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The Business of TEL

• Prof Mel Collier
• University of Northumbria
• Director, Tilburg University Library

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Aims of National Digital Libraries

• Preservation of national digital output
• Provision of a digital deposit system
• Wider access to digital resources
• Promoting awareness of national treasures

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Elements of the TEL mission

• An Integrated discovery tool
• Shop window for European National Libraries
• And possibly
• A showplace for European Culture
• A permanent or changing exhibition of treasures

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Unique feature

• A single point of access to European distributed
  content

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Content accessible through TEL

• Digital legal/voluntary deposit
• Digitised resources/treasures
• And for some
• Licensed material
• Sound collections
• Image collections

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Digital and non-digital

• So all partners should be expected to make all
  their metadata available to TEL
  

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Targeted end-users

• Priority
• Academics and researchers
• Higher education students
• The informed citizen

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Targeted end-users

• Next priority
• Lifelong learners
• Authors, private researchers
• Booktrade
• Libraries and museums

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Widening geographic access

• National up to 60 of usage
• Europe up to 30
• Worldwide up to 10
• NB
• Widening local access
• National and Rest of World

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Targeted geographic groups

• Europeans to learn about European countries
• Europeans to learn about European culture
• Non-Europeans to learn about Europe
• Anglo-American market
• Heritage language groups abroad

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Subject groups

• Humanities
• Law
• Social Sciences (inc. Economics)
• Natural sciences

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Advantages of TEL for National Libraries

• Playing their part in Europe
• Improving access across Europe
• And
• Creating a European image
• Technical co-operation

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Advantages of TEL for End-Users

• A single portal for access to National Libraries
• More powerful/integrated searching and discovery

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Branding of TEL

• Must not overshadow National Brands
• But
• Sufficient identity to attract people to the
  site

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TELs own content?

• In principle no
• But
• Possibly a virtual gallery on the TEL site as an
  added attraction or marketing tool

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Financing TEL

• A modest annual subscription to finance a lean,
  possibly distributed (virtual) operational team

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Risk analysis

• Views are mixed
• Financial
• Political (within country)
• Political (between partners/countries)
• Technical
• Identifying users/markets

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TEL will offer end-users

• An integrated discovery service for European
  national digital resources
• Direct linking to services offered by the partner
  libraries

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TEL will offer partner libraries

• Additional route to market and showcase
• Continuous improvement through technical
  co-operation
• A springboard for further funding

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TEL will not

• Overshadow National Library brands
• Conflict with the business interests of
  individual partners

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Proposed mission statement

• TEL is a shop window offering one-stop discovery
  of the collections, products and services of
  European National Liubraries. Its market is
  global, aimed at users world-wide who find it
  helpful to approach their discovry from a
  European perspective