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Giving an acces to cultural heritage on the web
From 1990s effords to provide digital preservation and wide online access to the world cultural heritage – to „save“ it and to give an access to it
digitization, searching in creating digital libraries and reliable repositories, sufficient technologies for providing online digital content and technologies for safeguarding of digital content, harmonization, standards
„Cultural heritage“?Goal: to preserve the digitized content and born-digital content – „documentary heritage“ for future generationsUNESCO (Memory of the World Programme 1994 World Digital Library, E-Heritage 2002,), Library of Congress (The American Memory Programme 1994), European Union Comission (effords lead up to European Digital Library 2000)
Today´s estate is still not good enough
Europe still didn´t arrive to a massive digitization
Google Books Project ….
European Digital Library Europeana
„European digital library, museum, archive“
www.europeana.eu
Launched - 2008 November 20th.
Relaunched - 2009 January
Achievement of efforts of European Union Commision from year 2000
A little bit of history…From year 2000 EU Commision encourages member states to digitize and give an online access to the european cultural heritage
- projects - consultations, workshops, tutorials - financial support - co-ordinationfor improving cooperation and harmonisation over
the Europe
A little bit of history…i2010:DLIInformation Society Initiative i2010 – economical growth, information society and media industries i2010: Digital Library Initiative
- 2005 EU Commision started preparation of European Digital Library (Google Books project)
. 2006 August 24th - Recommendation on digitization and digital preservation
. Encouraging of the member states to enhance their digitization efforts to give an access to their considerable collections
Experience from The European Library
Europeana – Gate to european cultural heritage
February 2008 - prototype of Europeana presented to the European Parliament
2008 November 20th. – ceremonious launching by the European Commissioner for Information Society and Media Viviane Reding and José Manuel Barosso, President of EU Commission
- access to 2.000.000 units (mostly digitized)
(now 5.000.000, 6.000.000 units should be in 2010)
Europeana – Gate to european cultural heritage
An access to materials from european national archives, national and university libraries, institutions which hold audiovisual materials, music archives, museum and galeriesDigital copies of art objects, maps, fotographies, museum objects, books, periodicals, letters and diares, archive materials, music records and spoken word form phonographic cylinders and magnetic tapes, radio and TV broadcastings, movies
Participating institutions
European digital library network EDLnet – 100 institutions – content providers, technical partners
Prototype – meeting of 160 experts from all the Europe – archivists, librarians, curators, websites developers, IT experts, lawyers, directors…
The main goalsThe aim of Europeana is:
• Providing access to Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage though a cross-domain on multilingual portal
• Stimulating initiatives to bring together existing digital content
• Supporting digitisation of Europe’s cultural and scientific heritage
• Co-operating in the delivery and sustainability of the joint portal
- see epochs, movements, art styles, trends of society in a european point of view how they passed across the Europe without regard to the fact where the material is hold, comfortably from your PC (mostly for info than for studiing)
Portal into the european depositories
Portal to the sources in original institutions x WDL
5.000.000 items but not all are well accesible
Not primarly digitization, but needs to start massiv digitization (example of CR) Now β-version, 2010 full running
BackgroundeContentplus programmeOverseeing - European Digital Library Foundationcore team is based in the national library of the Netherlands, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek Development - Digital Lifecycle Management Forum, European Commision on Preservation and Access, Institute of Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics, University of Ljubljana, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin / Berlin School of Library and Information Sciences) Funding – European Union Commissio
Europeana and Czech Republic
Already a member of TEL
Czech National Library does everything for the best participation on the project
Technical standards
Dublin Core Metadata
OAI-PMH
URI to source institution
Possible user customized enviroment – tag the content, disscusion forums, add own experience
Timeline
?Future Europeana?2009-2010 – 69 milion euro for digitization activities and digital libraries development form EU Commission
50 milion euro for improving access to the european cultural heritage
Is it enough…? (digitization of „only“ 5.mil. works from the european libraries collections would cost 225 mil. euro)
There are not only the money…
Problems of access – we must not allow a „black hole“ of 20th. century in our digital libraries
- it´s needed free access ! what brings more problems
World Digital LibraryReleased 2009 April 21nd. (five months after Europeana)UNESCO and Library of CongressAims:
• Promote international and intercultural understanding • Expand the volume and variety of cultural content on
the Internet • Provide resources for educators, scholars, and general
audiences • Build capacity in partner institutions to narrow the digital
divide within and between countries
BackgroundJuly 2005 – James H. Bilington, librarian of LC proposes the idea to UNESCO National ComissionBasic idea: „to create an Internet-based, easily-accessible collection of the world's cultural riches that would highlight the achievements of all countries and cultures, promoting cross-cultural awareness and understanding“ Directorate for Communication and Information to work with the Library of Congress to develop the project of WDL
December 2006 - UNESCO and the Library of Congress convened an Experts Meeting to discuss the project Results: a need of more systematic digitization and help to the developing countriesworking groups to develop guidelines for the project Bibliotheca Alexandrina, the National Library of Brazil, the National Library and Archives of Egypt, the National Library of Russia, and the Russian State Library commited on developing and contributing content to a WDL prototype
Prototype of WDL
IFLA, UNESCO and other institutions
presented at the UNESCO General Conference in 2007
decision to develop a public, freely-accessible version of the WDL
launched on 2009 April 21st. – more than 25 institutions from member states of UNESCO – 1.170 digitized significant items
Partners
Museums, archives, libraries – 26 institutions from 19 countires of Asia, Africa, America and Europe
Multilanguage interface
Digital copies of manuscripts, maps, rare prints, music and film records, photographies, architectonic plans
Europeana and WDL – cooperation or rivality?
Jill Cousins, Director of Europeana: cooperation is possible, nothing concrete for now yet
James Billington: nobody will prevent to any institution participate with both projects, each institution can decide what will provide in which project. Essencial for us is to establish a reliable standards, not quantity but quality
Gallica BNF cooperates with both of them
Comparation
WDL – better quality, more informations, in the own systemEuropeana – aims to have the largest quantityWDL – all the world X Europeana – EuropeAccess – Europeana – problems but efford to solve the problems, WDL – for now almost „older“ materialsTimelineGood for education
Europeana
World Digital Library
Some questions?
Thank You for Your attention
Adresses mentioned in the course:UNESCO – E-Heritage Projecthttp://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php
-URL_ID=24267&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html UNESCO – Memory of the Worldhttp://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php
-URL_ID=1538&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html World Digital Libraryhttp://www.wdl.org/ The Library of Congress American Memoryhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Europeana http://www.europeana.eu
European Digital Library Foundationhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
i2010: Digital Library Initiativehttp://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/index_en.
htm The European Libraryhttp://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Czech centre of digitization – Czech National Libraryhttp://www.digit.nkp.cz/ Manuscriptorium Czech project - The largest digital library for manuscripts in Europehttp://www.manuscriptorium.com/Site/ENG/default_eng.asp Czech National Digital Library
http://www.ndk.cz/project/view?set_language=en
Links to some of cultural heritage systems: George Washington Manuscripts at the University of Pittsburghhttp://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=gwletters&page=index Albert Einstein Archives http://albert-einstein.org/ Japanese Ex-libris Stamps http://www.ndl.go.jp/zoshoin/e/index_e.html Historic Cities http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/historic_cities.html The Gertrude Beel Project http://www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk Stalinka – Digital Library of Staliniana http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-
idx?c=stalinka
Chartres – Cathedral of Notre-Damme http://images.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/i/image/image-idx?c=chartres&page=index
Links to some of cultural heritage systems: Images of England http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk William Blake Archive http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/ Abdul Hamid II Collection http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/ahiiquery.html Web gallery of art http://gallery.euroweb.hu/welcome.html
Axis-For information on visual artists, Axis database http://www.axisartists.org.uk/axisdb/online.htm
Gutenberg Digital http://www.gutenbergdigital.de/gudi/eframes/index.htm
Galileo´s Manuscripts http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/Galileo_Prototype/main.htm
To see some more: look on
Digicol UNESCO/IFLAhttp://www.unesco.org/webworld/digicol/ Or on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_digital_library_projects
