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Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challengesstrategy, governance, funding

Bruno Racine

Chair, CENL

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Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challengesstrategy, governance, funding

TEL is a success story

A unique data set served by a unique expertise A building block for Europeana Aggregator for National libraries An extension to CERL and LIBER leading to a

powerful library domain

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Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challengesstrategy, governance, funding

A new context, the urgency of change

Budget constraints New quality requirements Challenges : Horizon 2020, « Big data », Open access TEL in a more competitive environment

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Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challengesstrategy, governance, funding

18 months of reflexion

Establishment of the TEL AG (February 2012) Extension of the TEL AG mandate (December 2012) TEL AG report : Recommendation on option 4

CENL EC + TEL AG (Munich June 26, 2013) A common position by CENL EC and TEL MC

(Amsterdam September 16, 2013) CENL AG (Baku September 24)

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Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challengesstrategy, governance, funding

The TEL AG recommendations

4 strategic options Option 1: Close the European Library Option 2: Close the end-user service and concentrate on

services to libraries Option 3: Operate both an end-user service and a service to

libraries Option 4: Focus on service for libraries and partner with

Europeana to deliver Europeana Research

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Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challengesstrategy, governance, funding

The TEL AG recommendations

3 fee scenariosScenario 1 : €500 - €30.000 Scenario 2 : €500 - €20.000Scenario 3 : €500 - €10.000

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Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challengesstrategy, governance, funding

TEL at a crossroads

The need of a new : Strategy Governance Funding

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Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challengesstrategy, governance, funding

Strategy Core activities New emphasis on building data and collections,

particularly open access Stronger focus on data cleaning and enhancement

Services and innovation Exploiting content through partnerships More effective promotion of TEL’s services and

innovation

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Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challengesstrategy, governance, funding

Governance

TEL becoming a separate entity

or TEL merging with Europeana Legally already the case Less redundancy costs Work flow improvement A contractual relation : accountability, transparency,

reciprocity

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Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challengesstrategy, governance, funding

Budget

Core activities funding through a basic fee

Services and innovation 100% funding through services and projects

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Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challengesstrategy, governance, funding

A one year transition plan

Technical improvements (TEL AG report) Legal issues (SLA with Europeana ; Partnership

Agreement ; MoU with CERL and LIBER) Budget schemes A transitional budget based on Scenario 1 for 2014 From 2015 on, a budget based on Scenario 2

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Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challengesstrategy, governance, funding

Approval of the 2014 budget

Next steps of the session

The pricing model (Hans Petschar) The TEL MC vision (Bas Savenije) Scenario to be approved by the board Presentation of the budget (Kai Ekholm)

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Reshaping TEL to meet up tomorrow’s challengesstrategy, governance, funding

A new hand of cards

for

a sustainable and innovative TEL