The European Library: future role and services to the research library community Louise Edwards
Overview What is The European Library? What services does The European Library offer? Why not consider joining us?
What is The European Library? Project started 1996, full operational service from 2005 Membership of national and research libraries of 47 Council of Europe states Owned and managed by member libraries
Our mission The European Library is the leading open data hub that collects, enriches and innovates with libraries’ data for the widest possible dissemination
What does The European Library offer? Experienced European project partner Large-scale aggregation Infrastructure Data and digital content of Europe’s libraries Data distribution Data enrichment Linked open data
Our data and content
Creating a very large dataset Over 200 million bibliographic records 100s of collection descriptions 22.5 million digitised objects Millions of digitised text pages
Bibliographic data
Collection descriptions
Growing full-text capabilities
DART-Europe
Adding values to libraries’data
Enriching and linking data VIAF Geonames ISNI ISTC Wikipedia Subject headings (LCSH, Rameau, GWD)
Establishing an open dataset
Distributing data to support scholarship and libraries
Making libraries’ data available
Embedding data in research infrastructures
Libraries aggregator for Europeana 1 Data providers: libraries, museums, archives and audio-visual archives Aggregators (domain, national, etc.) Service providers 13
Embedding data in subject services
Embedding data in services for libraries
Innovating for libraries
Europeana projects
Supporting new forms of scholarship
Horizon 2020
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Why not join us? Very low entry fees Fees based on economic and library indicators Open to libraries in all 47 Council of Europe states Discounts for consortia
Owned and managed by libraries
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