World Digital Library Partner Meeting Munich, Germany November 14-15, 2011 Project Update John Van Oudenaren WDL Director

WDL Business Plan World Digital Library Accomplishments to Date Medium-Term Priorities Longer Term Priorities Resources

Medium-Term Priorities World Digital Library Add Content Target: 6,000 items by end of 2011 Improve Processes and Tools for Content Creation Staffing Tools for transfer, processing, cataloging, translation, publishing Add Partners – Build Capacity Target: 125 partners from 80 countries Begin to create an engaged, expanding, truly global user community

Longer Term Priorities World Digital Library Scale up the addition of content Long-term goal: 100,000 items Universal participation Add interface languages German, Hindi, Japanese Mobile applications New website features Areas of thematic focus

Mesoamerican Codices World Digital Library Conceptual framework and selection criteria Conference of experts, sponsored by WDL and CONACULTA, Mexico City, May 2010 On WDL in Codices from National Institute of Anthropology and History, Center for the Study of the History of Mexico, Library of Congress

Mesoamerican Codices World Digital Library Added in 2011 Library of Congress Oztoticpac Lands Map, circa 1540 National Library of Spain Codex Osuna, 1565 University of Texas Libraries Relaciones Geográficas, Uppsala University Library Map of Tenochtitlán, 1521

Mesoamerican Codices World Digital Library In pipeline or pledged Codices from: AGN (National Archives of Mexico); Laurentian Library; John Carter Brown Library; Vatican Library; others

Arabic and Islamic Manuscripts and Books World Digital Library Conceptual framework and selection criteria Meeting of experts sponsored by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, London, October 2008 Meeting of partners from Arab countries, December 2010 Agreement with the Qatar Foundation On WDL in Manuscripts and journals from: Iraqi National Library and Archives Library of Congress Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library National Library and Archives of Egypt University Library in Bratislava

Arabic and Islamic Manuscripts and Books Added in 2011 Manuscripts and journals from: Allama Iqbal Library, University of Kashmir Bibliotheca Alexandrina Greek-Catholic Diocese of Aleppo Holy Spirit University of Kaslik Iraqi National Library and Archives Library of Congress National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina National Library and Archives of Egypt Qatar Foundation, Central Library Syriac-Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo University Library in Bratislava Walters Art Museum World Digital Library

Arabic and Islamic Manuscripts and Books World Digital Library Total items in Arabic: 212 Persian: 31 Ottoman Turkish: 18 European translations of Arabic works: 11 In pipeline or pledged Contributions from: Bibliotheca Alexandrina Library of Congress National Library and Archives of Egypt Qatar Foundation Yale University Wellcome Library

Arabic and Islamic Manuscripts and Books Final points High level of effort in creating metadata and item- level descriptions Potential for academic and private sector partnerships World Digital Library

Chinese Rare Books and Manuscripts World Digital Library Conceptual framework and selection criteria Recommendations of the Chinese Content Selection Committee adopted at the meeting of the committee in Washington, January 2009 On WDL in Manuscripts and books from: Library of Congress National Library of China National Central Library

Chinese Rare Books and Manuscripts Added in 2011 Berlin State Library Copper Battle Prints James Bell Ford Library, University of Minnesota Matteo Ricci, Great Universal Geographic Map, 1602 Library of Congress Chinese rare books National Central Library Chinese rare books World Digital Library

Chinese Rare Books and Manuscripts World Digital Library Total items in Chinese Books: 76 Manuscripts: 10 Maps: 12 In pipeline or pledged Additional books and manuscripts from: Library of Congress National Central Library

Chinese Rare Books and Manuscripts Final points Exceptionally high level of effort in creating metadata and item-level descriptions Potential for academic and private sector partnerships World Digital Library

European Partners World Digital Library On WDL in Books, manuscripts, maps, and other items from: Bavarian State Library National Library of France National Library of Sweden National Library of Russia Russian State Library

European Partners Added in 2011 Books, manuscripts, maps, and other items from: World Digital Library Bavarian State Library Austrian National Library Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Central Library of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences The Central National Library of Florence Irish College in Paris National and University Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina National Central Library of Rome National Library of France National Library of Naples National Library of the Netherlands National Library of Russia National Library of Spain National Library of Sweden University Library of Naples University Library of Padua University Library of Sassari V.I. Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine Vilnius University Library Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library

European Partners World Digital Library In pipeline or pledged Content from numerous partners Other tasks Recruitment of missing partners Ireland, Greece, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Luxembourg, etc. Possible cooperation with Europeana, The European Library

Other Areas of Focus Content from Latin American partners National Library of Chile National Library of Argentina National Library of Brazil Other Capacity building is an issue Scientific works Focus so far on Arabic and Chinese works Smithsonian Institution Medical documents from Wellcome Library Galileo books and manuscripts from Italian partners University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (maps) World Digital Library

Other Areas of Focus Content from WDL-sponsored digitization centers in Egypt, Iraq, and Uganda Items from the international collections of the Library of Congress Contributions to other content priorities (especially Chinese rare books and Arabic manuscripts) Large collections of prints and photographs Improved coverage of underrepresented countries Content from India, Indonesia, Turkey Allama Iqbal Library, University of Kashmir World Digital Library

Medium-Term: Partner Recruitment and Capacity Building World Digital Library As of November 2011: 136 partners from 72 countries Added since the last partner meeting: 43 Number of national libraries currently partners: 57 Targeted recruitment efforts aimed at: Arab world Countries of the former Soviet Union Caribbean

Medium-Term: Partner Recruitment and Capacity Building World Digital Library Need to enlist missing European partners Areas of weakness: South and Southeast Asia Sub-Saharan Africa Capacity building is a serious challenge Models for participation Italian Ministry for Cultural Activities Hill Museum and Manuscript Library New categories of potential partners

Longer Term Priorities World Digital Library Areas to be emphasized Continue to add content Mobile applications and new website features User outreach Areas likely to be deferred Capacity building/Universal participation Adding interface languages Areas for partnerships Capacity building/Participation User outreach Areas of thematic focus

Conclusions World Digital Library Continued focus on content Continued focus on quality Important not to lose focus on capacity building and attracting universal participation Resources are strained almost everywhere