EDLproject

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EDLproject
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Background

• A Targeted Project within the area of cultural
  and scientific/scholarly content of the
  econtentplus Programme
• A building block of The European Library and a
  continuation of TEL-ME-MOR
• Started in Sept 2006. Will last 18 months.
• Budget 2.114 m, 1m contribution by the EC

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Partners

• German National Library - Co-ordinator
• Austrian National Library
• Royal Library of Belgium
• Eremo Srl, Italy
• National Library of Greece
• National and University Library of Iceland
• National Library of Ireland
• Liechtenstein National Library
• National Library of Luxembourg
• National Library of the Netherlands
• National Library of Norway
• National and University Library of Slovenia
• National Library of Spain
• Royal Library, National Library of Sweden
• Swiss National Library

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Objectives

• To include remaining 9 EU and EFTA countries
  Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein,
  Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Sweden.
• To further enhance access by continuing to
  develop the multi-lingual capacity of the portal
• To promote and increase the use and awareness of
  the extended The European Library service in the
  target countries and worldwide
• To leverage the influence of CENL as a key player
  in the content field to work towards a consensual
  resolution of issues raised by the i2010
  Digital Libraries Communication

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Activities

• WP1- Developing the European Library network for
  access to national digital resources, assisting
  the 9 target national libraries to make their
  resources available through The European Library
• Led by The European Library Office
• WP2 - Extending the multilingual capacity of the
  network
• Led by the Slovenian National Library with the
  input of the Swiss National Library
• WP3 - Developing the European digital library
• Led by the Austrian National Library
• WP4 - Dissemination awareness raising
• Led by Eremo srl and The European Library office
  
• WP 5 - Management, co-ordination and evaluation
  activities
• Led by The German National Library and Eremo srl

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WP1Developing the European Library network

• Task 1
• Individual development plans with each target
  library
• Overall implementation plan
• Start-up workshop.
• Task 2 Implementation
• The European Library responsibilities and
  technical changes
• The New Member States (NMS) responsibilities and
  technical developments
• Task 3 Maximising usability and usage
• Task 4 Mapping and harmonising the known metadata
  schemas and repositories in use across libraries,
  museums and archives and create a prototype
  metadata registry.
• Task 5 Feasibility study

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WP2 Extending the multilingual capacity of the
network

• Task 1 Unicode compliance
• Extending the Unicode compliance analysis carried
  out in TEL-ME-MOR to EDL partners.
• Task 2 Subject access tools
• Extending the initial analysis in TEL-ME-MOR,
  resulted in an overview of classification
  systems, subject headings and thesauri in NMS
  national libraries, to EDL partners
• Task 3 Cross-language access to bibliographic
  subject data
• Testing of a selection of cross-language
  approaches to subject data, including MACS, MSAC
  and CrissCross, building on results of task 2 and
  TEL-ME-MOR deliverables on cross-language options
  and Implementation proposal for multilingual
  access
• Task 4 Cross-language access to full text
• Identifying one or more general (not subject
  specific) data dictionaries and test their
  applicability for cross-language access within
  the European Library (in cooperation with DELOS)
  identifying available automatic translation
  tools, stemmers etc.
• Task 5 Name authority control
• Extending the work of TEL-ME-MOR and building on
  projects such as LEAF, VIAF and ONESAC, design
  and test the feasibility of a name authority
  control tool
• Task 6 Interoperability with other communities
• Exploring options of interoperability with
  museums testing the use of new conceptual models
  of bibliographic information.

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WP3 Developing the European digital library

• Task 1 Survey of CENL members to investigate
  actual and potential availability of digital
  content from CENL member libraries in the
  immediate future
• Task 2 Organisation of a Policy Conference in
  Frankfurt
• Task 3 Organisation of two workshops to develop
  constructive working relationships between
  CENL/The European Library and content projects
  funded by the 2005 eContentplus call.

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WP4 Dissemination

• Task 1 Production and regular update of template
  for dissemination plan
• Task 2 EDLproject website templates for project
  presentation, poster, leaflet attending
  concertation meetings.
• Task 3 Promotion of relevant developments on the
  topic of the European digital library
• Task 4 Web-based promotion and awareness building
  of The European Library portal (led by The
  European Library Office).

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WP5 Management and Co-ordination

• Task 1 Financial coordination
• Task 2 Internal consortium management and
  co-ordination
• Task 3 Overall monitoring
• Task 4 Liaison with the Commission
• Task 5 Evaluation and Quality control

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Deliverables

• D 1.1 Metadata schema
• D 3.1 Interim Report on the first 6-months period
  and overview of digital holdings of EU national
  libraries
• D 4.1 Dissemination plan
• D 5.1 Annual Report
• D 1.2 Report on usability developments in The
  European Library
• D 1.3 All target national libraries full members
  of The European Library
• D 2.1 Report on multilingual achievements in EDL
• D 3.2 Terms on which non-national libraries can
  participate in The European Library
• D 4.2 Final dissemination report
• D 5.2 Annual Report

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Impact expected results

• Enlargement of The European Library
• - 40-60 digital collections
• - 31 countries by 2007, including all EU and
  EFTA countries
• Added-value to European digital content through
  
• - standardised quality metadata
• - multilingual access tools
• Support to CENL in contributing its influence to
  finding solutions at European level to key policy
  issues for the development of the European
  digital library
• An operational service to European citizens,
  students, researchers, and other users and
  re-users of content to identify and use digital
  content irrespective of location or language

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