ON-line SERVICES based on DIGITAL DOCUMENTS Prof. Doina Banciu ROCS Bucharest, 2008

E-services: main fields of activity e-administration e- health e- learning e-culture Common elements: e-information and documentation (e-service based on digital documents) brief pieces of information (web pages) full-text information for different domains (legislation, education, etc.) access to reference repository (addresses to different sites) access to library services (e-books, access to catalogues)

“Digital Library” European Initiative The “i2010” EU Initiative proposes the creation of an information european space through: the improval of on-line library services that are offered to users the development of multicultural and multilingual digital contents the development of an European network of “digital centers” (digital data collection and user free access anytime, anywhere)

Classical vs. digital libraries Classical library Classical library – a repository of knowledge organised mainly on paper Digital library Digital library – Not only a digitised version of a classical library – A new set of functionalities and services are added (e.g. access control, resource management and allocation, complex search and processing services, etc.) – A data exchange and cooperation environment – A variety of formats and data types ( text, audio, video, multi-document complex digital objects) – DLs are digital content management system – New on-line services for citizens

European Initiative a)European Project (FP6,FP7) Research in digital libraries DELOS – DL- definition “to enable any person to access all human knowledge anytime and anywhere, in a friendly, multi-modal, efficient, and effective way, by overcoming barriers of distance, language, and culture and by using multiple Internet-connected devices” – DL - a knowledge repository and an information exchange infrastructure that allows data generation, processing and seamless access to relevant information, regardless of the geographic distribution of hardware resources, databases or persons. – Goals: to define and implement digital libraries on new computing and communication technologies – Achievements: definition of functional and architectural requirements for DL implementation

BRICKS project – Goals: to design a user and service-oriented space to share knowledge and resources in a multi-cultural heritage. – Achievements: digital library architecture for a very broad and heterogeneous user community; automatic indexing and annotation functionalities OpenDlib project – Goal: development of a software toolkit for dedicated DLs generation – Achievements: tools for content harvesting form existing resources

b) European Initiatives: dedicated to the library domain The European Library – TEL The European Library – TEL: free on-line access to information services from 47 libraries(mainly national libraries) across Europe, in 20 different languages TEL-ME-MOR ( ) : TEL-ME-MOR ( ) : support for 20 national libraries to join TEL TEL+ ( ): TEL+ ( ): digitisation of around 20 million pages support Romania and Bulgaria to join EDL

European Initiatives European Digital Library – EDL (e-Content+) – (2006 – 2008): online service to 9 national library contents (Belgium, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Sweden, Norway, Spain and Luxemburg) EUROPEANA” in 2008 EDL became “EUROPEANA” 2 new recommendations in this field: 1.Council Conclusions on Digitisation and Online Accessibility of Cultural Material and Digital Preservation (2006/C 297/01) 2.Commission recommendation on digitisation and online accesibility of cultural material and digital preservation (2006/585/EC) On-line services for free access to library information Improving the digital content Encourageing the national initiative in DL and ON-LINE SERVICES FOR CITIZENS

In accordance with EU recommendations - MCC Romanian Digital Library : – an unique access point to the national cultural heritage in digital form:  documents (libraries)  mobile heritage (museum collections)  audio-visual (audio-video archive)  non-mobile heritage (monuments, archeological sites)  archives (written documents) Main objectives Main objectives: improving the on-line user access to documents multiuser – simultaneous access to documents promotion of Romanian culture all over the world

Research Project in Romania Research Project in Romania First research project oriented to the e- services based on digital content at a national level NUSIDOC – Results Results:  access to data-bases of 4 university libraries (Cluj, Iasi, Timisoara, Bucharest) and the Polytechnic University of Timisoara Library and the Public Library from Targu-Mures  multilingual interfaces to the digital resources

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BCUT - Examples

Multilingual Interfaces - Romanian

Multilingual Interfaces - German

Multilingual Interfaces - Magyar

Conclusions EU promotes and supports e-services for citizens in the libraries EU promotes and supports the developing of digital content (audio-visual, documents, museums, archives) Governments support the developing of e-services in libraries and digital library expansion The Romanian Government supports the on-line services for citizens in the library field and a strategy is being initiated The research projects created represent a first step for digital library development in Romania There is a large field of action for new tools and products in the on-line library services to be developed

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