LIBER 39TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE - Statsbiblioteket

PaRaLLEL sEssIons 1.5 to 4.5
Within the project, work will be undertaken
in the areas of content ingestion,
aggregation and the development of
sustainable business and organisation
models. The aim of the content ingestion
work package will be to ingest the
existing high-quality digital content as
efficiently as possible into Europeana in
compliance with the relevant Europeana
content standards. Only content free from
IPR issues will be taken into consideration
in order to guarantee wide dissemination
and use of the content. The aggregation
work package will turn The European
Library into a domain-level aggregator
of library content into Europeana. This
will be made possible by scaling up the
existing infrastructure to manage the
large-scale aggregation and ingestion of
content and improving interoperability by
creating a single workflow for the ingestion
of content from libraries into The European
Library and Europeana. To ensure
that the library-domain aggregator for
Europeana can operate in a sustainable
and cost effective way beyond the lifetime
of project, sustainable business and
organisational models will be developed.
sally chambers is Collections Manager
for The European Library, based at the
National Library of the Netherlands,
where she has been working since
2005. Prior to joining The European
Library, she worked as Electronic Library
Projects Coordinator at the University of
London Library, where she led several
digital library projects including the
Virtual Research Environment project,
which developed and tested a web-based
environment to support the needs of the e-
researcher, the development of an online
library for distance learning students and
a project to develop a Library Research
Skills Tutorial. Sally has been working
in the library profession since 1994,
primarily in academic libraries in the UK.
Since 2000, she has focussed solely on
digital libraries.
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