cendari summer school july 2013
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What is The European Library?
Project from 1996 Service launch in 2005 All national libraries of Council of Europe Extending to research libraries Digital and non-digital
• 200 million bibliographic records • 19 million digitised objects• 4% national library collections are digitised
Issues for multi-lingual libraries and YOU, the user
Interface Search and browse Refining the search Content Where we go from
here
Future developments Need to scale
• Machine matching of terms• Opening the data• Linking it via the web• User analysis – how to
users interact with multilingual materials?
• Social tagging in different languages
• Collaborative translation• Sharing translations back
Whilst still preserving quality