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World Digital Library John Van Oudenaren, Director Scholarly & Educational Programs Promoting International and Intercultural Understanding: World Digital Library John Van Oudenaren, Director Scholarly & Educational Programs p.1 Program Description and Goals World Digital Library . The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures. The principal objectives of the WDL are to: - Promote international and intercultural understanding - Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on the Internet - Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general audiences - Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital divide within and between countries. p.2 Content World Digital Library Formats Books Manuscripts Prints and Photographs Maps and Atlases Journals Newspapers Films Sound Recordings p.3 Content World Digital Library Sources Library of Congress 47.0 percent Digitized at institutions funded by LC/WDL 18.3 percent Content contributed by other partner institutions 34.7 percent p.4 כתר דמשק : חומש "כתר דמשק" עם ניקוד, טעמים ומסורה (Damascus Bible), ca. 1260, National Library of Israel www.wdl.org/11364 p.5 Khoi Groups, ca. 1700-1740, National Library of South Africa www.wdl.org/11274 p.6 たいしよくわん (Taishokan), ca. 1600-1699, National Diet Library, www.wdl.org/11384 p.7 Liu Wentai, 本草品汇精要, (Collection of the essential medical herbs of materia medica), 1505, National Library of China, www.wdl.org/13513 p.8 Christine de Pisan, Le Livre de la Cité des dames, ca. 1405, National Library of France, www.wdl.org/4391 p.9 Felipe Bauzá, Plano de la Ciudad de Baracoa, 1831, National Library of Cuba “José Martí”, www.wdl.org/15393 p.10 John C.H. Grabill, Red Cloud and American Horse, the Two Most Noted Chiefs Now Living, 1891, Library of Congress, www.wdl.org/7139 p.11 Technical Characteristics World Digital Library 14,509 items 101,563 item-level records with item descriptions 1,569,459 media files (20.3 terabytes) 321,849,417 deep zoom image tiles (2.4 terabytes) 1,093,685 downloadable files (PDF and PNG) 5,491,381 HTML5 pages (101,563 item detail pages and 5,389,818 viewer pages) 244,233 searchable content pages 33.5 million words of translated metadata p.12 Partnerships and Collaborations World Digital Library . WDL Charter signatories: 194 institutions in 81 countries . Content contributing partners: 134 institutions in 59 countries Governance Structure Executive Council UNESCO National Library of China Library of Congress National Library of France Bibliotheca Alexandrina National Library of Brazil Qatar National Library Annual Meeting of All Partners p.13 The Partners - National Libraries (46) Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture National Library and Archives National Library of Peru and Heritage of Egypt National Library of Portugal National Library of Albania Bibliothèque nationale de France Qatar National Library National Library and National National and University Library “St National Library of Romania Archives of Andorra Kliment Ohridski” – Skopje National Library of Russia National Library of Armenia (FYROM) Boris Yeltsin Presidential National Library of Argentina National Library and Archives of Library Austrian National Library the Islamic Republic of Iran Russian State Library National Library of Belarus Iraqi National Library and Archives National Library of Serbia National Library of Brazil National Library of Israel Slovak National Library National and University Library of National Central Library National Library of South Bosnia and Herzegovina of Florence Africa National Library of Bulgaria National Library of Jamaica National Library of Spain National Library of Chile National Diet Library (Japan) National Library of Sweden National Library of China National Library of Kazakhstan National Library of Uganda National Library of Colombia National Library of Korea V.I. Vernadsky National National Library of Cuba "José Martí“ National Library of Latvia Library of Ukraine The Royal Library, Denmark National Library of the Netherlands The British Library National Library of Norway Library of Congress National Library of Viet Nam p.14 Partnerships- Other Content Contributing Partners (Partial List) The Library Company of Philadelphia Hill Museum & Manuscript Library Berlin State Library - Prussian Cultural Heritage The American University in Cairo Rare Books and Foundation Special Collections Library University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries University of Pretoria Library Bavarian State Library Museum Plantin-Moretus/Print Room, Antwerp National Library and Archives of Quebec Syriac-Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo Columbus Memorial Library, Organization of The Bolshoi St. Petersburg State Circus - Museum American States of Circus Art Bibliotheca Alexandrina Greek-Catholic Diocese of Aleppo John Carter Brown Library Municipal Library Intronati, Siena National Library of Catalonia Riccardiana Library of Florence Wellcome Library National Archives of Haiti U.S. National Archives and Records Administration Complutense University of Madrid Walters Art Museum Folger Shakespeare Library United Nations Office at Geneva Library National Institute of Anthropology and History INAH Yale University Library The Newberry Library Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library, Mali Saxon State and University Library, Dresden University Library in Bratislava The Municipal Library of Porto Medicea Laurenziana Library, Florence Uppsala University Library p.15 WDL’s Partners Around the World p.16 Services World Digital Library . Multilingualism . Functionality . Curation . Performance . Capacity Building . Virtual Repatriation . Preservation of At-Risk Content p.17 Services World Digital Library Multilingualism Interface languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish “Equivalent user experience” in each language Content in 132 languages Functionality Responsive design List, Gallery, and Map Display Faceted browsing: Place, Date, Format, Subject, Language of Item, Contributing Institution Full-text search in seven languages (Almost) universal downloads Deep zoom capability Text-to-Voice Conversion Back links to Contributing Partners p.18 Services World Digital Library Curation Content selection Item-level descriptions Consistent metadata set for each item Curator videos Timelines, thematic essays, interactive maps p.19 Services World Digital Library Performance Content Delivery Network (Akamai) Amazon Web Services Capacity Building WDL-funded digitization centers in: Baghdad, Iraq; Cairo, Egypt; Kampala, Uganda Arab Peninsula Regional Group (sponsored by Qatar National Library) Online resources and training seminars and meetings p.20 Capacity Building World Digital Library p.21 Endagaano ya Bunyoro eya 1955 (The Bunyoro Agreement), 1955, National Library of Uganda, www.wdl.org/403 p.22 ,Layla), 1924, Iraqi National Library and Archives) ﻟﯾﻠﻰ www.wdl.org/3056 p.23 ﻣﻧﮭﺎج اﻟدﻛﺎن ودﺳﺗور اﻻﻋﯾﺎن ,Abu al-Munā Ibn Abī Nasr Ibn Hafāż (On Keeping Shop: A Guidebook for Preparing Orders), 1260, National Library and Archives of Egypt, www.wdl.org/2838 p.24 Services World Digital Library Virtual Repatriation Mesoamerican codices Chinese rare books Carnegie Corporation of New York Afghanistan project Preservation of At-Risk Content Christian manuscripts in the Middle East Historical heritage of Uganda Timbuktu manuscripts p.25 ܢܘܝܠܓܢܘܐ ܐܪܛܛܕ ܐܢܝ̈ܪܩ ܫܪܘܦ (Gospel Lectionary), 1588, Syriac-Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo, www.wdl.org/7068 p.26 Users and Usage (2015) World Digital Library Total visits to www.wdl.org 8,185,301 Total page views 32,607,066 Top countries by number of users: China Argentina United States Colombia Brazil Italy Mexico Saudi Arabia Spain Japan France Algeria Russian Federation Egypt United Kingdom Portugal Hong Kong Germany Singapore Canada p.27 Users and Usage (2015) World Digital Library Usage by language interface (percentage of page views) p.28 Users and Usage (2015) Time Spent on Site Per Visit (percentage of visits) Time Percentage Less than 1 minute 60.0 1- 5 minutes 22.5 5-10 minutes 6.8 10-30 minutes 8.0 30-60 minutes 1.9 1 hour or more 0.8 17.5% of users spending 5 minutes or more 10.7% of users spending 10 minutes or more Downloads: 963,000 ReadSpeaker Activations: 242,473 Internet pages linking to WDL: 4.3 million inbound links p.29 Codex Colombino: # 1 on Google search p.30 Sustainability World Digital Library Technical: No real issues (WDL under the Library of Congress “umbrella”) Financial: An ongoing challenge Annual budget: $2 million minimum Total spending to date on WDL (2006-2016): $21 million p.31 Future Directions and Challenges World Digital Library Medium Term Challenges Fundraising and financial sustainability Building and maintaining an audience in an ever-fragmenting digital universe p.32 Future Directions and Challenges Long-term strategic goals Participation - Recruit at least one partner – preferably the national library and/or national archives – in all 193 UN/UNESCO member states Content - Expand the site to 50,000-100,000 selected items so as to provide broad coverage of all time periods, languages, countries and cultures Usage - Increase usage to target level of 30,000 per day - Increase Number 1 (and Number 1-5) rankings on Google and other search engines - Introduce a Hindi interface to begin reaching large populations in South Asia p.33 Future Directions and Challenges Do vastly more (in cooperation with partners) in the areas of: - Virtual repatriation - Capacity building - Preservation of and access to at-risk content p.34 Nikolaus Joseph Jacquin, Selectarum
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