ILI2005 - Tuesday 11th - The European Library

The European Library
Dr. Britta Woldering

What is The European Library?

A web service of European national libraries
* integrated access to the digital and non-digital collections of European national libraries
* 9 libraries at launch, 45 in the future

end-user site

http://www.TheEuropeanLibrary.org/

all official languages are equal... search offered in 8 languages...
multilingual searching is a goal but not implemented
There is a "max" project for multilingual search.

metadata for journals, books, and collections

Background: Collaboration
* preparing to integrate: Austria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Latvia, Russia (Moscow) and Serbia

Portal issues
- scalability of the portal, number of searches it can sustain, (I think I heard) server-side issues
- helpdesk
- multilingual issues

European Digital Library?

Connected to the Council of Europe, not the EU.