EDLproject WP3 “Developing the European Digital Library” LIBER – EBLIDA workshop Digitisation of Library Material in Europe Copenhagen, October 2007 Hans Petschar Austrian National Library, Vienna

WP3 – “Developing the European digital library“: General Aims Support The European Library office and CENL in their work towards the European digital library –In response to the i2010 Digital Libraries Programme Work closely together with European projects and initiatives –Support the EU co-ordination of digitisation and preparation of a European digital library

WP3 – “Developing the European digital library“: Tasks 1.Conduct a survey among CENL members to investigate the availability of digital content for a European digital library; prepare groundwork for a digitisation roadmap 2.Organise a Policy Conference: „European digital library“ 3.Organise workshops and develop working relationships with other initiatives, organisations and projects; prepare a transparent framework for collaboration and business models

Task 1: Digitisation Survey

Survey on Digitisation Activities Results of the survey will give an overview on institutional digitisation programmes and policies Will provide measurable data for digitisation –What will be digitised when and how in European National Libraries in the next 5 years Will be discussed in the CENL plenary meeting in September and at the TEL management board Digitisation Roadmap will be based on the survey Roadmap will describe the current baseline –What is available in what form in the CENL member libraries against the total holdings of these libraries Roadmap will be used to make stakeholder aware of how huge the potential is

Survey Status Quo | 1 Questionnaire disseminated among CENL members on May 3, 2007 Deadline June 18 Questionnaire has two parts: 1.Questionnaire on digitisation strategies and policies –28 questions 2.Questionnaire on single projects –75 questions for each project –Examples: object type, quantities, resources, technical parameters, OCR, metadata, services, interoperability, rights, licensing

Survey Status Quo | 2 Questionnaires collected from 37 (out of 47) CENL libraries 37 completed questionnaires on programmes and strategies 184 completed questionnaires on individual projects

Survey Phyical Holdings + digitisation holdings and digitisation for libraries with reported digitisation projects and programs: Holdings Objects Objects Pages Pages

Survey Objects 2006 | 1

Survey Objects 2006 | 2

Survey Objects 2012 | 1

Survey Objects 2012 | 2

Survey Geographic coverage

Survey Time

Survey First results | 1 Material types

Survey First results 2

Survey First results | 3

Survey First results | 4

Survey: Obstacles Financing mass digitisation, national, EU level 22 Multilingual Approach, usability, standards 12 Copyright 9 Lack of infrastructure, technology, expertise 7 Concept and communication of EDL3 Lack of co-ordination2 “Digitisation divide”, conflicts big players 1 Selection criteria 1 EU membership1 Deterioration of Physical Collections1

Survey: Priorities Newspapers19 Mass Digitisation, Printed material 14 Unique, fragile sources13 European (national) heritage9 Sound 6 Photographs and maps 5 Manuscripts 4 Access, technology, retrieval 2

Survey Resumee | 1 Enormous Potential for digitisation “If we match the total of physical holdings national libraries against digital holdings (objects) of a library it becomes clear that content digitisation still in its infancy and how enormous the potential for digitisation of content in National Libraries is.”

Survey Resume | 2 Cost reduction in storage technologies and mass digitisation make it for the first time imaginable to “duplicate” the total collections of Libraries in electronic format, to preserve them and to give virtual access to the complete content.

Survey Resume | 3 A significant change in the overall evaluation of content digitisation: “for the first time complete digitisation plans for National Libraries are based on a realistic background.”

Survey Future perspectives On institutional level systematic content digitisation is daily practise in many European National Libraries On national and EU level there is a need for co-ordinated funding of mass digitisation and building up a digital library infrastructure

Survey Future perspectives Making content available on European Level and developing strategies for co-operation and integrating a European Dimension in national and institutional digitisation programs will be the big task for the future.

Survey General Recommendation All efforts and initiatives, cross- domain, public and private should be acknowledged as complementary contributions to promote European Digital Heritage All major and successful initiatives should be communicated in a positive and non-competitive manner

Survey: Recommendations 1 Change of financing policies for mass digitisation on EU and national level Building a Digital Library Infrastructure on EU level (including access + services) Co-ordinated Digitisation program for unique, fragile printed material in European National Libraries Creating models for content hosting, licences and services for the European Digital Library European Dimension core criteria for co- ordinated digitisation of (national) heritage

Survey: Recommendations 2 Encourage National Libraries to Extend their collection development policies to Digital Collections Develop digitisation programs for their printed national heritage based on a territorial approach Support the TEL / European Digital Library with digital content via OAI - PMH Participate in Co-ordinated Digitisation programs for unique, fragile printed material in European National Libraries Integrate Digitisation in Acquisition and Preservation workflows of National Libraries Support Public Private Partnership for Digitisation Report on a regular basis on Digitisation

Numeric Project: Survey Digitisation of Europe`s Cultural Heritage NUMERIC is a European Commission project that will define the empirical measures for digitisation activities and establish the current investment in digitisation and the progress being made by Europe’s cultural institutions. Contact: