Reaching the researcher:Europeana Libraries- a patnership approachSusan Reilly, LIBER

SLA / 27/10/2011

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Reaching the researcher

• The opportunity

• The project

• The partners

• The potential

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Information practices in the humanities

• A Research Information Network report• develop an in-depth understanding of humanities

researchers’ approaches

to discovering, accessing, analysing, managing, creating, refining and disseminating information resources

• Looked at users of specific online resources, humanities departments, a research field, an international collaborative project

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Information practices in the humanities

• Growth in systematic collaboration

• More complex research

• Less time for research (occurs in bursts)

• Some barriers:• Lack of linking between archives

• Lack of standadisation of online databases and archives

• Difficulties in data linking arising from the lack of standardisation, and the inconsistencies in quality, reliability, and functionality across different resources

Need for collaborative environment, share information sources

Support for cross disciplinary research e.g.

digital humanities

Need information in one place, remotely

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University libraries and information services could help by providing a structure

that maintains digital tools and archives and promotes development of innovative

resources.

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A solution?

• A single European resource for research library content

• Standardised data

• Interface designed specifially for the needs of researchers

• Digitised content from all of Europe’s research libraries

Something like this:

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The project: Europeana Libraries

• 2-year project funded by the European Commission’s IST-PSP programme

• Will add over 5 million digital objects (including full text) to Europeana

• 19 research and university libraries are participating

• A project coordinated by The European Library

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Making it happen- the partnership

Consortium of European Research Libraries

Conference of European National Libraries

Europeana Foundation

Association of European Research Libraries

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What the project will achieve

• A valuable resource for researchers with full-text search capabilities

• A robust network of national and research libraries

• An efficient sustainable aggregation model for research libraries across Europe

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Getting there

• Create a sustainable business model

• Create standards for best practice

• Communicate value of

Europeana Libraries to research

libraries and to researchers

• Develop dedicated research

portal

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Creating the business model

• Model the library landscape in Europe in order to recommend a sustainable, domain-wide framework for aggregating library content into Europeana, building on the mechanisms developed in the project, in an efficient, scalable and cost-effective way.

• Develop a new and enhanced business model and business plan for The Europeana Library in support of its role as the libraries domain aggregator for Europeana, including governance, legal aspects and copyright issues specific to the project

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The Value Proposition

• What do research libraries want?• Enabling searching of bibliographic records of texts in hard copy

and metadata for related digitised texts at the same time• Offering OCR services for providers’ digital content to support full

text searching in the portal Pushing the data out to other academic / research services

• Providing access to universities’ own digital repositories…and more?

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This is just the beginning…

• Not just for humanties- social sciences,

lingusitics and more…across the globe

• News ways to exploit library metadata

• More research content from other

sources

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