Joint presentation by Friedel Grant and Aubery Escande (TEL) and Susan Reilly (LIBER). About the Europeana Libraries Partnership. From DISH 2011

1. Repositioning,
Realignment, and the
Researcher
Friedel Grant (The European Library), Susan Reilly
(LIBER), Aubéry Escande (The European Library)

2. Why are we here?
5 million digital objects from
research libraries
+
Millions of bibliographic
records, digital objects and
full-text pages from national
libraries
=
A new one-stop-shop for
digital humanities and social
science researchers

3. The First Step: Getting To Know The Researcher
“If you give an audience a
chance, they will do half
your acting for you.”
–William Hazlitt (English writer)

4. How did we ‘meet the audience’?
• Conferences & Workshops
• Group discussions
• Online Networking (Twitter, blogs)

5. What We Learned
• Gather a critical and contextual mass
of content.
“The humanities community needs a critical mass of
digital resources and needs common tools, services, and
repositories if they are to move beyond ‘boutique projects’
to a solid foundation of theory and method.”
–Christine L. Borgman, Presidential Chair in Information Studies, UCLA
• Information must be easy to cite and
reuse.
• Put it in their workflow.

6. Part 2: Realignment: building the
Europeana Libraries Partnership
Susan Reilly (LIBER)

7. Portrait of an unknown male scholar, http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=86386

9. Making it happen- the partnership
Conference of
European National
Libraries
Europeana
Foundation
Consortium of
European Research Association of
Libraries European
Research
Libraries

10. 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
This means
developing the
framework for a
library domain
aggregation
service!
!!!

11. Getting there: using the same hymn sheet
• Create a sustainable business model
• Create standards for best practice
• Communicate value of
Europeana Libraries
to research libraries
and
to researchers
• Develop dedicated portal

12. Creating the business model

13. Modelling the aggregator landscape
Online Funding
presence model
Domain
Data quality
Level of
aggregation
Country
No. of
subscribers
by Paul Williams
http://www.flickr.com/photos/16056465@N00/6418238995

14. Scenario building: what should the service look like?
• Funding
• Services
• Service delivery
• Content acquisition
We were locked in a room…

15. Validation of value propositions
• We keep asking….
• 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?

16. The business model
Best scenario Value propositions Costings
by Josh Roulston http://www.flickr.com/photos/joshroulston/93236851/sizes/z/in/photostream /

17. Getting to the finishing line
• Governance requirements
• Governance agreement
• IPR requirements specification (full text delivery)
• Business and network development plan