Access to National Resources

IDF Foundation 17 May 2008Brussels

Jill Cousins

Access to National Libraries through The European Library

The European Library started as an EU funded project, led by The British Library – now fully operational service

Owned by CENL, funded solely by the National Libraries, The European Library has been live since 17 March 2005

Digital Collections from 32 National Libraries - Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy-Florence, Italy-Rome, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia-Moscow, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK

2008 – Adds the remaining Eastern European countries through Swiss Development Agency money and Bulgaria and Romania via TELplus and Russia St Petersburg and Turkey = 46 of 47 national libraries in CENL by end of 2008.

•360 collections

•5,000,000 digitised ‘items’ i.e.: pages, articles, audio and video records, books, web pages, etc .

•100,000,000 plus metadata records – catalogues, union catalogues etc.

search

Case 1: Central IndexTEL server (SRU)

http://SRU

Library X server (SRU)

Case 3: local SRU/Z39.50 gatewayLibrary Y server (Z39.50)

Water

TEL server

Case 4:Central SRU/Z39.50 gateway

Library Z server(Z39.50)

T&S

OAI/central index

SRU

Z39.50 gateway60%

20%

20%

OAI/central index

SRU

Z39.50 gateway

52%26%

22%

Little digitised – no clamourMost was under the z39:50 protocol

and held in proprietary library systems using internal reference linking

ButOver next 2-5 years 100 million plus

works to be digitisedBorn digital OAI-PMH for harvesting

Access to National Libraries Resources & the need for Persistent Identifiers

CENL recommendationsNBN’sAppropriate CopySURFnetIDF Foundation

Access to National Libraries Resources & Current Status of Persistent

Identifiers

CENL recommendations As guarantors of durable independent access to digital

collections a resolution service has to be put in place This resolution service to be based on URN’s primarily

from the NBN namespace Each National Library has or will set up own resolver

service to provide persistent access to its own collections. By agreeing and deploying standards and coordination for

the local set up of such services automatically achieve the National Libraries Resolver Discovery Service

URN service to also take into account other existing persistent identifier schemes

To guarantee long term resolutions of DOI’s, beyond commercial interest the requesters, under specified conditions, to be redirected by the DOI system to the National Libraries Resolver Service and therefore to digital deposit collections.

Access to National Libraries Resources & Current Status of Persistent

Identifiers

NBN’s Because these were already in use ‘Item’ not ‘Work’

Appropriate Copy Resolver to possibly support enforcement of authorisation with

additional identity management in place

SURFnet Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the Netherlands proposal for a

Global Resolver of Persistent Identifiers. In cooperation with representatives of the Hopkins and Berkley Universities (US) a working proof of concept has been developed. (https://www.surfgroepen.nl/sites/surfshare/public/software/pihandler

IDF Foundation Costs of belonging perceived to be not worth the return Would like to resolve the issue of ‘copy of last resort’

Access to National Libraries Resources & Current Status of Persistent

Identifiers

Lack of real or perceived needNot invented hereNot in hock to someone elseNo centralised willCompetition for Appropriate CopyCost

But these are also opportunities

Access to National Libraries Resources Barriers to using DOI’s

“A common multilingual access point would make it possible to search Europe’s distributed – that is to say, held in different places by different organisations – digital cultural heritage online. Such an access point would increase its visibility and underline common features. The access point should build on existing initiatives such as The European Library (TEL), in which Europe’s libraries already cooperate. It should where possible closely associate private holders of rights in cultural material and all interested stakeholders. A strong commitment by the Member states and cultural institutions to arrive at such an access point should be encouraged.”

European Union Communiqué August 2006

EU Vision for a European digital library

For the users it is not important whether the sources of knowledge

and experience are kept by archives, libraries or museums, but to get access to the sources they want, and to be able to use these sources across types of sources

and sectors of institutions.

EuropeanaNet at Europeana.euArchivesAustrian State ArchivesEuropean ArchiveEuropean Branch of ICA Direcção-Geral de ArquivosLandesarchiv Baden-WürttembergNational Archives of FinlandFederal Archives of GermanyNational Archives of SwedenNational Archives of the NetherlandsNational Archive of FranceInternational Institute for Social HistoryAudio-visual collectionsInternational Association of Sound and Audiovisual ArchivesAssociation des Cinémathèques EuropéennesInternational Federation of Television ArchivesEuropean Broadcasting UnionInstitut national de l'audiovisuelCross-domain associationsMuseums, Libraries and Archives Council, UKBibliotheksservice-Zentrum Baden-WürttembergABM-utvikling, NorwayRUNAS, the Danish Archives, Libraries and MuseumsMICHAEL AISBLArbeitsgruppe europäischen Angelegenheiten Bibliotheken,Archive MuseenABM-Centrum, SwedenInstitute for Cultural Memory, RomaniaHeritage MaltaIstituto per i beni artistici, culturali e naturali – Regione Emilia-Romagna Erfgoed NederlandMuseumsIstituto e Museo di Storia della ScienzaRijksmuseumInstitute for Museum Research, BerlinInternational Council of Museums EuropeNatural History MuseumNetwork of European Museum OrganisationsEuropean Museums ForumMuseum of London GroupScience MuseumLibrariesDanish State Library AarhusCatholic University of LeuvenEuropean Bureau of Library, Information & Documentation AssociationsLigues des bibliothèques européenes de recherchesConsortium of European Research LibrariesState and University Library GöttingenConference of European National LibrariansCervantes LibraryBiblioteca de CatalunyaNational Authorities on Public Libraries in EuropeProject ContributorsBernsteinCITERDELOSDIGMAPDISMARCDRIVEREPsIplusVideo ActiveMultiMatchCross Czech a.s.TrebleCLEFKnowledge Management in Museums ProjectResearch institutionsArts and Humanities Data ServiceDigitaal Erfgoed NederlandDigital Lifecycle Management ForumEthnological Museum, Berlin, Music ArchiveEuropean Commission on Preservation & AccessGerman Social Science Infrastructure SciencesHeriot-Watt UniversityInstitute of Communication and Computer Systems - National Technical University of AthensInstitute of Mathematics and InformaticsKennisland / KnowledgelandTOPP Consulting GmbHTrans-European Research and Education Networking AssociationVrije Universiteit AmsterdamNational representativesAustria, National Library Belgium, Royal Library Bulgaria, New Bulgarian University LibraryCyprus, Ministry of Education and Culture Czech Republic, National Library Denmark, Royal LibraryEstonia, National Library Finland, National LibraryFrance, National Library Germany, National Library Greece, Veria Central Public LibraryHungary, National LibraryIceland, National and University Library Ireland, University College CorkLatvia, National LibraryLiechtenstein, National LibraryLithuania, Vilnius UniversityLuxembourg, National Library Norway, National Library Poland, National Library Portugal, National LibrarySlovakia, National LibrarySlovenia, National Library Spain, National Library Sweden, National LibraryUnited Kingdom, British Libraryall domains

•Brings together the digitised & digital items from Museums, Archives, Audio Visual Collections & Libraries across Europe

•Solves the issues of interoperability in data

•Works on usability – finding paths, presenting items, appealing

•Finds sustainable governance & organisational models

•Builds on previous initiatives / BRICKS, ANNOculture, Qviz, Michael

•3 major Work packages•Network of nearly 100 cultural institutions

Mediatheque Cite de la Musique, ParisMusic instruments and sound recordingConcerts Cite de la Musique and Salle Pleyel  http://mediatheque.cite-musique.fr/masc/?URL=play.asp?ID=0240474 Claudio Abbado, XXe anniversaire du Chamber orchestra of Europe. Lieder de Franz Schubert orchestrés par Johannes Brahms, Max Reger, Arnold Schoenberg et Anton Webern : concert enregistré à la Cité de la musique le 28 mai 2002 / Andy Sommer, réal. ; Thomas Quasthoff, baryton basse . Paris : Cité de la musique ; Bel Air Média ; Mezzo ; Arte, 2002 . 58 min  

EDLnet – Europeana: the European digital library

Thematic Network Partner Group across Museums, Archives, Audio-Visual Archives & Libraries started July 07

Primary aims:•Bringing together cultural institutions across Europe•Creatng a user defined prototype by November 08•Making recommendations for a sustainable service

Results so far:•6 million digitised works, items, objects•No standards for unique identification

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Metadata and ObjectsIn (digital) library catalogues

Document Objects

Metadata-Catalogue

AuthorTitleSubjectURL

AuthorTitleSubjectURL

AuthorTitleSubjectURLAuthor

TitleSubjectURL

AuthorTitleSubjectURL

AuthorTitleSubjectURL

XML+XSLT

PDF

PDF

PDF

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A potential (simple) object model Current discussion in EDLnet

Object 'Landing Page'

Metadata

HasMetadata

Semantic Nodes

HasSemantics

Components

HasComponents

Annotations

HasAnnotations

HasRelations C on textHasContext

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A complementary and more granular model

Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE)

Huge amount of digitised material Need Persistent Identifiers to:

prevent broken links, ensure appropriate copy

Europeana.eu and Persistent Identifiers

Each domain needs to be convincedA standard should be promotedA simple registry or ?

How shall we do this?

Europeana.eu – whither Persistent Identifiers?

Cutting the road……….