BNE-Telefónica: Strategic Partner Agreement
José Luis Bueren Gómez-Acebo December 6th, 2011
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Index
01 Flash information about the BNE
02 The Biblioteca Digital Hispánica
03 The Agreement with Telefónica
04 Conclusions
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General information about the BNE
• Created in 1711 as Royal Public Library
• Becomes the National Library in 1836
• Emblematic Headquarters building at the heart of Madrid since 1893
• Legal Deposit since 1957
• Autonomous institution since 1991
• Second building complex in Alcalá de Henares opens in 1992 (six storage towers, one deserved by robots + usual services to users)
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The BNE in figures
• Over 26 million pieces of which some 9 million are books
• More than 60% are stored in the Alcalá de Henares building
• A monthly average of 20 tons of new entries through Legal Deposit
• More than 400.000 new monographers per year
• Close to one million new items per year
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Special collections
• More than 30.000 manuscripts
• 1.600 medieval codex
• 3.100 incunabula
• 19.000 pictures
• Around 600.000 engravings
• 1.000.000 photographs
• 700 manuscript maps
• 15.000 XIV-XIXth century maps
• 505.000 muscial scores
• 100.000 videos
• More than 600.000 sound records
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The Biblioteca Digital Hispánica
• Launched in January 2008 with 10.000 items
• Currently has around 55.000 titles
• It supports OAI-PMH
• Image format : TIFF, JPG and PDF using DigiTool software, with SOLR search engine
• Metadata: Marc21, DC, METS, ESE.
• Different selection criteria for the content
• The whole BDH is accessible in TEL, Europeana and Hispana
• January 2011 > Integration of the historical press application
• 14.000.000 digital images.
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The portal: functionalities
• Simple and advanced search.
• Full text search (OCR).
• Collection browsing.
• Facets.
• Multilingual.
• Sound records reproduction.
• 2.0 Functionalities:
• Share in Facebook and Twitter, comments, votes, send by email, other user have seen, new document alerts, federated search in external sources (Hispana, Europeana), implementing BDH in other webs…
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Strategic partner agreement
• Signed in 2008 as a result of successful launching (visits, downloading and media coverage)
• 10.000.000 euros contribution:
• Scope: 200.000 works / 25.000.000 digital images by the end of 2012.
• Conditions:
• Telefónica can deduct this contribution from Corporate Tax
• The logo of Telefónica must appear in the Digital Library Portal and Telefónica’s sponsorship has to be mentioned in any communication of the Library regarding the mass digitisation project
• Exclusivity of this agreement in terms of other telecommunication companies which could be considered as competitors of Telefónica
• Promotional activities
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Special benefits for the BNE
• The main benefit for the Library is the funding of the mass digitisation activities
• The BNE is the only owner of the digital images (both access andmaster copies)
• It is unique responsible for the digitised content and for the technical specifications
• Quality of the content and of the process is assured as long as it is done under the Library’s criteria and needs
• Access to the digital objects depends only of the BNE
• Expertise of Telefónica + administrative management
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Work done
• Around 50.000 titles digitised: manuscripts, XVI-XXth century books, musical scores, historic press, maps, photographs, engravings.
• Around 15.000.000 digitised pages.
• Promotion: Interactive Quijote – Interactive Leonardo.
• We can focus on many other activities.
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Work to be done
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Conclusions
• Great success: number of users, quality/quantity of the work, experience acquired, relationship with Telefónica:
• 1.400.000 documents downloaded in 2010.
• Necessity of assuring funding.
• What have we learnt?
• The importance of planning: 25.000.000/200.000 = 125
• Impact in the Library processes > all the Services are implied in this project > more than 30.000 pages/day digitized.
• Institutional support.
• Long term preservation.
• Take advantage of others expertise.
• Access and visibility.
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Thanks!
Pº de Recoletos 20 -22 28071 Madrid EspañaT +34 915 807 7775
www.bne.es
http://bdh.bne.es
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