The document discusses collection descriptions at The European Library. It notes that the library is continuously growing and taking on new challenges around making content more visible and improving search accuracy. It emphasizes that collection level descriptions provide important context about related items and collections that can improve search capabilities. The European Library plans to enrich existing collection descriptions and create new ones to provide better search through a focus on collections related to World War I and medieval history.

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