Going digital at the National Library of Portugal

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Going digital at the National Library of Portugal

• Birth and development of a Portuguese digital
  library

Helena Patrício
EUROLIS Conference 2009 London, 29th
October 2009
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• Historical overview
• Strategic goals 2007-2010
• Digital collection
• Funcionalities and services
• Integration with other access services

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1. Historical overview
2. Strategic goals 2007-2010
3. Digital collection
4. Funcionalities and services
5. Integration with other access services

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• Historical overview

1998 Content digitised for celebration events and special exibitions

2002 NLP launched the National Digital Library project

2007 Full organizational and services integration within the NLP
Thematic and celebration websites
Quality improvement of services EU funding IT
innovation and experimentation
Content creation and management in the NLP
Organizational integration
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1. Historical overview
2. Strategic goals 2007-2010
3. Digital collection
4. Funcionalities and services
5. Integration with other access services

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• 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010
• 2.1 To foster the digital collection growth
• 2.2 To strenghten digitisation capabilities
• a) Revision of processes, procedures and
  workflows
• b) Renewal of the production and storage
  infrastructure
• 2.3 To improve the service for public access to
  digital content
• a) Articulation between different NLP
  information systems
• b) Provision of new services
• 2.4 To develop new services for institutional
  coordination / cooperation

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• 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010
• 2.1 To foster the digital collection growth
• Online content

Online content Items Images
2002-2006 8.987 362.313
2007-2009 (1st semester) 1.302 250.725
TOTAL 10.289 613.038
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• 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010
• 2.1 To foster the digital collection growth
• Content ready to make available online in 2009

Already digitised Items Images
Old Portuguese books 766 159.181
Newspapers 48 296.955
TOTAL 814 456.136
Being digitised Images
Fernando Pessoa personal papers 54.000
Old Portuguese books 33.000
Internal activities (user requests, exibitions, publishing) 30.000
TOTAL 117.000
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• 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010
• 2.1 To foster the digital collection growth

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• 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010
• 2.2 To strengthen capabilities for digitisation
  projects
• Revision of processes, procedures and workflows
• Formalization of digital content selection
  policies
• Review of processes and methods for digitisation
  activities
• Specification of guidelines, models and technical
  requirements for image capture, metadata and
  online presentation.
• Fitting software tools to new requirements and
  workflows
• b) Production and storage infrastructure
  renewal
• Acquisition of 5 bookscanners
• Network capacity improvement
• Acquisition of digital archiving system (SAN 36
  TB)

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• 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010
• 2.3 To improve the service for public access to
  digital content
• Articulation between different NLP information
  systems
• NLP catalogue Portuguese Contemporary Culture
  Archive Digital Library
• Renewal of the National Digital Library website
• New design and content reorganisation
• Web accessibility requirements compliance
• New functionalities

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• 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010
• 2.3 To improve the service for public access to
  digital content
• Provision of new services
• EOD - eBooks on Demand
• http//books2ebooks.eu/media/flash/short/en/inde
  x.html
• Wherever you see this button, you can order
  eBooks directly from the online catalogue of a
  library.
• Just search the catalogue and select the book
  you need. A user friendly interface will guide
  you through the ordering process.
• You will receive a confirmation e-mail and you
  will be able to track your order at your personal
  tracing site.

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• 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010
• 2.3 To improve the service for public access to
  digital content
• Provision of new services
• EOD - eBooks on Demand
• Once the book has been digitised and is ready
  for downloading you will have several payment
  options. The most convenient option is to use
  your credit card and pay via a secure transaction
  mode. After your payment has been received, you
  will be able to download the eBook.
• Audio and text content for visually impaired

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• 2. Strategic goals 2007-2010
• 2.4 To develop new services for institutional
  coordination / cooperation
• The NLP digital collection is fully available
  through Europeana
• Creation of a National Registry for Digitised
  Works (RNOD)
• Registration of digitised collections, documents
  or digitisation projects, in order to
• Avoid duplication efforts
• Agregate data to Europeana
• Share guidelines and technical requirements for
  digitisation projects

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1. Historical overview
2. Strategic goals 2007-2010
3. Digital collection
4. Funcionalities and services
5. Integration with other access services

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• 3. Digital collection
• Type of resources
• Iconography 4.907 documents Cartography 1.347
  documents Textual documents 1.245 items.

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• 3. Digital collection
• Publication date
• XVIII-XX Centrury 87 XVII Centrury 11
  XVI Century 2.

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• 3. Digital collection
• Publication language
• Portuguese (50) Latin (11)
• Foreign languages French (19), English (11),
  Spanish (3), Italian (3), German (2).

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• 3. Digital collection
• Subject areas
• Fine Arts (35) History/Geography (35) Social
  Sciences (12) Apllied and Natural Sciences
  (11) Literature/Linguistics (4)
  Religion/Theology (1).

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1. Historical overview
2. Strategic goals 2007-2010
3. Digital collection
4. Funcionalities and services
5. Integration with other access services

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• 4. Functionalities and services
• 4.1 Searching
• 4.2 Browsing
• 4.3 Documents display
• 4.4 Special documents
• a) Dictionaries and enciclopaedias
• b) Newspapers

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• 4. Functionalities and services
• 4.1 Searching
• Catalogue search
• All the collection
• or
• by document type

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Example search the music collection
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Example search the music collection
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• 4. Functionalities and services
• 4.2 Browsing
• Latest additions
• and
• Index browsing
• All the collection
• or
• by document type

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List of results with thumbnails and bibliographic
data Example author index, Pedro Nunes
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List of results with thumbnails and bibliographic
data Example year of publication index, 1803
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• 4. Functionalities and services
• 4.3 Document display
• JPEG e PDF digital copies

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• 4. Functionalities and services
• 4.3 Document display
• Navigation within the document
• Physical struture page and bottons
• Logical structure contents
• Other functionalities
• Zoom
• Image segmentation (maps)
• Link to the bibliographic record
• Print (PDF)
• POD Print on demand (coming soon)

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• 4. Functionalities and services
• 4.4 Special documents
• a) Dictionaries and enciclopaedias
• Alphabetical navigation
• Search by term entries
• b) Newspapers
• Calendar navigation
• Issue display

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Reference works browsing and searching
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Newspapers browsing
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1. Historical overview
2. Strategic goals 2007-2010
3. Digital collection
4. Funcionalities and services
5. Integration with other access services

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• 5. Integration with other access services
• PORBASE Portuguese union catalogue
• http//porbase.bnportugal.pt
• TEL The European Library
• http//www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/
• Europeana
• http//www.europeana.eu
• Google
• http//www.google.pt

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• Thank you!
• Helena Patrício
• hpatricio_at_bnportugal.pt

EUROLIS Conference 2009 London, 29th
October 2009