Below you will find information on the TELplus outcomes within each workpackage (WP),
with links
to produced public deliverables. The TELplus
project started in October 2007 (month 1) and was completed in
December 2009 (month 27).
WP1 Making searchable digitised images via OCR
Work Package Leader: Austrian National Library
Objective: as a result of WP1 the national libraries of Austria,
Czech Republic, Estonia, Spain, France, Hungary, Iceland, Lithuania, Latvia,
Poland, Slovenia, and Slovakia will offer more than 20 million pages for OCR
and make the material searchable through The Europeal Library.
Task 1.1 Survey of availability of digitised images for OCR
Task Leader: Austrian National Library
The task started with a kick-off meeting where each
partner confirmed its plan for OCR and preliminary
information was collected for D1.1 (see below).
Task 1.2 - Survey of existing OCR approaches
Task Leader: Austrian National Library
A workshop on OCR was held at the French National Library on 28-29 January 2008.
A questionnaire for the Survey of existing OCR practices
and recommendations for more efficient work was combined with D1.1.
The results, together with the information gathered at the workshop in Paris,
formed the basis for D1.2.
Task 1.3 Identification of concrete materials for OCR, OCR specifications,
implementation plans and tenders
Task Leader: Austrian National Library
Based on the results of the combined surveys, concrete material for OCR
has been identified for all project partners.
Deliverables
D1.3 Package of specifications and implementation plans (April 2008 - Restricted)
Task 1.4 Carrying out OCR and making full texts available via partners' Digital
Library environments
Task Leader: Austrian National Library
Partners reached their OCRing and harvesting targets of more than 20 million pages.
D1.4 First set of consolidated OCR progress reports (September 2008 - Restricted)
D1.5 Second Set of Consolidated OCR Progress Reports (January 2010 - restricted)
Task 1.5 Provision of access to newly OCR-ed material through The European Library
Task Leaders: The European Library office
A pilot for the harvesting of large amounts of full-text material from a variety of sources has been carried out by The European Library office. An infrastructure for such harvesting was developed as well as general guidelines for The European Library partners that provided full-text material. The project reached the set objective. In all 24.192.845 pages were harvested and indexed until end of December 2009. Details are provided in D1.6.
WP2 Improving the usability of The European Library through OAI PMH compliancy
Work Package Leader: Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
Objective: to provide the participating partner
libraries with tools, guidelines and resources for the
implementation of OAI-PMH on their catalogues/collections,
and to expand The European Library central index in functionality
and storage capacity in order to be able to harvest and index the
partner libraries' catalogues/collections.
Task 2.1 Workshop on best practice guidelines and tools for OAI-PMH
implementation. Task leader: Bibliotheque nationale de France
This workshop was organised by and held at the National Library of The Netherlands,
The Hague, 26 March 2008.
Task 2.2 Best practice guidelines and tool recommendations
Task leader: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
The deliverable D2.1 (see below) was delivered.
This document provides
guidelines to help TEL libraries in implementing OAI-PMH.
It explains the main
concepts and functionality of the OAI-PMH protocol,
as well as the common scenarios found in libraries for OAI-PMH implementation.
Task 2.3 Implementation plans
Task leader: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
A questionnaire
gathered information from the libraries regarding their implementation
of OAI-PMH.
The deliverable D2.2 - OAI-PMH development
and implementation plan (see below) was delivered in October 2008.
Task 2.4 Implementation of a generic OAI-PMH infrastructure
Task leader: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
The version 1.2beta of
REPOX was released. REPOX is a framework
to manage metadata spaces. It comprises
several channels to import metadata from data providers, services
to transform metadata between schemas according to user's specified rules,
and services to expose the results to the exterior. This tailored version
of REPOX aims to provide to all the TEL partners a simple solution to import,
convert and expose their bibliographic data via OAI-PMH.
During the second year of the project, additional versions of the software were released and work
on the development
of the OAI-PMH central gateway began. The gateway is based on a version of REPOX.
Task 2.5 Harvester for SRU and Z39.50 enabled collections
Task leader: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Research has been carried out for metadata harversting by SRU/Z39.50.
Task 2.6 The European Library OAI-PMH gateway implementation
Task leader: Koninklijke Bibliotheek / The European Library Office
Creation of the interface between The European Library central
system and the OAI central service. The gateway was implemented. All TELplus OAI-PMH collections from WP1, WP2 and WP3 were harvested at IST and made available to TEL for future use.
Task 2.7 OAI-PMH implementation
Task leader: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Libraries implemented OAI-PMH according to plan. In total OAI-PMH access was implemented for 55 collections by TELplus partner libraries.
WP3 Improving Access
Work Package Leader: Bibliotheque nationale de France
Objective: to improve accessibility in three ways: by improving full text indexing, by aggregating related resources and investigating automatic vocabulary mappings.
Task 3.1 Indexing for Usability
Performed a State of the art of 'semantic and multilingual
engines and tools for full-text indexing and search in digital libraries OCRed collections' (D3.1).
Based on the D3.1 study and the encountered features,
a mock-up and use cases were drawn up. On the basis of this mock-up,
user tests were planned to identify users'
needs and to collect users' requirements in regard to the identified functionalities.
Specification of the engine prototype
to develop in WP3.1 were written to be able to launch a call for tenders in October 2008.
A French consortium of three companies won the tender.
The resources to be used for the engine prototype were collected. The
development of the prototype continued during the final months of the project. The launch meeting with the consortium was held in March 2009, and the final version of the prototype was delivered in September 09.
Task 3.2 Improving subject access
Partners: STITCH core team (leader),
National Library of the Netherlands (The European Library Office), French National Library, German National Library
This task analysed the MACS project's results,
which demonstrated how mappings between different
vocabularies can improve multi-lingual access to heterogeneous collections.
Contacts were made with owners of vocabularies to align.
The model of each vocabulary was analyzed. Mappings were made between each language model
and SKOS (standard model chosen for conversion).
Conversions have been made for the subject heading lists of the German and French National Libraries.
General methodological work has been done on application-specific deployment
of alignments as produced by generic matching techniques. Work has been also carried out
regarding
the use and adaptation of alignment techniques and a web service for vocabularies and alignments
has been implemented.
Task 3.3 FRBR aggregation, search and browsing
Partners: Instituto Superior Tecnico (leader), National Library of Portugal,
National Library of the Netherlands (TEL Office), French National Library
The deliverable 'D3.6 - Report on FRBR experiments'
was released. An
International
Workshop on FRBR was organised in Lisbon on 9 October 2008. The purpose
of this event was to learn with the major players in the area and discuss
the case of TEL with them.
A prototype was designed and developed to support alternative services of searching and browsing in The European Library according to the FRBR paradigm.
Deliverables
D3.8 Report on outcomes of user testing (January 2009 - Restricted)
Task 3.5 Solution for central service to index full-text in The
European Library
This was a new task introduced at a later stage into the project's workplan. Its
main target was the results of the OCR tasks in WP1, which were integrated
into The European Library by the end of the project. The detailed description and results of this work are reported in D3.9 and D3.10 (a combined deliverable).
WP4 Integrating services with the European Library portal
Work Package Leader: National Library of the Netherlands (Koninklijke Bibliotheek )
Objective: to create a modular services infrastructure that enables
users to integrate services with the European Library portal.
Task 4.1 Create an appropriate schema for formal service descriptions
and provide example descriptions
Task leader: Koninklijke Bibliotheek
The XML schema for service description
has been finalised and published in the D-lib Magazine. It has been tested
and demostrated with a number of services in the demonstrator portal.
The purpose of the service descriptions is to exchange information between user and portal
to instruct the portal, which services to use and how to use them.
The predecessor of the TEL portal was used as a demonstrator
to have a quick start for testing and developing the data model.
Deliverables
D4.1 (XML-) schema for service descriptions (January 2009 - restricted)
Task 4.2 Identifying services that are
going to give the user the greatest return and making recommendations for new services
Task leader: Koninklijke Bibliotheek
The list of potential useful services has been finalised.
The list contains existing external services,
services to be created in TELplus and services that might potentially be useful.
A services registry has been created, containing service descriptions that are used
in the demonstrator portal as an example.
Task 4.3 Integrating services with The European Library
Task leader: Koninklijke Bibliotheek [The European Library Office]
Integration of the image annotation has been done in the development The
European Library portal. Regarding the integration of the services
infrastructure, a proposal was made to The European Library Office to decide
whether it will hard-code services or allow users to submit descriptions of arbitrary services.
Task 4.5 Translation of all collection descriptions in the European Library portal
Task leader: Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The European Library Office)
The translation of more than 330
collection descriptions and titles from The European Library
was outsourced to a specialised company. The items were translated from English
into 27 languages.
The translated texts were reviewed by the partners of The European Library.
WP5 User personalisation services log file analysis and use of annotations
Work Package Leader: University of Padua (UNIPD)
Objective: analysis and categorization of context to derive specifications
for the design of innovative personalized services for the final
users of the future European digital library (Europeana).
Task 5.4 Personalised search and alerting/notification
Task leader: NKUA
A set of personalisation applications has been investigated,
based on the results from Task 5.2. Inspired from the significant
correlation that has been observed between users' country of origin and the selected
collections, a personalized and context
aware collection ranking approach has been defined, exploiting various profile levels.
A collection recommendation procedure which exploits the past users' behaviour has been
envisaged for finding semantic associations between queries and collections.
The development of the personalization services was completed and the first set of results led to final services’ refinements and adjustments. The final set of implemented services is described and documented in Deliverable 5.4.
The objective of this task is to make available to The European Library users an annotation service able to support both annotation storage and management functionalities. See Deliverable 5.5 for details.
WP6 Extending The European Library to Bulgaria and Romania
Work Package Leader: Koninklijke Bibliotheek - The European Library Office
Objective: to assist the national libraries of
Bulgaria and Romania to make their resources available through
The European Library and to become full members in a sustainable way.
Task 6.1 Implementation Planning
A start-up workshop took place on 26-28 March 2008 in The Hague, The Netherlands.
The implementation plans for the two libraries have been finalised.
Task 6.2 Implementation
Implementation started in April 2008. The two libraries' collections were integrated into The European Library portal.
Both countries developed and implemented a marketing plan to disseminate their participation in the project and in The European Library. Additionally, the two libraries organized a big dissemination event in their respective countries to promote The European Library and TELplus.
WP7 Dissemination
Work Package Leader: Eremo srl & The European Library Office
Objective: to create consistent and high quality access
to TELplus own results and related developments.
Task 7.1 Producing a template for a dissemination plan and update
it quarterly to include reports on all dissemination activities. (Eremo srl)
First Dissemination Plan delivered in October 2008.
Task 7.2 To establish and maintain a TELplus project web site within
The European Library site where the project's work is publicised and project
partners can access all project documents. To create templates for a project
presentation, a poster and a project leaflet for printing as needed. (Eremo srl)
Web site developed, all publicity materials created.
Task 7.3 In support of concertation, attending bi-lateral
or multi-lateral meetings as needed to foster collaboration and
understanding; providing relevant projects and networks with articles,
news and presentations; participating in events (e.g. conferences, meetings,
workshops, trade fairs, exhibitions) at the request of the Commission.
(The European Library Office)
Several promotional activities were carried out, such as presentations at conferences (in and outside Europe) and web2.0 activities including Facebook, maintenance of a blog and the production of a more user-friendly portal (e.g. presentation of additional content on the surface). The bi-monthly European Library Newsletter reached more than 2500 subscribers. A number of articles about TELplus were published. The European Library also produced multimedia content for the purpose of dissemination, including a video-presentation .
WP 8 Management and Coordination
Work Package Leaders: National Library of Estonia and Eremo
Objective: to provide the management,
co-ordination and residual evaluation activities
and the leadership and monitoring activities of the project.
Work includes the following tasks:
Task 8.1 Financial coordination Task 8.2 Internal consortium management and coordination Task 8.3 Overall monitoring Task 8.4 Liaison with the Commission Task 8.5 Evaluation and Quality control
Deliverables
D8.1 Interim Report on the first 6-months period (April 2008 - Confidential)
D8.2 First Annual report to the Commission (October 2008 - Confidential)
D8.3 Pre-financing request (October 2008 - Confidential)
D8.4 Interim Report on the third 6-months period (April 2009 - Confidential)
D8.5 Second annual report to the Commission (November 2009 - Confidential)
D8.6 Final report to the Commission (January 2010 - Confidential)
D8.7 Financial statement (January 2010 - Confidential)
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