TELMEMOR The European Library: Modular Extensions for Mediating Online Resources http:telmemor'net

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TEL-ME-MORThe European Library Modular
Extensions for Mediating Online Resources
http//telmemor.net

• Project Review
• Tallinn, 12 October 2005

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Background

• Selected by the European Commission, Directorate
  E - Content
• Funded within Activity 2.3.6.1 stimulating,
  encouraging and facilitating the participation of
  organisations from the New Member States (NMS)
  and the Associated Candidate Countries in the
  Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme

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Partners

• Die Deutsche Bibliothek - Coordinator
• National Library of the Netherlands
• The British Library
• Swiss National Library
• Stichting Conference of European National
  Librarians (CENL)
• Eremo Srl, Italy
• National Library of the Czech Republic
• Cyprus National Library

• National Library of Estonia
• National Library of Hungary
• National Library of Latvia
• National Library of Lithuania
• National Library of Malta
• National Library of Poland
• Slovak National Library
• National and University Library of Slovenia

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Objectives

• Develop the research agenda for the knowledge
  society in the 10 New Member States
• Foster European partnerships and increase NMS
  participation in future EU IST activities
• Ensure better access by researchers across Europe
  to essential European information resources.

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Specific goals

• To support the 10 national libraries from the
  NMS, partners in the project, in becoming full
  members of The European Library
• To raise awareness in NMS of opportunities for
  participation in EU projects, within the Cultural
  Heritage and Learning sectors of the IST
  Programme
• THE PROJECT STARTED IN FEBRUARY 2005 AND WILL
  LAST FOR 2 YEARS

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The European Library

• http//www.theeuropeanlibrary.org
• An initiative established under the aegis of the
  Conference of European National Librarians (CENL)
• A service providing unified access to the digital
  and non-digital resources of the 43 National
  Libraries of Europe
• TEL-ME-MOR will enable the integration of the
  resources of the 10 NMS National Libraries into
  The European Library Portal.

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Target audiences

• Libraries, museums, archives
• Educational institutions (schools, universities,
  etc.)
• Government agencies and policy makers
• Local authorities
• Researchers
• ICT Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
• Individual users

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Activities

• Identification and analysis of research needs and
  priorities in the Cultural and Learning sectors
  in NMS, to ensure their being taken into account
  in future EU research programmes (WP1)
• Implementation of technical infrastructure to
  enable integration of the collections from the 10
  NMS national libraries into The European Library
  (WP2)
• Development of the multilingual capabilities of
  the network (WP3)
• Awareness building dissemination (WP4)
• Management and coordination (WP5)

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Work in progress - Analysis of research needs

• Completed investigation on the analysis of
  research activities and needs of National
  Libraries in NMS
• Held 10 national workshops to discuss current RD
  situation and requirements in National Libraries
  in NMS June

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Work in progress - Implementation of the
technical infrastructure for resource integration

• Performed a requirement analysis of the 10
  national libraries to identify the work needed in
  each NMS partner library to join The European
  Library
• Held validation workshop on requirement analysis
  (The Hague, 21-23 September)
• Conducted a study and produced a report on
  UNICODE capabilities and requirements of NMS
  partners

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Work in progress - Awareness raising
Dissemination

• Set up project web site http//telmemor.net
• Created 10 local language web sites
• Produced first issue of project newsletter
• Project events
• - Held 10 national workshops in each of the New
  Member States - June 2005
• - Organisation of 3 regional events in Poland
  (April 2006), Slovenia and Hungary (May 2006) -
  IN PROGRESS

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Work in progress - Awareness raising
Dissemination

• Participation in European and international
  events
• E-Content Plus Info Day, Luxembourg, 15 June
• Info Day on IST Call 5, Luxembourg, 16 June
  TEL-ME-MOR presentation at Networking Session on
  Access to Digital CULTURE SCIENCE objects
• IFLA 2005, Oslo, 14-18 August TEL-ME-MOR poster
  session and project presentation at CDNL Meeting
  other sessions
• CENL Annual Meeting TEL-ME-MOR Open Forum,
  Luxembourg, 28-29 October.

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Work in progress - Awareness raising
Dissemination

• Disseminated information in NMS on opportunities
  for participation in
• CALL 4 - published in December 2004 and closed on
  22 March 2005
• CALL 5 - opened on 18 May and closed on 21
  September. Strategic Objective 2.5.10 'Access to
  and preservation of cultural and scientific
  resources
• E-Content Call now open, closing 24 November.
  Areas addressed geographic, educational,
  cultural, scientific and scholarly content
  reinforcing cooperation between digital content
  stake-holders.

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Work in progress - Awareness raising
Dissemination

• Organisation of Information Day in the National
  Library of Estonia 29 June
• Facilitation and support to Information Days
  organised by other NCPs in other NMS, including
  when possible presentation of TEL-ME-MOR
• Extensive dissemination of information about all
  calls via website, mailings, newsletter

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Produced Deliverables

• Analysis of Research Activities and Needs of
  National Libraries from the New EU Member States
  (D1.1)
• 10 National Awareness Workshops (D1.2)
• NMS Requirements Analysis Report (D2.1)
• TEL-ME-MOR development and implementation plan
  for NMS and The European Library (D2.2)
• Report on TEL Unicode Requirements (D3.1)
• 1st issue of Project Newsletter (D4.3.1)
• TEL-ME-MOR website http//telmemor.net
  (D4.1-4.2.1)
• 10 web sites in the local languages of the NMS
  partners (D4.2.2)

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Resources

• Planned, 66 in year 1
• Actual, 26 in month 6 (33 budgetted)
• A little slow, but close....

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Work planned until end of project

• DISSEMINATION WORK
• Dissemination of results of Call 4 5, FP7,
  future calls, e-Content
• Second and third issue of project newsletter
  (D4.3.2-4.3.3)
• 3 Regional Workshops (D4.4 April-May 2006)
• Final Project Conference (D4.5 18-20 October
  2006)
• Reports on knowledge dissemination (D4.6-7) on
  public participation and awareness raising (D4.8)

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Work planned until end of project

• TECHNICAL WORK
• Updated and validated report on research needs
  (D1.3)
• TEL Marketing and Communications Plan (D2.3)
• Analysis of Impact of The European Library and
  Feedback to NMS (D2.4)
• TEL interface available in NMS languages (D3.2)
• Overview of existing subject systems in NMS
  national libraries (D3.3)
• Reports on cross language options (D3.4)
• Report on authorities options (D3.5)
• Implementation proposal scenario for
  multilingual access (D3.6)

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Impact and expected results

• TEL-ME-MOR raises the profile of National
  Libraries within the EU, especially within the
  NMS
• It offers NMS Partners, new to EU programmes, a
  valuable opportunity to gain experience and build
  capacity
• It publicises the IST Programme and raises the
  profile, nationally and internationally, of
  cultural sector institutions
• It will ensure that the NMS National Libraries
  join The European Library more rapidly
• It will define requirements for character set
  support and investigate cross language questions
• It will ensure that the areas of research in
  which National Libraries have an interest are
  included in future EU programmes.

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• Thank you
• Monika Segbert
• info_at_monikasegbert.com
• Monika_at_eremo.net
• http//telmemor.net