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29-541: The National Library of Turkey, established in the Çankaya district of the city Ankara was established on April 15, 1946, under the Ministry of Education through the Directorate of Publications. The library initially had 8,000 printed works, but within the first year it had outgrown its original building, and in order to make the collection available to the public it moved to a temporary building on April 17, 1947. Soon

58-642: A central computer, but remain with the cultural institution and are hosted on their networks. Europeana collects contextual information – or metadata – about the items, including a small picture. Users search this contextual information. Once they find what they are looking for, if they want to access the full content of the item, they can click through to the original site that holds the content. Different types of cultural heritage organisations – libraries, museums, archives and audiovisual collections – catalogue their content in different ways and to different standards. Approaches also vary in different countries. To make

87-517: A full service, providing access to over 10 million digital records of cultural objects. New features were added in 2011, including a translation tool and a function to expand searches onto other platforms, including Misplaced Pages . Europeana contains digitalised museum collections. Europeana gives access to different types of content from different types of heritage institutions. The digital objects that users can find in Europeana are not stored on

116-477: A roadmap for potential digitization efforts in the national libraries. The European Library provided much of the organization and support required to launch Europeana – a European Commission initiative that makes millions of digital objects from libraries, museums and archives accessible to the public via the Europeana website. When the European Parliament called for Europeana to be established,

145-572: A single platform and presented in a variety of ways relevant to modern users. The prototype for Europeana was the European Digital Library Network ( EDLnet ), launched in 2008. The Europeana Foundation is the governing body of the service, and is incorporated under Dutch law as Stichting Europeana . Europeana had its beginnings after a letter was jointly sent in April 2005 by Jacques Chirac , President of France, and

174-556: Is a member of the National Collective Catalog organizations in Turkey. The National Library has one of the richest collections in Turkey. As of 2013, the collection consists of 3,089,517 items, which can be categorized as follows: 39°55′01″N 32°49′38″E  /  39.9169°N 32.8271°E  / 39.9169; 32.8271 Conference of European National Librarians The European Library

203-676: Is an Internet service that allows access to the resources of 49 European national libraries and an increasing number of research libraries. Searching is free and delivers metadata records as well as digital objects, mostly free of charge. The objects come from institutions located in countries which are members of the Council of Europe and range from catalogue records to full-text books, magazines, journals and audio recordings. Over 200 million records are searchable, including 24 million pages of full-text content and more than 7 million digital objects. Thirty five different languages are represented among

232-682: Is incorporated under Dutch law as Stichting Europeana and is housed within the Koninklijke Bibliotheek , the national library of the Netherlands. It provides a legal framework for the governance of Europeana, employing the staff, bidding for funding and enabling the sustainability of the service. The executive director of the Europeana Foundation is Harry Verwayen, who was appointed in May 2018. The executive board

261-580: Is obligatory to send a copy of every work published in the country to the National Library. According to the 2017 data, there are 4,087,909 manuscripts and printed works in the library's archive. According to the statistics of the same year, the number of people benefiting from the National Library, which has 26,478 registered members, is 629,905. The library is a member of the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL) and Europeana . It

290-706: Is supported by the board of the Europeana Foundation , which is chaired by Martina Bagnoli since In 2021. Europeana has a network for cultural heritage professionals in Europe working in digitisation. Initially known as the Council of Content Providers and Aggregators (CCPA), it has been called the Europeana Network since December 2011. Europeana regularly runs events and conferences. Between 2011 and 2019, Europeana's annual flagship event took

319-493: Is the aggregator of digital content from national libraries for Europeana and delivers digital content from national libraries on a monthly basis to Europeana. As of July 2012, The European Library was the second biggest content provider to Europeana, with 3.45 million items added to the Europeana database. Some human and technical resources are also shared between Europeana and The European Library. In addition to its search engine, The European Library pulls together themes from

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348-441: The T.C. Resmi Gazete . Plans for constructing a new building used for the National Library started in 1965, after realizing that the existing building would not meet the requirements in the future. Construction began in 1973 and was completed on August 5, 1983. Since its completion, the library has served its users in some 39,000 square meters of space. According to the 1934 Law on Compilation of Printed Articles and Pictures, it

377-926: The Dutch Royal Library in The Hague . Its programme director is Jill Cousins. The 48 National Libraries who participate in The European Library project are: Research Libraries who have also contributed content to The European Library as a result of the Europeana Libraries project include: Europeana Europeana is a web portal created by the European Union containing digitised cultural heritage collections of more than 3,000 institutions across Europe. It includes records of over 50 million cultural and scientific artefacts, brought together on

406-617: The Conference of European National Librarians (CENL), under the auspices of the National Library of the Netherlands and CENL's service The European Library, were asked to submit for a project under the eContentplus programme. Work began on a prototype in 2007 and Europeana was launched in November 2008. Europeana now operates independently but The European Library continues to work closely with Europeana. The European Library

435-516: The Information and Communications Technologies Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP). The Europeana Group projects are: Europeana regularly run engagement projects where members of the public are invited to share their stories relating to topics like World War I, migration, industrial heritage and / sport. These take place either online or at collection day events. Europeana and the projects contributing content to Europeana.eu have been funded by

464-563: The archive's size reached 60,000. It officially started to serve the users on August 16, 1948. The building is now used as the Ankara Provincial Public Library. The National Library gained a separate legal entity independent from the Ministry of National Education through a law adopted by the Grand National Assembly on March 23, 1950. Nine days later, the law came into force and was published on

493-636: The beginning of 2008, a further nine national libraries within the European Union and the European Free Trade Association had joined the service. The European Library took a further step towards its enlargement with the EDLproject, during which national libraries continued to join The European Library. The project also focused on multilingualism, undertook the first steps towards a European Metadata Registry and created

522-536: The building of Europeana was the European Digital Library Network (EDLnet), whose role was to establish a prototype model for a user-focussed service, capable of working across national borders and across differing domains. The European Commission funded EDLnet from its eContentplus programme. The European Digital Library Network prototype was launched on 20 November 2008. It initially provided access to 4.5 million digital objects, which

551-404: The collections of Europe's national libraries and displays them in virtual exhibitions. These exhibitions unite geographically disparate objects in a single online space, offering Pan-European sources on the topic. The European Library is financed by its owners, the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL). The portal is maintained by The European Library Office located in the premises of

580-583: The form of the annual general meeting for the Europeana Network. Since 2020, the event has been an annual conference. The event has been held online and in venues across Europe. There are a number of projects – the Europeana Group – that are contributing technology solutions and content to Europeana. These are run by different cultural heritage institutions, and are part-funded by the European Commission 's eContentplus programme and

609-773: The information searchable, it has to be mapped to a single common standard, known as the Europeana Semantic Elements, and based on Dublin Core . This metadata standard at present takes a lowest common denominator approach to the integration of different types of digital content. In 2010 the Europeana Data Model , a richer metadata standard, was introduced to help give users more and better information. Europeana accepts metadata about digital objects, it does not make any decisions about digitisation. The decision about which objects are digitised lies with

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638-706: The organisation that holds the material. More than 3,000 institutions across Europe have contributed to Europeana, including the Rijksmuseum , the British Library and the Louvre . Records of over 10 million cultural and scientific artefacts have been brought together on Europeana's platform, and are presented in a variety of ways relevant to modern users, such as smartphones or APIs . In 2024 Europeana claims to give access to records of more than 50 million objects. In its Strategic Plan for 2011–2015, which

667-498: The portal provided information about each library's collections and access to their online public access catalogues (OPACs). The European Library exists to open up the universe of knowledge, information and cultures of all Europe's national libraries. GABRIEL was followed by the TEL (The European Library) project, which ran from 2001 to 2004 and created a framework for access to key national and deposit collections within Europe. The project

696-546: The premiers of Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland and Hungary to the President of the European Commission , José Manuel Durão Barroso . It urged the creation of a virtual European library in order to make Europe's cultural heritage more accessible to everyone. The letter helped to give added support to work that the European Commission's Information Society and Media Directorate had already been conducting over

725-567: The previous ten years, such as the Telematics for Libraries project. It also offered strong political support to the Directorate's strategy (i2010: communication on digital libraries), published in September 2005. This made clear the intention to create and support a European digital library , covering the whole European Union in order to encourage growth of the information society and related media industries. The first project that started

754-532: The searchable objects. The content of the European Library was frozen on 31 December 2016, with no new updates after that date. The European Library of today has evolved from a number of earlier projects. Its starting point was in 1997 when the GABRIEL (Gateway and Bridge to Europe's National Libraries) project set out to establish a joint web portal of European national libraries. At a basic level,

783-657: Was part-funded under the Fifth Framework Programme of the European Commission . The national libraries involved in the TEL project were those of Finland, Germany, Italy (Florence), Italy (Rome), Netherlands, Portugal, Slovenia, Switzerland and United Kingdom. This led to the launch of TheEuropeanLibrary.org portal on 17 March 2005. Between 2005 and 2007, the TEL-ME-MOR project helped to incorporate 10 more national libraries from new European Union member states as full partners of The European Library. By

812-652: Was published in January 2011, Europeana outlined four strategic tracks that would shape its further development: The subsequent strategy document is for the period 2015–2020. The Europeana Foundation is the governing body of the Europeana service. Its members are the presidents and chairs of European associations for cultural heritage and information associations. The Foundation promotes collaboration between museums, archives , audiovisual collections and libraries so that users can have integrated access to their content through Europeana and other services. The Foundation

841-456: Was twice as many as initially intended, and received data contributions from over a thousand separate organisations, including many internationally renowned libraries, gallery and museum collections from many different European capital cities. The successor of EDLnet (Europeana version 1.0) began life in February 2009. It ran for 2.5 years and, by 2010, the initial prototype had developed into

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