The European Library

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The European Library Europeana and the Users

• Jill CousinsConference to mark the 50th
  anniversary of the Central Library of the
  European Commission
• Libraries and innovation
• Brussels, 2 December 2008

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The European Library
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The Road Ahead for The European Library

• Harvestable data
• Multilingual search and retrieval
• Digitised material
• User must be the driver
• Contributing directly to Europeana

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Demand not supply

• 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.

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Europeana.eu The User Vision

• A common multilingual access point would make it
  possible to search Europes distributed that is
  to say, held in different places by different
  organisations digital cultural heritage online.
  

European Union Communiqué August 2006
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Mediatheque Cite de la Musique, Paris Music
instruments and sound recording Concerts Cite de
la Musique and Salle Pleyel   http//mediatheque.
cite-musique.fr/masc/?URLplay.asp?ID0240474
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  

• EuropeanaNet 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
• 3500 items normalised and visible
• Beta Europeana
• From 27 countries
• Interface multilingual
• From Libraries, Museums, Archives and Audio
  visual collections
• Professional end user feedback
• Developed a theoretical object model
• First Draft Business Model and Business Plan
• Set up of EDL Foundation
• Too much interest!

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Europeana.eu The Process User Centric Design

• Each domain said what its users want do
• A maquette representing this cross domain vision
  was produced

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Europeana.eu The Process User Centric Design

• Each domain said what its users want do
• A maquette representing this cross domain vision
  was produced
• Users tested the maquette
• Online survey
• 7 focus groups Netherlands, Sweden (2), UK,
  Greece, France, Rumania
• Site redesigned in line with user wishes
• Requested institutions content
• Prototype1 saw content from 4 domains work for
  the user
• Beta Europeana.eu
• January 2009 user testing and log files.

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What is still missing?

• True multilinguality
• Semantic connections between objects.
• APIs
• Back to your sites semantically enriched data
• For use in education, cultural tourism etc

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Thank you