year 128 institutions in 57 countries currently represented on the WDL 128 languages represented on the WDL

211,397,911 image tiles, comprising 1.8 terabytes of storage (for facilitating zoom views) (masters: 1,170,064 files comprising 17.4 terabytes of storage) 194,299 pages of searchable text in seven languages, drawing upon 730,000 word coordinate and plain text files comprising 2.2 gigabytes of storage 32.5 million words of translated metadata in six foreign languages 4,407,662 HTML 5 pages (87,087 item detail pages and 4,320,575 viewer pages) (Google crawls 358,357 WDL pages, i.e., those it regards as statistically significant)

Only known copy of the journal believed to have been written on board ship during Vasco da Gama’s first voyage to India, , From the Municipal Library of Porto, Portugal, Oldest surviving document written in Catalan, 1080, National Library of Catalonia, Barcelona, All 39 of the first editions produced between 1584 and 1619 at the press in Lima (the oldest press in South America and the second-oldest in the New World), in Spanish, Latin, Quecha, and Aymara, National Library of Peru, through Two of three existing parts of the Book of Hours of Simon de Varie, 1455, National Library of the Netherlands, and Codex Vergara, Codex Azcatitlan, Aubin Tonalamatl, Codex Mexicanus, and three other Mesoamerican codices, National Library of France, through Five circa manuscripts in the hand of or associated with Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, compiler of the Florentine Codex, Newberry Library, Chicago, through Complete run of the Cherokee Phoenix ( ), the first Native American newspaper in the United States, Library of Congress, through 23 Arabic medical manuscripts, Wellcome Library, through and through Books published in Beirut, Cairo, Istanbul relating to the Arab renaissance, Qatar National Library,

190 partners in 81 countries New partners in Ministry of Awqaf and Religious Affairs, Oman Middle East Institute, Washington American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, New York Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile Biblioteca del Congreso de Chile, Santiago, Chile Capacity building challenge Current partners Prospective partners

Digital Conversion Centers ◦Egypt ◦Iraq ◦Uganda Arab Peninsula Regional Group, Qatar National Library Doha Symposium, May 13-14, 2015

Visits: 6,806,147 Page views: 30,823,978 Downloads: 1,546,342 ReadSpeaker Usage: 245,497 Top countries by number of visits: China, United States, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Germany, Russian Federation, Canada Top countries by page views: United States, China, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, France, Russian Federation, Germany, United Kingdom, and Italy (Data for Library of Congress FY 2015)

Substantial growth in most countries (percent increase, last year) China1338 Italy 370 Canada 156 France 128 Saudi Arabia 70 Egypt 66 United States 44 Russia 37 Germany 31 Mexico 13 Spain -19 Mobile traffic is up 55.6 percent from previous year.

LanguagePercentage Spanish38.1% English23.3% Chinese11.2% Arabic 9.0% Portuguese 7.2% French 6.0% Russian 5.1%

Add content Sustain and build on the recent increases in usage and user engagement Recruit new partners, especially in parts of the world in which the WDL is underrepresented Continue to develop timelines, themes, and other interpretive materials Work to ensure the financial sustainability and growth of the WDL