1. Collection Descriptions
at The European Library
Valentine Charles
The European Library Annual Meeting, 17th
September,
Amsterdam

2. A need for organisation
 The European Library is continuously
growing !
 And takes up new challenges:
• Making content more visible
• Improving search accuracy and relevancy

3. Modeling collections
 Collection level descriptions answer
research information needs.
• Provide context to isolated items
• Show relationships between objects and
collections
• Improve search capabilities
 Collection level descriptions are suitable
for digital and non-digital material

4. Modeling collections

5. The European Library’s
agenda
 We will enrich the existing collection
descriptions…and create new ones
 We will provide better search capabilities
relying on these descriptions

6.  Focus on two cases
studies
• First World War
• Medieval history
The European Library’s
agenda

7. Speakers:
 Europeana Collections 1914-1918 and the
Great War Online: the set-up of huge
thematic portal - Frederic Lemmers
 eBooks on Demand: creating digital
collections on users' request - Õnne Mets
 Open Access Publishing in European
Networks (OAPEN) - Ronald Snijder