The European Library & Europeana

EROMM, 22nd Annual Meeting The Hague, The Netherlands 1 June 2015

Nienke van Schaverbeke www.theeuropeanlibrary.org The European Library

. 48 National Libraries . ~ 40 Research and University Libraries . > 150 Million Bibliographic Records . > 25 Million Digital Objects . > 25 Million Pages of Full-text

The European Library Membership Benefits

. Aggregation & distribution services . Linked Open Data . Library domain aggregator for Europeana . Project partner EU- funded projects . Network of European libraries

Aggregation . Aggregation - Bibliographic records - Metadata to digital content . Data Access Point (open datasets/LOD) . Supporting Research Infrastructures . Primary Research Corpus  National Bibliographies & Catalogues from NL and RL  Digital Collections  Digital and Full-text Resources

Linked Open Data

Embedding The European Library within international research and learning communities

Dedicated Access our Data space on portal Access to API/ Access to TEL Open Data Set/ Access to RLUK Open Data Set/ Documentation

Release of largest Linked Open Data in cultural heritage sector 82 million records, 3 billion triples all CCO!

The European Library & Europeana

Europeana

. Europe’s cultural heritage platform . Access to digital content . Domain aggregation: libraries, museums, archives, film archives . National aggregation Who submits data to Europeana?

Domain Aggregators National initiatives

Libraries National Aggregators

e.g. e.g. The Culture European Grid, Library Culture.fr Regional Aggregators Archives

Audiovisual collections Thematic collections e.g. APEX e.g. Musées Lausannois

e.g. EUScreen, European Film e.g. Judaica Europeana, Gateway Europeana Fashion Current Projects

. Europeana Newspapers . Europeana Cloud . Europeana Sounds . Europeana Creative . Cendari . CEF/DSI

Develop Europeana Newspapers & Europeana Research as mechanisms for distributing libraries’ and others’ data to users and the research community

. Establish under the Europeana Cloud project, Europeana Research as a place where libraries and other domains’ data can be used by research communities

. Establish Europeana Newspapers as a thematic site for the use and browsing of historical newspaper content Image source: National Library of Estonia Europeana Research

research.europeana.eu @EurResearch Europeana Newspapers

www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/newspapers @EurNews Other mechanisms for the exposure and reuse of member library data

Using BnF photos this Mashable blog reached 22.000 viewers based on 254 photos from 1 collection

Pinterest Network of libraries

. Membership base of both national and research libraries

. Joint network of libraries with special areas of competence including full-text indexing, data enrichment, clustering techniques, and Linked Open Data via working groups.

. Continue to form research and development partnerships with individual libraries, to submit funding proposals for innovative projects as an integral part of TEL hosting a workshop at LIBER Conference Europeana Foundation

. Focus on developing benefits for non- EU/EFTA national libraries Thank you

Nienke van Schaverbeke E: [email protected]