1. Europeana Libraries Business Plan Madrid, December 2012

2. Presentation outline The project The value proposition The business plan 2013-2015

3. The long and winding road to the business plan Marian Lefferts, CERL Madrid, December 2012

4. The project The value proposition The business plan 2013-2015

5. Europeana Libraries – some facts 2-year project funded by the European Commission’s IST-PSP programme Will add over 5 million digital objects to Europeana 19 research and university libraries are participating A project coordinated by The European Library Supported by key international library associations: CENL (Conference of European National Librarians) CERL (Consortium of European Research Libraries) LIBER (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche)

6. Main aim Bringing digital content from Europe’s national and research libraries to the researcher in a useful, easy way to facilitate research: Data-driven research Cross disciplinary Special emphasis on social sciences and humanities research infrastructure By developing a sustainable, credible, visible, efficient service for content providers

7. Challenges facing the project Value proposition Offering the European research libraries a tailor-made proposition Business model Sustainable aggregation and innovation model

8. Step-by-step approach Develop Business Model and validate it Develop Business Plan and validate it

9. Business Model First undertook desk research Then held stakeholder interviews This fed into Scenario development. Four dimensions Funding Range of services to be offered Ownership/responsibility Scope/content acquisition

10. We arrived at: Membership structure TEL Flat fee + Charge for add-ons Feeds Europeana plus… views on data, e.g. union catalogue Public interface for academics Data openly available Bib/cat and digital object metadata, for all materials (in an approp. electr. format) held @ libs Data directly from libraries (= richest format) Data prepared by Content providers + Aggregation team

11. Validation Feed back from reviewers (interviewed stakeholders) Feed back from business planning group Wider community Coordination Group TEL CERL EC meeting LIBER Annual Conference (June 2011) TEL Management Committee LIBER Board CERL Directors Project Plenay in Belgrade (Nov 2011)

12. From Business Model to Business Plan Business Planning Group prepared draft Governance model for The European Library was agreed with LIBER and CERL (April 2012) TEL office prepared Executive Summary and promotional materials based on the Business Plan BP was put to TEL Management Committee and the TEL Board – after which the BP was refined Second round of consultation with LIBER Board (Oct 2012) and CERL Directors (Oct 2012) Some further refinements and final costings were added Delivered to EU in November 2012

13. Europeana Libraries Business Plan. What is the value proposition for research libraries? Izaskun Lacunza, LIBER Madrid, December 2012

14. What’s on The project The value proposition The business plan 2013-2015

15. Consultation proccess What do European research libraries expect from The European Library? Access to a wide range of quality content through a broad network of libraries Getting libraries’ data into as many researcher channels as possible Linking libraries’ data with other content in Europeana Making it possible to re-use data and content Getting the researcher as close as possible to the actual object

16. What does the BP offer to research libraries? 1.Widened access to libraries’ resources 2.Participating in new projects for research and development 3.Networking and knowledge sharing 4.Cost-effective aggregation 5.Data enrichment 6.Marketing of libraries

17. 1. Widened access Single gateway to collections and data 10 million digital objects, 200 million bibliographic records, 25 million pages full text CCO metadata sets: Available trough APIs OAI-PMH Linked open dataset Maximizing exposure of content of libraries Continuous improvement

18. 2. Participation in R&D projects Bidding for projects with participating libraries: the way to innovate in The European Library framework Coming: Europeana Cloud

19. 3. Networking and knowledge sharing Participating libraries will access knowledge in: Data enrichment Clustering techniques Full text indexing Linked open data

20. 4. Cost effective aggregation Complete service: Data management Indexing Clustering Distribution of data into multiple channels (i.e. Europeana) Europeana Cloud: First approach to the cloud as a cheaper infrastructure to store data and (some) content

21. 5. Data enrichment De-duplication services Enhanced discovery with external vocabularies Handling data formats for several aggregators (i.e. Europeana) Enriched data: Search engine optimization Reusable for libraries (cataloguing, etc.)

22. 6. Marketing of libraries The European Library to showcase libraries and their collections

23. What’s on The project The value proposition The business plan 2013-2015

24. The Strategy and Business Plan 2013-2015 Jill Cousins, The European Library Madrid, December 2012

25. Our business plan has 4 major sections 1. Background Our experience and competencies Environment in which we operate The market we intend to serve 2. Vision and strategic priorities 3. Operations How we will run the service 4. Finance, governance and performance

26. Background Libraries led the way in founding Europeana 1997 Gateway to Europe’s National Libraries (GABRIEL) 2005 Launch of The European Library 2007 Europeana pilot project, supported by CENL, CERL and LIBER 2008- The European Library re-positions to support researchers in the humanities and social sciences Large dataset of bibliographic records and metadata to libraries digital content Alliances to support strategy e.g. LIBER and CERL, CLARIN and DARIAH Data into virtual research environments e.g. CENDARI

27. Environment and market Research and innovation are critical to future growth of Europe €80 billion in Horizon 2020 programmes Continuing increase of open access scholarly content, backed by governments and the European Commission Market in humanities and social sciences is large Nearly half of EU graduates New forms of digital scholarship, facilitated by technology

28. Our vision An expanded The European Library service of national and research libraries The European Library as a core building block in the Europeana eco-system Partnership with Europeana to deliver a new service, Europeana Research Cross-domain platform to support research in the humanities and social sciences

29. Strategic priorities 2013-2015 1. Ensure the sustainability of The European Library as a core service for national and research libraries 2. Provide high-value collections and services for users 3. Embed services in research and learning communities 4. Develop strategic partnerships

30. Priority 1: Sustainability Membership of national and research libraries, with set of value-added services Look after the special needs of non-EU/EFTA libraries Shared, cloud-based infrastructure for Europeana partners, including The European Library Support central structural funding for Europeana, as a benefit to libraries New project funding opportunities

31. Priority 2: Collections and services Largest possible dataset of Europe’s national and research libraries, with emphasis on open access scholarly content Content strategy to support European research communities New functionalities, tools and services to enable researchers to mine, analyse and manipulate data and content

32. Priority 3: Services to researchers Develop and launch Europeana Research platform Deepen understanding of digital research practices and how we support them Distribute libraries metadata to support new types of research, using CC licences Further develop API’s for data distribution into researcher workflows

33. Priority 4: Strategic partnerships Build relationship with research infrastructure providers, DARIAH and CLARIN Continue to strengthen partnership between CENL, LIBER and CERL Through Europeana, develop relationships with other domains (museums, archives etc) to support research

34. Key outcomes by 2015 Broad-based membership of national and research libraries Scaled, cost-effective cloud infrastructure Very large dataset of scholarly material to support digital research Set of tools and services to interact with data and content Set of linked open data to support research Long-term partnership with key stakeholders in European research agenda

35. Operations Core team of professionals based in The Hague Employed by Europeana and share the same office space The European Library is run by a Management Committee of representatives from CENL, LIBER and CERL CENL is currently running elections for 6 representatives LIBER representatives are Paul Ayris and Jeanette Frey CERL representatives are Ulf Goranson and Raymond Berard

36. How do we fund the plan? Commitment from both national and research libraries is vital Core operational funding met by libraries Shared fee model for national and research libraries Research libraries pay €500—5000 Discounts for consortia Innovation trhough project funding Project consortia based on TEL members

37. Your business plan needs you!

38. Thank you! marian.lefferts@cerl.org izaskun.lacunza@kb.nl jill.cousins@kb.nl