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The European Library Handbook

The European Library Handbook is a tutorial that assists national libraries in making their collections available via The European Library portal. It provides assistance for partners in choosing their access protocol, submitting their collection descriptions and making their metadata compliant with The European Library Application Profile. Using the interface translation tool is also covered in the tutorial. Additional support can be provided by a library's account manager or The European Library Technical team if required.

The Handbook is grouped into the following sections:


Understanding The European Library portal

Collections in The European Library

Accessing collections via the portal

Maintaining the interface

Working with The European Library

Provide and manage collection descriptions

Application Profiles

Displaying metadata

Requirements for metadata

Services and tools

Step by step guide

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The Handbook provides many resources and documents which can be downloaded. Click on this logo when available:


STEP BY STEP GUIDE

Step 1: Adapt technical infrastructure to The European Library portal environment.

Step 2: Provide collection descriptions and metadata

Step 3: Manage collections and interface translation


CONTACT

Questions ? Comments? Contact us:

-Technical support: TEL_TECH@kb.nl

-Library's account manager: For partners section (Meetings)


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