2. The European Library: future role and services to the research library community www.theeuropeanlibrary.org Louise Edwards

3. Overview  What is The European Library?  What services does The European Library offer?  Why not consider joining us?

4. 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

5. Our mission The European Library is the leading open data hub that collects, enriches and innovates with libraries’ data for the widest possible dissemination

6. 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

7. Our data and content

8. Creating a very large dataset  Over 200 million bibliographic records  100s of collection descriptions  22.5 million digitised objects  Millions of digitised text pages

9. Bibliographic data

10. Collection descriptions

11. Growing full-text capabilities

12. DART-Europe

13. Adding values to libraries’data

14. Enriching and linking data  VIAF  Geonames  ISNI  ISTC  Wikipedia  Subject headings (LCSH, Rameau, GWD)

15. Establishing an open dataset

16. Distributing data to support scholarship and libraries

17. Making libraries’ data available

18. Embedding data in research infrastructures

19. Libraries aggregator for Europeana 1 Data providers: libraries, museums, archives and audio-visual archives 2345678 Aggregators (domain, national, etc.) 12 10 11 9 Service providers 13

20. Embedding data in subject services

21. Embedding data in services for libraries

22. Innovating for libraries

23. Europeana projects

24. Supporting new forms of scholarship

25. Horizon 2020

26. http://oceanliteracy.wp2oexploration.org/file s/2013/04/ocean_lit_brochure_icon1.jpg Libraries and Europe’s grand challenges

27. 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

28. Owned and managed by libraries

29. Thank you! www.theeuropeanlibrary.org For further information: info@theeuropeanlibrary.org Louise.edwards@theeuropeanlibrary.org