world digital library partner meeting munich, germany november 14-15, 2011 project update john van...

World Digital Library Partner MeetingMunich, Germany

November 14-15, 2011

Project UpdateJohn Van Oudenaren

WDL Director

WDL Business Plan

World Digital Library www.wdl.org

• Accomplishments to Date

• Medium-Term Priorities

• Longer Term Priorities

• Resources

Medium-Term Priorities


• Add Content Target: 6,000 items by end of 2011

• Improve Processes and Tools for Content Creation Staffing Tools for transfer, processing, cataloging, translation, publishing

• Add Partners – Build Capacity Target: 125 partners from 80 countries

• Begin to create an engaged, expanding, truly global user community

Longer Term Priorities


• Scale up the addition of content Long-term goal: 100,000 items

• Universal participation

• Add interface languages German, Hindi, Japanese

• Mobile applications

• New website features

• Areas of thematic focus

Mesoamerican Codices


• Conceptual framework and selection criteria

Conference of experts, sponsored by WDL and CONACULTA, Mexico City, May 2010

• On WDL in 2009-2010

Codices from National Institute of Anthropology and History, Center for the Study of the History of Mexico, Library of Congress



• Added in 2011

Library of Congress• Oztoticpac Lands Map, circa 1540

National Library of Spain• Codex Osuna, 1565

University of Texas Libraries• Relaciones Geográficas, 1579-1582

Uppsala University Library• Map of Tenochtitlán, 1521



• In pipeline or pledged

Codices from: AGN (National Archives of Mexico); Laurentian Library; John Carter Brown Library; Vatican Library; others

Arabic and Islamic Manuscripts and Books


• Conceptual framework and selection criteria Meeting of experts sponsored by the King Abdullah

University of Science and Technology, London, October 2008

Meeting of partners from Arab countries, December 2010

Agreement with the Qatar Foundation

• On WDL in 2009-2010 Manuscripts and journals from:

• Iraqi National Library and Archives • Library of Congress • Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library • National Library and Archives of Egypt • University Library in Bratislava


• Added in 2011 Manuscripts and journals from:

• Allama Iqbal Library, University of Kashmir• Bibliotheca Alexandrina • Greek-Catholic Diocese of Aleppo • Holy Spirit University of Kaslik• Iraqi National Library and Archives • Library of Congress • National and University Library of Bosnia and

Herzegovina • National Library and Archives of Egypt • Qatar Foundation, Central Library • Syriac-Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo • University Library in Bratislava • Walters Art Museum




• Total items in Arabic: 212 Persian: 31 Ottoman Turkish: 18 European translations of Arabic works: 11

• In pipeline or pledged Contributions from:

Bibliotheca Alexandrina Library of Congress National Library and Archives of Egypt Qatar Foundation Yale University Wellcome Library


• Final points

High level of effort in creating metadata and item-level descriptions

Potential for academic and private sector partnerships


Chinese Rare Books and Manuscripts


• Conceptual framework and selection criteria Recommendations of the Chinese Content Selection

Committee adopted at the meeting of the committee in Washington, January 2009

• On WDL in 2009-2010 Manuscripts and books from:

• Library of Congress • National Library of China• National Central Library


• Added in 2011

Berlin State Library• Copper Battle Prints

James Bell Ford Library, University of Minnesota

• Matteo Ricci, Great Universal Geographic Map, 1602

Library of Congress • Chinese rare books

National Central Library• Chinese rare books




• Total items in Chinese Books: 76 Manuscripts: 10 Maps: 12

• In pipeline or pledged Additional books and manuscripts from:

Library of Congress National Central Library


• Final points

Exceptionally high level of effort in creating metadata and item-level descriptions

Potential for academic and private sector partnerships


European Partners


• On WDL in 2009-2010

Books, manuscripts, maps, and other items from:

• Bavarian State Library• National Library of France• National Library of Sweden• National Library of Russia• Russian State Library

European Partners• Added in 2011

Books, manuscripts, maps, and other items from:


• Bavarian State Library• Austrian National Library• Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation• Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences• The Central National Library of Florence• Irish College in Paris• National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina• National Central Library of Rome• National Library of France

• National Library of Naples• National Library of the Netherlands• National Library of Russia• National Library of Spain• National Library of Sweden• University Library of Naples• University Library of Padua• University Library of Sassari• V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine• Vilnius University Library• Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library

European Partners


• In pipeline or pledged

Content from numerous partners

• Other tasksRecruitment of “missing” partners

Ireland, Greece, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Luxembourg, etc.

Possible cooperation with Europeana, The European

Library

Other Areas of Focus• Content from Latin American partners

National Library of Chile National Library of Argentina National Library of Brazil Other Capacity building is an issue

• Scientific works Focus so far on Arabic and Chinese works Smithsonian Institution Medical documents from Wellcome Library Galileo books and manuscripts from Italian partners University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (maps)


Other Areas of Focus

• Content from WDL-sponsored digitization centers in Egypt, Iraq, and Uganda

• Items from the international collections of the Library of Congress Contributions to other content priorities (especially

Chinese rare books and Arabic manuscripts) Large collections of prints and photographs Improved coverage of underrepresented countries

• Content from India, Indonesia, Turkey Allama Iqbal Library, University of Kashmir


Medium-Term: Partner Recruitment and Capacity Building


• As of November 2011: 136 partners from 72 countries

• Added since the last partner meeting: 43• Number of national libraries currently

partners: 57• Targeted recruitment efforts aimed at:

Arab world Countries of the former Soviet Union Caribbean

Medium-Term: Partner Recruitment and Capacity Building


• Need to enlist “missing” European partners• Areas of weakness:

South and Southeast Asia Sub-Saharan Africa

• Capacity building is a serious challenge• Models for participation

Italian Ministry for Cultural Activities Hill Museum and Manuscript Library

• New categories of potential partners

Longer Term Priorities


• Areas to be emphasized Continue to add content Mobile applications and new website features User outreach

• Areas likely to be deferred Capacity building/Universal participation Adding interface languages

• Areas for partnerships Capacity building/Participation User outreach Areas of thematic focus

Conclusions


Continued focus on content

Continued focus on quality

• Important not to lose focus on capacity building and attracting universal participation

• Resources are strained almost everywhere

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Documents

herzegovina national

university library of

central national library

allama iqbal library

chinese books

bratislava slide

islamic manuscripts

additional books