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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 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 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