Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challenges strategy, governance, funding Bruno Racine Chair, CENL 1

Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challenges strategy, governance, funding  TEL is a success story  A unique data set served by a unique expertise  A building block for Europeana  Aggregator for National libraries  An extension to CERL and LIBER leading to a powerful library domain 2

Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challenges strategy, governance, funding  A new context, the urgency of change  Budget constraints  New quality requirements  Challenges : Horizon 2020, « Big data », Open access  TEL in a more competitive environment 3

Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challenges strategy, governance, funding  18 months of reflexion  Establishment of the TEL AG ( February 2012 )  Extension of the TEL AG mandate ( December 2012 )  TEL AG report : Recommendation on option 4 CENL EC + TEL AG ( Munich June 26, 2013 )  A common position by CENL EC and TEL MC ( Amsterdam September 16, 2013 )  CENL AG ( Baku September 24) 4

Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challenges strategy, governance, funding  The TEL AG recommendations  4 strategic options  Option 1: Close the European Library  Option 2: Close the end-user service and concentrate on services to libraries  Option 3: Operate both an end-user service and a service to libraries  Option 4: Focus on service for libraries and partner with Europeana to deliver Europeana Research 5

Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challenges strategy, governance, funding  The TEL AG recommendations  3 fee scenarios  Scenario 1 : €500 - €  Scenario 2 : €500 - €  Scenario 3 : €500 - €

Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challenges strategy, governance, funding  TEL at a crossroads  The need of a new :  Strategy  Governance  Funding 7

Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challenges strategy, governance, funding  Strategy  Core activities  New emphasis on building data and collections, particularly open access  Stronger focus on data cleaning and enhancement  Services and innovation  Exploiting content through partnerships  More effective promotion of TEL’s services and innovation 8

Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challenges strategy, governance, funding  Governance  TEL becoming a separate entity or  TEL merging with Europeana  Legally already the case  Less redundancy costs  Work flow improvement  A contractual relation : accountability, transparency, reciprocity 9

Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challenges strategy, governance, funding  Budget  Core activities  funding through a basic fee  Services and innovation  100% funding through services and projects 10

Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challenges strategy, governance, funding  A one year transition plan  Technical improvements (TEL AG report)  Legal issues (SLA with Europeana ; Partnership Agreement ; MoU with CERL and LIBER)  Budget schemes  A transitional budget based on Scenario 1 for 2014  From 2015 on, a budget based on Scenario 2 11

Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challenges strategy, governance, funding  Approval of the 2014 budget Next steps of the session  The pricing model (Hans Petschar)  The TEL MC vision (Bas Savenije)  Scenario to be approved by the board  Presentation of the budget (Kai Ekholm) 12

Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challenges strategy, governance, funding A new hand of cards for a sustainable and innovative TEL 13