Hispana The Spanish National Cross Domain Aggregator 27 September 2012, KB, The Hague

Hispana overview  Hispana is the sum of four applications:  A directory of the Spanish digitization projects  OAI-PMH harvester  OAI-PMH repository  SRU server  it began work in September 2005  launched as search service in March 2006

Objectives  common access point to Spanish distributed digital materials  gather information about current and planned Spanish digitisation projects  avoid duplicates in digitisation  national aggregator for Europeana

Who is funding Hispana?  Hispana is based on a commercial software bought by the SG for Library Coordination  Total investment from 2005 to date = euros  70% of costs funded by participation in EuropenaLocal project  Maintenance and future developments will be assumed by SG for Library Coordination

Who Hispana harvests from:  All type of libraries  171 repositories  records = 97,57%  CER.es: Digital network of Collections of Spanish Museums  records from 29 museums = 1,76%  2 archives ( records) = 0,72%

What’s out there to harvest?  All subjects and formats  more than 30 metadata schemas from DC to EDM  E DM has still been implemented in more than 70% of the records  Repositories are harvested on a voluntary basis

Hispana figures  567 digitization projects  174 OAI-PMH repositories (45 contribute to Europeana)  digital objects ( in the Europeana portal)

Current contribution to Europeana  records = (84,8 % of the Spanish contribution)  texts  images  1293 video  1047 sound

Contribution to Europeana: prospects  2 M records by the end of 2012  Most of the new records will be texts  Expected to get back 45 museums that have removed records as a result of DEA  No audiovisuals  Indicative targets for minimum content contribution established by the Commission Recommendation of 27/10/2011 ( records) will be reached by March 2014

To whom Hispana distributes?  Some sets harvested by  OCLC (mainly OAIster)  EROMM (European Registry of Microform and Digital Masters)  Trove (NLA)

Where Hispana belongs in Diagram below?  National cross domain aggregator  No national mandate set by Govt

Thank you María Luisa Martínez-Conde