Download Track 1 - The European Library

Track 1 – Part II
What can The European
Library do for researchers ?
The European Library Conference
Madrid, December 2012
Overview of TEL
services at moment
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Bibliographies records from 48 National
Libraries
More metadata from 19 research
libraries
Portal links to both digitised content and
non-digital content
Basic API allows querying of database
Linked Data set released next year
Future Strategic
Directions
 Focus on researcher – humanities and social
science in short term
 Working much more with research libraries as
well as national libraries
 Need to provide a service for both end users but
bear in mind library requirements
 What can TEL provide that your library cannot ?
Maintain focus on
bibliographic data
 Continue to improve quality of current
portal
 Provide more links to digitised versions of
books
 Incorporate more bibliographic data
 Add data from outside national and
research libraries
Aggregate collectionslevel metadata
 Focus on special collections descriptions
 Link to digitised and non-digitised
collections
 Improving quality of collections level
metadata with in partnership with libraries
 Improve interface for searching collections
 Enrich metadata; entity extraction; improve
subject headings
Aggregate digitised
primary resources
 Primary resources – books, newspapers,
manuscripts, documents (special collections)
 Ingest digitised collcetions (not just metadata)
 Provide new interfaces on aggregated content
 Continue to allow users to link back to holding
institution
 Expose text for new data / text mining in digital
humanities and other fields
Focus on secondary
resources
 Secondary sources – journals, monographs,
grey literature, theses
 Provide discovery service for academic output
 Ingest metadata and full text from Open Access
repositories in universiteis
 Ingest metadata on articles from publishers
 Undertake innovative work on citation analysis
and other methods using full text
Audience ?: Arts, Humanities,
Social Sciences
 Focus on particular audiences to ensure
targetted audience
 Work with researchers in these subjects to
tailor services
 Work with existing data services in these
subjects
 Work with learned societies, research
consortia in these subjects
 Undertake new projects with these groups
Audience ?: Science,
Technology, Medicine
 Focus on particular audiences to ensure
targetted audience
 Work with researchers in these subjects to
tailor services
 Work with existing data services in these
suubjects
 Work with learned societies, research
consortia in these subjects
 Undertake new projects with these groups
Audience ?: Students
and Researchers ?
 Undertake better understanding of student
needs
 Focus services around those student
needs
Work Cross Domain
 Work with archives, museums as well as
libraries
 Work with publishers and other relevant
parties
 Understand researcher needs for a crossdomain service better, especially in terms
of interoperability
 Provide a research service not just based
on library content but archives, museums
Enhanced marketing
 Promote not just the collections but the
institutions with the collections
 Promote library’s collections outside their
home country
 Promote The European Library outside
Europe
Other possibilities …
 You may have other ideas …. ?
 You may have undertaken ideas that you can
share with others
 Discuss in groups of x??
 Write headline ideas on post it notes (as many as
you want
 There are no limits and very few bad ideas !
 Big ideas (broader strategies) AND small ideas
(short-term goals)
 Put them all on sheet on the wall
Other possibilities …
 Provide more multi lingual access
 Focus more on underpresrented European
countries
 Develop mobile version
 Scrap portal – much more focus on APIs
 Or develop specific tools and services for different
disciplines
 Build network of experience
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What can we do to prepare the
library of the future for
researchers ?
Work Cross Domain / Enhanced marketing /
Students and Researchers / Science,
Technology, Medicine / Arts, Humanities,
Social Sciences / Focus on secondary
resources / Maintain focus on bibliographic
data / Aggregate collections-level
metadata / Aggregate digitised primary
resources
And now …
 Select top 10 ideas on post it notes
 Place them on second sheets on wall,
according to cost and impact
 Select one person to speak for two minutes
on your choices 