1. PAN-European Exploitation of the Results of the Libraries Programme - EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin EXPLOIT 1 Electronic library materials

2. EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 2 Electronic library materials Overview Resources Technology Content and user community Scale, size and coverage

3. EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 3 Electronic library materials Resources (1) Manuscripts –various projects from ancient to modern manuscripts Old books –incunable editions and rare books of the 16th century Educational resources –textbooks, courseware, dictionaries

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6. EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 6 Electronic library materials Resources (2) Digitised periodicals –e.g. central register for all digitised periodicals Journal articles –search, view and delivery of full-text articles Newspaper clippings –scanned images and full-texts for storage and retrieval

7. EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 7 Electronic library materials Resources (3) Non-book materials –images of paintings, textiles, glass, ceramics (ELISE II) Demo: http://trent.iielr.dmu.ac.uk:1081/broker2/ Photographs –storing, selecting and transmitting of scanned photos

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12. EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 12 Electronic library materials Resources (4) Web-based information resources –WWW index for all Internet resources of a specific subject Music and audio records –access to audio archives and music collections

13. EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 13 Electronic library materials Technology (1) Bibliographical description –e.g. SGML, HTML Metadata –e.g. Dublin Core

14. EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 14 Electronic library materials Technology (2) Storage media –CD-ROM, WWW, microfilm, slides File formats – file formats for text, image, audio, video data

15. EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 15 Electronic library materials Technology (3) Digitisation for preservation purposes –storage as image file –access and navigation by metadata Digitisation followed by OCR conversion –storage as text file –access and navigation by metadata and full-text retrieval

16. EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 16 Electronic library materials Technology (4) Search and retrieve –WWW interface (e.g. EULER) Demo: http://www.emis.de/projects/EULER/ –Z39.50 client/server architecture (e.g. VERITY) Demo: http://verity.sunderland.ac.uk/homepage_frames/demo/index.htm

17. EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 17 Electronic library materials Content and user community Content and subject of collection –e.g. aerospace, economics, mathematics User community –national libraries –academic and research libraries –public libraries –children and school libraries

18. EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 18 Electronic library materials Scale, size and coverage Scale of system –toolboxes, pilot systems, demonstrators, complete systems Size and coverage of collection –e.g. focused on subject or sample size