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Enhancing Research with Collection-Level Descriptions in Libraries

This presentation explores the significance of collection-level descriptions in libraries, showcasing how metadata can facilitate access to digital and non-digital resources. With contributions from 48 National Libraries and over 50 University and Research libraries, the ongoing digitization efforts highlight the challenges and opportunities in academia. By leveraging collection descriptions, particularly through initiatives like CENDARI, researchers can access critical historical materials, integrate various corpora, and enrich their inquiries with linked data. The aim is to transform how collections are discovered and utilized in research.

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Enhancing Research with Collection-Level Descriptions in Libraries

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  1. Discovering libraries’ gold through collection-level descriptions Valentine Charles Data specialist ELAG 2014, Bath 06-2014

  2. Large scale aggregation and its ecosystem • The European Library collects metadata for digital and non-digital materials from • 48 National Libraries • More than 50 University and Research libraries

  3. Digitisation still in progress… According to the ENUMERATE survey 10-12% of content is digitised Only 10% of the 132 million objects held at the Library of Congress digitised http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/business/yourmoney/11archive.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

  4. For the many digitised resources

  5. Collection descriptions as a strategy • Identification of the metadata fields • Enhancements of more than 500 Collection Level Descriptions • Surveys were sent to libraries members to identify: • new digital collections; • special collections (digital and physical); • physical collections;

  6. Collaborating with a specific community: digital humanities • Traditional Humanities users want to search in large corpora andfind special items. • But • Collections relevant forresearchers are notalwaysavailable in a digital form • Many collections are not known to research communities

  7. Collection descriptions for researchers

  8. Collection descriptions for researchers CENDARI builds a research infrastructure that • Allows historical inquiry beginning with research questions • Facilitates historical research processes • Supports transnationalandcomparative approaches • Focusses on discovery and linking sources with research data

  9. Collection descriptions for researchers • CENDARI has built an archive directory • 800 collection descriptions were collected for WW1 and Medieval studies • More than 100 supplied by The European Library

  10. Collaborating with a specific community: digital humanities • Digitialhumanitiesusers • want toexploit large corpora in new ways • want tointegrate corpora withother data

  11. Archival research guide

  12. Integrate collection descriptions with researchers’ studies • The Archival research guides: • access points to relevant contemporary research questions • Connect collection description to others resources via domain specific ontologies • Combined with faceted search, annotations, note-taking tools, NER • linked to the community of historians

  13. Beyond collection descriptions • Collections descriptions are even more interesting when integrated to other data • Alignment of subjects, place names, time period with LOD vocabularies • The European Library publishes its data as linked data and via an API • Data in RDF, and JSON

  14. Next steps • The European Library will look into connecting even more collections to its other data • Link with full text for instance gives opportunity for new research uses • Develop opportunities for enriching collection descriptions with annotation, named entity recognition, vocabularies enrichment… • And incorporate the results of the collaboration with CENDARI • CENDARI project runs for two more years so stay tuned!

  15. www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/ • www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/access • www.cendari.eu/ Valentine Charles Valentine.charles@kb.nl Thank you

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