Sally Chambers, Interoperability Manager,

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The European Library and Europeana an overview

• Sally Chambers, Interoperability Manager,
• The European Library

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Vision Provision of equal access to promote
world-wide understanding of the richness and
diversity of European learning and
culture. Mission The European Library exists to
open up the universe of knowledge, information
and culture of all Europe's national libraries.
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• 2005 Finland, France, Germany, Italy-Florence,
  Italy-Rome,
• Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland, UK
• 2006 Austria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic,
  Denmark,
• Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta,
  Poland, Serbia,
• Slovakia
• 2007 Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Ireland,
  Liechtenstein,
• Luxembourg, Norway, Russia-Moscow, Spain, Sweden
• 2008 Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia
  Herzegovina,
• Bulgaria, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,
  Georgia,
• Moldova, Romania, Russia-St. Petersburg, Turkey,
  Ukraine
• 2009 Montenegro, San Marino, Vatican City

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www.theeuropeanlibrary.org
Service of all 48 European National libraries to
provide access to their catalogues digital
collections via one central, multi-lingual
web-interface (the portal)

• Single point of access
• Search multiple libraries and collections
• Multi-lingual interface

• Alternate point of access
• Exposure to a wider audience
• Platform for collaboration

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Europeana the vision

• A digital library that is a single, direct and
  multilingual access point to the European
  cultural heritage.
• European Parliament, 27 September 2007
• A unique resource for Europe's distributed
  cultural heritage ensuring a common access to
  Europe's libraries, archives and museums.
• Horst Forster, Director, Digital Content
  Cognitive Systems Information Society
  Directorate, European Commission

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Europeana the timetable
Europeana the timetable

• Currently bringing in digitised content from
  Europes cultural collections
• Public prototype launching in November 2008
• Over 2 million digitised objects
• Content that represents all 4 domains
• Pan-European coverage
• Multilingual interface
• Access to over 6 million objects by 2010

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The Europeana network

• Funded by the Commissions digital libraries
  initiative under the eContentplus call
• 2-year thematic partnership network
• 100 partners representing
• all EU Member States
• related Commission-funded projects
• the 4 cultural heritage domains
• audio-visual collections
• archives
• museums
• libraries

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www.europeana.eu
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